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"Admission of Collored [sic] Children to the Public School" by William Alexander Wood
Thomas Alexander Wood (1837-1904) was a white Oregon pioneer, a veteran of the Indian wars, and a Methodist clergyman. In these reminiscences he recalled the …
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"Attackted at Juan de Fuca Straits." by George Davidson
One of the oldest non-Native collection items in the Oregon Historical Society is an ink-wash sketch by artist George Davidson depicting the trade ship Columbia …
"Grandma Crew" at Oregon Shipbuilding Co. by Oregon Journal
This photo was published in the Portland Journal in 1944 with the caption: "'Grandma Crew' at Oregon Shipbuilding has 6 grannies out of crew of …
"No work, no woo" pledge, 1943 by John Mothershead
This Oregon Journal photo is captioned: "Albina Engine & Machine Works Employees Line up to Sign Pledge Not to Date Anyone w/out a Full Time …
10th Anniversary of Women in the Armed Forces by Unknown
This photograph, likely taken in May 1952 during the third annual Armed Forces Day parade in Portland, depicts a Buick convertible decorated to commemorate the …
1811 Trailmarker by Michael McKenzie
Sometime around the summer of 1944, ten-year-old Douglas Owen found the 120-pound basalt rock shown above near the town of Bates, located about thirty miles …
1860 Census, Coos County by U. S. Census
This document is a typewritten transcript of the 1860 Schedule of Free Inhabitants in Coos County’s Coquille Precinct. It was transcribed from a microfilm copy …
A New Status for the American Indian by Oregon Historical Society
On March 23, 1957, the Oregon Historical Society held its Third Annual Historical Forum, a discussion of events that had influenced Oregon’s political, social, cultural, …
A Nice Function to Ask a Gentleman to Attend by The Oregonian
This syndicated cartoon was published in the Oregonian on March 15, 1899. It is a commentary on the rapidly changing situation in China at that …
A Night in Chinatown by West Shore Magazine
The October 1886 issue of West Shore magazine, based in Portland, featured this lithograph and an article under the title A Night in Chinatown. …
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