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Stumptown
In this 1857 picture, tree stumps are apparent just at the edge of town. In 1847, a visitor to Portland remarked that the trees had …
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Subscriptions to US Sanitary Commission
This document lists the names of Jacksonville, Oregon residents who pledged donations to the U.S. Sanitary Commission at a town meeting on September 20, 1862. The …
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Sucker Harvest
For thousands of years, the Lost River suckers and shortnose suckers have been important to the Klamath Indian culture and essential to their subsistence. In …
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Suffrage and the Oregon System
Male politicians slowly expanded their concept of progress to include the enfranchisement of women, but women had already developed a broader agenda that they wanted …
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Suffrage Committee Report
Delazon Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Suffrage and Election, presented this handwritten report to the Oregon Constitutional Convention in Salem on August 25, 1857. …
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Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Company
The Scottish botanist David Douglas described the sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) as the “most princely of the genus.” Sugar pines are the tallest …
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Summer Fishing Camp on the Columbia
This painting was done in 1884 by J. E. Stuart, a prolific and popular American artist of landscapes, portraits, and American Indians. It depicts a …
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Sunset Science Park
This 1962 aerial photograph depicts a section of Beaverton bordered by the Sunset Highway between Cornell and Murray roads. The cluster of buildings near the …
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Surface Management Responsibility
This detail comes from a 1994 U.S. Bureau of Land Management map titled “Surface Management Responsibility.” It shows federally owned lands in southeastern Oregon. The …
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Surveyed Patterns on the Land
Euro-American settlers in the Willamette Valley of the 1830s and 1840s had no instructions to follow in selecting their farmland. They observed that prairie lands …
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