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Subscriptions to US Sanitary Commission
This document lists the names of Jacksonville, Oregon residents who pledged donations to the U.S. Sanitary Commission at a town meeting on September 20, 1862. The …
Sucker Harvest
For thousands of years, the Lost River suckers and shortnose suckers have been important to the Klamath Indian culture and essential to their subsistence. In …
Suffrage Committee Report
Delazon Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Suffrage and Election, presented this handwritten report to the Oregon Constitutional Convention in Salem on August 25, 1857. …
Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Company
The Scottish botanist David Douglas described the sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) as the “most princely of the genus.” Sugar pines are the tallest …
Summer Fishing Camp on the Columbia
This painting was done in 1884 by J. E. Stuart, a prolific and popular American artist of landscapes, portraits, and American Indians. It depicts a …
Sunset Science Park
This 1962 aerial photograph depicts a section of Beaverton bordered by the Sunset Highway between Cornell and Murray roads. The cluster of buildings near the …
Surface Management Responsibility
This detail comes from a 1994 U.S. Bureau of Land Management map titled “Surface Management Responsibility.” It shows federally owned lands in southeastern Oregon. The …
Surveyed Portions of the Oregon Territory, 1852
The map above shows the surveyed portion of the Oregon Territory as of October 21, 1852. It was prepared by John B. Preston, first surveyor …
Swedish Tatting
This unidentified photograph of Swedish “tatters” was taken by Revell Carr on June 30, 1998. Scandinavian in origin, tatting evolved from knotting or tying rags together …
SW Morrison & Fifth Streets, c. 1900
A typical turn of the century mix of transportation options is visible in this photograph looking down Fifth Street at Morrison. Horse-drawn vehicles share the …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.
