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Leaving Sharkey, Famous Bucking Bull, Pendleton Round-up
This photograph shows Sharkey, “the famous bucking bull,” throwing Tuck Reynolds at the fourth Pendleton Round-Up, held in September 1913. It was taken by Ralph …
Lee Sing (c. 1850s - c. 1900s)
Lee Sing was the Chinese chef in the lavish mansion of Portland socialite Charlotte Green, the grandmother to the Communist radical John Reed. Chinese servants …
Les Caloches
This engraving by the French firm Thierry Frères is based on a sketch by the Russian scientist Alexandr Postels. It was included in the atlas …
Les Schwab
This 1979 photograph of Les Schwab is part of the Oregon Journal Collection at the Research Library of the Oregon Historical Society. Les Schwab, a …
Letter from Masuo Yasui to Taiitsuro Yasui and Renichi Fujimoto, December 12, 1907
Full letter. Transcription in Japanese. English translation (partial) This letter, which has been translated into English, was written by Masuo Yasui in 1907, two …
Letter from Oscar F. Wilson, 1854
Oscar F. Wilson wrote this letter from Butteville, Oregon, to his friend M. Daugherty in West Alexander, Pennsylvania, on March 26, 1854, describing his overland …
Letter from Pres. Roosevelt to Albert Bauer, 1944
This letter, signed by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt and addressed to Albert Bauer, was found in the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation photographic collection in the S.S. Nehalem …
Letter from Samuel R. Thurston to Wesley Shannon, June 22, 1850, regarding Oregon's Black exclusion laws
Click here for full letter. Click here for transcript. This letter was written by Territorial Representative Samuel Thurston in 1850 to his friend and …
Letter of Appreciation to Roseburg Housewives
H.E. Cully, Secretary of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce, drafted this letter in 1927 to express his gratitude to the "housewives" of Roseburg for being …
Letter, Portland Traction Company from Student
In this letter to the Portland Traction Company, Oak Grove School fourth grader Judith Kopp expresses her concerns regarding the company's plans to discontinue trolley …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.
