This 1938 photograph shows a woman identified as Eva Redding at a hop farm campground in the Willamette Valley. Hop buds are used to flavor …

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Evelyn Crowell was one of the first professional Black librarians in the City of Portland. A community-based activist, she was a promoter of African …

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Evelyn Sibley Lampman was one of three Oregon writers of young adult and children’s books who were at the height of their success during the …

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The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum and Captain Michael King Smith Educational Institute, near Highway 18 in McMinnville, opened as the Evergreen Aviation Museum …

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This political advertisement was paid for by Citizens for the Orderly Development of Electricity (CODE). It appeared in the Eugene Register-Guard on May 18, 1970, …

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Ewing Young was a Santa Fe trader, a Rocky Mountain man, a California livestock trader, and one of the first Americans to permanently live in …

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Much of the state’s development and population growth was concentrated along the railroad lines by the 1890s, but central and eastern Oregon were not unaffected. …

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The Oregon Historical Society produced this map in 1972 to illustrate the voyages of Captain Robert Gray to the Northwest Coast in the late eighteenth …

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This image, showing the directors and officers of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, is from the fair’s “Portland Day” program. The officers were mostly …

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On February 22, 1886, approximately forty men gathered in Oregon City at the McLoughlin House on South Main Street, then a lodging house known as …

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