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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In his colorful account of the American lumber industry, Oregon writer Stewart Holbrook commemorated the “pure logger strain” of American worker who “came into being …

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Due to severe overstocking of the range during World War I—brought on by federal policies and soaring prices for meat, leather, and tallow and followed …

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Signs similar to this one in the window of the Denver Cafe, across the street from the Kenton Theatre in north Portland, popped up  during …

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This photograph shows John Day merchant Lung On standing in front of a four-door sedan that he was selling. It was taken in 1927 by …

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Lung On (Liang Guanying, also known as Leon) was a partner with Ing Hay in the Kam Wah Chung and Company general store and apothecary …

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Known as the father of Oregon archaeology and anthropology, Luther Cressman conducted pioneering archaeological work in the 1930s through the 1960s and established the broad …

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