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Portland's Laboring Class
As a frontier city, Portland had always had many more adult men than women. The young men were usually unmarried and accustomed to moving from …
Oregon History Project
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The Portland Domination
The population of Oregon swelled from 90,923 in 1870 to 413,536 in 1900. By 1900, two dozen communities had a population of 1,000 or more, …
Oregon History Project
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The Spaces and Timing of Fishing
Geography is a useful way to start considering the environmental history of Columbia River canneries. The spatial and temporal constraints of salmon fishing tell us …
Oregon History Project
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Act to Prohibit the Intermarriage of Races, 1866
The Oregonian clipping featured here presented the language of a new Oregon law approved by the Legislature on October 24, 1866. It banned miscegenation—marriage between …
Oregon History Project
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Alvord Desert
The Alvord Desert, east of the Pueblo Mountains and Steens Mountain and north of the towns of Andrews and Fields, is among the largest playa …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Arlene Schnitzer (1929–2020)
Arlene Schnitzer was a patron of artists, a philanthropist, and the namesake of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland. Her financial support and …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Arrogant "Anthropology" and the Dynamics of Ethnic Change
If Indians by 1905 were strangers in their own land, the Exposition also introduced new peoples to occupy the low spot on the supposed continuum …
Oregon History Project
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Cities and Work
Although the main engines of northeastern Oregon’s economy lay in the countryside, the towns and cities that serviced these industries grew along with them. Sherman …
Oregon History Project
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Eldorado Ditch
The El Dorado Ditch, also known as the Eldorado and the Big Ditch, was a system of irrigation ditches constructed to supply water to the …
Oregon Encyclopedia
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Fire Area, Portland, 1873
This map shows the twenty-two block area damaged in the Fire of 1873. The fire damage is marked in dark on a map made three …
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