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Family of Bannock Indians, 1872
This photograph shows a family of Indians, identified by the photographer as Bannocks, sitting in front of a small pole-and-thatch lodge. It was taken in …
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Farmer Receives Deschutes Irrigation Project Water
This photograph shows George Rodman spreading irrigation water over his farmland near Culver on May 18, 1946. Rodman was the first farmer to receive water from …
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Farming and Fishing
Under territorial and federal land-claim acts, white farmers took possession of large tracts of land around the lower banks of the coastal rivers and their …
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Farming the Wildlife Refuges
Not all of the Klamath Project lands became available for homesteading after World War II. Conservationists and hunters did not want the wildlife refuges on …
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Farming Tule Lake
John Staunton’s father was a West Virginia stockbroker who came to the dry climate of this region for his health. As a veteran of World …
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Fast Flux Test Facility Hanford, Washington
George Hinman was interviewed by Clark Hansen of the Oregon Historical Society as part of the Columbia River Dissenter Series, an oral history collection commissioned …
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Faulitz River from Yam Hills
This landscape scene was sketched by Joseph Drayton in June 1841. Drayton was a member of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, an American naval expedition that …
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Federal Plan to Wipe Out Predatory Beasts Succeeds
This article, written by A. F. Averill, appeared in the Oregonian on April 29, 1917. Averill was chief inspector of the U.S. Biological Survey’s Oregon-Washington …
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Fight for the Beaches
Oregon Journal photographer Herb Alden took this photograph of Peter Frost (right) and an unidentified friend at an Oct. 28, 1968 rally in Cannon Beach. …
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Filipinos Want Equal Rights or Independence
This letter by Filipino worker Ernesto A. Mangaoang was published in the Oregonian on September 21, 1931. Mangaoang describes the discrimination that Filipinos faced in …
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