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Facts about Snake River Valley at Nyssa, Oregon
This map is from a circa 1911 brochure promoting the “progressive and growing city” of Nyssa, located in northern Malheur County on the Idaho state …
Fair Housing in Oregon Study
This case study was included as an appendix by the League of Women Voters of Portland in A Study of Awareness of the Oregon Fair …
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 …
Farmer Receives Deschutes Irrigation Project Water
This photograph shows George Rodman spreading irrigation water over his farmland near Culver on May 18, 1946. Rodman was the first farmer to receive water from …
Fast Flux Test Facility Hanford, Washington
George Hinman was interviewed by Clark Hansen of the Oregon Historical Society as part of the Columbia River Dissenter Series, an oral history collection commissioned …
Faulitz River from Yam Hills
This landscape scene was sketched by Joseph Drayton in June 1841. Drayton was a member of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, an American naval expedition that …
Federal Plan to Wipe Out Predatory Beasts Succeeds
This article, written by A. F. Averill, appeared in the Oregonian on April 29, 1917. Averill was chief inspector of the U.S. Biological Survey’s Oregon-Washington …
Fight for the Beaches
Oregon Journal photographer Herb Alden took this photograph of Peter Frost (right) and an unidentified friend at an Oct. 28, 1968 rally in Cannon Beach. …
Filipinos Want Equal Rights or Independence
This letter by Filipino worker Ernesto A. Mangaoang was published in the Oregonian on September 21, 1931. Mangaoang describes the discrimination that Filipinos faced in …
Finnish Socialist Club Picnic, Astoria, 1922
This photograph shows members of the Finnish Socialist Club picnicking in Astoria in 1922. The Finnish Socialist Club was one of Astoria’s most prominent ethnic …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.
