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  • G Arata & Company, Wholesale Liquors

    Immigrants from both the northern and southern regions of Italy began migrating to Portland as early as 1890. It was between 1900 and 1910, however, …

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  • Gardenburger Inc.

    Leftovers at a vegetarian restaurant in Oregon gave birth to the world’s most popular meatless hamburger—the Gardenburger®.  Paul Wenner (b. 1947), a health-conscious eater during …

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  • Gary Snyder (1930-)

    Many think of Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-wining poet and essayist, as primarily a Beat writer or as a member of the San Francisco Renaissance. Certainly …

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  • Gasoline Plow Owned by George Hilderbrand

    This ca. 1910 photograph shows George Hilderbrand operating a Hart Parr tractor and plow at his wheat farm near Wasco, in Sherman County. Hilderbrand, who …

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  • Gay and lesbian rights movement

    Before Stonewall Before New York’s Stonewall Riots in 1969, the history of gay rights in Oregon, as in the United States generally, was one of …

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  • Gazelle Disaster

    The worst steamboat accident on the Willamette River happened on April 8, 1854, in Canemah, just above the Willamette Falls (now part of Oregon …

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  • Gearhart

    The coastal town of Gearhart, with a 2021 population of 1,793, faces the Pacific Ocean on the north shore of the Necanicum River estuary, opposite …

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  • Geese over Lakeview

    A map of Oregon’s high desert country is splattered with lakes; yet those who visit them may be in for a surprise. In the desert …

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  • Gem Hotel, ca. 1918

     In 1918, wartime housing shortages forced nearly a hundred people to accept crowded living conditions in the working class Gem Hotel in Portland. The hotel …

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  • Gender and Landscape

    Documenting the location of fish traps, gillnet grounds, fishwheels, canneries, dams, hatcheries, and environmental abasement is important, but to do so without taking a look …

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