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Advertisements, Salmon Fishery Initiatives, 1908

Advertisements, Salmon Fishery Initiatives, 1908

These two advertisements were published in the spring of 1908. The first document, titled “Your Vote is Necessary to Preserve the Salmon Industry,” represents the …

Oregon History Project
Advertising in Pacific Monthly, 1907

Advertising in Pacific Monthly, 1907

Shown here is a page of advertising from the September 1907 issue of Pacific Monthly, promoting investment in copper mining, “fortunes in fruit,” and …

Oregon History Project
African American Community Protests School Board

African American Community Protests School Board

Black United Front leader, Ron Herndon, stood on a desk at this 1982 protest, leading members of the African American community in chants of “You’d better …

Oregon History Project
Agency Lake Ranch

Agency Lake Ranch

Upper Klamath Lake, at 142 square miles, is Oregon’s largest fresh-water lake.  It is fed by the Williamson and Sprague Rivers and several small creeks …

Oregon History Project
Albert Kuckup on the 1855 Wasco Council

Albert Kuckup on the 1855 Wasco Council

This document is a transcript of a land claims hearing held on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in August 1931. Albert Kuckup, an elderly member of the …

Oregon History Project
Albina Residents Picket the Portland Development Commission, 1973

Albina Residents Picket the Portland Development Commission, 1973

Beginning in the 1960s, the City of Portland, with the cooperation of the Portland Development Commission (PDC) and Emanuel Hospital, began to lay the groundwork …

Oregon History Project
Albina Riot, 1967

Albina Riot, 1967

What began as a political rally to stir the African American community to “revolution” in Irving Park on Sunday, July 30, 1967, turned into two-nights of …

Oregon History Project
Albina, Portland, 1909

Albina, Portland, 1909

This photograph shows the intersection of Vancouver and Russell in 1909, when Albina had been a part of Portland for eighteen years.  From its incorporation …

Oregon History Project
Alejandro Malaspina, 1885

Alejandro Malaspina, 1885

This engraving of a portrait of the Spanish navigator, Alejandro Malaspina, is found in an 1885 version of his account of the trip, A Political-Scientific …

Oregon History Project
Alonzo Hancock and Miomastodon Jaw

Alonzo Hancock and Miomastodon Jaw

This photograph was taken by Oregon Journal photographer Edmund Lee in March 1953. It shows Alonzo Hancock with the jawbone of a miomastodon that he …

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.