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Guild's Lake Area, 1930
Between 1906 and the mid-1920s, Guild’s Lake was filled in with soil sluiced off the hillsides and dredged from the Willamette River. A series of developers, …
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Handbook for New Women Shipyard Workers
In 1943 Portland Public Schools produced a handbook designed to orient new women workes to life in the shipyards. One section dealt with the problems of childcare. …
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Hard Times
Along with the rest of the nation, Oregon fell on hard times during the 1930s. Bank failures, bankruptcies, business foreclosures, and high unemployment worsened conditions …
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Hard Times and the New Deal
Drought arrived in northeastern Oregon in 1928 and remained until 1940. The Great Depression, the most severe economic crisis in the nation’s history, came a …
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Harvest Hands Rest on Sacks of Grain, Moro
This photograph shows harvest hands seated on sacks of grain near the northeastern Oregon town of Moro. It was taken by Moro photographer Will Raymond …
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Harvey Scott near Seaside, 1905
This 1905 photograph shows Harvey Scott reading the day’s Oregonian on the Oregon Coast near Seaside. Scott was born on a farm near Groveland, Illinois. …
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Haswell's Log of Sloop Washington, 1788
Nineteen-year-old Bostonian Robert Haswell wrote the journal entries reproduced here in August 1788; they were published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly 140 years later. Haswell …
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Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar
This photograph of Sam Kama was taken in 1995 by Eliza Buck. At the time, Kama was teaching Elroy Aipolani (not shown) how to play …
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HB 2930, Anti-Discrimination Bill
During the 1973 legislative session, Representative Vera Katz introduced a bill that would have prohibited "discrimination in employment and certain real property transactions" based on …
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Heart Mountain Relocation Camp
This World War II photograph shows a Japanese American family at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, north of Cody, Wyoming, one of the camps where …
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