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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Interstate 5 is a 308-mile-long segment of highway that runs between the California state line and the Columbia River. The highway is a major …

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The Portland Communist Party produced this flier to protest Governor Charles H. Martin’s anti-labor policies and to rally political support for an Oregon Farmer-Labor Party. …

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