This order by the Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission established a sanitary code for workplaces with female employees. The order regulated lighting, ventilation, bathroom and changing …

Oregon History Project

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or "Wobblies"), founded in 1905 and crushed for its opposition to World War I in 1917-1918, was the …

Oregon Encyclopedia

The completion of railroad links to California and the East during the 1880s brought new building materials and ideas to Oregon and provided a means …

Oregon History Project

This portrait of the Chinese doctor Ing Hay was taken when he was nineteen years old. Doc Hay, as he was best known, was a …

Oregon History Project

Ing Hay (Wu Yunian), also known as Doc Hay, was a partner of Kam Wah Chung (Jin huachang) and Company in John Day from 1887 …

Oregon Encyclopedia

This document was created for school administrators by the Urban League of Portland sometime in the 1950s in an effort to stop minstrel, or blackface, …

Oregon History Project

Intel Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of semiconductors (an essential component of most consumer electronics), is Oregon's top private employer with a work force of …

Oregon Encyclopedia

This Intel bunny suit, donated in 2003, is an artifact in the Oregon Historical Society's collections. Engineers and technicians at Intel dress in the suit …

Oregon History Project

The architecture of the International style “is most notable for its complete lack of ornamentation and its geometric compositional elements,” wrote Oregon architectural historian Rosalind …

Oregon History Project

The Vanport Flood and Racial Change in Portland Books Little William A. and James E. Weiss, eds. Blacks in Oregon: A Statistical and Historical Report …

Oregon History Project