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Tom McCall's copy of his speech to the Oregon Legislative Assembly, 1973

Tom McCall's copy of his speech to the Oregon Legislative Assembly, 1973

Governor Tom McCall gave this speech to the Oregon Legislative Assembly on January 8, 1973. Like all personal copies of his speeches, it is marked …

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Tom McCall's "Farewell Speech" at the Portland City Club, 1974

Tom McCall's "Farewell Speech" at the Portland City Club, 1974

Thomas Lawson McCall finished his second term as Oregon's thirtieth governor in January 1975. The Portland City Club, a non-profit civic affairs group, asked McCall …

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Tom McCall's Re-election

Tom McCall's Re-election

Oregon GovernorTom McCall issued this eight-page press release in early September, 1970, during his successful re-election campaign. This is the first page of that statement.  …

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Tom McCall & the Bottle Ban

Tom McCall & the Bottle Ban

This photograph shows Mrs. Joe H. Rand talking with Oregon Governor Tom McCall at a Feb. 2, 1970, demonstration by members of the Young Women’s …

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To Reverse the Failure of the Nation’s Indian Programs

To Reverse the Failure of the Nation’s Indian Programs

New Deal reforms ushered in dramatic new directions for the nation’s Indian policy, terminating the allotment programs, fostering Indian arts and crafts, and ending the …

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Tourism and Recreation

Tourism and Recreation

Judge John B. Waldo, an early visitor to the central Oregon Cascades, commented in a letter written on August 24, 1880, on the recreational potential …

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Tourists Discover the Oregon Coast

Tourists Discover the Oregon Coast

Seaside and Newport were the earliest coastal towns to develop a tourist trade. In 1866 Samuel Case and Dr. J.R. Bayley built the Ocean House, …

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Town Beginnings

Town Beginnings

The Oregon landscape of the 1840s had a number of scattered Indian communities, and other small settlements of diverse population at places such as The …

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Trade

Trade

As the eighteenth century came to a close, people on the Oregon Coast not only regularly traded with nearby villages but they also had occasion …

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Trade Beads

Trade Beads

These trade beads are representative of the glass beads traded between Euro-American fur traders and Native Americans throughout much of northern North America.  They were …

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