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Timbermen Using Chainsaw, Lacomb
This photograph of two men using a gas-powered chainsaw was published in the April 1944 issue of The Timberman, a Portland-based lumber industry magazine …
Title Page, Chinook Dictionary, 1871
The 1871 edition of Father Modeste Demers’s Chinook Dictionary, Catechism, Prayers, and Hymns was edited and amended by Rev. F.N. Blanchet and Rev. L.N. St. …
Toby Winema Riddle
Toby Winema Riddle, also known as Kaitchkana and Nanooktowa, was born near southern Oregon's Link River around 1850. She was related to Kintpuash, better known …
Tom McCall (1913-1983)
This photograph shows Governor McCall visiting an Oregon beach on May 13, 1967, in the midst of a period of contentious, state-wide land-use rights debates. …
Tom McCall's copy of his speech to the Oregon Legislative Assembly, 1973
Governor Tom McCall gave this speech to the Oregon Legislative Assembly on January 8, 1973. Like all personal copies of his speeches, it is marked …
Tom McCall's "Farewell Speech" at the Portland City Club, 1974
Thomas Lawson McCall finished his second term as Oregon's thirtieth governor in January 1975. The Portland City Club, a non-profit civic affairs group, asked McCall …
Tom McCall's Re-election
Oregon GovernorTom McCall issued this eight-page press release in early September, 1970, during his successful re-election campaign. This is the first page of that statement. …
Tom McCall & the Bottle Ban
This photograph shows Mrs. Joe H. Rand talking with Oregon Governor Tom McCall at a Feb. 2, 1970, demonstration by members of the Young Women’s …
Trade Beads
These trade beads are representative of the glass beads traded between Euro-American fur traders and Native Americans throughout much of northern North America. They were …
Traditional Japanese Dance
This photograph was taken by Folklife Coordinator Leila Childs in 1998 to document Sahomi Tachibana (foreground) teaching Chisao Hata (background) traditional Japanese dance. The two …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.
