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Industrial Welfare Commission Order No. 22
This order by the Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission established a sanitary code for workplaces with female employees. The order regulated lighting, ventilation, bathroom and changing …
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Industry and Agriculture in the Railroad Era
The completion of railroad links to California and the East during the 1880s brought new building materials and ideas to Oregon and provided a means …
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Ing 'Doc' Hay, c. 1890
This portrait of the Chinese doctor Ing Hay was taken when he was nineteen years old. Doc Hay, as he was best known, was a …
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"Innocent Fun or Social Shame?"
This document was created for school administrators by the Urban League of Portland sometime in the 1950s in an effort to stop minstrel, or blackface, …
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Intel Bunny Suit
This Intel bunny suit, donated in 2003, is an artifact in the Oregon Historical Society's collections. Engineers and technicians at Intel dress in the suit …
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International Style, Northwest Regional Style
The architecture of the International style “is most notable for its complete lack of ornamentation and its geometric compositional elements,” wrote Oregon architectural historian Rosalind …
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Interpretive Essay Bibliography
The Vanport Flood and Racial Change in Portland Books Little William A. and James E. Weiss, eds. Blacks in Oregon: A Statistical and Historical Report …
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Into Servitude or Starve
The Portland Communist Party produced this flier to protest Governor Charles H. Martin’s anti-labor policies and to rally political support for an Oregon Farmer-Labor Party. …
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Into the New Territory
The expeditionary flotilla got underway in May 1804, leaving from the St. Louis area and heading up the Missouri in a keelboat and pirogues. They …
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Into the Twenty-first Century
Throughout the 1990s, central Oregon reached one of the highest rates of growth in the state. Between 2010 and 2013, Deschutes County population increased by …
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