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Chief Joseph McCorkle Breaks Ground, Pelton Dam
This Les Orderman photograph of Wasco Chief Joseph McCorkle symbolically breaking ground for the Pelton Dam was originally published in the Oregon Journal, on …
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Chief Joseph's Own Story
This excerpt is from a pamphlet titled “Chief Joseph’s Story,” a reprint of a speech which was transcribed and published in the April 1879 edition …
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Chief Tommy Kuni Thompson
Chief Tommy Kuni Thompson (Wyam) was the chief of Celilo Village from the late nineteenth century until the 1950s. Over the course of his long …
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Children's Home Dormitory
This photograph depicts an interior view of the Ladies’ Relief Society’s Children’s Home, a dormitory for impoverished and orphaned children. This institution, located in South Portland …
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Child Service Centers, Swan Island shipyards
At the entrance to the Oregon Shipyard Corporation’s (OSC) facilities on Portland’s Swan Island in the Willamette River, the company built a large, onsite daycare …
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Chinatown, 1890s
This picture shows an unusually quiet intersection at the corner of southwest Second and Washington streets, just a few blocks from Chinatown’s heart at southwest …
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Chinese Americans Picket Scrap Metal to Japan
This photograph of Chinese Americans picketing at the Port of Astoria appeared in the Oregon Journal on March 3, 1939. The picket was organized to …
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Chinese Cannery Workers near Astoria, Oregon
This stereographic image, printed by the Keystone View Company, has this description of the fish-cleaning process written on the back: “One [person] does nothing but cut …
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Chinese Man with Child
Many hundreds of Chinese immigrants began arriving in Oregon in the mid-1850s. During these early years of immigration, most male Chinese immigrants, whether they were …
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Chinese Street Vendor
This vendor is probably selling vegetables. Chinese gardeners supplied a large proportion of Portland's residents with fresh vegetables. The vendors carried produce through the streets …
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