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Sheet Music Cover, Oregon, My Oregon
In 1920, John A. Buchanan and Henry B. Murtagh won an Oregon state song contest state with their entry, Oregon, My Oregon. The Society …
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Sherar's Hotel & Toll Bridge, c. 1910
This photograph, taken around 1909, shows the bridge, hotel, and other buildings at Sherar’s Bridge in Wasco County. Sherar’s Bridge originally spanned the Deschutes River …
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Shevlin-Hixon and Brooks-Scanlon Mills, Bend
This photo shows Bend, Oregon’s two largest lumber mills. The Brooks-Scanlon mill is on the far side of the Deschutes River, in the background of …
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Shevlin-Hixon Mill, Bend, Oregon
In 1916, the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company built a mill on the Deschutes River in Bend and began heavy cutting on more than 200,000 acres of …
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Shinzaburo Ban
This undated photograph, probably taken in the 1900s, is a portrait of Shinzaburo Ban, a prominent Japanese businessman who lived in Portland from the 1890s …
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Shipbuilders Will Help
This illustration was published in a short-lived weekly newspaper produced by the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation (CRSC). Win the War, later renamed The Pilot …
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Shipbuilding, World War I
The shipyards at Grant-Smith-Porter Ship Co. still show considerable activity just after WWI. Wartime shipbuilding provided a bright exception to Portland’s otherwise lackluster economy during …
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Shoreworkers in a Global Context—Chinese Men
The first workers in the canneries were family and friends of the cannery operators, followed by recruits from Portland’s German and Irish communities. By the …
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Shoshone Fish Weir
This excerpt from Meriwether Lewis’s journal describes a Lemhi Shoshone fish weir on present-day Idaho’s Lemhi River, a tributary of the Salmon River. After months of …
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Sign at Seufert Brothers Company
This photograph, believed taken by Benjamin Gifford around 1928, shows the Seufert Brothers Company Salmon and Fruit Cannery in The Dalles. At the left of …
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