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  • Logged-off Land near Neahkahnie Mountain, 1968

    Al Monner took this 1968 photograph of clear-cut logging near Neahkahnie Mountain, located in northwest Tillamook County. Monner, who died in 1998, was a photographer …

    Oregon History Project

  • Losing the Land

    The Cayuse, especially, resented the growing number of settlers coming across the Oregon Trail in the 1840s and the Whitman missionaries, whom they blamed for …

    Oregon History Project

  • Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumbermen Pledge

    This “specimen” of the “Four-L Pledge” was originally devised under the leadership of the U.S. War Department’s Col. Brice P. Disque as part of a …

    Oregon History Project

  • MacDonald F. (Donald or Don) Mayer (1884–1966)

    MacDonald F. Mayer worked as an architect in Portland from early 1911 to 1915 before taking his talents to New York, Wisconsin, and Florida. While …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge, 1937

    This photograph was taken in August 1937 by Ralph Gifford, a photographer for the Oregon State Highway Department. It shows the Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge, …

    Oregon History Project

  • Martina Gangle Curl (1906 - 1994)

    Martina Gangle Curl was a painter, printmaker, and woodcarver who created figuratively based works in an emerging Northwest modernist style. A long-time dedicated labor and …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Mary Perry Stone (1909-2007)

    Over the course of her ninety-eight years, artist Mary Perry Stone tirelessly combated war and injustice. Her weapons were the stroke of a paintbrush and …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Matthew Prophet (1930-2022)

    On March 19, 1982, the Portland Public School Board met in a regularly scheduled meeting. In attendance was Matthew W. Prophet Jr., who was to …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • McCarthy Era (late 1940s-late 1950s)

    As Woody Guthrie observed at the dawn of the McCarthy Era in 1947, "Portland is OK except for being 50 years behind Seattle in …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • National Forests in Oregon, 1892 to 1933

    The first forest reserves in the state were established in 1892-1893, although management of the federal forests did not begin until the summer of 1898. …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

168 results

  • Logged-off Land near Neahkahnie Mountain, 1968

    Al Monner took this 1968 photograph of clear-cut logging near Neahkahnie Mountain, located in northwest Tillamook County. Monner, who died in 1998, was a photographer …

    Oregon History Project

  • Losing the Land

    The Cayuse, especially, resented the growing number of settlers coming across the Oregon Trail in the 1840s and the Whitman missionaries, whom they blamed for …

    Oregon History Project

  • Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumbermen Pledge

    This “specimen” of the “Four-L Pledge” was originally devised under the leadership of the U.S. War Department’s Col. Brice P. Disque as part of a …

    Oregon History Project

  • MacDonald F. (Donald or Don) Mayer (1884–1966)

    MacDonald F. Mayer worked as an architect in Portland from early 1911 to 1915 before taking his talents to New York, Wisconsin, and Florida. While …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge, 1937

    This photograph was taken in August 1937 by Ralph Gifford, a photographer for the Oregon State Highway Department. It shows the Malheur Migratory Bird Refuge, …

    Oregon History Project

  • Martina Gangle Curl (1906 - 1994)

    Martina Gangle Curl was a painter, printmaker, and woodcarver who created figuratively based works in an emerging Northwest modernist style. A long-time dedicated labor and …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Mary Perry Stone (1909-2007)

    Over the course of her ninety-eight years, artist Mary Perry Stone tirelessly combated war and injustice. Her weapons were the stroke of a paintbrush and …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Matthew Prophet (1930-2022)

    On March 19, 1982, the Portland Public School Board met in a regularly scheduled meeting. In attendance was Matthew W. Prophet Jr., who was to …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • McCarthy Era (late 1940s-late 1950s)

    As Woody Guthrie observed at the dawn of the McCarthy Era in 1947, "Portland is OK except for being 50 years behind Seattle in …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • National Forests in Oregon, 1892 to 1933

    The first forest reserves in the state were established in 1892-1893, although management of the federal forests did not begin until the summer of 1898. …

    Oregon Encyclopedia