This map was published in a 1911 book titled Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States. Maps like this appear …

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Louis Jerome Simpson was a civic-minded Oregonian who served the south coast, the state, and the nation in his active years as builder and advocate. …

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Louis Southworth came to Oregon in 1853, a time that was less than hospitable to African Americans. Most people who traveled the Oregon Trail by …

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In 1949, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers included this map as a representation of the Lower Columbia River Fisheries Development Program in a “review …

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Before human engineering altered the upper Klamath Basin, water flowed from Upper Klamath Lake into Link River, a short stream that emptied into Lake Ewauna, …

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The Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge complex includes the Upper Klamath, Klamath Marsh, and Bear Valley Refuges in Oregon and the Lower Klamath, Tule Lake, …

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This “specimen” of the “Four-L Pledge” was originally devised under the leadership of the U.S. War Department’s Col. Brice P. Disque as part of a …

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This photograph of Lieutenant Lorenzo Lorain was likely taken by Lorain’s colleague at Fort Umpqua, fort surgeon Dr. Edward Perry Vollum. Both Vollum and Lorain …

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Lucia Wiley was a nationally known fresco artist from Tillamook who created a number of murals in Minnesota and Illinois post offices, schools, and armories. …

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This photograph, from the collections of the Schminck Memorial Museum, was taken in April 1900. It shows sisters Lula Schminck and Florence Klippel on a …

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