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Social Welfare Survey
This document is a selection from a report that the Social Survey Committee wrote for the Consumers’ League of Oregon. The report described the committee’s …
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Somerset West, 1963
This aerial photograph shows the first five model houses at the grand opening of Somerset West, “planned $500 million ‘satellite city’ 10 miles west of …
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Southeastern Oregon Bibliography
Aikens, C. Melvin. Archaeology of Oregon. Portland: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 1986. Allen, Barbara. Homesteading the High Desert. Salt Lake City: University of Utah …
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Southern Oregon
Many people in Douglas, Curry, Josephine, Jackson, and Klamath counties have joined with their northern California neighbors into the mythical State of Jefferson. Named for …
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Southern Oregon & Northern California
The 1848 discovery of gold in California was a lure for many Euro Americans, including up to two-thirds of the men who had recently crossed …
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Spanish Flu in Astoria
This newspaper article was published in the Morning Astorian on October 2, 1918. It describes the arrival of “Spanish flu” in Oregon. “Spanish flu” was …
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Spraying Orchard, Hood River
This ca. 1930 photograph shows a Hood River orchardist and child spraying pear or apple trees. The photograph is from the Pacific Northwest Electric Railway …
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SPRR Farm Demo Train
In the early 20th century, railroad companies encouraged improved farming methods and developed technological advancements for getting fresh agricultural products to markets. Farming demonstration railroad …
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Spurs
The spurs shown in the photograph above were probably made in the late nineteenth century. They are currently on display in the award-winning “Oregon My …
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Stanley Moore (1914-1997)
This photograph shows Stanley Moore with his wife in 1953. Stanley Moore was a distinguished philosophy professor and the most visible Oregonian investigated by anti-communists …
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