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Workmen Battle Mud, Wolf Creek Highway by City of Portland
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 …
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Yakama Nation & Corps Discuss Celilo Settlement by Unknown
This photograph of various representatives of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was taken during …
Yamhill Area Land Use Map by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service
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 …
Yamsi Barn by Stephen Most
The first cattle were introduced to the Klamath Basin in the winter of 1856 by Judge F. Adams, a California rancher who grazed his herd …
Yat Sing Music Club by Nancy J. Nusz
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 …
Yelleppit and the Walla Wallas by Meriwether Lewis
This excerpt from Meriwether Lewis’s journal describes the Corps of Discovery’s encounter with Walla Wallas and their headman Yelleppit (Tamtappam). After crossing the Umatilla River—which Lewis …
Yosuke Matsuoka by Oregon Journal Collection
This photograph of Yosuke Matsuoka—part of the Oregon Journal collection—was taken in July 1940. Matsuoka was a Japanese diplomat who played a key role in …
Young Cadets Drill at Hill Military Academy by Unknown
This ca. 1920 photograph shows students on the campus of the Hill Military Academy in northwest Portland. Private schools have a long history in Oregon, …
Youth Harvest Beans, Sauvie Island, 1943 by Unknown
This 1943 photograph shows two teenage boys working with a woman to harvest wax bush beans on Sauvie Island. During World War II, many Oregon …
Zacheas Van Ornum Petition for Indemnity by Zacheas Van Ornum
This letter was written by Oregon settler Zacheas Van Ornum. It is undated, but it was probably written to Van Ornum’s lawyer in the 1890s …
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