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Baker City Telephone Operators, c. 1910
This photograph shows telephone operators at work in Baker City. It was probably taken some time between 1900 and 1915. Pioneer steamboat captain George Ainsworth …
Baker Community Hotel
The Portland office of architects Tourtellotte & Hummel, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, prepared this artist’s rendering of the Baker Community Hotel, which opened in 1929. …
Bandon Fire, 1936
This photograph was taken by Portland photographer Wesley Andrews on September 27, 1936, the day after a fire devastated the South Coast town of Bandon. …
Bandon Hatchery, Coos County
As early as 1902, the Oregon State Fish Commission established an experimental hatchery station on the Coquille River, near Bandon on the southern Oregon Coast. …
Barlow Road Toll Collection Authorization
This note, signed by Samuel K. Barlow, authorized Philip Foster to collect tolls from emigrants using the Barlow Road to cross the Cascades on their …
Barnett Trade Musket
This Barnett musket, made in England, is typical of the guns made available for trade by fur trading companies in northern North America during the …
Basque Immigration
This traditional Basque dress (property of Amparo Hofman’s Dance Troupe) was photographed by Lynn Hadley on July 24, 1998 while she was doing field work …
Basque Pelota Court, Jordan Valley
The photograph above, taken around 1920, shows a group of Basque immigrants in Jordan Valley’s pelota court. Pelota, which means “ball” in Spanish, is …
Beach Gold Diggings
This sketch was published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine in October 1856. It shows gold miners working black sands near Randolph, a short-lived mining town located …
Beatrice Marshall's Oral History
Beatrice Marshall was interviewed by Christine Poole and Madeline Moore as part of the Northwest Women’s History Project. In this transcribed excerpt of her interview, …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.
