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Traditional Japanese Dance

Traditional Japanese Dance

This photograph was taken by Folklife Coordinator Leila Childs in 1998 to document Sahomi Tachibana (foreground) teaching Chisao Hata (background) traditional Japanese dance.  The two …

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Traditional Klamath Crafts

Traditional Klamath Crafts

This photograph of Priscilla H. Bettles (left) and her grand daughter, Priscilla Witcraft (right), posing with their newly fashioned cradleboards, was taken by Folklife director …

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Traditional Warm Springs/Wasco Dollmaking

Traditional Warm Springs/Wasco Dollmaking

This photograph was taken in 1991 to document the work of Mary Ann Meanus (on right) as she trained apprentice Rhonda Arthur (on left) in …

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Training Wild Horses

Training Wild Horses

This photograph of John Sharp posing in front of his Prineville home was taken by Folklife coordinator Leila Childs on June 9, 2000.  At the …

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Train Passing through The Needles, c. 1885

Train Passing through The Needles, c. 1885

This photograph, taken about 1885, shows a freight train of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company along the south shore of the Columbia River several …

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Transition in the 1950s

Transition in the 1950s

Stewart Holbrook noted that the “pure logger strain” of industrial worker was threatened in 1938. By the 1950s, that threat became clear to the industry …

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Transportation and Building before 1800

Transportation and Building before 1800

Transportation systems, especially roads and freeways, are among the most visible aspects of the built environment today. Oregon’s transportation system in the early nineteenth century …

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Treaties and Reservations

Treaties and Reservations

By the early 1850s, Euro-Americans were moving into the Oregon Territory in ever-greater numbers. Even though Congress had acknowledged Indian title to their lands in …

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Treaties and Reservations

Treaties and Reservations

Once the federal government resolved the western Oregon Indian question to its satisfaction, officials turned their attention to central and eastern Oregon. Once again, federal …

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Treaty for the Louisiana Purchase

Treaty for the Louisiana Purchase

This image depicts James Monroe, Francois de Barbé-Marbois, and Robert Livingston signing the treaty for the purchase of Louisiana at Paris in 1803. It is …

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