In this heavily retouched 1854 photo, the edge of the forest still abuts the edge of the town, but the variety of businesses attests to …

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Sometime in the future, the Pacific Northwest, including Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Island, and northern California, will experience a devastating earthquake as large as magnitude 9—the …

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Eastern Oregon is bounded north-south by the Wallowa Mountains and the Alvord Desert, and east-west by the Snake River Valley and the Ochoco National Forest. …

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This photograph of the Eastern Oregon Normal School was taken by Wesley Andrews around 1929. Andrews was a professional photographer who had studios in Baker …

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Eastern Oregon University, the only state university in northeastern Oregon, is located on a promontory on the southwest edge of the City of La Grande …

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In the early twentieth century, five to six hundred men and one family of East Indians lived along the Columbia River, from The Dalles …

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This slough drained Hawthorne Springs near Southeast Oak Street. Because much of it was marshy and crisscrossed by creeks and sloughs, land on the east …

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Here, Mt. Hood rises behind the East Portland waterfront in 1898.  A barge and a steamship can be seen in the photo at lower right.  …

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Exposed to architectural practice from a young age, Ebba Wicks threw herself into formal training and licensure and, at the age of twenty-eight, became the …

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Bert Webber called himself a research photojournalist. It is an apt description for a writer who was equal parts historian, journalist, and librarian. Ebbert True …

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