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Coos Bay Lumber Company Steam Donkeys
The steam donkey, invented in 1880, greatly increased the efficiency of logging operations in Oregon’s forests. It replaced animal labor, which could not work as …
Coos Bay Shipbuilding Company
This photograph of the construction of the S.S. Burnwood in Marshfield (later renamed Coos Bay) is from a scrapbook that belonged to James Polhemus, the …
Costume of a Callapuya Indian
This engraving from a sketch by artist Alfred T. Agate depicts a Kalapuyan man dressed in pre-contact fashion, carrying a bow and what appears to …
Cottage from Palliser's American Architecture
This design for a “modern cottage” was published in 1878 and again in 1887 by architects George and Charles Palliser of New York City. The …
Couch & Co. and Allen, DeWitt & Co., Portland
This 1850 photograph depicts two Portland wholesale firms, Couch & Company and Allen, DeWitt & Company, located on Front Street north of Ankeny. The original …
Cowboy Poetry
These five poems were written by Ruby Kirk between 1977 and 1998. The experiences written about range from her early school years, high cholesterol, coyotes, …
Crater Lake, 1885
This photograph, taken in 1885, was one of the first taken of this legendary battleground. Native legend tells of a great war between Llao, Chief …
Crater Lake and the Klamath
This photo shows a Klamath Indian man posing on the rim of Crater Lake in the early twentieth century. Unimpressed with the man’s regular clothing, …
Crating Apples in Hood River
This photograph, which shows workers packing apples into boxes, is identified by a hand-written note on the back as being “probably Hood River.” The photographer …
Creston Primary School
This photograph belongs to a collection that documented the Portland Public School’s garden contest in 1914. The boys depicted in it were Portland’s Creston primary …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.
