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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.  …

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Whale Butchering at Coos Bay

Whale Butchering at Coos Bay

This sketch, published in an article in the June 1856 issue of Harper’s Monthly, depicts a group of Coos butchering a whale on the …

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What Is Different about Native American Fishers?

What Is Different about Native American Fishers?

It is astonishing the number of salmon which ascend the Columbia yearly and the quantity taken by the Indians....The Indians are quite expert in taking …

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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 …

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White Family Fishermen, Skill, and Masculinity

White Family Fishermen, Skill, and Masculinity

The earliest commercial fishers for the canned-salmon industry on the Columbia River were the small circle of cannery operators, their families, and friends; but this …

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Whites Become Ethnics

Whites Become Ethnics

Conflict had the potential to challenge that inclusion. The anti-unionist San Francisco paper used the fishermen’s immigrant status as ammunition and attacked the strikers by framing …

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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 …

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Wild Salmon

Wild Salmon

Six species of wild salmon spread out across the Pacific Northwest about the same time that human beings did, at the end of the last …

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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 …

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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 …

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