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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 …
East Portland Waterfront, 1898
Here, Mt. Hood rises behind the East Portland waterfront in 1898. A barge and a steamship can be seen in the photo at lower right. …
Editorial Cartoon, Fitness Program
This transcript of Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall’s and President Lyndon B. Johnson’s remarks at the intertie victory breakfast at the Sheraton Hotel in …
Editorial Cartoon, O.K., It's a Deal
Carl Bonelli (1901–1981) was an editorial cartoonist for the Oregon Journal (1947-1971), for the Oregonian (1966-1968), and for the Gresham Outlook (1971-1974). This editorial cartoon …
Election Day
This 1909 anti-suffrage postcard depicts a woman going to vote on election day while her “suffering” husband takes care of their children. A note on …
E. Shelton Hill's Oral History
This oral history interview of E. Shelton Hill was recorded by L. A. Barrie in about 1976, as part of the Neighborhood History Project conducted …
Estimate of Western Indians, Lewis and Clark Journals
Charged by Pres. Thomas Jefferson with recording the names of Native communities and estimating the size of their populations, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark …
Eva Redding and Family
This 1938 photograph shows a woman identified as Eva Redding at a hop farm campground in the Willamette Valley. Hop buds are used to flavor …
EWEB is on the Coast to Stay!
This political advertisement was paid for by Citizens for the Orderly Development of Electricity (CODE). It appeared in the Eugene Register-Guard on May 18, 1970, …
Exploration & Fur Trade by Robert Gray
The Oregon Historical Society produced this map in 1972 to illustrate the voyages of Captain Robert Gray to the Northwest Coast in the late eighteenth …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.
