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Albina Residents Picket the Portland Development Commission, 1973
Beginning in the 1960s, the City of Portland, with the cooperation of the Portland Development Commission (PDC) and Emanuel Hospital, began to lay the groundwork …
Iona Murphy at Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland
This ca. 1943 photograph, taken by Ray Atkeson, shows Iona Murphy welding in an assembly building at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland. During World …
Knights of Pythias Castle, Baker City
This photograph shows the Baker City headquarters of a fraternal order known as the Knights of Pythias, probably about 1915. The Fraternal Order of Knights …
Klamath Falls, 1941
In 1860, the Federal Government granted the states swamplands, and by 1867, Oregon opened these lands to settlers. That same year, “swampgrabber” George Nurse secured …
The Vanport Flood
Written by Michael N. McGregor On Memorial Day in 1948, the Columbia River roared downstream fifteen feet above the flood plain in Portland and undermined …
Latina Baker with Chicharrones de Puerco
Professional photographer Paulina Hermosillo took this ca. 2000 photograph of a woman working at the Panaderia San Gabriel, a bakery in Independence, Polk County. …
Senator Joseph McCarthy
This photograph of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy reading the Oregon Journal was taken on August 26, 1951, when he was in Oregon as the featured …
Pendleton Field
This aerial photograph shows Pendleton Field, also known as Pendleton Army Air Base, in August 1941. It was taken by Pendleton photographer Bus Howdyshell. The …
The Albina Engine & Machine Works office, c.1943
Oregon shipyards added hundreds, sometimes thousands, of new workers to their payrolls during World War II. Employers recruited women to fill positions typically held by …
Fast Flux Test Facility Hanford, Washington
George Hinman was interviewed by Clark Hansen of the Oregon Historical Society as part of the Columbia River Dissenter Series, an oral history collection commissioned …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.
