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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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