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Eva Emery Dye Papers (Mss 1089), 1776-1997 (bulk 1890-1940), 11.5 cu. ft. The Eva Emery Dye Papers consist of correspondence, ephemera, a literary journal, manuscripts, research notes, and scrapbooks relating [...]

THE OREGON HISTORICAL Society's (OHS's) research library holds over 7,500 sound recordings, clocking in at around 14,000 hours. This collection includes speeches, lectures, radio programs, musical performances, and even Fred [...]

WHEN IDA NEA TRIBOLET moved to Baker City with her mother and two sisters in 1897, it was a bustling commercial and transportation hub. At the time, it was the [...]

ONTARIO AND WOODBURN, OREGON, share many characteristics. Historically both towns depended heavily on an agricultural economy, farms surround both towns geographically, and large numbers of farmworkers reside in both places, [...]

THE GRAND OPENING of the Fox Theatre, located at Southwest Broadway and Taylor streets, took place on August 12, 1954. According to the Oregonian the following day, some 6,000 'local [...]

IN 2021, the staff of the Oregon Historical Society's (OHS's) research Library embarked on a project to update and improve selected collection guides for older collections. This work has included [...]

The Portland Automobile Club was organized in 1905, and members spent their Sunday afternoons on organized auto tours to their clubhouse outside Portland and in sponsored races to show off [...]

NORTHWESTERN LAKE COUNTY hosts striking Fort Rock, among the least visited landmarks of Oregon. A tuff ring, the formation was created over 100,000 years ago when hot magma encountered water-saturated [...]

THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY (OHS) has a longstanding relationship with the Yasui family that began in 1991, when Homer Yasui and his family donated more than 100,000 documents and over [...]

CROSSING THE COLUMBIA RIVER has long been a major undertaking. During much of the nineteenth century, ferries and boats provided the only means of moving from one side of the [...]

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Orytha 'Ryth' Gatch poses for her mother, Helen Plummer Gatch, with seven-year-old Asahel Bush IV in front of Asahel's grandfather's house--now known as the Bush House Museum --in Salem. [...]

As she lies divested of every attribute of advantage, disfigured and forsaken, she is but a startling type of that more dreadful wreck, the man of power, or grace, and [...]

TENS OF THOUSANDS of supporters attend every home game of both the Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns FC, emphasizing the city's enthusiasm for the teams. Despite presence of the game [...]

IN APRIL 1983, Portland General Electric (PGE) donated a collection of photographic prints and negatives to the Oregon Historical Society (OHS), containing more than 7,000 images used to promote its [...]

ON SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2018, local researchers Greta Smith, Melissa Cornelius Lang, and Leanne Serbulo gathered at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, for a public history roundtable discussion moderated by Carmen P. Thompson, adjunct professor of Black studies and African American History at Portland State University. Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, these researchers have uncovered and analyzed new sources related to the history of housing segregation--and resistance to that discrimination--in Portland, Oregon. This is a record of that event., Housing Segregation and Resistance: An Introduction by Carmen P. Thompson THE CONTEXT of housing segregation in Portland, Oregon, and in the nation is slavery--out of which came the policies and [...]

EARLY MOTION PICTURE photographers had to have sound nerves as well as an eye for the interesting and newsworthy. Their heavy wooden cameras had only one lens, so getting a [...]

Caption: PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PLAYING baseball in Portland since the early pioneers established the city in the mid-nineteenth century. The area's first organized team was even called the Pioneers. Several [...]

RECORDED HISTORY MEETS geologic history in the Columbia River Gorge. Millions of years ago, flows of volcanic basalt covered the landscape, then Ice Age floods carved a channel through the [...]

Oregon has many geologic landmarks: Crater Lake, Mount Hood, the Columbia River Gorge, Fort Rock, and others. They were formed so long ago that most people think of them as [...]

The article discusses the history of the Birth Home that was launched in Southeast Portland in September 1962. Topics discussed include the home being envisioned as a birth center staffed by doctors, midwives and registered nurses as an option for families wishing for hospital birth alternatives, comments on the home's goal from one of its founders, and the closure of the home in 1986 as it was unable to maintain professional liability insurance.

TWO YEARS AFTER Andries Deinum, a Dutch emigre, was fired from the University of Southern California in 1955 for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), he [...]

THE HISTORY of women in Oregon is reflected and preserved in the telling documents they left behind. From the pioneer women who came to the West with their families on [...]

HISTORICAL RESEARCHERS are adept at gleaning facts from obscure places. They know the nuances and secret offerings of the various archives, libraries, and repositories of public and private records. Yet [...]

CORNELIA MARVIN PIERCE (1873-1957) is a formidable figure in Oregon history, an important Progressive Era public servant and reformer whose impact on the state is still evident more than fifty [...]

ON JUNE 23, 1916, CARLETON E. Watkins, the great landscape photographer of the American West, died blind and penniless in the Napa State Hospital for the Insane in northern California. [...]

In 1902, William Gladstone Steel's seventeen-year effort to achieve protective legislation for Crater Lake reached fruition, but the story of his involvement in the creation of Crater Lake National Park [...]