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Floyd J. McKay research files, 1911-2002
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- McKay, Floyd J.
- Title
- Floyd J. McKay research files
- Dates
- 1911-2002 (inclusive)19112002
- Quantity
- 4.4 cubic ft., (4 record cartons, 1 flat box, and 34 audiocassette tapes.)
- Collection Number
- Coll 449
- Summary
- Research files of author Floyd J. McKay pertaining to his 1998 biography of Charles A. Sprague, An Editor for Oregon: Charles A. Sprague and the Politics of Change.
- Repository
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Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Floyd McKay (1935-), emeritus professor of journalism at Western Washington University, writes extensively on the history of journalism in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a reporter for the Oregon Statesman and as a news analyst for KGW television in Portland. While teaching at Western, he wrote guest columns and editorials for the Seattle Times.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists of research conducted by Floyd J. McKay for his biography of Charles A. Sprague entitled "An Editor for Oregon: Charles A. Sprague and the Politics of Change." Charles A. Sprague was governor of Oregon (1939-1943) and editor and manager of the Oregon Statesman. Materials include articles and clippings, correspondence, notes, and interviews with Sprague’s political and publishing associates and Sprague family members. Topics include civil rights and civil liberties, newspaper publishing, state and international politics, World War II, forestry and natural resources conservation.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library prior to any use of reproductions. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use of reproductions may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright holders.
Preferred Citation
Floyd J. McKay research files, Coll 449, Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following series:
- Series A: Research materials
- Series B: Interviews
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Series A: Research materials, 1911-2002Return to Top
Series consists of newspaper and journal articles, correspondence, and other documents copied from various print and unpublished sources, as well as Floyd McKay's notes and some of his own published work.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Political issues |
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Civil rights |
1930s-1960s | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | Civil rights, liberties |
1963 |
1/2 | Civil rights |
1940s |
1/3 | Civil rights, liberties |
1930s |
1/4 | Civil rights |
1948 |
1/5 | Civil rights |
1945 |
1/6 | Housing, civil rights |
1949 |
1/7 | Portland Public Accommodations |
1950 |
1/8 | Civil rights |
1950s |
1/9 | Civil rights |
1953 |
1/10 | Civil Rights Advisory |
1960 |
1/11 | Civil rights |
1960s |
House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) -
Portland - Civil Liberites |
1954 | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/12 | State employees loyalty oath |
1968 |
1/13 | OSU Spitzer case |
1948-1949 |
1/14 | Loyalty Oath |
1950 |
1/15 | Teachers’ Oath- Editorials and news |
1951 |
1/16 | Legislature |
1951 |
1/17 | Mahoney |
1951 |
1/18 | Lyle Nelson Eugene Register-Guard
feature |
1997 |
1/19 | HUAC editorials |
1954 |
1/20 | Oregonian |
1954 |
1/21 | Oregon Statesman |
1954 |
1/22 | Oregon Journal |
1954 |
1/23 | American Legion |
1950s |
Civil Liberties |
1930-1968 | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/24 | Tolon Committee |
1942 |
1/25 | Pacific Northwest Quarterly article |
1997 |
1/26 | Reed College |
1954 |
1/27 | David Eyre - Reed College |
1997 |
1/28 | Ford Foundation |
1954 |
1/29 | McCarthy (Joseph McCarthy) |
1950 |
1/30 | McCarthy (Joseph McCarthy) |
1951 |
1/31 | McCarthy (Joseph McCarthy) |
1952 |
1/32 | McCarthy (Joseph McCarthy) |
1953 |
1/33 | McCarthy (Joseph McCarthy) |
1954 |
1/34 | Civil liberty |
1939-1941 |
1/35 | Civil liberties |
1950s |
1/36 | Civil liberties |
1960s |
1/37 | John Birch Society |
1960s |
1/38 | Gun control |
1967-1968 |
1/39 | Capital punishment |
1949-1964 |
Indians - Fund for the Republic project |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/40 | Indian Commission clippings |
1957; 1961 |
1/41 | Indian Commission – archives, notes |
undated |
1/42 | Fund for Republic- Indians |
1957-1960; 1995 |
1/43 | Legislature - Indians |
1958-1959 |
1/44 | Klamath Indians |
1956-1957; 1964; 1967 |
1/45 | Indians - miscellaneous clippings |
1933-1967 |
United Nations service |
1952 | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/46 | United Nations session |
1952 |
1/47 | United States archives |
1953; undated |
1/48 | Freedom of Information - United Nations |
1952 |
1/49 | New York Times - United Nations |
1952 |
1/50 | United Nations, pre-1952 |
1944-1951 |
United Nations - International issues |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/51 | United Nations - Foreign policy |
1953-1966 |
1/52 | Israel |
1945-1961 |
1/53 | McArthur |
1948-1951 |
1/54 | Carnegie Endowment for Peace |
1955-1957 |
1/55 | Atomic Bomb |
1945-1947 |
1/56 | Vietnam, SE Asia (Southeast Asia) |
1954-1967 |
1/57 | Vietnam |
1968 |
Forestry, Wilderness, Conservation |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/58 | Conservation, Natural Resources |
1939-1942 |
1/59 | Outdoors |
1929-1964 |
1/60 | Wilderness |
1957-1968 |
1/61 | O&C Timber (Oregon & California
Timber) |
1946-1966 |
1/62 | Getty- Bureau of Land Managment (BLM) |
1965-1966 |
1/63 | State Forest lands |
1945-1963 |
Government reorganization, Constitution |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/64 | Government reorganization |
1960 |
1/65 | Government reorganization |
1963 |
Politicians |
||
Wayne Morse |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/66 | Wayne Morse - Charles Sprague
correspondence |
1954-1960 |
1/67 | Morse (Wayne Morse) |
1944 |
1/68 | Morse (Wayne Morse) |
1945-1950 |
1/69 | Morse (Wayne Morse) |
1950 |
1/70 | Morse (Wayne Morse) |
1951-1957 |
1/71 | McKay - Morse (Douglas McKay and Wayne
Morse) |
1956 |
1/72 | Morse (Wayne Morse) |
1960 |
1/73 | Morse (Wayne Morse) |
1968 |
1/74 | B. Whipple MA thesis on Wayne Morse |
1959 |
Richard Neuberger |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/75 | Senate race |
1954 |
1/76 | Neuberger |
1952-1959 |
State Government |
||
Governor |
1939-1943 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/1 | Inaugural |
1939 |
2/2 | Oregon Statesman |
1939 |
2/3 | Other newspaper clippings |
1939 |
2/4 | McCarthy execution (Leroy Hershel
McCarthy) |
1939 |
2/5 | Personal, Political |
1939 |
2/6 | Legislature |
1939 |
Governor |
1940 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/7 | Campaign |
1940 |
2/8 | McNary (Charles L. McNary) |
1940 |
2/9 | Newspaper clippings |
1940 |
Governor |
1941 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/10 | Legislature |
1941 |
2/11 | Newspaper clippings |
1941 |
Forestry plan (post-governor) |
1938 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/12 | Forestry |
1938-1942 |
2/13 | Forestry - post-governor |
1941-1998 |
Governor - Miscellaneous |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/14 | Prisons- Banks et al
Note on folder: "OCF box 10" Contains photocopies from
Special Collections, Knight Library, University of Oregon.
|
1939 |
2/15 | Governor - Miscellaneous |
1938-1942; 1997; undated |
2/16 | Budget, taxes |
1937-1944 |
Gubernatorial campaign |
1942 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/17 | Campaign documents, correspondence |
1942 |
2/18 | Campaign literature |
1942 |
2/19 | Voter registration statistics |
1942 |
2/20 | Snell speeches (Earl Snell gubernatorial
campaign) |
1942 |
2/21 | Tax - Multnomah County |
1941-1942 |
2/22 | Oregonian - 1942 Primary |
1942 |
2/23 | Oregon Voter |
1942 |
2/24 | Oregon Journal - 1942 Primary |
1942 |
2/25 | News clippings – 1942 Primary |
1942 |
Governor - personal |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/26 | Staff, Administration |
1939; 1954 |
2/27 | Oregon Statesman during governorship |
1939-1941 |
Governor - World War II |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/28 | December |
1941 December |
2/29 | Oregon Militia |
1941-1945 |
2/30 | Labor |
1941-1945 |
2/31 | Miscellaneous |
1941-1945 |
2/32 | American Legion |
1941-1945 |
2/33 | World War II Industry |
1941-1945 |
2/34 | Battleship Oregon |
1941-1959 |
2/35 | V Days (Victory Days) |
1945 |
Japanese Americans |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/36 | Annotated copy of State Archives index to Sprague
Papers (3/1) for war years |
undated |
2/37 | McKay notes to Charles Sprague correspondence -
Japanese Americans |
undated |
2/38 | Japanese pre-war |
1941; undated |
2/39 | Japan - Scrap Iron |
1939 |
2/40 | Edits - JA (Editorials- Japanese Americans)
|
1941-1942 |
2/41 | Clippings |
1942 |
2/42 | Hood River |
1942 |
2/43 | Japanese - Governor |
1941-1942 |
2/44 | Army Public Relations program |
undated |
2/45 | Farm Labor- Japanese |
1942 |
2/46 | Japanese- Personal stories |
undated |
2/47 | Japanese Relocation,
Note on label: Box 4-76A-68 documents
|
1940-1942; 1993 |
2/48 | Japanese deportation |
1943 |
2/49 | Gresham area |
1944-1945 |
2/50 | Legislature, anti-Japanese |
1945 |
2/51 | Hood River |
1944-1945 |
2/52 | Hood River News, American Legion |
1945 |
2/53 | National press - Hood River |
undated |
General and Political |
||
General and political news clippings |
1943 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/54 | Post-governor; general Oregon Statesman |
1943 |
2/55 | Legislature, Snell |
1943 |
Senate Campaign |
1944 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/56 | Campaign |
1944 |
2/57 | Senate campaign, Oregon Statesman |
1944 |
2/58 | Oregonian - Primary |
1944 |
2/59 | Oregon Journal - Campaign |
1944 |
2/60 | Other newspapers - Senate campaign |
1944 |
General |
1944-1949 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/61 | Bush Pasture |
1944-1946 |
2/62 | Miscellaneous Oregon Statesman |
1944-1946 |
2/63 | 1947-1948 | |
2/64 | Election |
1948 |
2/65 | Dewey-Stassen |
1948 |
2/66 | Dewey-Stassen debate, Portland and Eugene
newspapers |
1948 |
2/67 | Oregon Statesman - Dewey-Stassen |
1948 |
General |
1950 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/68 | Miscellaneous |
1950 |
2/69 | Reapportionment |
1950 |
2/70 | " Constructed Week"
Study |
1950 |
General |
1951-1953 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/71 | Presidential race |
1952 |
2/72 | 1951-1952 | |
2/73 | General |
1953 |
General |
1954-1958 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/74 | Legislature |
1955-1957 |
2/75 | Politics |
1956 |
2/76 | Rackets |
1957 |
General |
1958-1962 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/77 | Oregon Statesman -Governor’s race |
1958 |
2/78 | General politics |
1958-1960 |
2/79 | President |
1960 |
2/80 | State politics |
1960 |
2/81 | Legislature Mark O. Hatfield (MOH) |
1961 |
2/82 | Kennedy Administration |
191-1962 |
2/83 | General - Oregon Statesman |
1961-1962 |
General |
1963-1966 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/84 | Politics, legislature |
1963 |
2/85 | General |
1963-1965 |
2/86 | Presidential politics |
1964 |
2/87 | Politics - General, Senate |
1966 |
2/88 | 1966-1967 | |
General |
1967-1968 | |
Box/Folder | ||
2/89 | President |
1968 |
2/90 | General |
1968 |
Oregon Statesman |
||
Oregon Statesman history |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/7 | Oregon Statesman Pre-Charles Sprague |
1911-1928 |
3/8 | 80th Anniversary Edition |
1931 March 28 |
3/9 | 100 Years |
1951 March |
3/10 | Oregon Statesman |
1930s |
3/11 | Oregon Statesman |
1940s-1960s |
3/12 | Oregon Statesman - 120th Anniversary |
1971 March 28 |
3/13 | Webb, W. – autobiography (Wendell Webb) |
undated |
3/14 | Sheldon Sackett - Correspondence, notes,
articles |
1930s-1971 |
Oregon Statesman Post-Sprague |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/15 | W. Webb (Wendell Webb) |
1940-1982; 1996 |
3/16 | Sale to Gannett |
1974 |
3/17 | Lawsuit- judgments |
1974; 1976 |
3/18 | B. Spr. Stock (Robert Sprague) |
1940; 1969; 1971 |
3/19 | SJ Board (RWS) - (Statesman-Journal Board - Robert
Sprague |
1969-1971 |
3/20 | Wallace Sprague (WAS) - Robert Sprague (RWS)
correspondence |
1958-1970 |
3/21 | Lawsuit - miscellaneous |
1972-1977 |
5/3 | Statesman-Journal 150
Years |
2001 |
5/4 | Oregon Statesman coverage of assassination of
President John F. Kennedy |
1963 |
Oregon Statesman business records |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/22 | Merger (Newport) |
1954-1956; 1966-1967 |
3/23 | Sale Offers, etc |
1959-1968 |
3/24 | Economics |
1950s-1960s |
3/25 | Failing Newspaper Act |
1969; 1971 |
3/26 | Bonus Salaries Statesman |
1957-1969 |
3/27 | News Budgets |
1942; 1957-1969 |
3/28 | Circulation |
1954-1962 |
3/29 | Circulation |
1928-1969 |
3/30 | Circulation |
1958-1959; undated |
3/31 | Property- 14th Street, taxes |
1947-1955 |
3/32 | Property – Old Oregon Statesman Building |
1961 |
3/33 | #12 Building Oregon Statesman - mortgage and
architect |
1951-1969 |
3/34 | McKay Business Comparisons |
1934-1947 |
3/35 | Oregon Statesman - New Building |
1948; 1953 |
3/36 | New Press |
19701 |
3/37 | Television - Channel 3 |
undated |
5/2 | Financial statements of The Oregon
Statesman |
1928-1947 |
Oregon Statesman advertising data |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/38 | B. Sprague - Charles Nicholson
correspondence |
1960-1966 |
3/39 | Oregon Statesman Advertising |
1954-1965 |
3/40 | Advertising |
1938-1940 |
3/41 | Advertising campaign |
1958 |
3/42 | Advertising |
1960s |
Other Publishing-Related
Research |
||
Industry data |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/43 | Articles about newspapers |
1930-1992 |
3/44 | 1920-1930s Era
Articles on newspaper costs and salaries.
|
1924-1932 |
3/45 | Journalism Quarterly - Salaries, Economic
Data |
1949; 1965; 1969 |
Oregon Publisher, Oregon Exchanges |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/27 | Oregon Publisher |
1933; 1943 |
4/28 | Oregon Exchanges |
1928-1931 |
4/29 | Oregon Publisher |
1945-1955 |
Contemporary Oregon Editors |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/30 | Oregon press and editors |
1924; 1950-1957; 1993 |
4/31 | Eugene, Or. - William Tugman, Robert Frazier
-articles and interviews |
1954-1961; 1993 |
4/32 | E.B. MacNaughton |
1950; 1971 |
4/33 | George Putnam |
1930; 1955; 1961; 1972 |
4/34 | Robert Sawyer papers, University of Oregon guide,
correspondenceWilliam Lang paper |
1950s; 2010 |
4/35 | C-J miscellaneous (Capital Journal) |
1953-1982 |
4/36 | Medford, Or. - Eric Allen, Robert W.
Ruhl |
1950-1973 |
4/37 | Oregon Journal - Marshall Dana |
1950 |
4/38 | Pendleton, Or. - E.B. Aldrich |
1950 |
4/39 | Corvallis, Or. - Claude Ingalls letter |
1944 |
Oregon Press |
1930-1960 | |
Box/Folder | ||
4/40 | Oregonian, article about history |
1976 |
4/41 | Oregonian Sale |
1950 |
4/42 | Cushman thesis |
1950 |
4/43 | Editors - Other Studies |
1950s; 1963 |
4/44 | Oregon journalism |
1940-1960 |
Charles A. Sprague - Personal and
Other |
||
Sprague biographies and obituaries |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/1 | Biographies and Obituaries |
1969 |
4/2 | Oregon Statesman, post-Charles A.
Sprague |
1968-1969 |
4/3 | Charles A. Sprague 100th Anniversary |
1987 |
Sprague family |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/4 | Charles A. Sprague pre-Oregon life |
1887-1925 |
4/5 | Family information |
1920-1998 |
4/6 | Blanche Sprague |
1886-1976 |
4/7 | Martha Sprague (daughter)
Includes transcript of 1993 interview with Martha Sprague
Hurley.
|
circa 1970; 1993 |
4/8 | Wallace Sprague (son)
Includes transcript of 1992 interview with Wallace
Sprague.
|
1992-1998 |
4/9 | Robert Sprague (nephew)
Includes transcript of 1994 interview with Robert Sprague,
as well as Robert W. Sprague correspondence from 1929 and 1976.
|
1929; 1976; 1994 |
5/1 | Adams County Centennial
Edition, 1883-1993 (Ritzville, Wash.) |
1983 |
Progressive Era |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/10 | Prohibition |
1930 |
4/11 | Charles Sprague and the Progressives |
1912; 1924 |
Wills, estate, finance |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/12 | Moody’s - Stock, correspondence |
1966-1968 |
4/13 | Stock |
1966-1968 |
4/14 | Tax returns |
1943-1967 |
4/15 | Charles Sprague Estate and probate |
1935; 1965; 1969 |
4/16 | Church and YMCA |
1960-1970 |
Feature articles, speeches, honors and
awards |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/17 | Speeches on journalism |
1967-1968 |
4/18 | Features, Specials, Awards for civil liberties,
environment |
1962; 2002 |
4/19 | Federal Boards |
1955-1960 |
4/20 | Charles Sprague on education, history,
science |
1950-1966 |
General Research
Materials |
||
Archival and photo materials |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/1 | State Archives - Inventory of Sprague papers and
notes |
undated |
3/2 | OHS Boxes - Inventory of Oregon Historical Society
collection and notes |
undated |
3/3 | Manuscripts, guide to
Note on folder: see notebook #2
|
undated |
3/4 | Pictures for book
Envelope, titled “Pix- Editor for Oregon”
|
undated |
3/5 | Photos, notes and correspondence |
1998 |
3/6 | Sprague papers (Ashard), correspondence
Correspondence with Judy Ashard, Wallace Sprague, and Chet
Orloff regarding a failed bid for acquisition of the Sprague papers for the
Oregon Historical Society.
|
1993-1994 |
Salem history, general |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/22 | Salem - clippings |
1940-1968 |
4/23 | Gerry Frankinterview notes |
1933; 1950-1955; 1991; 1996 |
4/24 | Venus statue |
1953; 1957 |
4/25 | Salem history |
1930-1990 |
4/26 | Salem history - notes by McKay |
undated |
Series B: Interviews and transcripts for book, 1969-1997, (bulk 1988-1997) Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
4/21 | Interviews
Index to interviews conducted by Floyd McKay for his
biography of Charles Sprague.
See also folders 4/7 - 4/9
Copyright jointly held by the Oregon Historical Society and Floyd McKay. Interviews may be used for non-commercial purposes.
|
1988-1997 |
Subseries 1: Oral history interview tapes Oral histories are also individually cataloged in the Oral History Collections, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
|
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SR 11420: Dorothy Crawford and George LaBorde 1 audiocassette
|
1988 March 14 | |
SR 11421: Travis Cross 1 audiocassette
|
1991 August 27 | |
SR 11422: Charles Davis 1 audiocassette
|
1991 August 28 | |
SR 11423: David Eccles 2 audiocassettes
|
1991 August 28 | |
SR 11424: Cecil Edwards 1 audiocassette
|
1991 August 28 | |
SR 11425:Jeryme English 1 audiocassette
|
1991 September 3 | |
SR 11426: J. W. (Bud) Forrester 2 audiocassettes
|
1991 September 4 | |
SR 11427: Robert E. Gangware 2 audiocassettes
|
circa 1989 | |
SR 11428: Roy Harland 1 audiocassette
|
circa 1989 | |
SR 11429: Mark O. Hatfield 1 audiocassette
|
1993 February 13 | |
SR 11430: Paul W. Harvey, Jr. 2 audiocassettes
|
1991 September 6 | |
SR 11431: Al Lightner 1 audiocassette
|
1994 January 18 | |
SR 11432: Herb Lundy 1 audiocassette
|
1992 July 9 | |
SR 11433: William Mainwaring 1 audiocassette
|
1996 September 18 | |
SR 11464: Maurine Neuberger 1 audiocassette
|
1992 July 8 | |
SR 11465: Robert Notson 2 audiocassettes
|
1994 June 13 | |
SR 11466: Conrad Prange 1 audiocassette
|
1991 August 31 | |
SR 11467: Blanche Sprague 1 audiocassette
Interviewer may have been J. Wesley Sullivan.
|
1969 December | |
SR 11468: Martha Sprague Hurley 1 audiocassette
|
1993 February 25 | |
SR 11484: Robert Sprague 1 audiocassette
|
1994 January 16 | |
SR 11485: Wallace Sprauge 1 audiocassette
|
1992 August 4 | |
SR 11486: J. Wesley Sullivan 1 audiocassette
|
1994 June 10 | |
SR 11487: Marguerite Wright 1 audiocassette
|
1992 July 30 | |
SR 11488: Thomas J. Wright, Jr. 3 audiocassettes
|
1989 August 29 | |
SR 11489: Statesman Oldtimers 2 audiocassettes
Interviews of several longtime newsroom employees, recorded by J. Wesley Sullivan.
|
1988 August 14 | |
SR 11490: Cecil Edwards/Paul Harvey 1 audiocassette
Interviewer may have been J. Wesley Sullivan.
|
1988 August 16 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Conservation of natural resources - Oregon - History
- Civil rights - Oregon - History
- Governors - Oregon - Biography
- Journalism - Oregon - History
- Newspaper editors - Oregon - Biography
- Newspaper publishing - History
- World War, 1939-1945 - Oregon - History
Personal Names
- McKay, Floyd J.--Archives
- Sprague, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1887-1969
Corporate Names
- Oregon Statesman (Salem, Or.)
Family Names
- Sprague family
Geographical Names
- Oregon -Politics and government - 1859-1950
Form or Genre Terms
- Clippings
- Interviews