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Post-War Population and the Building Boom
A large number of wartime workers who had migrated to Oregon remained afterwards; Portland’s population escalated from 305,000 in 1940 to 374,000 ten years later. …
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Postwar Prosperity
Postwar prosperity caught the Northwest by surprise. As war industries demobilized, business pundits predicted a depression like the one that had followed World War I, …
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Pounding Fish, Wishham, 1910
This photograph shows a Wishxam (also spelled Wishham or Wishram) woman making pounded salmon near Celilo Falls. It was taken by Edward Curtis in 1910. …
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Prehistory
The period from 10,500 to 200 years ago covers the bulk of prehistory of western North America. It is known as the Archaic period of …
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Pre-Industrial Communities
Prineville holds the distinction of being the region’s first town, founded by Barney and Elizabeth Prine in 1868. The Prines settled on the banks of …
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Principal Watercourses West of the Rockies
The document reproduced here is Captain William Clark’s copy of a map sketched by two Nez Perce Indians in May 1806. It shows the principal …
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Probate Court: David Leslie assigned executor of Ewing Young's estate
This scrap of paper—handwritten, covered in centuries-old smudged fingerprints—is a remnant of the first significant attempt to create a functioning non-Native government in Oregon Country. …
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Proceedings of the Wasco Council, 1855
This version of the proceedings of the treaty-making Wasco Council is a reprinted typed transcript of the original report sent to George Maypenny, United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs, …
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Proclamation Against the Ku Klux Klan, 1922
Oregon Governor Benjamin W. Olcott issued this 1922 executive proclamation in response to three assaults in southern Oregon perpetrated by members of the Medford klavern, …
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Proclamation from Governor George Abernethy
Oregon Provisional Governor George Abernethy issued this proclamation for the raising of a voluntary militia following an authorization from the Oregon Provisional Legislature. The legislature’s intent …
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