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 …

Oregon Encyclopedia

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, …

Oregon Encyclopedia

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 …

Oregon History Project

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 …

Oregon History Project

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

Oregon History Project

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 …

Oregon History Project

On April 1, 1908, Portland Mayor Harry Lane administered the police oath to forty-eighty-year-old Lola Greene Baldwin, the first woman hired under civil service rules …

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The eastern Oregon town of Long Creek, in Grant County, is located in a valley and near a stream of the same name. In the …

Oregon Encyclopedia

This photograph of the 1934 waterfront strike shows Portland police escorting “scabs” through picket lines outside a hiring hall, a building used by companies to …

Oregon History Project

This undated photograph shows non-Indians fishing for salmon along the free-flowing and meandering Columbia River just upriver from Celilo Falls. Writing on the photograph indicates …

Oregon History Project