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Seasonal Celebrations
Seasonal festivals and other activities take place throughout the Willamette Valley. Such regular displays of ethnic, occupational, or other folklore identities create windows into the …
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Second Oregon Crosses River in Philippines, 1899
This photograph shows Company I of the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment crossing a river (identified as either the Quinqua or the Norzagaray) in the …
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Second Oregon Infantry, San Francisco, 1899
Soldiers from the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment are shown in this photograph parading down San Francisco’s Market Street after their return from the Philippines. …
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Seeing Ethnicity in the Columbia River Canneries
Although the Finns of Astoria provide an example of the expression of ethnic identity among European immigrants, the related documents accompanying this essay suggest that …
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Senator Joseph McCarthy
This photograph of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy reading the Oregon Journal was taken on August 26, 1951, when he was in Oregon as the featured …
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Senator Maurine Neuberger's Oral History
This transcript is from a 1991 interview oral historian Clark Hansen conducted with Maurine Neuberger, the only woman ever elected by Oregonians to the …
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Settlement
John Newton Williamson, Crook County stockman, attorney, and U.S. congressman, provided the following sentiments for An Illustrated History of Central Oregon in 1898: “Crook County …
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Settlers to Siletz Reservation Agent Fairchild
This letter is indicative of the hostility that some early settlers had for Native people. A band of Athapaskan Indians, known as the Kwatami, lived …
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Shadows in Public Life
This reminiscence was written by Binger Hermann (1843-1926) in the late 1910s or early 1920s. It presents an insider’s view of the land fraud scandal …
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Sheet Music, Bailey Gatzert March
While many wood-fueled steamers operated on the Columbia River between the 1850s and the early 20th century, the Bailey Gatzert was one of the most …
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