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Quilting and African Americans in Oregon

Quilting and African Americans in Oregon

This photograph of Portlander Cleveland Smith exhibiting quilt-work was taken by Nancy Nusz during her fieldwork for the Oregon Folklife Program in the summer of …

Oregon History Project
Quis-quas-hum (Frances Harney Johnson)

Quis-quas-hum (Frances Harney Johnson)

The woman in this photograph is identified as Quis-quas-hum, also known as Frances Harney Johnson, a member of a Takelma band in the Rogue River …

Oregon History Project
Race and Progressive Resistance

Race and Progressive Resistance

By the mid-1960s, opposition to what planners called “urban renewal”— the demolition of deteriorating mixed-use districts to make way for freeways and large public buildings—spread …

Oregon History Project
Railroads and Highways

Railroads and Highways

By the turn of the twentieth century, railroads had begun to penetrate the isolated communities on the coast. Until then, rivers, lakes, sloughs, and the …

Oregon History Project
Railroads into Central Oregon

Railroads into Central Oregon

At the turn of the century, when local railroad service had become an established part of the economics and culture of most rural communities in …

Oregon History Project
Railroads, Race, and the Transformation of Oregon

Railroads, Race, and the Transformation of Oregon

As symbols of the Industrial Revolution, railroads were powerful centralizing and dispersing mediums, concentrating populations in urban areas while also scattering people and communities across …

Oregon History Project
Railroad Station at Airlie, 1909

Railroad Station at Airlie, 1909

The photograph above shows the railroad station of the Southern Pacific Company and a warehouse at the small Willamette Valley town of Airlie in 1909. …

Oregon History Project
Rajasthani Folk Music

Rajasthani Folk Music

This photograph of Dr. Nisha Joshi, on left playing the tabla, and apprentice Shareen Joshi, singing and playing the harmonium, was taken by Folklife coordinator …

Oregon History Project
Ranches

Ranches

Of course, not all the central Oregon ranches were small operations. The largest ranches in the 1870s and 1880s included the Baldwin ranch at Hay …

Oregon History Project
Reclaiming the Land

Reclaiming the Land

Passage of the Newlands Reclamation Act in 1902 heightened expectations in Oregon that federal money would be available to develop irrigation projects in the arid …

Oregon History Project