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Ethnic Diversity in the City
Though Portland was described by journalists as a city dominated by native-born Americans, its ethnic diversity reflected that of most frontier cities. The proportion of …
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Euro-American Immigrants
In 1845, a large party of American immigrants organized by Stephen Meek passed through central Oregon as they blundered west from Fort Boise searching for …
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Eva Redding and Family
This 1938 photograph shows a woman identified as Eva Redding at a hop farm campground in the Willamette Valley. Hop buds are used to flavor …
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EWEB is on the Coast to Stay!
This political advertisement was paid for by Citizens for the Orderly Development of Electricity (CODE). It appeared in the Eugene Register-Guard on May 18, 1970, …
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Expansive Ranching
Much of the state’s development and population growth was concentrated along the railroad lines by the 1890s, but central and eastern Oregon were not unaffected. …
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Exploration & Fur Trade by Robert Gray
The Oregon Historical Society produced this map in 1972 to illustrate the voyages of Captain Robert Gray to the Northwest Coast in the late eighteenth …
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Exposition Company Leaders
This image, showing the directors and officers of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, is from the fair’s “Portland Day” program. The officers were mostly …
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Facing the Future
Despite the tribulations of natural resource industries since the 1980s, they are still vital to Oregon’s economy. On a whole, however, the state has shifted …
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Facts about Snake River Valley at Nyssa, Oregon
This map is from a circa 1911 brochure promoting the “progressive and growing city” of Nyssa, located in northern Malheur County on the Idaho state …
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Fair Housing in Oregon Study
This case study was included as an appendix by the League of Women Voters of Portland in A Study of Awareness of the Oregon Fair …
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