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Primary Sources
Phone Directories
- 1903-1904 Polk’s Hood River Directory
- 1905 Hood River Telephone Directory
- 1908-1909 Polk’s The Dalles & Hood River City Directory
- 1910 Polk’s Wasco, Hood River & Sherman County Directory
- 1917 Polk’s Wasco, Hood River & Sherman County Directory
- 1920 Polk’s Hood River County Directory
- 1920 Hood River Telephone Directory
- 1924 Hood River Telephone Directory
- 1925 Hood River Telephone Directory
- 1930 Hood River Telephone Directory
- Hood River Household Directory Rural Routes 1, 2 & 3
Documents
- 1924 Watershed Report
- Circa 1900 Oregon Lumber Company Brochure
- “Snap Shots on the Columbia” by Benj. Gifford, 1902
- Hood River School District Ledger, 1865-1882
- Recipes of Lenora Belle Hinrichs (Larson)
