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G Arata & Company, Wholesale Liquors
Immigrants from both the northern and southern regions of Italy began migrating to Portland as early as 1890. It was between 1900 and 1910, however, …
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Gasoline Plow Owned by George Hilderbrand
This ca. 1910 photograph shows George Hilderbrand operating a Hart Parr tractor and plow at his wheat farm near Wasco, in Sherman County. Hilderbrand, who …
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Geese over Lakeview
A map of Oregon’s high desert country is splattered with lakes; yet those who visit them may be in for a surprise. In the desert …
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Gem Hotel, ca. 1918
In 1918, wartime housing shortages forced nearly a hundred people to accept crowded living conditions in the working class Gem Hotel in Portland. The hotel …
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Gender and Landscape
Documenting the location of fish traps, gillnet grounds, fishwheels, canneries, dams, hatcheries, and environmental abasement is important, but to do so without taking a look …
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Gendering American Indian Fisheries
While different bands of people in the area took salmon using many different technologies, generally men did the harvesting and women the preparation of salmon …
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General Joseph Lane
Joseph Lane was Oregon’s first territorial governor and one of the state’s leading citizens from the 1850s until his death in 1881. A politician, soldier, …
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George Gay House near Hopewell
The photograph above, taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934, depicts the brick house built for George K. Gay near Hopewell in Yamhill …
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George Luis Baker (1868-1941)
George Luis Baker served on the Portland City Council and as Commissioner of Public Affairs before being elected mayor of Portland in 1917. He served …
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George Nurse, Founder of Linkville
Born in New York in 1820, George Nurse, pictured here circa 1900, entered the Oregon Country through California in the early 1860s. In 1860, the …
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