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- A Gymnast from Monmouth - c. 1895As low as $5.00A student gymnast from Oregon State Normal School in Monmouth (now Western Oregon University) poses for a studio portrait taken by Scio photographer Clinton Harnish. Learn More
- A Man and His Bicycle - circa 1895As low as $5.00This highly detailed view suggests a close relationship between this man, his books, and his bicycle. Learn More
- A Music Hall Fiddler - circa 1875As low as $5.00First seen in Britain in the 1830s, by the 1870s the popularity of music halls had spread to most good-sized towns in the Pacific Northwest Learn More
- A Proud Father with his Daughter - c. 1890As low as $5.00Taken by photographer E. G. Cummings of Lewiston, Idaho, this cabinet card view shows a Native American father, likely Nez Perce, proudly holding his daughter. Learn More
- A Young Chinese Man from Portland - 1877As low as $5.00This image was captured in the late 1870s - a time of growth for the Chinese community in Portland. The city's Chinese population increased from about 700 in 1870 to about 2500 in 1880. Learn More
- Adagio Dancers in Portland - c. 1930As low as $5.00In the 1920s, acrobatic dance routines became extremely fashionable and the dances were either described as ‘whirlwind’ or ‘adagio’. Adagio dances were slower, and often involved the partners holding a pose for some period of time. Learn More
- Albert G. Walling, Early Oregon Publisher - 1872As low as $5.00A. G. Walling emigrated with his family to the West Linn area now known as Robinwood in 1849. Learn More
- An Old-timer of Celilo - c. 1925As low as $5.00The weathered face of this unidentified older man tells us a lot, in this portrait by Oregon postcard photographer Benjamin Markham. Learn More
- An Optometrist with his Lenses - c. 1895As low as $5.00A young optometrist from Rainier, Oregon demonstrates his trial frames and a folding case holding over a hundred sample lenses. Learn More
- Benjamin Stark, Portland Founder & U.S. Senator - c. 1861As low as $5.00Born in Louisiana in 1820, Stark sailed to Oregon in 1845, where he soon purchased Asa Lovejoy's share of the land that eventually became downtown Portland, for $390. Learn More
- Bicycle Riding, 1890s Style - circa 1895As low as $5.00Two rather sophisticated young men pose with their bicycles in this photo by Eugene photographer Clarence L. Winter. It's likely they were students or teachers at the University of Oregon. Learn More
- Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris - c. 1871As low as $5.00This early portrait of Morris was taken by pioneer photographer Joseph Buchtel about two years after Morris arrived in Oregon to assume the position of Episcopal Bishop of Oregon. Learn More
- Blackface Performer in Portland - circa 1900As low as $5.00An unnamed vaudeville performer is captured in his blackface persona in the publicity photo from Portland at the turn of the last century. Learn More
- Bringing a Stein of Beer - c. 1872As low as $5.00In early photography, cameras were so bulky that occupational photos were usually shot in the studio. Here we see a bar keeper bringing a glass beer stein to a customer. Learn More
- Capt. Applegate & Joaquin Miller at Klamath Agency, Steel Excursion - 1903As low as $5.00Capt. O. C. Applegate was not a member of the Steel Excursion; he was leading his own party of thirty to the rim at the same time, and the two groups interacted. Learn More
- Captain Charles Wilkes - 1863As low as $5.00Born in 1798, Captain Charles Wilkes is best known for leading the United States Exploring Expedition, which circumnavigated the world from 1838 through 1842, and spent significant time in the Pacific Northwest in 1841. Learn More
- Chief Charlot, Flathead Reservation - 1908As low as $5.00Known for his scenic Montana stereoviews, photographer Forsyth created this portrait shortly before Charlot's death in 1910. Charlot led the struggle for his people to remain in the Bitter Root Valley. Learn More
- Chief Joseph, Nez Perce - 1900As low as $5.00This portrait of Chief Joseph was taken when he visited Washington, DC, in April of 1900. Learn More
- Chief Joseph, Nez Perce - c. 1903As low as $5.00This portrait of Chief Joseph was copyrighted in 1903 by Edward S. Curtis. It was likely taken when Chief Joseph visited Curtis in November of 1903 at his studio in Seattle. Learn More
- Chief Tommy Thompson and his Wife Flora, Feast of the First Salmon - 1945As low as $5.00In 1945, Chief Tommy Thompson was ninety years old; his last wife, Flora, was forty-seven. Learn More
- Chief Tommy Thompson, Age 98 - 1954As low as $5.00Tommy Thompson served as Chief at Celilo from about 1906 until his death in 1959, two years after the loss of Celilo Falls. Learn More
- Colonel George Wright - c. 1860As low as $5.00Colonel George Wright graduated from West Point in 1827, and spent almost forty years as a military officer, much of it in the Pacific Northwest. Learn More
- Colville Couple, with Winchester Rifle and River Otter Pelt - c. 1895As low as $5.00A couple poses outside their log house in ceremonial garb, including a breastplate worn by the man. Learn More
- Deputy Sheriff, Stationed at Large Hop Ranch - 1939As low as $5.00This deputy sheriff is stationed at the paymaster's window for a Josephine County hop ranch that employed over 500 workers for the three-week harvest season each year. Learn More
- Dr. John McLoughlin - c. 1854As low as $5.00Dr. John McLoughlin, often called "The Father of Oregon", needs little introduction to history buffs. The Canadian-born Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, he resigned in 1846 and moved to Oregon City where he became an American citizen. Learn More
- Dr. Sidney Marsh, 1st President of Pacific University - c. 1865As low as $5.00Dr. Sidney Marsh was appointed President of Tualatin Academy in Forest Grove in 1853, and carried on as that position when the school became Pacific University in 1854. Learn More
- Elijah Jones Davidson, Discoverer of the Oregon Caves - c. 1920As low as $5.00Elijah Jones Davidson is best known for discovering the Oregon Caves in 1874. Born in Illinois, he came to Oregon as an infant in a wagon train in 1850. Learn More
- Elkanah Walker, Early Oregon Missionary - 1871As low as $5.00Elkanah Walker crossed the plains with his new bride, Mary, in 1838, at a time when the Oregon Trail had not yet been given its name. Mary was known as the "third woman to cross the Rockies". Learn More
- Elmer E. Charman, Possible Graduation Photo - c. 1881As low as $5.00This is likely a graduation photo for Elmer Ellsworth Charman, taken when he graduated from Oregon State Agricultural College in Corvallis in 1881, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Learn More
- Father and Daughter, Astoria - 1880sAs low as $5.00Father and Daughter portrait by Samuel B. Crow of Astoria. The father looks concerned. Learn More
- Father and Daughters - circa 1868As low as $5.00We don't know the names of these people, but we can make some good assumptions about them. Learn More
- Fish Hawk, War Chief of the Cayuses - 1903As low as $5.00Major Lee Moorhouse created a number of portraits of Chief Fish Hawk, including this striking closeup. Our reproduction is made from a large print - the original glass plate is in the University of Oregon collection. Learn More
- Flathead Man, Profile - c. 1910As low as $5.00One of at least two photos published by Curtis of this unidentified older man in The North American Indian, a monumental multi-volume work. Learn More
- Frederic Homer Balch, Author of "The Bridge of the Gods" - c. 1890As low as $5.00Frederic Balch died at the age of 30, shortly after the publication of his famous novel, "The Bridge of the Gods", in 1890. Learn More
- Gen. Isaac Stevens, First Governor of Washington Territory - c. 1861As low as $5.00The first governor of Washington Territory, appointed by President Pierce in 1853, Isaac Stevens is also known for his survey of a northern railroad line that he completed as he traveled slowly across the continent on the way to his new position. Learn More
- General Joseph Lane, Governor & Senator - c. 1859As low as $5.00Appointed as Oregon's first territorial governor in 1848, Lane served as delegate to the U.S. Congress starting in 1851, and was Oregon's first senator after it became a state in 1859. Learn More
- George Gibbs, Northwest Geologist & Ethnologist - c. 1865As low as $5.00George Gibbs was born in Astoria - the Astoria in New York, not Oregon. However, as a geologist and ethnologist, he contributed to the history of the Pacific Northwest, based on his studies of the languages of the indigenous peoples here. Learn More
- George H. Himes, Printer and Historian - 1865As low as $5.00This 1865 portrait was taken by Frank Dalton, shortly after Himes came to Portland from Olympia. Learn More
- George H. Williams, Judge & Senator - c. 1865As low as $5.00This intense-looking gentleman was one of Oregon's longest-serving public figures, starting as Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court in 1853 and concluding as Mayor of Portland from 1902 through 1905. Learn More
- George Law Curry, Jeweler, Publisher & Governor - 1870sAs low as $5.00George Law Curry, born in Philadelphia in 1820, first entered the newspaper trade as an eleven-year-old printer apprentice in Boston. Learn More
- George Law Curry, Oregon's Last Territorial Governor - 1860sAs low as $5.00George Law Curry, a publisher and jewelry maker, served as Oregon Territory's governor on three different occasions. Learn More
- George Thorpe and Parents - 1860sAs low as $5.00I don't know much more than the name of the boy in the photo, but the image haunted me until I added it to this site. Learn More
- Goose, Arikara Scout, with Custer at Little Bighorn - circa 1885As low as $5.00Goose was one of about fifty Native American scouts, most from the Arikara tribe, who served with the Seventh Cavalry at the time of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Learn More
- Harvey J. Meacham, Co-founder of Meacham, Oregon - 1865As low as $5.00Born in Indiana in 1828, Harvey John Meacham and his brother Alfred B. Meacham were early settlers in Eastern Oregon, who founded the town of Meacham in Umatilla County in 1863. Learn More
- Harvey W. Scott, Shortly after Graduation - 1865As low as $5.00Harvey Whitefield Scott, brother of Abigail Scott Duniway, is best known as the long-time editor and driving force behind the Portland Oregonian newspaper. Learn More
- Henry Harmon Spalding, Early Oregon Missionary - c. 1870As low as $5.00Henry H. Spalding and his wife Eliza were two of the earliest Presbyterian missionaries to travel to Oregon country, settling into their new home in Lapwai, near Lewiston, Idaho, in November 1836. Learn More
- Henry Thompson, Son of Chief Tommy Thompson - c. 1925As low as $5.00Titled simply as "An Oregon Indian" by photographer Benjamin Markham, the subject is identified as Henry Thompson in an exhibit at Oregon's High Desert Museum. Learn More
- Hoo-sis-mox-mox (Yellow Hair), Chief of the Palouse - 1900As low as $5.00Hoo-sis-mox-mox was selected by the Palouse people to become chief in 1886 after chief Big Thunder died. Learn More
- Hooverville Squatter in Portland - 1936As low as $5.00"Hooverville" was a name given to shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were informally named after President Herbert Hoover, who was widely blamed for the Depression.. Learn More
- In the Forest - 1923As low as $5.00A Klamath man in traditional garb sits quietly in front of a Ponderosa pine, probably in the Klamath Basin. Learn More