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  • Themes for an Urban History

    Cities are created through charters, and state legislatures designate names, geographic boundaries, governmental form and election procedures, and powers to make contracts and tax. But …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Mills

    After their mills began operations in Bend in 1916, the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company and the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, logged their way south, cutting out the …

    Oregon History Project

  • The More Women at Work

    This poster was issued by the Office of War Information after the United States’ entry into World War II had drained much of the available …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Myth of Chinese Tunnels in Pendleton

    Pendleton is one of several Oregon communities rumored to have underground passageways that were built and occupied by Chinese residents during the late nineteenth and …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The New Century

    The professionalization of architecture was greatly influenced by the historically based training given at the French École des Beaux-Arts. In the United States, the Classical …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Northern Great Basin During the Ice Age

    During the Ice Age, from about 25,000 to 11,700 years ago, the Northern Great Basin in present-day Oregon and northern Nevada was in many ways …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Theodore Stern (1917-2005)

    Theodore “Ted” Stern was a member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon for thirty-nine years, from 1948 to 1987. He was …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Old and the New

    The photograph titled “Celilo Whirlpool” depicts two Native fishers using dipnets in front of a commercial fishwheel. Compared to traditional fishing methods, fishwheels were the …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Old Church Concert Hall

    In 1882, fifty Presbyterians organized a new Portland congregation. They engaged architect Warren H. Williams to design a structure combining the spare simplicity of their …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Oregon Camera Club

    The Oregon Camera Club, organized in 1895 (versions of which exist today), was a popular amateur photography society that met monthly in Portland. Its formation …

    Oregon History Project

3230 results

  • Themes for an Urban History

    Cities are created through charters, and state legislatures designate names, geographic boundaries, governmental form and election procedures, and powers to make contracts and tax. But …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Mills

    After their mills began operations in Bend in 1916, the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company and the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, logged their way south, cutting out the …

    Oregon History Project

  • The More Women at Work

    This poster was issued by the Office of War Information after the United States’ entry into World War II had drained much of the available …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Myth of Chinese Tunnels in Pendleton

    Pendleton is one of several Oregon communities rumored to have underground passageways that were built and occupied by Chinese residents during the late nineteenth and …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The New Century

    The professionalization of architecture was greatly influenced by the historically based training given at the French École des Beaux-Arts. In the United States, the Classical …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Northern Great Basin During the Ice Age

    During the Ice Age, from about 25,000 to 11,700 years ago, the Northern Great Basin in present-day Oregon and northern Nevada was in many ways …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Theodore Stern (1917-2005)

    Theodore “Ted” Stern was a member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon for thirty-nine years, from 1948 to 1987. He was …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Old and the New

    The photograph titled “Celilo Whirlpool” depicts two Native fishers using dipnets in front of a commercial fishwheel. Compared to traditional fishing methods, fishwheels were the …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Old Church Concert Hall

    In 1882, fifty Presbyterians organized a new Portland congregation. They engaged architect Warren H. Williams to design a structure combining the spare simplicity of their …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Oregon Camera Club

    The Oregon Camera Club, organized in 1895 (versions of which exist today), was a popular amateur photography society that met monthly in Portland. Its formation …

    Oregon History Project