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Police and Pickets Clash, Stimson Mill, 1935
This photograph—published in the Oregon Journal on June 14, 1935—shows a state policeman clubbing a picketer several miles south of Forest Grove. The unidentified picketer …
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Political Turmoil in the 1930s
The boom and bust cycle of the century’s first three decades left a bitter legacy in southern Oregon, and long-held political tensions surfaced anew in …
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Pollution in Paradise
Although Oregon gained national attention as an environmental pacesetter during the early 1970s, the state had a long history of using its waterways as municipal …
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Ponderosa Pine, Prineville, 1931
Forest fires are an important component of the ecosystem. The Native population used fire as a tool to enhance the production of food, opening the dense …
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Portage Railroad near Cape Horn
In 1863, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company (OSNC) built a fourteen-mile-long portage railroad eastward from The Dalles around Celilo Falls, a series of several long …
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Portland, 1901
This is a small portion of a 1901 real estate map of Portland, showing a section on the east side of the Willamette River south …
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Portland as a Marketing Center
The West Coast developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century through capital and supplies funneled through its port cities. In the 1840s, the Pacific Northwest …
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Portland as Seen from Henry's Addition
A suburban Portland real estate development is depicted in this 1892 advertisement from Northwest Magazine, published in St. Paul, Minnesota. Real estate developer Charles …
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Portland Chapter NAACP 50th Anniversary
This 1964 photograph shows Sylvia N. Thompson (left) with her daughter Addie Jean Haynes and Addie's ten-year-old son Bryan Haynes (later Dr. Haynes, DDS) holding …
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Portland Chinatown, 1886
This color lithograph accompanied an article titled “A Night in Chinatown” in the October 1886 issue of West Shore, a Portland news and literary …
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