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Traditional Klamath Crafts

Traditional Klamath Crafts

This photograph of Priscilla H. Bettles (left) and her grand daughter, Priscilla Witcraft (right), posing with their newly fashioned cradleboards, was taken by Folklife director …

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Traditional Warm Springs/Wasco Dollmaking

Traditional Warm Springs/Wasco Dollmaking

This photograph was taken in 1991 to document the work of Mary Ann Meanus (on right) as she trained apprentice Rhonda Arthur (on left) in …

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Training Wild Horses

Training Wild Horses

This photograph of John Sharp posing in front of his Prineville home was taken by Folklife coordinator Leila Childs on June 9, 2000.  At the …

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Train Passing through The Needles, c. 1885

Train Passing through The Needles, c. 1885

This photograph, taken about 1885, shows a freight train of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company along the south shore of the Columbia River several …

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Treaty for the Louisiana Purchase

Treaty for the Louisiana Purchase

This image depicts James Monroe, Francois de Barbé-Marbois, and Robert Livingston signing the treaty for the purchase of Louisiana at Paris in 1803. It is …

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Treaty with the Snake (Northern Paiute), 1865

Treaty with the Snake (Northern Paiute), 1865

This treaty, dated August 12, 1865, is reprinted from the second volume of Charles Kappler’s Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties, published in 1904. J.W. …

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Trout Fingerlings in Railroad Car

Trout Fingerlings in Railroad Car

This promotional photograph, taken by Angelus Studio, shows the inside of a railroad car used by the Oregon Fish and Game Commission to transport hatchery-raised …

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Tsin-is-tum (Jennie Michel)

Tsin-is-tum (Jennie Michel)

Pictured here is Tsin-is-tum, a Clatsop Indian woman known to whites as Jennie Michel. She claimed to be about 100 years old when this photo …

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Tulelake, California

Tulelake, California

In 1917, the U.S. Reclamation Service (renamed the Bureau of Reclamation in 1923) offered 3,000 acres of land for homesteading in the Klamath Reclamation Project …

Oregon History Project
Tule Mats

Tule Mats

This photograph of Taw Li Winch (“tule man” in English), posing in front of a large tule mat, was taken in 1995 during his participation in …

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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.