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happy exploding whale day to all who celebrate!
#oregon history#cw animal death#< but like. it’s just a carcass by the point of the incident#tagging out of an abundance of caution anyway
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Jantzen Beach Carousel - March 28th 2012
The next month after photographing at this location, on April 22, the carousel was closed with the promise of a remodel. Unfortunately the carousel has been in storage since. It even disappeared from public view for a time until it was donated to Restore Oregon in 2017.
Portions of the carousel are on display through April 2022 at the Oregon Historical Society in an exhibit called The Odyssey of the Historic Jantzen Beach Carousel: From Leavenworth, Kansas, to Portland, Oregon, 1921–2022
An extensive and well done history including photographs can be found at; Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
"Jantzen Beach Carousel, Portland, Oregon".
#Jantzen Beach#oregon#portland oregon#carousel#oregon history#the great pnw#pnw#photographers on tumblr#oregonexplored
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High Desert Community at Summer Lake
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My heart is a different place today. On this day, May 21, 1998, tragedy struck my beloved High School of Thurston in my beautiful hometown of Springfield, Oregon. My heart is always with y’all in “T-Town”!!!
#Thurston High School#ThurstonColts#thurstonhighschool#May 21 1998#springfield#oregon#pacificnorthwest#historicpacificnorthwest#oregon history#springfieldoregon#T-Town
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U.S. - OREGON'S Opal Whiteley; Precocious child, nature lover, famed and fizzled media darling.
In 1948, 51-year-old Opal Whiteley was found in a dead-end London street half starved. In her tiny basement apartment, authorities found crate after crate of books stacked upon themselves and covering every possible nook and cranny of space. It is estimat
Opal Whiteley
Controversy, tales, and an investigative biography
In 1948, 51-year-old Opal Whiteley was found in a dead-end London street half starved. In her tiny basement apartment, authorities found crate after crate of books stacked upon themselves and covering every possible nook and cranny of space. It is estimated that the collection contained a total of ten to fifteen thousand books.…
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The Portland Winterhawks of the WHL don Rosebuds throwback jerseys for Oregon Hockey History Night on March 9, 2024. The jerseys recall two different Portland professional hockey teams named the Rosebuds -- the first of which, active in the 1910s, was the first American team to compete for the Stanley Cup. x / x / x
#x#h#they're too good i needed a nice post... oregon + hockey + beautiful design I HAD TO!!#hockey#whl#winterhawks#hockey history#oregon history
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I found this in the Oregonian Times 1911
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I was looking through some 2020 stuff and found a pamphlet published by Vanport Mosaic, and was like, Who's this? So I looked them up, and got a whole-ass education about the city I was born and have spent most of my life in.
I'm sure this is a sanitized version of events, but even sanitized it's kind of. wow.
#portland#pdx#vanport#vanport flood#hisotry#oregon#oregon history#the pamphlet was the pocket lawyer of legal first aid black panther party oakland 1969#2020 was an interesting year#Youtube
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Tree identification booklet for hikers and campers.
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1957
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Lawyering and More in Frontier Oregon
Lawyering and More in Frontier Oregon
Mac McDougall, one of the major characters in my series, is an attorney who is also an investor in many early Oregon enterprises. Although his background is convenient for the plots of my novels, many real historical figures in Oregon’s history were like the fictional Mac. As I research, I am often surprised by the variety of enterprises that some historical personages engaged in on the…
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#attorneys#Benjamin Hayden#George H. Williams#Harvey Whitefield Scott#lawyers#Oregon history#Peter Burnett#Sylvester Pennoyer#William Green T&039;Vault
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World's Oldest Leather Shoe, from Armenia, c.3500 BCE: this prehistoric shoe dates back to about 5,500 years ago, making it the oldest leather shoe in the world
The shoe was found within a cave in the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia, where it had been preserved beneath a layer of sheep dung for more than five millennia.
From the BBC:
At 5,500 years old, the well preserved cow-hide shoe pre-dates Stonehenge by 400 years and the Pyramids of Giza by 1,000 years.
It was made of a single piece of leather and was shaped to fit the wearer's foot, researchers say.
The shoe contained grass, although the archaeologists are uncertain as to whether this was to keep the foot warm or to maintain the shape of the footwear.
Archaeologists put the shoe's remarkable preservation down to the stable, cool and dry conditions in the cave, and the fact that the floor of the cave was covered by a thick layer of sheep dung. This layer of excrement acted as a solid seal, preserving it over the millennia.
According to researchers, the shoe was deliberately buried in a clay-lined pit located within the cave system, though it's unclear why it was originally buried there. The evidence suggests that the shoe was more than just a ritual object -- an imprint of the wearer's big toe is still visible in the leather, and there is a significant amount of wear along the heel and ball of the foot.
This is the oldest leather shoe that has ever been discovered, but older shoes made of plant fiber have been found at sites in Missouri and Oregon. The oldest shoes ever discovered come from Oregon's Fort Rock Cave, where archaeologists unearthed dozens of sandals dating back to about 10,000 years ago.
Sandals from Fort Rock Cave, Oregon
Sources & More Info:
National Geographic: World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found--Stunningly Preserved
BBC: 'Oldest Leather Shoe' Discovered
The Bulletin: Viral Story about World's Oldest Shoes Failed to Mention Ancient Fort Rock Footwear
Oregon Encyclopedia: Fort Rock Sandals
#archaeology#history#artifact#anthropology#prehistoric#fashion#leather shoe#armenia#prehistoric clothing#preservation#crafting#leather work#ancient history#fort rock cave#oregon#prehistoric footwear#sandals#native american history#world's oldest shoes
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(source: The Coos Bay Times, December 8, 1926.)
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Homer Street Blown to Oblivion on the Metolius River
Tragedy on the Frontier
By Steve Lent, Crook County Historian
Homer Street met a tragic end along the banks of the Lower Metolius River late in March 1907. He was born in Indiana about 1863. He was a rancher and preacher and he moved from Washington to Central Oregon near the turn of the century. Mr. Street farmed on his homestead and served as a preacher at school houses that were within riding…
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#Bowman Museum#Central Oregon stories#crook county history#Metolius River History#oregon history#The tragic end of Homer Street
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The Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, March 3, 1910
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Fashions illustrated by Paul Gavarni, c. 1830s. (Boston Public Library).
Happy Eighteen-Thirties Thursday, my friends! Truly one of the most decades ever. Not only was the first selfie taken in the 1830s, but I only just learned that the Oregon Trail became a thing in the 1830s! Somehow I imagined it as being later in the 19th century than it really was.
#Eighteen-Thirties Thursday#1830s#paul gavarni#oregon trail#fashion history#us history#already with the striped pants in the 1830s
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The Hoover-Minthorn House
“Oregon lives in my mind for its gleaming wheat fields, its abundant fruit, its luxuriant forest vegetation, and the fish in its mountain streams. To step into its forests with their tangles of berry bushes, their ferns, their masses of wild-flowers stir
Of the 46 presidents who have steered the helm of the United States, only one has ever hailed from the Pacific Northwest.
The 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, was born in West Branch, Iowa on August 10th, 1874 into modest beginnings; not so much because his family was poor, but because their beliefs honored humility. Herbert’s father, Jesse Hoover, was a blacksmith turned…
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#herbert hoover#Historic places#Historical buildings#newberg oregon#Oregon History#presidential history#Willamette Valley
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