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Second Oregon Infantry, San Francisco, 1899

Second Oregon Infantry, San Francisco, 1899

Soldiers from the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment are shown in this photograph parading down San Francisco’s Market Street after their return from the Philippines. …

Oregon History Project
Senator Joseph McCarthy

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 …

Oregon History Project
Senator Maurine Neuberger's Oral History

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 …

Oregon History Project
Settlers to Siletz Reservation Agent Fairchild

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 …

Oregon History Project
Shadows in Public Life

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 …

Oregon History Project
Sheet Music, Bailey Gatzert March

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 …

Oregon History Project
Sheet Music Cover, Oregon, My Oregon

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 …

Oregon History Project
Sherar's Hotel & Toll Bridge, c. 1910

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 …

Oregon History Project
Shevlin-Hixon and Brooks-Scanlon Mills, Bend

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 …

Oregon History Project
Shevlin-Hixon Mill, Bend, Oregon

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 …

Oregon History Project

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.