Judge John B. Waldo, an early visitor to the central Oregon Cascades, commented in a letter written on August 24, 1880, on the recreational potential …

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Seaside and Newport were the earliest coastal towns to develop a tourist trade. In 1866 Samuel Case and Dr. J.R. Bayley built the Ocean House, …

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Toussaint Charbonneau played a brief role in Oregon’s past as part of the Corps of Discovery, the historic expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William …

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The Tower Theatre is Bend’s most colorful and iconic landmark. Since the theater’s opening on March 6, 1940, residents have heralded the building’s Streamline Moderne …

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The Oregon landscape of the 1840s had a number of scattered Indian communities, and other small settlements of diverse population at places such as The …

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The Town Club, housed in a Mediterranean Revival building at Twenty-first Avenue and Southwest Salmon Street in Portland, is among the most prominent women’s …

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As the eighteenth century came to a close, people on the Oregon Coast not only regularly traded with nearby villages but they also had occasion …

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These trade beads are representative of the glass beads traded between Euro-American fur traders and Native Americans throughout much of northern North America.  They were …

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This photograph was taken by Folklife Coordinator Leila Childs in 1998 to document Sahomi Tachibana (foreground) teaching Chisao Hata (background) traditional Japanese dance.  The two …

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This photograph of Priscilla H. Bettles (left) and her grand daughter, Priscilla Witcraft (right), posing with their newly fashioned cradleboards, was taken by Folklife director …

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