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Longshoremen's Strike of 1934

Longshoremen's Strike of 1934

This photograph of the 1934 waterfront strike shows Portland police escorting “scabs” through picket lines outside a hiring hall, a building used by companies to …

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Looking Downstream to Celilo

Looking Downstream to Celilo

This undated photograph shows non-Indians fishing for salmon along the free-flowing and meandering Columbia River just upriver from Celilo Falls. Writing on the photograph indicates …

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Looking toward the Future

Looking toward the Future

When the last visitor walked out the gates on October 15, Portlanders could be especially satisfied at the impression that the city and its extravaganza …

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Losing the Land

Losing the Land

The Cayuse, especially, resented the growing number of settlers coming across the Oregon Trail in the 1840s and the Whitman missionaries, whom they blamed for …

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Losses and Gains for Tribes

Losses and Gains for Tribes

As reservation lands dwindled during the late nineteenth century, Native Americans moved to places where they could make a living, working as hop pickers, trappers, …

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Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Purchase

This map was published in a 1911 book titled Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States. Maps like this appear …

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Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Purchase

In September 1803, Meriwether Lewis descended the Ohio River on a keelboat that had been built to his specifications in Pittsburgh. Getting the fifty-five-foot-long boat …

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Lower Columbia Fisheries Plan

Lower Columbia Fisheries Plan

In 1949, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers included this map as a representation of the Lower Columbia River Fisheries Development Program in a “review …

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Lower Klamath Marshes

Lower Klamath Marshes

The Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge complex includes the Upper Klamath, Klamath Marsh, and Bear Valley Refuges in Oregon and the Lower Klamath, Tule Lake, …

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Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumbermen Pledge

Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumbermen Pledge

This “specimen” of the “Four-L Pledge” was originally devised under the leadership of the U.S. War Department’s Col. Brice P. Disque as part of a …

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