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Women & Children outside Farm Labor Camp

Women & Children outside Farm Labor Camp

This ca. 1967 photograph shows Hispanic women and children standing near plywood-sided cabins at a farm labor camp in the Willamette Valley.  The photograph is …

Oregon History Project
Women Dry Salmon at Celilo Village

Women Dry Salmon at Celilo Village

This photograph shows Warm Springs tribal members Edna David (left) and Stella McKinley (right) drying salmon at Celilo Village. It was taken by an Oregon …

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Women Packing Cherries, Hood River

Women Packing Cherries, Hood River

The fruit industry has been an important part of the Hood River economy since the late nineteenth century. This early twentieth century photograph shows women …

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Women Pray at Nichiren Buddhist Church, 1963

Women Pray at Nichiren Buddhist Church, 1963

This photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on November 25, 1963. It shows a group of women praying at Portland’s Nichiren Buddhist Church during …

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Women's Land Army

Women's Land Army

This 1944 photograph shows Mabel Mack, supervisor of the Oregon branch of the Women’s Land Army (WLA). The WLA was part of a World War …

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Women's Suffrage Handbill

Women's Suffrage Handbill

The Oregon chapter of the College Equal Suffrage League produced this handbill as part of a successful 1912 state campaign to give women the right …

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Women Workers, Pacific Coast Biscuit Company

Women Workers, Pacific Coast Biscuit Company

This photograph of three women packers at the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company was probably taken sometime between 1900 and 1905. The Pacific Coast Biscuit Company …

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Wool Buyers at Shaniko

Wool Buyers at Shaniko

This photograph features wool buyers at Shaniko in eastern Wasco County. In 1910, the approximate date of this photograph, Shaniko was a major transportation hub …

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Workers at Bonneville Dam Site, 1935

Workers at Bonneville Dam Site, 1935

This 1935 photograph shows workers excavating volcanic rock at the construction site of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. Workers used jackhammers and explosives to …

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Workers at the Umatilla Ordnance Depot, 1943

Workers at the Umatilla Ordnance Depot, 1943

This photograph shows workers at the U.S. Army’s Umatilla Ordnance Depot stenciling and inspecting 155-millimeter artillery shells. It was taken by an Oregon Journal photographer …

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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.