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Richard Steiner (1901–1975)
Richard Steiner was the senior minister of the First Unitarian Church in Portland from 1934 to 1966. An inspirational preacher who helped rebuild the congregation …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Richland Villager Headline, It's Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman made a radio announcement informing listeners that the United States had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, …
Oregon History Project
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Rigging Slinger's Revenge
Rigging Slinger's Revenge, a parody of Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, 'The Raven,' was written by Lon Minkler in the 1970s and recorded in 1986 …
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Rill-Type Irrigation, Parks Ranch
This 1928 photograph shows two men standing in an irrigated alfalfa field at Parks Ranch in the Fort Rock Valley, located in central Oregon’s high …
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Rival Townsites in Portland Region, 1825-1850
Portland’s primacy as the region’s leading port was not assured in the town’s early days. The Hudson’s Bay Company was well established at Fort Vancouver …
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River Indians and Reservation Indians
This excerpt from an 1874 report by N.A. Cornoyer, agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation, describes the development of a new geography of Native identity …
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Roads, Ranchettes, and Stumps on the Hill
By the late 1960s, societal upheavals—associated in part with the Vietnam War—encouraged individuals to go back to the land, as the saying went. Some people …
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Roads to Freeways: Building and Land Preservation
The construction of multilane highways dated from the 1930s, with the construction of Barbur Boulevard—running south from Portland on the route of an abandoned electric …
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Robbins & Purington Store, Drewsey
The photograph above pictures the general merchandise store of Robbins & Purington in the ranching town of Drewsey, Harney County, as it looked about 1890. …
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Robert Adams (1937-)
Robert Adams’s photographs of the American West are incisive views of industrial expansion and regional transformation. Based in Astoria, Adams charts in his work the …
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