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Brick Making, Near Portland, Oregon
This lithograph served as the cover for the October 4, 1890, issue of West Shore magazine. The magazine, headquartered in Portland, was published from 1875 …
Oregon History Project
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La Grande
La Grande, the seat of Union County, is nestled in the eastern foothills of the Blue Mountains. Situated in the Grande Ronde Valley, La …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Lee Sing (c. 1850s - c. 1900s)
Lee Sing was the Chinese chef in the lavish mansion of Portland socialite Charlotte Green, the grandmother to the Communist radical John Reed. Chinese servants …
Oregon History Project
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New Western History as Fish Tale, by Elliott West
The New Western History is not that new anymore. Nonetheless, this collection of images and documents and its accompanying essays on Columbia River canneries remind …
Oregon History Project
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Portland Chinatown, 1886
This color lithograph accompanied an article titled “A Night in Chinatown” in the October 1886 issue of West Shore, a Portland news and literary …
Oregon History Project
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Women Can Fillers, Elmore Cannery
This undated photograph shows women filling cans at the Elmore Cannery, located in Astoria. The Elmore Cannery, founded by Samuel Elmore, operated from 1886 to …
Oregon History Project
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Santo Cristo de Burgos
The Manila Galleon Trade and the Wreck on the Oregon Coast
Nehalem-Tillamook and Clatsop peoples, and later EuroAmerican explorers and settlers of what is …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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U.S. District Judge Matthew Deady
Matthew Deady was a founder of the Multnomah County Library, President of the Board of Regents of the University of Oregon, and presided over Oregon’s …
Oregon History Project
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Building an Urban Center
An investment in the early 1880s by William Ladd illustrates how local bankers made fortunes through real estate speculation and political influence. Ladd invested $10,000 …
Oregon History Project
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East Indians of Oregon and the Ghadar Party
In the early twentieth century, five to six hundred men and one family of East Indians lived along the Columbia River, from The Dalles …
Oregon Encyclopedia
