Tag: Greta Smith

A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live

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A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live

  Source: Medium.com. A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live Nobody knows how man lots had so-called “restrictive covenants.” Greta Smith wants to start finding out. by Michael Andersen | Nov. 29, 2017 From the 1920s to 1940s, federal maps divided U.S. cities into red (“hazardous”), yellow (“definitely declining”), blue (“still desirable”)Continue Reading A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live

Kaegi Pharmacy Exhibit | Interpreting objects in virtual space

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Kaegi Pharmacy Exhibit | Interpreting objects in virtual space

By Greta Smith :: This fall I worked on a project for the Clackamas County Historical Society Museum of the Oregon Territory (MOOT) where I wrote interpretive text for 13 items that belong to the Kaegi Pharmacy collection. The Kaegi Pharmacy operated in Wilsonville from 1927 until it closed in 1989, after which brothers JohnContinue Reading Kaegi Pharmacy Exhibit | Interpreting objects in virtual space