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ba011744 Portland celebration

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

Road to Statehood


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Crater Lake Lodge was built in 1915 to attract more tourists. Photo circa 1920s. # 93200

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

William Gladstone Steel


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Warren Bracken (piano), Johny “Lightning” Cleveland (drums), Long Goodie (bass), George Lawson (sax), and Lloyd Allen (guitar), courtesy Lorna Bracken Baxter

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

Jazz Town An Oregon Experience


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Midwife Sybil Harber of Lakeview, Oregon, ca. 1895, OrHi 23608

Type: Film Showing, Special Event, Panel Discussion     Series: Oregon Experience

Oregon’s Black Pioneers—Premiere Screening

A new episode of Oregon Experience, a series co-produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Oregon Historical Society

Doors open at 6pm


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Fred Meyer publicity photo, 1947. Fred Meyer Collection, Box 7

Type: Lecture     Series: History Pub

My-Te Fine Merchant: Fred Meyer’s Retail Revolution

Presented by Fred Leeson


McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97211

  • Free
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Searching for York

Type: Television Broadcast, Online Video     Series: Oregon Experience

Searching for York


OPB-TV

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Flora Thompson reading a book with her granddaughter. OHS Research Library, bb017601

Type: Lecture, Book Talk     Series: History Pub

Crisis on the Columbia: Making a Difference at Mid-Century

Presented by Dr. Katrine Barber, with Linda Meanus

Doors open at 6pm


McMenamins Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97211

  • Free
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Minoru Yasui, circa 1959, courtesy Japanese American Citizens League

Type: Film Showing, Panel Discussion, Special Event     Series: Experience Oregon

Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice

Featuring a discussion with Holly Yasui and Peggy Nagae Doors open at 6:30pm so guests can view our new Experience Oregon exhibit, where Minoru Yasui is featured, in advance of the screening


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Researchers
  • Teachers

Type: Lecture     Series: Experience Oregon

Women’s Resistance in Early Twentieth Century Oregon

Presented by Dr. Kimberly Jensen


Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free
  • Researchers
  • Teachers