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Boys at the Chemawa Indian School
This undated photograph shows a school-wide view of the boys at Chemawa Indian School after it was moved to Salem in 1885. The promotional photo …
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BPA Office Takeover, 1975
On the morning of August 15, 1975, about 100 Indian protesters took over the Portland offices of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal agency …
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Brick Making, Near Portland, Oregon
This lithograph served as the cover for the October 4, 1890, issue of West Shore magazine. The magazine, headquartered in Portland, was published from 1875 …
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Bristow Farm, Pleasant Hill
The sketch shown above was used to create a lithograph that appeared in Albert G. Walling’s Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon in 1884. It …
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Broadside, Express to Nez Perces!
This broadside was an advertising poster printed for the Portland-based stagecoach line Tracy & Co. Dated April 1861, it is one of the earliest advertisements …
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Broadside: Lecture by Mr. George P. Riley
Local printer George H. Himes produced this poster in April 1870 to publicize an upcoming lecture by Portland resident George P. Riley at Philharmonic Hall …
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Broadside, To Arms!
This broadside was a recruiting poster printed for Captain George B. Curry by the Mountaineer Job Printing Office in October 1861. Captain Curry raised Company …
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Brochure, Opening Up Central Oregon
In 1911, laborers completed the Oregon Trunk Railroad from the Columbia River, near Celilo Village, to Bend, giving large timber companies a way to export …
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Broom Brigade of Union, 1889
This photograph was taken on July 4, 1889. It shows the Broom Brigade of Union, a town in northeastern Oregon’s Grande Ronde Valley. Broom brigades …
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Brouillet's Account of the Murder of Dr. Whitman
In 1869 Jean Baptiste Brouillet, a French Canadian Catholic missionary to Oregon, published the Authentic Account of the Murder of Dr. Whitman and Other Missionaries …
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