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White Stag Catalog Cover

White Stag Catalog Cover

This White Stag catalog cover from approximately 1939 features artwork of a skilled skier with the company's trademark, a leaping stag, in the background. In …

Oregon History Project
Women & Children outside Farm Labor Camp

Women & Children outside Farm Labor Camp

This ca. 1967 photograph shows Hispanic women and children standing near plywood-sided cabins at a farm labor camp in the Willamette Valley.  The photograph is …

Oregon History Project
Women Pray at Nichiren Buddhist Church, 1963

Women Pray at Nichiren Buddhist Church, 1963

This photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on November 25, 1963. It shows a group of women praying at Portland’s Nichiren Buddhist Church during …

Oregon History Project
Workmen Battle Mud, Wolf Creek Highway

Workmen Battle Mud, Wolf Creek Highway

This 1936 photograph shows men building the Wolf Creek Highway, which later was renamed the Sunset Highway (US 26) in honor of a Portland area …

Oregon History Project
Yamhill Area Land Use Map

Yamhill Area Land Use Map

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Soil Conservation Service published this 1980 map showing designated farmland and urban growth boundaries in Yamhill County. In …

Oregon History Project
Yat Sing Music Club

Yat Sing Music Club

This photograph of the Yat Sing Music Club was taken by Nancy Nusz in 1994. The music club has been performing Cantonese opera in Portland …

Oregon History Project

Interpretive Essays

Interpretive essays use primary documents from the Oregon Historical Society archives to help readers imagine the events, people, and issues that shaped Oregon history.