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Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt, lies in the Great Basin landscape of eastern Oregon, thirty-five miles south of Burns …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Malin
In 1909, the Czechoslovakian Colonization Club of Swanton, Nebraska, sent three men on a search for arable land in the American West. Vaclav Vostrcil, J.A. …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Manche Irene Langley (1883-1963)
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Manche Irene Langley was among the first women admitted to practice law in Oregon. During her nearly six-decade-long career, from 1909 to 1963, she was …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Man Moving Produce
In this photograph, a man moves bags of onions into a produce warehouse in the wholesale district on Union Avenue, which was renamed Martin Luther …
Oregon History Project
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Man of Nootka Sound
This engraving is from a 1778 portrait by John Webber, the artist who was assigned to accompany James Cook’s third expedition to explore the Pacific. …
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Manuela Wickham Makes Tortillas
This photograph of Manuela Wickham preparing corn tortillas in the “Hispanic Village” of the Jefferson County Fair in Madras, Oregon was taken by Laura Strobel …
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Manuel Izquierdo (1925 - 2009)
Manuel Izquierdo, who arrived in Portland in 1942 as a teenaged refugee from wartime Europe, established himself as a major Oregon sculptor and printmaker in …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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"Map of Astoria in 1846, as I remember it."
The maker of this map, John Burr Osborn, survived the 1846 wreck of the U.S.S. Shark, a U.S. Navy schooner, in the dangerous waters of …
Oregon History Project
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Map of Lewis and Clark's Track
This map, titled A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track across the Western Portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, …
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Map of the Americas, 1606
This map of the Americas was published in 1606 by Dutch cartographer Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612). It is an excellent example of early seventeenth-century European cartography. …
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