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East Portland, 1874
This slough drained Hawthorne Springs near Southeast Oak Street. Because much of it was marshy and crisscrossed by creeks and sloughs, land on the east …
Family of Bannock Indians, 1872
This photograph shows a family of Indians, identified by the photographer as Bannocks, sitting in front of a small pole-and-thatch lodge. It was taken in …
Fire Area, Portland, 1873
This map shows the twenty-two block area damaged in the Fire of 1873. The fire damage is marked in dark on a map made three …
First Street, Portland
On First Street, the Hop Wo laundry was next to the Monnastes and Davis blacksmith shop. Many other towns had the same two kinds of businesses. People …
Fort Bidwell
Fort Bidwell in Northeastern California (Surprise Valley), built in 1863 and seen here in 1877, was a secure site for white settlers traveling along the …
Fort Klamath
Colonel C. S. Drew, First Oregon Cavalry, was sent in 1862 to scout a location for an Army post to protect settlers in the new …
Frederick Louis Gifford (1878-1945)
Fred L. Gifford was the leader (“Grand Dragon”) for the Oregon Ku Klux Klan between 1921 and 1924, when the “invisible empire” was influential in …
Freight List for the Steamer Express
The steamer Express operated on the Willamette River from the mid-1850s to the early 1860s at a time when several companies competed for river business. …
From Granville Arnold to his Father
The 1850s were easily the bloodiest decade in the history of southwestern Oregon. While relations between whites and Indians in the Rogue Valley had long …
From Horace Lyman to the Editor
Reverend Horace Lyman was a County School Commissioner in Portland and a strong advocate for public education. In this letter to the editor of the …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.
