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Grande Ronde Valley, c.1884

Grande Ronde Valley, c.1884

This lithograph shows a portion of northeastern Oregon’s Grande Ronde Valley as it appeared in the mid-1880s. It was published in the January 1885 issue …

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"Grandma Crew" at Oregon Shipbuilding Co.

"Grandma Crew" at Oregon Shipbuilding Co.

This photo was published in the Portland Journal in 1944 with the caption: "'Grandma Crew' at Oregon Shipbuilding has 6 grannies out of crew of …

Oregon History Project
Grand Ronde Restoration Hearing

Grand Ronde Restoration Hearing

Kathryn, Karen, and Frank Harrison, seated in the front row, testify for Congressional restoration of the Grand Ronde tribe. Elizabeth Furse, an Indian-rights advocate who …

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Grave Charges Lead to Arrests

Grave Charges Lead to Arrests

This front-page Portland Evening Telegram article refers to "grave charges" but does not explicitly state that those charges are accusations of homosexuality. The article followed …

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Guild's Lake, 1904

Guild's Lake, 1904

Before the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, Guild’s Lake was a marshy area encompassing 400 acres in Northwest Portland. The shallow lake, which was fed …

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Guild's Lake Area, 1930

Guild's Lake Area, 1930

Between 1906 and the mid-1920s, Guild’s Lake was filled in with soil sluiced off the hillsides and dredged from the Willamette River. A series of developers, …

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Handbook for New Women Shipyard Workers

Handbook for New Women Shipyard Workers

In 1943 Portland Public Schools produced a handbook designed to orient new women workes to life in the shipyards. One section dealt with the problems of childcare.  …

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Harvest Hands Rest on Sacks of Grain, Moro

Harvest Hands Rest on Sacks of Grain, Moro

This photograph shows harvest hands seated on sacks of grain near the northeastern Oregon town of Moro. It was taken by Moro photographer Will Raymond …

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Harvey Scott near Seaside, 1905

Harvey Scott near Seaside, 1905

This 1905 photograph shows Harvey Scott reading the day’s Oregonian on the Oregon Coast near Seaside. Scott was born on a farm near Groveland, Illinois. …

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Haswell's Log of Sloop Washington, 1788

Haswell's Log of Sloop Washington, 1788

Nineteen-year-old Bostonian Robert Haswell wrote the journal entries reproduced here in August 1788; they were published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly 140 years later. Haswell …

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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.