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Youth Harvest Beans, Sauvie Island, 1943

Youth Harvest Beans, Sauvie Island, 1943

This 1943 photograph shows two teenage boys working with a woman to harvest wax bush beans on Sauvie Island. During World War II, many Oregon …

Oregon History Project
Zacheas Van Ornum Petition for Indemnity

Zacheas Van Ornum Petition for Indemnity

This letter was written by Oregon settler Zacheas Van Ornum. It is undated, but it was probably written to Van Ornum’s lawyer in the 1890s …

Oregon History Project

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.