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Broadside: Lecture by Mr. George P. Riley
Local printer George H. Himes produced this poster in April 1870 to publicize an upcoming lecture by Portland resident George P. Riley at Philharmonic Hall …
Brochure, Opening Up Central Oregon
In 1911, laborers completed the Oregon Trunk Railroad from the Columbia River, near Celilo Village, to Bend, giving large timber companies a way to export …
Broom Brigade of Union, 1889
This photograph was taken on July 4, 1889. It shows the Broom Brigade of Union, a town in northeastern Oregon’s Grande Ronde Valley. Broom brigades …
Brouillet's Account of the Murder of Dr. Whitman
In 1869 Jean Baptiste Brouillet, a French Canadian Catholic missionary to Oregon, published the Authentic Account of the Murder of Dr. Whitman and Other Missionaries …
Bull Run Dam Construction
The third Bull Run Dam (referred to as Dam 1), on the Bull Run River, east of Portland, shown here in November of 1928, was …
Buy an Apple, Feed Our Congressmen
“The Tiger of the Senate,” a name given fondly to U.S. Senator, lawyer, and educator, Wayne Lyman Morse, is shown here contributing to a “blind” …
California Street, Jacksonville, c1890
This photograph looks west on Jacksonville’s main business street, California Street, about 1885. The photographer, Swiss-born Peter Britt, arrived in Jacksonville in 1852 to mine …
Camas
This drawing of the common camas (Camassia quamash ) was produced for the Oregon Historical Society by staff artist Skip Enge. The blue flowers …
Camp Day, 1860
This photograph by U.S. Army Lt. Lorenzo Lorain provides a striking view of Camp Day, a temporary encampment in the Klamath Basin used by the …
Camp Two, Coos Bay Lumber Company
A moving community of loggers is depicted in this 1930 photograph. From the 1890s through World War II, major logging operations in Oregon were railroad-based, …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.
