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Horsetail Falls by Joseph Buchtel
This stereograph of Horsetail Falls by Joseph Buchtel was likely taken in the 1860s. The falls can be seen from the Historic Columbia River Highway, …![Hudson's Bay Company Blanket](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/HBC-Blanket-White-FSDM2.jpg)
Hudson's Bay Company Blanket
White blankets like this Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) blanket were among the first to be traded among fur trappers and Native Americans in North America. …![Hydraulic Mine Operation, Jackson County](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Hydraulic-Mine-Jackson-Cty-FSDM2.jpg)
Hydraulic Mine Operation, Jackson County
This photo, probably taken in the early 1910s, illustrates how thoroughly hydraulic mining reshaped the landscape of southwestern Oregon. Two massive monitors, also called giants, …![Illustration of Housing & Feeding Lumber Camp Outfit on Wheels](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Housing-Feeding-Logging-Camp-Timberman-1910-FSDM.jpg)
Illustration of Housing & Feeding Lumber Camp Outfit on Wheels
This article about a movable logging camp that housed and fed timber workers appeared in the August 1910 issue of The Timberman, a monthly …![Improvement of Mouth of the Columbia River](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/ba0186182.jpg)
Improvement of Mouth of the Columbia River
This June 30, 1896, map depicts the south jetty of the Columbia River shortly after it was completed by federal engineers in 1895. The U.S. …![Indian Burning in the Willamette Valley](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Indian-Burning-Willamette-River-1845-FSDM21.jpg)
Indian Burning in the Willamette Valley
The earliest illustrations and written descriptions of the Willamette Valley, like the 1845 painting, Valley of the Willamette River, by Henry Warre reproduced here, …![Indian Frybread](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Roma-Cartney-FSDM.jpg)
Indian Frybread
This photograph of Roma Cartney making frybread was taken on July 25, 1998 by Laura Strobel at the Jefferson County Fair in Madras, Oregon. Strobel …![Indian Hunting Rights](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Indians-Protest-State-Hunt-Laws-1938-FSDM2.jpg)
Indian Hunting Rights
As John Martin points out in this newspaper article, subsistence and spirituality are intimately intertwined in Native cultures. In addition to providing physical sustenance, deer …![Indian Rock Art, Picture Rocks Pass](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Indian-Rock-Art-Ft-Rock-Valley-FSDM2.jpg)
Indian Rock Art, Picture Rocks Pass
This photograph, probably taken in the 1920s or 1930s, shows Indian rock art at Picture Rocks Pass, located in Lake County between Silver and Summer …![Indian Villages in Southwestern Oregon](http://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/Indian-Villages-SWOregon-FSDM2.jpg)
Indian Villages in Southwestern Oregon
This map was drawn in 1884 by the ethnologist James Owen Dorsey based on information given to him by É-ne-á-ti, a Tututni Indian living on …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.