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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 …
Senator Maurine Neuberger's Oral History
This transcript is from a 1991 interview oral historian Clark Hansen conducted with Maurine Neuberger, the only woman ever elected by Oregonians to the …
Settlers to Siletz Reservation Agent Fairchild
This letter is indicative of the hostility that some early settlers had for Native people. A band of Athapaskan Indians, known as the Kwatami, lived …
Shadows in Public Life
This reminiscence was written by Binger Hermann (1843-1926) in the late 1910s or early 1920s. It presents an insider’s view of the land fraud scandal …
Sheet Music Cover, Oregon, My Oregon
In 1920, John A. Buchanan and Henry B. Murtagh won an Oregon state song contest state with their entry, Oregon, My Oregon. The Society …
Sheet Music, Bailey Gatzert March
While many wood-fueled steamers operated on the Columbia River between the 1850s and the early 20th century, the Bailey Gatzert was one of the most …
Sherar's Hotel & Toll Bridge, c. 1910
This photograph, taken around 1909, shows the bridge, hotel, and other buildings at Sherar’s Bridge in Wasco County. Sherar’s Bridge originally spanned the Deschutes River …
Shevlin-Hixon and Brooks-Scanlon Mills, Bend
This photo shows Bend, Oregon’s two largest lumber mills. The Brooks-Scanlon mill is on the far side of the Deschutes River, in the background of …
Shevlin-Hixon Mill, Bend, Oregon
In 1916, the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company built a mill on the Deschutes River in Bend and began heavy cutting on more than 200,000 acres of …
Shinzaburo Ban
This undated photograph, probably taken in the 1900s, is a portrait of Shinzaburo Ban, a prominent Japanese businessman who lived in Portland from the 1890s …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.
