In 1852, a brave nineteen-year-old Wallace Baldwin drove fifty head of horses from the Rogue River Valley into the Klamath Basin. He had packed only …

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Lizzie Koontz Weeks was an African American activist in Portland in the years after women in Oregon had achieved the right to vote in 1912. …

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Lloyd Thomas Doss gained fame playing with some of the best Western music bands of the 1940s and 50s. He was born in Weiser, Idaho, …

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Lloyd Reynolds is an iconic figure in Pacific Northwest calligraphy. He not only inspired generations of students, but he also strongly influenced the aesthetics of …

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Loaves and Fishes Centers was established in Portland by a group of people who organized in 1969 to find ways to meet the nutritional and …

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Oregon's only native two-needle pine, Pinus contorta, commonly called lodgepole pine, is widely distributed across the state in a variety of diverse ecological habitats, …

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This weathered cabin, perhaps built in the 1870s, was located near Bingham Springs in eastern Umatilla County. The photograph is one of a series of …

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Al Monner took this 1968 photograph of clear-cut logging near Neahkahnie Mountain, located in northwest Tillamook County. Monner, who died in 1998, was a photographer …

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This photograph of men posing atop a “Benson raft” was originally sold as a stereograph by Underwood & Underwood, a stereographic distributing company, established in …

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This undated photograph from the Timberman is identified as being from the Pacific Northwest.  Although the title accompanying the photograph in the collection identifies the …

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