Banners and flags announce the opening of the Hollywood Theatre in Portland in this photograph taken in 1926. The 1920s witnessed the explosive growth of …

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On April 16, 1852, a former slave named Robin Holmes filed suit against his white former owner, Nathaniel Ford, in the only slavery case adjudicated …

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This photograph is one of many which accompanied Oregon Journal coverage on October 16, 1955 of the much publicized adoption in which Harry and Bertha …

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The historic residence of Dr. John McLoughlin, chief factor (manager) at the Hudson’s Bay Company operations at Fort Vancouver from 1825 until 1846, was photographed …

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Homer Calvin Davenport was one of the most important and influential political cartoonists working in the United States during the end of the nineteenth century …

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In 1850, Congress passed the Donation Land Claim Act, which granted 320 acres of land to white male settlers in Oregon who were U.S. citizens. …

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The captains split the Corps at Traveler’s Rest, sending the larger group with Clark back on their westward course of the previous year to the …

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Situated in the Columbia River Gorge about sixty miles east of Portland, the City of Hood River occupies a transition zone between temperate, wet …

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Hood River Distillers, Inc., received the first state distiller's license (DSP-OR-1) when it was established in 1934. The distiller is the largest and oldest liquor …

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Irrigation in the Hood River Valley, about sixty miles east of Portland on the Columbia River, was once a matter of supplementing nature. During …

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