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Portland Junior Symphony, 1927
This photograph from 1927 shows the three-year-old Portland Junior Symphony. When it started, the young musicians practiced in the attic of music teacher Mary V. …
Portland Mansions, 1882
The pair of Italianate mansions on the right of the lithograph belonged to two brothers, Ralph and Isaac Jacobs, and their families. In 1882, when …
Portland Public Market and Downtown
In this 1933 photo, the newly constructed Portland Public Market, located along Southwest Front Street, stands out in the lower right-hand corner. During the 1920s, …
Portland Railway Company Car
This 1905 photograph shows a Portland Railway Company car at the NW 26th Avenue and NW Upshur Street entrance of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, …
Portland Rose Festival, 1910
This charming horse-drawn float participated in a parade in Portland’s Third Annual Rose Carnival. The event would eventually be known as the Rose Festival Parade. …
Portland Waterfront, West Side, c. 1922
This photograph of Portland’s west side waterfront was taken from one of the towers of the Hawthorne Bridge in about 1922. Portland’s origin as a …
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 …
Portrait of Henry Pittock with Two Babies
Henry Pittock, shown here near the turn of the twentieth century, arrived in Portland in 1853. Thomas J. Dryer, publisher of the Oregonian, …
Pounding Fish, Wishham, 1910
This photograph shows a Wishxam (also spelled Wishham or Wishram) woman making pounded salmon near Celilo Falls. It was taken by Edward Curtis in 1910. …
Principal Watercourses West of the Rockies
The document reproduced here is Captain William Clark’s copy of a map sketched by two Nez Perce Indians in May 1806. It shows the principal …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.
