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Shipbuilding, World War I
The shipyards at Grant-Smith-Porter Ship Co. still show considerable activity just after WWI. Wartime shipbuilding provided a bright exception to Portland’s otherwise lackluster economy during …
Shoshone Fish Weir
This excerpt from Meriwether Lewis’s journal describes a Lemhi Shoshone fish weir on present-day Idaho’s Lemhi River, a tributary of the Salmon River. After months of …
Sign at Seufert Brothers Company
This photograph, believed taken by Benjamin Gifford around 1928, shows the Seufert Brothers Company Salmon and Fruit Cannery in The Dalles. At the left of …
Signing Oregon's Civil Rights Bill, 1953
The proponents of Oregon’s Civil Rights Bill, also known as the Public Accommodations Bill, pose for posterity. Seated, from left: Philip S. Hitchcock and Mark …
Siletz Indian Reservation, 1900
This map, produced by the Willamette Pulp and Paper Company, shows what remained of the Siletz Reservation in 1900. Each of the small squares on …
Simon Benson and One of His Drinking Fountains
In this photograph Simon Benson poses in front of one of the twenty bronze drinking fountains he donated to the city. He hoped that the …
Sinker Stone, Columbia River
This sinker stone was once used by Indian fishers on the Columbia River. Native Americans have fished the waters of the Columbia River for at …
Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1762-1820)
In July 1793, at Bella Coola, 100 miles north of the northern tip of Vancouver Island in what is now the province of British Columbia, …![Sketch of the Wallamette [sic] Valley, 1851](http://oregonhist-ohp-dev.azurewebsites.net/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Sketch-Map-Willamette-Valley-1851-FSDM2.jpg)
Sketch of the Wallamette [sic] Valley, 1851
Oregon became a United States territory in 1848, and the rapid growth of Euro American settlement in the Willamette Valley increased tension between the immigrants …
Skidmore Fountain and Stephen G. Skidmore
This photograph shows an unidentified man diving into waters surrounding the Skidmore Fountain during the Willamette River flood of 1894. The fountain, located at the …Interpretive Essays
Interpretive essays use primary documents from the Oregon Historical Society archives to help readers imagine the events, people, and issues that shaped Oregon history.
