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Black Military Unit in Auditorium
This photograph of black U.S. military soldiers in Portland, Oregon, shows men sitting together in an unnamed auditorium. They are attending an Urban League meeting …
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Blackout, World War II
In order to comply with World War II blackout rules, people covered or painted over the upper part of car headlights. During the war, Oregonians …
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Bob Straub Offers Willamette River Plan
In 1966, Oregon’s Democratic Senator Maurine B. Neuberger presented a plan to the U.S. Congress to take public control of the banks along most of …
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Bonneville Dam Workers Assembling Turbine
In 1937, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) completed construction of Bonneville Dam, located forty-two miles east of Portland on the Columbia River. The …
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Bonnie McCarroll Thrown from Silver, 1915
This photo shows Idaho cowgirl Bonnie McCarroll being thrown from a horse named Silver during a bucking contest at the 1915 Pendleton Round-Up. It was …
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Booth-Kelly Mill Waste, 1929
This photograph of lumber waste at the Booth Kelly Lumber Mill, in Springfield, Oregon, was taken in 1929 by Ralph Penniwell Cowgill, an engineer for …
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Bootsie Cartoon
This particular “Bootsie” cartoon appeared in the Northwest Defender, a Portland-based African American weekly, in October of 1964, a year after a church bombing …
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Boy Drinks from Stream, Three Sisters Wilderness
This photograph of a young hiker taking water from a stream of snowmelt in the Three Sisters Wilderness Area is from the Oregon Journal Collection …
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Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon Broadside
This broadside advertised the work of the Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon from June 1, 1895, through October 31, 1896. The Society had …
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Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon Report
This 1954 annual report of the Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon highlights the services that the charitable organization offered that year. Pages eight …
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