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  • The Psychedelic Shop

    This photograph of The Psychedelic Shop, at 1325 SW Washington, was taken on June 29, 1967. The shop catered to a young clientele that had …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Public Face of Public Life

    With a stable state and federal government and a growing population, Oregon boasted more and grander public buildings. The iconic state capitol in Salem designed …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Railroad and Farming

    Aside from the Columbia River, northeast Oregon is not much blessed with navigable waterways. The high expense of moving goods over roads, particularly mountainous ones, …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Return Home

    At the Mandan Villages, Clark renewed acquaintance with the traders and Indian chiefs. With the resident trader Rene Jesseaume serving as interpreter, Clark suggested that …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Russian Discoveries

    This map is an English reproduction of the influential 1758 map published by Gerhard Friedrich Müller. The German-born Müller, a professor at the Russian Academy …

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  • The Self-Supporting Woman in Oregon

    During the mid-1960s, the State of Oregon Bureau of Labor, under direction from Commissioner of Labor Norman O. Nilsen, conducted a study on the financial …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Siskiyou Regional Education Project

    The Siskiyou Regional Education Project, founded in 1983 in Takilma, Oregon, began as a grassroots environmental group organized around the Bald Mountain Road blockade on …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Spaces and Timing of Fishing

    Geography is a useful way to start considering the environmental history of Columbia River canneries. The spatial and temporal constraints of salmon fishing tell us …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Story of the CVA

    The Columbia Basin Commission (CBC), a Washington State organization, produced this booklet about the Columbia Valley Administration (CVA) to “protect and advance the development of the …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Submerged Forest, by Sarah Hall Ladd

    Sarah Hall Ladd took this photograph of the “submerged forest” on the Columbia River circa 1902-1904. The remains of trees in the river are found …

    Oregon History Project

3230 results

  • The Psychedelic Shop

    This photograph of The Psychedelic Shop, at 1325 SW Washington, was taken on June 29, 1967. The shop catered to a young clientele that had …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Public Face of Public Life

    With a stable state and federal government and a growing population, Oregon boasted more and grander public buildings. The iconic state capitol in Salem designed …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Railroad and Farming

    Aside from the Columbia River, northeast Oregon is not much blessed with navigable waterways. The high expense of moving goods over roads, particularly mountainous ones, …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Return Home

    At the Mandan Villages, Clark renewed acquaintance with the traders and Indian chiefs. With the resident trader Rene Jesseaume serving as interpreter, Clark suggested that …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Russian Discoveries

    This map is an English reproduction of the influential 1758 map published by Gerhard Friedrich Müller. The German-born Müller, a professor at the Russian Academy …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Self-Supporting Woman in Oregon

    During the mid-1960s, the State of Oregon Bureau of Labor, under direction from Commissioner of Labor Norman O. Nilsen, conducted a study on the financial …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Siskiyou Regional Education Project

    The Siskiyou Regional Education Project, founded in 1983 in Takilma, Oregon, began as a grassroots environmental group organized around the Bald Mountain Road blockade on …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • The Spaces and Timing of Fishing

    Geography is a useful way to start considering the environmental history of Columbia River canneries. The spatial and temporal constraints of salmon fishing tell us …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Story of the CVA

    The Columbia Basin Commission (CBC), a Washington State organization, produced this booklet about the Columbia Valley Administration (CVA) to “protect and advance the development of the …

    Oregon History Project

  • The Submerged Forest, by Sarah Hall Ladd

    Sarah Hall Ladd took this photograph of the “submerged forest” on the Columbia River circa 1902-1904. The remains of trees in the river are found …

    Oregon History Project