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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 …
Shipbuilders Will Help
This illustration was published in a short-lived weekly newspaper produced by the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation (CRSC). Win the War, later renamed The Pilot …
Shipbuilding, World War I
The shipyards at Grant-Smith-Porter Ship Co. still show considerable activity just after WWI. Wartime shipbuilding provided a bright exception to Portland’s otherwise lackluster economy during …
Shoshone Fish Weir
This excerpt from Meriwether Lewis’s journal describes a Lemhi Shoshone fish weir on present-day Idaho’s Lemhi River, a tributary of the Salmon River. After months of …
Sign at Seufert Brothers Company
This photograph, believed taken by Benjamin Gifford around 1928, shows the Seufert Brothers Company Salmon and Fruit Cannery in The Dalles. At the left of …
Siletz Indian Reservation, 1900
This map, produced by the Willamette Pulp and Paper Company, shows what remained of the Siletz Reservation in 1900. Each of the small squares on …
Simon Benson and One of His Drinking Fountains
In this photograph Simon Benson poses in front of one of the twenty bronze drinking fountains he donated to the city. He hoped that the …
Simon Fraser (1776-1862)
On June 4, 1808, explorer Simon Fraser wrote of his day on the Fraser River in present day British Columbia:We experienced great danger; one …
Sinker Stone, Columbia River
This sinker stone was once used by Indian fishers on the Columbia River. Native Americans have fished the waters of the Columbia River for at …
Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1762-1820)
In July 1793, at Bella Coola, 100 miles north of the northern tip of Vancouver Island in what is now the province of British Columbia, …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.
