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Medal Given to Billy Chinook
John C. Frémont gave this medal to Billy Chinook in recognition of his service to Frémont’s surveying expeditions. Chinook, a Wasco Indian, joined Frémont’s second …
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Medford, Gateway to Crater Lake
Prior to the 1910s, most travelers to Crater Lake went by horse-drawn wagon, taking a full three days to cover the eighty-five miles from Medford. …
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Men's Stovepipe Hat
This stovepipe hat, made from beaver fur, was popular throughout the mid-nineteenth century, but after the 1840s was increasingly made from silk. During the mid-sixteenth …
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Meriwether Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, 1805
Captain Meriwether Lewis wrote this letter to President Thomas Jefferson in early April 1805 from Fort Mandan, near present-day Washburn, North Dakota. It was hand-copied …
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Mexican Laborers Pick Potatoes, 1943
This photograph shows Mexican citizens harvesting potatoes in central Oregon during World War II. In 1942, the United States government negotiated with Mexico to import …
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Mexican Laborers Weed Sugar Beet Field
This photograph shows Mexican citizens weeding and thinning in an unidentified sugar beet field in Oregon, probably in Malheur County, during World War II. In …
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Mining, Lumbering, and Shipbuilding
The southern Oregon Coast between Coos Bay and Gold Beach experienced an early and mostly unproductive mid nineteenth-century gold rush, which gave Gold Beach its …
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Mining Sections of Idaho and Oregon, 1864
This 1864 map of the mining sections of Idaho and eastern Oregon was drawn by George Woodman and published by San Francisco bookseller Adrien Gensoul. …
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Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
This engraving of the Spanish mission San Carlos Borrromeo de Carmelo — present-day Carmel in Monterey Bay, California — was based on a sketch by British midshipman John …
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Mixing the Devil's Broth, editorial cartoon
This political cartoon appeared on the front page of the Portland Telegram days before Oregon voters passed the initiative on compulsory public school attendance in …
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