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Wasco Full-Turn Twining

Wasco Full-Turn Twining

This photograph was taken by Nancy J. Nusz on February 8, 1991 to document Mary D. Schlick training apprentices (left to right) Pat Gold, Bernyce …

Oregon History Project
We're Going to Wyoming & Idaho

We're Going to Wyoming & Idaho

The August 1942 special edition of the Evacuazette, a newspaper published for people detained at the Portland Assembly Center in North Portland, provided news …

Oregon History Project
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company

Weyerhaeuser Timber Company

At the time of this photo in 1941, Weyerhaeuser Klamath Falls employed approximately 1,200 men and produced 200 million feet of wood products each year.  …

Oregon History Project
Whale Butchering at Coos Bay

Whale Butchering at Coos Bay

The sketch shown here was published in the June 1856 issue of Harper’s Monthly. It depicts a group of Coos Indians butchering a whale …

Oregon History Project
Wheat Harvesting, Sherman County

Wheat Harvesting, Sherman County

This photograph shows workers gathered around a steam engine during the wheat harvest in Sherman County. The photographer is unknown, as is the date of …

Oregon History Project
White Stag Catalog Cover

White Stag Catalog Cover

This White Stag catalog cover from approximately 1939 features artwork of a skilled skier with the company's trademark, a leaping stag, in the background. In …

Oregon History Project
Wiley Family Housing Struggle

Wiley Family Housing Struggle

This memo was distributed by the Urban League of Portland in response to the race-based burning of the Wiley family’s newly constructed home in Portland’s …

Oregon History Project
Wilhelm Keil

Wilhelm Keil

This photograph of Wilhelm (William) Keil (1812–1877) was taken sometime between 1855 and 1877. Keil was the founder of two German-speaking Christian communal societies—one in …

Oregon History Project
Willamette River and Tributaries

Willamette River and Tributaries

In 1938, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers included this map, “Willamette River and Tributaries, Oregon, Proposed Plan for Coordinated Development,” in a report submitted …

Oregon History Project
Willamette Settlers to the Bishop of Juliopolis

Willamette Settlers to the Bishop of Juliopolis

This dictated letter, written in semi-literate English, was sent by eighteen male settlers in the mid-Willamette Valley to Joseph Provencher, the Catholic bishop at Red …

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.