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Finnish Socialist Club Picnic, Astoria, 1922
This photograph shows members of the Finnish Socialist Club picnicking in Astoria in 1922. The Finnish Socialist Club was one of Astoria’s most prominent ethnic …
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Fire Area, Portland, 1873
This map shows the twenty-two block area damaged in the Fire of 1873. The fire damage is marked in dark on a map made three …
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Fire, Ice, Water, and Wind
The craggy, wind-blown summit of Steens Mountain—which, at 9,670 feet above sea level, is the highest point in southeastern Oregon—offers a view that extends five …
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First Dwelling House in Salem, 1841
This engraving, published in a state history in 1912, depicts the house built by the Rev. Jason Lee at the present site of Salem in …
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First National Bank, Klamath Falls
This photograph shows the new headquarters of the First National Bank of Klamath Falls in November 1930. At the beginning of the nationwide Depression, the …
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First Peoples in the Portland Basin
The confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers and the surrounding lowlands form the Portland Basin. Humans first inhabited the region about 11,000 years ago—small, …
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First Street, Portland
On First Street, the Hop Wo laundry was next to the Monnastes and Davis blacksmith shop. Many other towns had the same two kinds of businesses. People …
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Fish-Catching Cage, Trask River
This fish collecting cage and rack, was built across the Trask River in Tillamook County, Oregon in 1914, as part of a state fish hatchery …
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Fishing Nets
This photo shows Celilo Village residents Jimmy George, left, and Charley Quittoken, right, holding up fishing nets once used to catch salmon at Celilo Falls. …
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Flock of Birds, Malheur Lake, 1908
This photograph was taken by William Finley in 1908. It shows a flock of birds, mostly American white pelicans with some gulls, flying over Malheur …
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