Oregon Historic photos, documents, and people

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Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note social security number tattooed on his arm. Oregon. See general caption number 46

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New home of Schroeder family. They left South Dakota three years ago in this car. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 67-111

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Couple who have raised ten children on reclaimed land which they cleared twenty years ago. Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon. General caption number 59

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Oregon, Josephine County, Grants Pass. A picnic in town park on Rogue River. "California Day." Hot Sunday afternoon in summer. Participants register

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Oregon, Josephine County, Grants Pass. "California Day." A picnic in town park on the Rogue River. Hot summer afternoon toward the end of the picnic

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The children from Dead Ox Flat ready to march into the school building when the bell rings. 9 a.m. Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 67-1V

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8:45 a.m. Interior of the eastern Oregon one-room county school. Seven pupils enrolled. Between Pleasant Valley and Durkee, Baker County, Oregon

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Young migrant mother has just finished washing. Merrill FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Klamath County, Oregon. See general caption 62

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Air view of $100,000,000 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River Highway, connecting Oregon and Washington. Largest lift navigation lock in the world