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Nathaniel Wyeth's expeditions to Oregon
A businessman from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Wyeth played an important role in the Euro American colonization of the Pacific Northwest. As a result of his …
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
This photograph features delegates to the annual National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Portland, June 29 through July 5, 1905. Although most of the …
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National Election Ticket, California, 1864
This election ticket from California is from the 1864 presidential election, when Republican incumbent President Abraham Lincoln faced Democratic challenger Gen. George B. McClellan—Lincoln’s former …
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National Forest Timber for Sale
These documents describe an early timber sale in the Malheur National Forest. The first document is a newspaper advertisement for the sale, which took place …
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Native American Cultures
Then Coyote said, People shall spear salmon, they will go to get food, to one another will they go to get food; one another they …
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Native Americans, Pendleton Round-Up
When Captain Meriwether Lewis passed through the Columbia Plateau in the spring of 1806, he wrote that he had not seen “a single horse which …
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Native American women from Chemawa train to work in shipyards
When the labor market opened up during World War II, more than 65,000 Native Americans worked for war industries or joined the armed forces. Historian …
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Natural and Cultural Foundations
Old photographs and rotten piers of Columbia River canneries have become monuments to a lost era. They stand as symbols of ethnic communities, gritty laborers, …
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Natural Resources and the Railroad
The California gold rush served as the great catalyst for Oregon agricultural growth and commercial development during and after the territorial period. The hundreds of …
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Negotiating the Surrender
This sketch by Guy Howard depicts a scene from the surrender of Nez Perce Indians (Nimi’ipuu) to the U.S. Army in early October 1877. Guy …
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