E. B. MacNaughton was one of Portland’s most prominent citizens during the first half of the twentieth century. During his long career, he applied his …

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Under territorial and federal land-claim acts, white farmers took possession of large tracts of land around the lower banks of the coastal rivers and their …

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This letter by Filipino worker Ernesto A. Mangaoang was published in the Oregonian on September 21, 1931. Mangaoang describes the discrimination that Filipinos faced in …

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Methodist Episcopal Church, Portland's first church, began with seven members in 1848, and by 1960 it had grown into a forward-thinking congregation of 1,833 …

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This photograph shows the new headquarters of the First National Bank of Klamath Falls in November 1930. At the beginning of the nationwide Depression, the …

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Leftovers at a vegetarian restaurant in Oregon gave birth to the world’s most popular meatless hamburger—the Gardenburger®.  Paul Wenner (b. 1947), a health-conscious eater during …

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Before Stonewall Before New York’s Stonewall Riots in 1969, the history of gay rights in Oregon, as in the United States generally, was one of …

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George Bush, sometimes named as George Washington Bush in the historical record, was born c. 1790 in Pennsylvania. His father was Black, likely a sailor …

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George H. Williams was a Democratic politician and officeholder in Oregon from the mid-1850s to the early twentieth century. He was chief justice of the …

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George Johanson was a Portland painter and printmaker known for his images of the erupting Mount St. Helens, panoramic Portland as imagined from his …

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