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  • Desegregation, integration and the charter of Portland Public Schools

    Creator:
    Doyle, Judith Helene
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    Portland Public School District and in particular Jefferson High School are examined in a functionalist framework to determine the extent to which they meet community needs. B. Malinowski's functionalist theory is employed to analyze desegregation and integration policies and actions of the Portland Public School District and Jefferson High School,...
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    acknowledges the help and guidance provided by committee members Dr. Floyd McFarland, Dr. Leonard Adolf and

  • Descriptive Analysis of Human Remains from the Fuller and Fanning Mounds, Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Stepp, David
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    The study presents the results of a descriptive analysis of the skeletal remains of 66 individuals recovered from the Fuller and Fanning Mound sites, located on the Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon, excavated in 1941-42 by W. T. Edmundson and William S. Laughlin. The literature and original field notes have...
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    Valley, Oregon, excavated in 1941-42 by W. T. Edmundson and William S. Laughlin. The literature and

  • Subsistence variability in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Havercroft, Francine M.
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    During the summer of 1981, Oregon State University archaeologically tested three prehistoric sites on the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge. Among the sites tested were typical Willamette Valley floodplain and adjacent upland sites. Most settlement-subsistence pattern models proposed for the Willamette Valley have been generated with data from the...
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    X-Ray Fluorescence Trace Element Analysis APPENDIX F: Artifact Photographs 203 207 LIST OF

  • Hull -Oakes Lumber Company's Steam-Powered Sawmill : A Case Study in Industrial Archaeology

    Creator:
    Wisner, George B.
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    By examining the combined written, ethnographic and physical evidence of a surviving steam-powered sawmill in the Douglas-fir region of the Pacific Northwest, this thesis seeks to supply new insights into the operation and adaptability of antiquated machinery during a period of rapid social and technological change and to develop a...
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    elevation of the company's fuel-storage bin and attached boiler house 129 4.f Face of one of three east

  • "Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

    Creator:
    Stephenson, Garry Owen
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    Implementation of. the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 affords opportunities for fishery expansion and economic development in the Oregon otter trawl fishery. The changes stimulated by the Act should occur, according to social science theorists, by the diffusion of innovations from innovative fishermen to less innovative fishermen, with...
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    . 2 and No. 6, began fishing out of Astoria in 1937. These ships were soon joined by two more San

  • Beagle, Oregon, An Unknown Casualty of War: Camp White and the Destruction of a Farming Community During the Second World War

    Creator:
    Shelnutt, Kay
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    This project examines the landscape of the farming community of Beagle, Oregon prior to and during the Second World War and the effect on it due to the construction of Camp White, a World War II training facility. The Beagle landscape is examined through the prism of current theory that...
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    Presented January 30, 2007 Commencement June 2007 R e d a c t e d f o r p ri v a c y Master of

  • Oral histories concerning early electric lighting in Oregon communities

    Creator:
    Hardy, Channing C.
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    One of the greatest technological breakthroughs of humanity was the ability to construct a device and eventually a system which would provide a more efficient, safe, clean, convenient and relatively inexpensive form of illumination than ever used previously electric light. The introduction of this new technology into Oregon communities in...
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    LO W A IN d. -1 90 M I 0 T or U L . ±. 1 F F ..d ... . E R 5 , Q N _ I sw at 'I