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Exposition Company Leaders

Exposition Company Leaders

This image, showing the directors and officers of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, is from the fair’s “Portland Day” program. The officers were mostly …

Oregon History Project
Facts about Snake River Valley at Nyssa, Oregon

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 …

Oregon History Project
Fair Housing in Oregon Study

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 …

Oregon History Project
Family of Bannock Indians, 1872

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 …

Oregon History Project
Farmer Receives Deschutes Irrigation Project Water

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 …

Oregon History Project
Fast Flux Test Facility Hanford, Washington

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 …

Oregon History Project
Faulitz River from Yam Hills

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 …

Oregon History Project
Federal Plan to Wipe Out Predatory Beasts Succeeds

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 …

Oregon History Project
Fight for the Beaches

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. …

Oregon History Project
Filipinos Want Equal Rights or Independence

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 …

Oregon History Project

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.