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Owl Sculpture, Sauvie Island
For thousands of years before Euro Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, the Multnomah Indians lived on Sauvie Island on the lower Columbia River. In …
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Pacific Intertie Map
The idea for a high-voltage transmission line interconnecting the power grids of the Pacific West was introduced as early as 1919. Although the idea resurfaced …
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Pai Shamkain (a.k.a., Charley Shaplish, Dr. Whirlwind) (ca. 1825-ca. 1910)
This photograph shows Cayuse Indian doctor Pai Shamkain, also known as Charley Shaplish and, most commonly among Euro Americans, Dr. Whirlwind. The photograph was taken …
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Paiute Storytelling
This photograph of Myrtle Peck teaching the Paiute’s language and traditional stories to her children was taken by Leila Childs in 1997. At the time, the Pecks …
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Paiute Water Basket
The Paiute peoples of the Great Basin are widely known for their basketry, a fine example of which is shown above. This basket, probably made …
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Pamphlet, The Golden Horn of Plenty
As immigrants populated the Willamette Valley in the 1840s and 1850s, newcomers to Oregon Territory looked east of the Cascade Mountains for inexpensive land for …
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Park Blocks, 1878
The Park Blocks were set aside by early landowner Daniel Lownsdale in an 1849 survey. The narrow strip of blocks running north and south were …
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Pelicans & Cormorants on Pelican Island
In the early decades of the twentieth century, conservationists, waterfowl hunters, and the federal government recognized that land-use changes, unlimited hunting, and environmental disasters had …
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Pelton Dam Fish Ladder
This Oregon Journal photograph shows the three-mile-long fish ladder that parallels the east bank of the Deschutes River. The ladder was designed to facilitate anadromous …
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Pencils, Millions of Them
Oregon is home to the most popular species of tree used in the manufacture of pencils, incense-cedar (Calocedrus decurrens). Pencils made from this …
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