This photograph, which dates to approximately 1875, features guests arriving at or departing from Seaside House in Seaside, Oregon. Transportation tycoon Benjamin Holladay constructed the …

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This photograph of an Astoria and Columbia River train is one of many that appear in the railroad’s promotional pamphlet, printed around 1904,  entitled, “The …

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Seasonal festivals and other activities take place throughout the Willamette Valley. Such regular displays of ethnic, occupational, or other folklore identities create windows into the …

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Sebastian C. Adams provides an example of how the Christian missionary zeal of many early Oregon settlers was accompanied by exceptional entreprenurial talents. Adams was …

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This photograph shows Company I of the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment crossing a river (identified as either the Quinqua or the Norzagaray) in the …

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Soldiers from the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment are shown in this photograph parading down San Francisco’s Market Street after their return from the Philippines. …

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Although the Finns of Astoria provide an example of the expression of ethnic identity among European immigrants, the related documents accompanying this essay suggest that …

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Seid Back was a Chinese immigrant, merchant, and labor broker whose reputation for honesty, philanthropy, business acumen, sense of community, and patriotic zeal made him …

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For much of their fishing history in Oregon, Native Americans used hand-operated haul seines. A fish seine is a horizontal net that has floats holding …

Oregon Encyclopedia

The enactment of Senate Bill 10 in 1969 was a crucial step on the path to Oregon’s landmark Senate Bill 100, passed in 1973, …

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