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Editorial Cartoon, Fitness Program
This transcript of Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall’s and President Lyndon B. Johnson’s remarks at the intertie victory breakfast at the Sheraton Hotel in …
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Editorial Cartoon, O.K., It's a Deal
Carl Bonelli (1901–1981) was an editorial cartoonist for the Oregon Journal (1947-1971), for the Oregonian (1966-1968), and for the Gresham Outlook (1971-1974). This editorial cartoon …
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Election Day
This 1909 anti-suffrage postcard depicts a woman going to vote on election day while her “suffering” husband takes care of their children. A note on …
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Electrifying the City
Just as the railroad network expanded the scale of Portland’s economy, new technologies for moving people around the city, spanning rivers, and erecting multistory buildings …
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Encounter with the Nez Perce
Lewis and Clark had entered the region of salmon and the people who relied on anadromous fish species to varying degrees for year-round sustenance. Unlike …
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Enterprise and Communities
Tourism and recreation have been the most visible economic elements for central Oregon in the post-industrial period, but retailing, agriculture, and professional services have also …
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Epilogue
Despite the plans of the New Urbanists, the shift in the region’s industrial base to electronic technology has induced the outward flow of population. Between …
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Epilogue
On the far northwest margin of the high desert country, Pine Mountain rises up from the sagebrush plains to an elevation of over 6,300 feet …
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E. Shelton Hill's Oral History
This oral history interview of E. Shelton Hill was recorded by L. A. Barrie in about 1976, as part of the Neighborhood History Project conducted …
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Estimate of Western Indians, Lewis and Clark Journals
Charged by Pres. Thomas Jefferson with recording the names of Native communities and estimating the size of their populations, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark …
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