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Picking Cranberries at Sandlake
This photograph shows workers, primarily women and children, harvesting cranberries near Sandlake in Tillamook County. It was taken around 1912. Massachusetts-native Charles D. McFarlin is …
Pilot Butte Inn, Bend
Pilot Butte Inn, a rustic sportsman’s lodge in the center of the sawmill town of Bend, is depicted in this photograph, taken about 1930. The …
Pioneer Courthouse, 1875
When the courthouse at SW Fifth and Yamhill streets was built in 1875, it was considered by some residents to be too far away from …
Plano del Estrecho de Juan de Fuca
This 1792 map shows the extent to which the Pacific Northwest coast had been mapped by Spanish and British explorers since James Cook’s first foray into …
Plateau Culture Digging Stick
This digging stick originated most likely from the Columbia Plateau. The color is the result of fire-hardening, a technique often used to strengthen wood. Digging …
Police and Pickets Clash, Stimson Mill, 1935
This photograph—published in the Oregon Journal on June 14, 1935—shows a state policeman clubbing a picketer several miles south of Forest Grove. The unidentified picketer …
Ponderosa Pine, Prineville, 1931
Forest fires are an important component of the ecosystem. The Native population used fire as a tool to enhance the production of food, opening the dense …
Portage Railroad near Cape Horn
In 1863, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company (OSNC) built a fourteen-mile-long portage railroad eastward from The Dalles around Celilo Falls, a series of several long …
Portland, 1901
This is a small portion of a 1901 real estate map of Portland, showing a section on the east side of the Willamette River south …
Portland as Seen from Henry's Addition
A suburban Portland real estate development is depicted in this 1892 advertisement from Northwest Magazine, published in St. Paul, Minnesota. Real estate developer Charles …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.
