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Mount Jefferson & Black Butte
This lithograph is based on an original watercolor by Robert S. Young, the artist who accompanied the Pacific Railroad Survey of 1855 commanded by Lieutenants Robert …
Moving Camp
This undated, anonymous photograph of two trains transporting a mobile camp across an unidentified, recently burned-over, and partially logged forest could have been taken anywhere …
Mr. & Mrs. C.T. Higgins and their Bomb Shelter
These two photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Higgins were taken two years apart by the Oregon Journal and provide a decent example of what a …
Mt. Hood Timberline Lodge History
This is the front page of a history of Mt. Hood’s Timberline Lodge, written by Portland area writer and teacher Claire Warner Churchill. Churchill was …
Mulino Flour Mill
The photograph above depicts one of Oregon’s earliest flour mills, built in 1851 by Richard R. Howard on the banks of Milk Creek, a tributary …
Multnomah Falls
While the exact date of this photograph of Multnomah Falls is unknown, careful study determines it was taken between 1914, when the stone footbridge in …
NAACP Flier Protesting the Housing Authority
This flier was distributed by protesters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on September 30 and October 4, 1963, at …
Naltunnetunne Plant Vocabulary
The Naltunnetunne lived on Oregon’s South Coast just north of the Chetco River prior to their removal to the Siletz Indian Reservation in the mid-1850s. …
NAREB Code of Ethics
The Oregon Real Estate Department published this version of the National Association of Real Estate Board's (NAREB) code of ethics in its February, 1956 Oregon …
Nathaniel Wyeth's expeditions to Oregon
A businessman from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Wyeth played an important role in the Euro American colonization of the Pacific Northwest. As a result of his …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.
