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Moving away from the Reservation
Through periods of war and peace, the federal government vigorously pursued its so-called civilization policies on northwestern Indian reservations. While the off-reservation boarding schools were …
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Moving Camp
This undated, anonymous photograph of two trains transporting a mobile camp across an unidentified, recently burned-over, and partially logged forest could have been taken anywhere …
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Mr. & Mrs. C.T. Higgins and their Bomb Shelter
These two photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Higgins were taken two years apart by the Oregon Journal and provide a decent example of what a …
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Mt. Hood Timberline Lodge History
This is the front page of a history of Mt. Hood’s Timberline Lodge, written by Portland area writer and teacher Claire Warner Churchill. Churchill was …
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Mulino Flour Mill
The photograph above depicts one of Oregon’s earliest flour mills, built in 1851 by Richard R. Howard on the banks of Milk Creek, a tributary …
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Multnomah Falls
While the exact date of this photograph of Multnomah Falls is unknown, careful study determines it was taken between 1914, when the stone footbridge in …
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NAACP Flier Protesting the Housing Authority
This flier was distributed by protesters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on September 30 and October 4, 1963, at …
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Naltunnetunne Plant Vocabulary
The Naltunnetunne lived on Oregon’s South Coast just north of the Chetco River prior to their removal to the Siletz Indian Reservation in the mid-1850s. …
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NAREB Code of Ethics
The Oregon Real Estate Department published this version of the National Association of Real Estate Board's (NAREB) code of ethics in its February, 1956 Oregon …
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Nascent Labor
Organized labor in Portland in the first two decades of the twentieth century, as in other western cities, endured internal conflict between the trade unions, …
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