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Northern Spotted Owl
This photograph was taken by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife photographer around 2002. It shows a northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) perched …
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Norwegian Rosmaling
This photographic example of rosemaling by Vesla Harris of Warrenton, Oregon, was taken by Joanne Mulcahy in 1989 during her fieldwork for the Oregon Folklife …
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Notice on Yasui Brothers Store, Hood River
The day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S. Treasury Department shut down the Yasui Brothers’ Store in Hood River. Five …
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Noticias de oportunidad del VML/Opportunity News
Noticias de oportunidad del VML, or Opportunity News, was a newspaper of the Valley Migrant League (VML), published from 1965-1968. The VML was a …
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"No work, no woo" pledge, 1943
This Oregon Journal photo is captioned: "Albina Engine & Machine Works Employees Line up to Sign Pledge Not to Date Anyone w/out a Full Time …
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Nye Beach, Newport, 1936
This photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on May 24, 1936. It shows beach-goers and their automobiles at Nye Beach in Newport. Newport has …
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Obituary for Regina Dorland Robinson
This obituary records the death of Regina Dorland Robinson, a gifted artist from Jacksonville whose life was cut short by her own hand at the …
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Ocean in View
Reaching the Pacific Coast nearly finished off the Corps. At no other time during the Expedition were physical conditions so threatening as they were in …
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Ode to Sacajawea (Sacagawea)
Click here for transcript. This poem, by Bert Huffman of Pendleton, was probably written in commemoration of a bronze statue of Sacagawea (Agaideka Shoshones spell …
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Old Fishwheel on Klamath River, 1905
In 1905, wildlife conservationists William L. Finley and Herman T. Bohlman camped in the Klamath Basin to photograph waterfowl traveling along the Pacific Flyway. Hiking …
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