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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | The collection consists of survey field notes, journals and letters. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | A. R. Shipley and Company was a "Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Standard and Miscellaneous Books" in Portland, Oregon. The collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, and invoices. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Washington State attorney, congressman, and senator |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Correspondence and records of the Alaska Livestock and Trading Company, which operated a sheep and cattle ranch on Unalaska Island, Alaska. The company had previously been the Western Pacific Livestock Company before Roy T. Bishop (1881-1950) of Portland, Oregon, purchased a controlling share in 1936 at the behest of the Western Pacific Livestock Company's founder, Dr. Adam C. Smith. After Roy T. Bishop's death, the company was managed by his sons Thomas B. Bishop and William H. Bishop until the 1970s. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of Edward Allen, an attorney, fisheries expert, and commissioner of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Pliny Allen was a member of the Washington State House of Representatives from the 43rd District |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Allen and Lewis company was a firm of wholesale grocers that was incorporated in 1897 by John C. Lewis, L. A. Lewis, and F. A. Spencer. The collection contains corporate records including meeting minutes and stock ledgers, as well as stock books and ledgers of subsidiary companies including Glafke-Dixon Co., Douglas Food Stores, Inc., and Consolidated Stores, Inc. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Cicero Hunt Lewis (1826-1897) (also known as Cicero Horatius Lewis) and Lucius H. Allen created the Allen and Lewis mercantile company in Portland, Oregon in 1851. The collection contains five ledgers of sales, cash, consignments and account records, 1851-1868. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of Allied Arts of Seattle, an arts advocacy organization. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Alpha Delta Sigma (ADS), a national honor society sponsored by AAF, recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement in advertising studies. The collection includes chapter handbooks and scrapbooks, convention materials, photographs, financial records, correspondence, and membership information, 1942-1957. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Organizational and affiliation records of the American Federation of Teachers, local 1690 labor union |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | American Heritage magazine was founded in late 1949 by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), which published five volumes until 1954 when AASLH sold the magazine to three former Time, Inc. editors, James Parton, Oliver Jensen and Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. The collection contains founding documents, annual reports, Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial records, memoranda and correspondence, office bulletins, and publicity materials. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The American Institute of Architects had a Southwest Oregon Chapter. The collection (1952-1962) contains meeting minutes, executive board minutes, reports to the executive, financial reports, membership information, events, and printed matter. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Administrative records of association of AIA chapters of the state of Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a professional association of planners |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a professional organization founded in 1959 for landscape architects in the Northwest states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and the province of British Columbia. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a lumber company executive, banker, and political activist in Seattle, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | James F. Amis was an attorney who served as the first justice of the peace in Eugene, OR. Records include letters, legal documents, checks, receipts, cash book, one bound domestic bible with family records, and other miscellaneous items |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | During the American Civil War, John T. Apperson served in the 1st Oregon Cavalry, and was stationed at Ft. Walla Walla and Ft. Dalles, in Oregon. Collection consists of 1 volume, a day book by John T. Apperson, 1872-1892. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The company also operated as the Applegate Mountain Ditch Co. Applegate Quartz Mining Co. collection includes an account book, time roll, and check book |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a corporation whose primary activity is to manage, operate, develop, improve, expand and financially support the Bloedel Reserve for the benefit of the public and students |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Associated Students of University of Oregon (ASUO) was created in 1900 to provide a stable financial basis for student activities such as debate, publications, and athletics. Collection (1901-2005) includes office and financial records, communications with student groups and UO administration, correspondence, meeting and hearing minutes (text and audio) of the ASUO and other student organizations. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Records of the Audubon Society of Portland and related ornithological organizations. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a journalist, editor, and publisher of the Seattle Union Record, a trade union daily. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Baker, Fentress & Company of Chicago, Illinois was a management company that held financial interest in a number of Pacific Northwest logging and lumber companies. The collection contains materials on the various timber companies in which Baker, Fentress & Company had a financial interest. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of Mayor of Seattle, 1904-1906; Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1907-1908; and the Secretary of the Interior, 1909-1911 |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Items of a businessman concerning Barnum in electric industry, mining and railroads chiefly in the East, Midwest and Appalachia |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Smith C. Bartrum was an Oregon forest ranger who was involved in building trails, and who became the first Supervisor of the Umpqua National Forest. The collection (1899-1942) consists of Bartrum's autobiography, and also correspondence, monthly salary statements, and poetry. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | During the 1990s, a group of activists formed a political action committee called Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) to fight against legislative measures in Oregon aimed at limiting gay and lesbian civil rights. The collection contains records from several state and local community organizations and is composed primarily of general administrative, campaign, and financial records, correspondence, newsletters and pamphlets, volunteer lists, audio and video tapes and reels, and artifacts. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Collection documenting the U.S.S. Oregon (Battleship), the Battleship Oregon Commission, and the Battleship Oregon Memorial and Museum. |
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Repository: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
Summary: | A small collection of bills and receipts issued by Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children to parents Raymond and E. R. Bennett for care of their son, Edward. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a teacher and Democratic Party worker in Snohomish County, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | John W. Blodgett, Jr. (1901-1987) was active in the timber industry, serving as president, chairman, director, and secretary of several timber companies including his family's company, Blodgett Company Ltd. The collection contains timber and lumber related organization files, subject files, maps, and photographs. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington, as well as an administrator and author. |
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Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
Summary: | The Nancy Borgmann papers primarily contain diaries, day planners, financial records and correspondence. The majority of the correspondence dates from 1961-1962 and is between Nancy and her future husband, the philosopher Albert Borgmann. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Alexander E. Borthwick was a Civil War veteran, railroad engineer and government servant who came to Portland in 1869. His son, William L. Borthwick, was a civil engineer and a Klansman. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, ledgers, photographs of the Borthwick family as wells as diaries and correspondence of the Saunders family who were related by marriage to William L. Borthwick. |
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Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
Summary: | The Bridger Bowl, Inc. Records consist of reports, board minutes, correspondence and other documents created or collected by the management of Bridger Bowl. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Brownsville Woolen Mill was located in Brownsville, Oregon since the 1860s; the original main building was destroyed by a fire in 1955. The collection (1902-1913) contains the surviving records of the Mill including financial ledgers, journals, and day books. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The collection (1864-1894) of Brownsville, Oregon town council records consists of minutes of the council, a treasurer's book, and an early map of Brownsville. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Bullfrog Information Service was a magazine published in Eugene, Oregon, from June, 1971 till February, 1972, that focused on news and articles for and about the Northwest alternative community. The collection contains correspondence, advertising and distribution records, eight published issues and one unpublished, original illustrations and advertising art, financial records, and unpublished articles and poetry. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Seattle broadcasting executive and civic leader |
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Collection Title: | |
Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Professional papers, scrapbooks and photographs of a Seattle attorney, civic leader and author. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Filipino-American author, poet, and migrant laborer |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Washington State attorney, businessman, civic leader, and public official. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The California State Telegraph Company began in 1853, and by June 1867, the company was reorganized and subsumed as the Pacific Division of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The collection (1865-1868) contains financial records, telegrams, and other papers of the Ashland, Oregon tollhouse station. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Founded by John Henry Albert and R. S. Wallace in 1885, the Capital National Bank was a prominent financial institution in Salem, Oregon. The collection consists of corporate records, correspondence, financial statements, administrative files, miscellaneous files, accounting and bookkeeping volumes, photographs, and three copper printer's cuts. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | William M. Case and Isaac W. Case, brothers came to Oregon in the 1840s. Isaac Case was a merchant and banker. He went to the Idaho mines in 1862 and later settled in Astoria, where he founded the Astoria Savings Bank. This collection includes family letters, financial materials, family business papers, and other miscellaneous family papers. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Centennial Planning Council governed planning for University of Oregon's 100 year anniversary celebrations in 1976, and in the same year, the United States Bicentennial celebrations. The collection includes Centennial and Bicentennial history and planning records, office and project files, correspondence, financial documents and publicity, and 100 years 100 trees project information, 1961-1977. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Administrative records of an umbrella community organization and the organizations from which it was formed. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Seattle lawyer, politician, and civic leader. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of Stanley Chapple, University of Washington music professor and director of the University of Washington School of Music from 1948-1971 |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | George Parkhurst Cheney (1871 - 1962) was publisher and editor of the Record-Chieftain, of Enterprise, Oregon. The collection (1907-1941) contains correspondence and documents regarding the status of City of Enterprise bonds, Citizen's Tax Committee correspondence, Oregon Voters magazines, and also a few mementos of Cheney's publishing career. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Administrative records of the Child Welfare League of Renton |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a banker and politician who served as Washington State Senator |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of an organization of Christian churches in Seattle, Washington. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers of Arthur M. Churchill (1876-1956) and his family. Churchill was a lawyer in Portland, Oregon, who later in life operated a dairy farm in southwest Washington state. The papers primarily consist of correspondence about topics in which Churchill took an interest and records of his farm. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a Washington State initiative campaign supported by environmental organizations |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a fisheries biologist, author and editor, federal official, and University of Washington professor. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a businessman, state legislator and official |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Includes articles of incorporation, minutes of stockholders' meetings, stock record, and dividend record. The firm was a cannery. The incorporators were Milton Smith, C. R. Hallberg, and W. H. Cooper. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Columbia Transportation company owned and operated the Columbia North Beach Ferry company. The collection (1921-1954) contains articles of incorporation, minutes of shareholders' meetings, account books and ledgers. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Committee to Keep Firemen Police and Teachers on the Job, directed by Roy N. Vernstrom, was formed to defeat Oregon state ballot measure number 7 (the 1 1/2% tax limitation), on the ballot November 5, 1968. The collection contains campaign materials including correspondence, advertising, memoranda, statistics, financial accounting, opinion surveys, and a study of the campaign by Verstrom. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Ranging in date from 1848 to 1986, the Congregational Church Collection is an artificial collection of records from Congregational churches and related associations in Oregon. The bulk of the collection consists of printed material from various churches, notably the First Congregational Church of Portland and Oregon City's Atkinson Memorial Church. The collection also includes microfilmed records from the First Congregational Church of The Dalles. A limited amount of correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, and assorted church records forms the remainder of the collection. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the Seattle chapter of the national civil rights organization |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records regarding shows of a Seattle theater presenting contemporary plays |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of two related pioneer Jewish families from Seattle, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Coos Bay and Coquille Transportation Co. was a steamboat company and the original directors were Nat H. Lane, Charles Merchant, and C. B. Golden. The collection (July 11, 1873 - February 11, 1876) contains meeting minutes and treasurer's reports. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Coos Bay Harbor was owned by Archibald Whisnant from 1907-1909. This collection includes ledgers, cash books, and an advertising accounts book. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Corbett, Failing, and Company was a general store in Portland, Oregon during the mid-1880s to early 1900s. The collection contains bills, account books, shipping ledgers, receipts, telegrams, correspondence, inventories, and scrapbooks of Corbett, Failing and Co., as well as some records and business documents of Failing and Hatt, and Elfelt, Weil and Co. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of Seattle school of the arts |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Cornucopia Mines company of Oregon was incorporated July 30, 1927 by Robert W. Betts, Blaine Hallock, and James H. Nichols as a successor company to the Baker Mines company. The collection contains corporate records, financial ledgers, and correspondence, 1918-1941. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | This collection contains financial ledgers and other business records of the Cronise Photo Studio in Salem, Or., started in 1902 by portrait photographer Thomas Jefferson Cronise and continued by his son, Harry W. Cronise, until circa 1973. There is also one volume of business records of another well-known Salem photographer, Myra E. Sperry, as well as records from Thomas Jefferson Cronise's first career as a printer and some personal papers kept by Harry W. Cronise. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | Correspondence, campaign materials, clippings, financial records, and photographs of Floyd Danskin of Spokane, Speaker of the Washington House or Representatives, and his wife Hannah Mitchell Danskin. Materials related to Mrs. Danskin concern her activities on behalf of the Spokane YWCA and her career in journalism in New York City and Kansas City, Missouri, Some materials relate to Washington Governor Roland H. Hartley and the Republican National Conventions of 1920, 1932, and 1936. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a salesman, teacher, and civil rights worker from Seattle, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The study of rhetoric and performance has been a part of the curriculum of the University of Oregon since it opened its doors in 1877; the Department of Speech also used to offer classes in radio, film, theatre study, and also dramatic performance. The bulk of the collection (1948-1999) consists of records when the Department of Speech was heavily involved with theatre performance. |
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Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
Summary: | William H.H. and Emma Dickinson were early residents of Missoula, Montana. The collection contains a Dickinson family genealogy, Mr. Dickinson's Civil War diary and a later autobiographical account based on the diary, Mrs. Dickinson's reminiscence of early Missoula, an autograph book from Mr. Dickinson's family, personal and business financial records, an assay report, and early photographs of Missoula. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | William F. Dielschneider and his brother Franz owned and ran the Dielschneider Jewelry store of McMinnville, Oregon, which also sold and repaired watches and clocks. The collection contains a cash book, watch sales and repair ledgers, a clock repair ledger, diamond record books, manufacturers' and jobbers' catalogues, and photographs. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Reports, correspondence, and proposals for projects, historical features, correspondence, minutes, financial records, proposals and related materials of a professor of Medicine |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Labor activist |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Collection includes a journal, 1877-1878, a ledger, 1879-1889, and a cash book, 1890-1896. The firm was a general merchandise store. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Willis Dunagan was a farmer in Marion County, Oregon. The collection consists of Dunagan's diaries from 1859 to 1897, a folder of legal documents, and two original school diplomas earned by Dunagan. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Dunham Printing Company operated out of Portland, Oregon during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The collection (1898-1912) contains two volumes of financial records. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | A small collection of papers of Abigail Scott Duniway, who was an emigrant to Oregon, an editor, and an advocate of women's suffrage. Includes records of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association, records of the Duniway Publishing Company, and copy of a typescript transcription of Duniway's overland diary, 1852. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Record include a ledger, 1859-1864, and a two volume day book, 1863-1865. The F. B. Dunn store was first a general store, then a dry goods establishment. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | The Eastern Washington University Instructional Media Center Records consists of financial records, correspondence, and videotapes from the Instructional Media Center at Eastern Washington University. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Educational Activities Board at the University of Oregon comprised alumni and students and administered student activities and clubs at the university, except sports. The collection (1932-1948) contains records from the multitude of groups, programs, and clubs it oversaw including the Oregon Daily Emerald, Oregana, women's clubs, concerts and performances, and UO band and orchestra, among many others. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers of a Unitarian minister of Portland, Oregon, including correspondence, speeches, and school records of his grandaughter Ruth Eliot Johnson. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Norman N. Elliott (1869- ) was a rancher in Baker County, Oregon and an active member of farm and banking organizations. The collection includes business correspondence, tax, financial, and legal records, and ranch ledgers. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Allan V. Elston (1887-1976) was educated as a civil engineer, and he worked on railroads, as a mining engineer in Chile, as a cattle rancher, and from 1924 on he wrote western fiction. The collection contains research notes, published pieces, royalty statements, and correspondence with agents, other writers, and from readers, 1930-1960. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | The Emmanuel Lutheran Church Records consists of worship folders, newsletters, a scrapbook, membership cards, and financial records of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Collection created by the Oregon Historical Society containing printed ephemera related to ethnic groups of all origins, primarily in Oregon and Portland. Includes brochures, cabinet cards, correspondence, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, registration records, relocation records, reports, scrapbook, and transcriptions. Includes materials related to Japanese American relocation in World War II, and the Russian "Old Believer" community in Oregon. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Eugene Fruit Growers Association was a vegetable, fruit, and nut growing, picking, packing, and canning cooperative, founded in 1908. The collection (1911-1947) contains financial records, excerpts from managers reports, an annual report, a photograph album, and printed brochures. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Eugene Fruit Growers Association was a vegetable, fruit, and nut growing, picking, packing, and canning cooperative, founded in 1908. The collection (1908-1971) contains administrative records which include correspondence and reports, financial records, architectural plans, photographs, reports, and printing plates. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The current Eugene Shakespeare Club, an organization of women devoted to the study of Shakespeare's works, was founded in 1909 and continues in existence as of the date of this writing (1993). The collection contains correspondence, constitutions, histories and recollections, and minutes that include annual reports, clippings, programs, and membership information. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Everding and Farrell Co. was a wholesale produce and commission firm, that was later associated with logging and the salmon packing industry. The collection (1888-1900) contains indentures and other legal papers, incoming correspondence, financial records and land surveys, and a listing of Washougal lands, costs, and expenses. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | This firm of Portland undertakers was established in 1865 as Brelsfoard & Ewry, became Ewry & Cook in 1871, Ewry and Garnold in 1877. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | Financial records, correspondence, newsclippings, and photos of the folklore and folklife festival held in conjunction with the 1974 Spokane World's Fair. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | Financial records, loan and credit files, reports, and correspondence of the State bank at Reardan, Washington, including merger with the Old National Bank and consolidation as the First National Bank of Reardan, business and liquidation records of the bank from 1909 through 1959. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Farmers' Security Bank of Milton, Oregon was incorporated in 1911 by W. E. James, W. W. Wasser, N. T. Manela, F. M. Kent, H. A. Williams, and Robert McEwen. The collection (1911-1940) includes minutes of stockholders and directors meetings, general ledger, depositors ledger, deposit book, and daily statement book. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Charles Feller (1889-1966) became an Oregon fish merchant and wholesaler in Marshfield and Coos Bay, Oregon and established the Charles Feller Company which traded world-wide in canned, smoked, and frozen fish. The collection contains company records including ledgers, journals, and account books, fish catch books, commercial and personal correspondence, Charleston, Oregon harbor improvement files, and scrapbooks. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a Seattle, Washington, organization that consisted primarily of radical Seattle feminist groups. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the Fine Arts Study Club, a successor to the West Side Improvement Club |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Fay Legrow and his father owned the First National Bank of Athena, which later became the U.S. National Bank of Portland, Athena branch. The collection contains financial records consisting of reconcilement records, bonds, notes and securities, circulation and redemption accounts, and daily balances. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Foreign Student Friendship Foundation was founded in 1950 by University of Oregon professor Dr. David M. Dougherty. The collection contains correspondence, excursion records, minutes, reports and program files, 1958-1984. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Organizational records documenting the regional conservation activities the Northwest Office of the Friends of the Earth. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The G. Heitkemper Company was a wholesale and retail jeweler in Portland, Oregon, incorporated by Gerhard Heitkemper, Frank A. Heitkemper, and Edward Cookingham in 1896. The records include thirteen ledgers that contain pre-corporation records as well as post-corporation minutes, correspondence, financial records and other communications from 1874-1924. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers of Edward R. Geary, a pioneer missionary and Presbyterian minister who served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon and Washington State from 1859 to 1861, founded Albany College, and was a Regent of the University of Oregon. Includes correspondence, writings, and financial records, including copies of letters from Geary's brother, John W. Geary; papers relating to the Oregon Central Railroad; papers relating to the estate of John Webster Perit Huntington; and detailed expenditure reports from the Oregon Office of Indian Affairs, 1859-1861. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The George Lawrence Co., established in Portland, Oregon in 1857, was a saddlery and harness shop made famous by also producing exquisite leather goods such as handgun holsters, cartridge belts, slings, scabbards, and other items. The collection contains company ledgers, cash and credit books, other account and purchasing journals, letterpress copybooks containing correspondence, and product catalogs. |
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Repository: | Pacific University, Archives |
Summary: | Collection consists of hand-written ledgers from J. B. Matthews Post Number 6, Grand Army of the Republic in Forest Grove, Oregon and one copy of Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Encampment held at Pacific University in 1901. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Thomas G. Greene (1860-1944) was born in Washington County, Indiana, and obtained an LL.B. degree from the University of Oregon Law department in 1892. The collection consists of political correspondence, corporate records, diaries, and office files. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a lawyer, civic leader, and politician of Seattle, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Guernsey-Newton Company was a Washington state insurance firm that was later absorbed by the Continental Casualty Company in 1929. The collection (1909-1921) contains minutes, articles of incorporation, by-laws, treasurer's reports, correspondence, motions, and amendments to the articles of incorporation. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Correspondence, contracts, and reports of UW professor of International Studies. Reports by Japanese corporations, the Mitsui Corporation in particular, and gathered by U.S. Occupation authorities in post-WWII Japan. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a civic leader and conservationist from Seattle, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a businessman and civic leader of Tacoma, Washington discussing his numerous civic activities and his social and family life |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Lawrence Hall commonplace book is the single volume ledger of financial transactions and a weather record of an Oregon City resident. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Financial records, gallery notices, correspondence, papers concerning travel, legal counsel, and medical appointments |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Halsey Building Association built a hall in Halsey, Oregon and rented out for dances, events, and to it to local groups for meetings. The collection (1892-1900) contains financial records of the association that include the date, price, and type of event held at the hall. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of Hands Off Washington, Kitsap County Coalition, an organization that opposed anti-gay initiatives. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Hapgood and Company were Northwest salmon packers and shippers, and were successors to Hapgood, Hume and Company. The collection (1870-1897) contains ledgers, correspondence, invoices, sales, account information, and other financial records. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a corporation executive, real estate investor, civil engineer of Corning, N.Y., and of Hoquiam, Raymond, and Grays Harbor, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of an organization dedicated to exploring and expounding the options and rights of active voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Binger Hermann (1843-1926) was a Roseburg attorney and politician who represented Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives for sixteen years, and served as commissioner of the General Land Office (GLO) under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. The collection (1888-1920) contains Hermann's personal and professional papers. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a U.S. Civil War veteran who also served as an United States Indian agent primarily at the Neah Bay and Tulalip Agencies in Washington Territory. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Hillcrest Orchard, near Medford, Oregon, was established by W.H. Stewart in 1904 and purchased by Reginald Parsons in 1908. The collection contains correspondence; business and financial files regarding Hillcrest Orchard and other financial holdings of Reginald H. Parsons; and material regarding Parsons' personal, family, and civic interests. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Correspondence, lecture notes, speeches, publications, working papers; photographs and audiovisual materials of UW Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Director of CARG at UW |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Hoedads Cooperative Inc. was a member-owned reforestation cooperative based out of Eugene, Oregon. The collection contains the working papers, audio and visual records of the cooperative, member and co-op correspondence, original newsletters, minutes and photographs. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Walter Huss (1918-2006) was a reverend, a businessman, a conservative who competed in Republican primaries in Oregon, and was chair of the Oregon Republican party from 1978-1979. The collection contains subject files on a variety of topics including conservative politics, Foursquare church and ministry, alternative medicine, Christian schools, and materials include financial records, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, and other printed matter, audio, and video tapes. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | Records kept by Frank W. Guilbert and his son David, two automotive pioneers of Eastern Washington and leaders in the Spokane County Good Roads Association and the Inland Automobile Association (IAA). The collection also includes materials from five other local, state, and regional automobile groups as well as the American Automobile Association. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the Association Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Lodge 751E which is comprised of skilled electronics workers at Boeing. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), AFL-CIO, organized in 1892, is a union of maritime workers in North America, and the Pacific Coast District was formed after a coast-wide dockworkers' strike in 1934. The collection (1934-1945) contains records from the Pacific Coast District including material regarding the strike of 1934. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | J. E. Haseltine & Co. of Portland, Oregon specialized in heavy hardware and was one of the first companies to stock automotive equipment. Collection contains cash, sundry, and sales account ledgers, accounts receivable and payable ledgers, stock inventory book, country and city ledgers, and catalogues from 1868-1959. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | J. E. Haseltine and Co. of Portland, Oregon specialized in heavy hardware and was one of the first companies to stock automotive equipment. Collection contains three ledgers containing cash and account information, from 1891-1897. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Business, personal, and family papers of Louis A. Jacobsen. Jacobsen (1871-1965) was a Portland, Oregon, businessman who owned or was involved with numerous local firms in the early 20th century, including the Jacobsen Construction Company and the University Drug Company. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers of an Oregon lawyer, political figure, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs who served in the U.S. Senate from 1861-1867. Collection includes letters to and from Nesmith, including many related to the pre-Civil War political crisis; diary of overland journey, 1843; and diary and notebook from the Yakima Indian War, 1855. Also includes business records from Nesmith's ranch in Polk County, family and genealogical materials. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Jonathan Bourne, Jr. (1855-1940) was an American politician, attorney, and businessman who owned mines in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and in the Republic and Ruby Hill Mining Districts in Washington State. The collection contains minute and stock books, maps, account books and ledgers, correspondence, deeds, patents and other legal documents, timesheets and payroll books, weekly and annual reports, bills, statements, receipts, and other financial papers of Bourne mining properties. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Maurice L. Johnson was a real estate dealer in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and worked on Oregon Democrat political campaigns and committees. The collection (1936-1939) contains correspondence and financial records of the Klamath County Democrat committee, and also the Klamath County Re-election Club for Governor Martin. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Geep Oregon Green Association is a non-profit group that organized in Oregon in 1940 expressly for the purpose of educating the public about forest fire prevention. The collection contains annual meeting minutes, correspondence, budget files, printed matter, subject files, a history of KOG, and clippings. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a forest safety organization which worked from 1940-1995 to prevent human-caused forest and range wildfires through public education. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a professor of zoology at University of Washington and oysterman |
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Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
Summary: | The Kleinschmidt papers consist of a military discharge certificate made out to Jacob F. Blattner, three stock certificates issued by the Copper Bell Mining Company of Helena issued to Theodore H. Kleinschmidt on January 6, 1890, and a homestead certificate issued by the United States General Land Office for Antony Claus for 160 acres near Helena, Montana, issued October 19, 1883. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The L. E. Blain Clothing company of Albany, Oregon, operated from 1892 until 1976. The collection (1882-1910) contains bound financial ledgers, account journals, and cash books. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Lay Council for Better Education for Lane County School District No. 69 was an organization that formed to promote school improvement. The collection (1956-1960) contains by-laws, meeting minutes, including Board of Director's and School Board minutes, correspondence, reports, and financial records. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the League of Fringe Theaters, an organization of small, independent theater companies in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to promoting original productions. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Leland Land Company was a real estate company associated with the Lewis Investment Co. The records include minute books, a journal, a ledger, and real estate books. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers of an Oregon pioneer nurseryman dating from the late 19th century and containing business correspondence, letterpress copy book, account books and financial records, and daily diaries with business-related entries. Also includes correspondence and legal documents from Lewelling's stepdaughter, Florence Olson. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Lewis Investment Company of Portland, Oregon was a real estate firm incorporated in 1909 by John C. Lewis, L. A. Lewis, and Robert W. Lewis. Collection contains corporate records including Board of Director's, stockholder's, and Executive Committee minutes, cash books, journals, ledgers, balances and reports, and correspondence. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The collection contains the District clerk's record books for Linn County, Oregon School District No. 74, created between 1900 and 1929; in 1919 district No. 52 and No. 74 were consolidated. The collection (1900-1929) consist of the record books which contain annual school board meeting minutes, financial reports, clerk's reports |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Seth Lewelling's Diary recounts his travels from Cincinnati Ohio to California, accounts of his finances, poetry of Oregon and California written by family members, and a list of the names of the Luelling Family members. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The University of Oregon began offering a business curriculum in 1884. Originally called the School of Commerce, it was renamed the School of Business Administration in 1920. In 1993, the department was renamed the Lundquist College of Business (LCB) in honor of alumnus and generous donor Charles H. Lundquist. The collection includes records from the Dean’s Office (1920-1952; 1958-1988) as well as records of the school’s work with local businesses, universities, and government agencies in Oregon and Lane County (i.e. the Lane Transit District, Bonneville Power Administration, and the Lane County development program). Also included are records from past and present departments/partner organizations of the LCB, including the Bonneville Power Administration, Business and Construction (a joint program between LCB and AAA), Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Consumer Research Center, Innovation and Science Foundation, Marketing Advisory Council, and Phi Chi Theta. Material includes office and financial files, photographs, correspondence, annual reports, surveys, questionnaires, and staff meeting minutes. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Macleay Estate Company of Portland, Oregon purchased the canning, shipping, and allied interests of the R. D. Hume Company of Wedderburn, Oregon. The collection contains correspondence, financial records, legal documents, ledgers, and journals. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Historian, professor, and author from Tacoma, Washington |
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Repository: | Pacific University, Archives |
Summary: | The Malheur Field Station records focuses on Malheur Field Station facility, during the time that Dr. William T. Jordan, a chemistry professor at Pacific University, was the university representative to the Malheur Field Station, 1971-1994. The Malheur Field Station was started in 1971 to be a place for naturalist education and research near Burns, Oregon. The field station is operated by a consortium of universities from Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. Pacific University administered the station from 1971-1989. This collection contains records of correspondences between consortium members and Dr. William T. Jordan; budget records; photographs; plans for the station and promotional material, such as booklets and pamphlets. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Correspondence, art exhibition and sale records, gallery announcements and catalogs, clippings, writings, and other papers related to the career James Martin, an artist based in Edmonds, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The McMinnville (Oregon) Ladies' Sanitary Aid Society was founded in 1863 to support Union troops by providing volunteer support and raising money. The collection (1861-1865; 1961) contains a secretary's book, a treasurer's book, annual report, constitution and bylaws, meeting minutes, Juvenile Sanitary Society information, correspondence, receipts, and a story regarding the society. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | T. Metcalf was the superintendent of public works for the town of Oswego. The collection consists of a lumber contract brokered by Metcalf between the Hawaiian Government and Albert A. Durham of Oswego, Oregon. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Phil Metschan, Sr. (1840-1920) was born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany and travelled to the United States and settled in Canyon City, Oregon where he ran a store, became Oregon state treasurer, and established a hotel in Portland, Oregon. The collection contains correspondence, diaries, financial and legal records, pioneer family files, photographs and memorabilia. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Abbot Low Mills Jr. (1898-1986) became vice-president of the First National Bank of Portland, and vice-president and director of U.S. National Bank, Portland. The collection contains professional records including correspondence, policies, commercial client files, records of work with other banks, financial reports, annual reports, and bank purchase transactions from Mills Jr.'s work at the U.S. National Bank, Portland, as well as personal correspondence, household and estate accounts, and files of the Thomas E. Dewey Presidential campaign in Oregon committee. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Abbot Low Mills Jr. (1898-1986) became vice-president of two Oregon banks and served on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1952-1965. The collection contains the working papers from Mills Jr.'s time on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and include correspondence, memoranda, speeches, and position papers, minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, documents relating to Federal open market policy, files on Federal Reserve regulations and their application in specific cases, and a file on international banking, finance, and trade. |
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Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
Summary: | The collection focuses on the workings of two mining companies that owned and operated the Drumlummon mine in Marysville, Montana, over five decades. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | This collections contains correspondence, minutes, financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and a photograph of the Spokane Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Organizational records documenting the efforts of the Washington State chapter of the Nature Conservancy, a non-profit nature preservation society. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | James Neall (1820-1903) was a pioneer, merchant, and entrepreneur from Philadelphia who established claims and businesses in Oregon and California. His wife, Hannah Lloyd Neall (1817-1912) was a cultural enthusiast and suffragist who wrote for numerous early California publications. The collection consists of reminiscences, correspondence, miscellaneous papers, bound volumes and a painted tin box. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Jewish merchant from Wenatchee, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Nicolai Bros. Company of Portland, Oregon, was a sash and door manufacturing company. The collection (1870-1878) contains corporate records, correspondence, financial records, minutes, day books, and order books. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Nicolai family of Portland, Oregon established an investment company, incorporated in 1922 by Harry T. Nicolai, Charles E. McCulloch, and Marvin K. Holland, and also operated a sawmill business and a door and sash manufacturing company, among other business ventures. The collection (1922-1957) contains corporate and administrative records including articles of incorporation, by-laws, financial statements, minutes, correspondence, tax and liquidation records, and files regarding the Oregon-Washington, and Chicago Plywood companies. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Records of the Northwest Artists Workshop, including materials relating to exhibitions and events, such as programs, posters, and press releases; materials relating to artists; arts publications; and administrative records, including grant applications. The Northwest Artists Workshop was a non-profit organization for contemporary and experimental visual and performing arts based in Portland, Oregon. It operated from 1976 to 1989. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the Norwegian Seamen and War Veterans Association of Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Office of Academic Affairs provides coordination and support at the University of Oregon for all academic personnel matters, programming, and other issues pertaining to the academic standards and mission of the institution. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of this office. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Clarence Valentine Boyer (1880-1954) was an English professor and dean at the University of Oregon, and also served as University President from 1934 until 1938. The collection (1932-1970) contains records from the Office of the President which include correspondence, reports, minutes, financial records, among other documents. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Prince Lucien Campbell (1861-1925) served as president of the University of Oregon from 1902 until 1925. The collection contains records that document the Office of the President, 1902-1927. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Robert D. Clark (1910-2005) began his career at the University of Oregon in 1943 as a professor of speech and later became Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), Dean of Faculties, President of San Jose State College (1964-1969), and from 1969 until his retirement in 1975, he served as the eleventh President of the University of Oregon. The collection contains the records that document the Office of the President, 1969-1976. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Victor Pierpoint Morris served as interim president of the University of Oregon from 1953 until Owen Meredith Wilson became the ninth President of the University of Oregon in 1954. The collection contains subject files, correspondence, committee and faculty meetings, and other material organized alphabetically. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | William Beaty Boyd served as president of University of Oregon from 1975-1980 and is noted for reorganizing the central administration of the university by placing the day-to-day academic operations under the provost. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the Office of the President. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | William C. Jones served as Interim President of University of Oregon from 1960-1961 after President Wilson resigned. Arthur Flemming (1905-1996) became the 10th president of the University of Oregon and professor of political science on February 24, 1961. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the Office of the President. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Japanese-American photographer and civic leader from Seattle, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Olympia Light and Power Company, a waterwheel-generated hydro-electric power plant that was organized in 1890, brought the first electricity to Olympia and Tumwater, Washington. The collection contains correspondence, reports, financial records, and legal papers. |
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Repository: | Pacific University, Archives |
Summary: | The Oregon City Drug Store sold pharmacy items in the pioneer town at the end of the Oregon Trail from the 1850s-1860s. Covering the store's accounts from 1854-1863, this handwritten ledger provides customer names, lists of their purchases on credit, and their account balances. It shows what many prominent early Oregon doctors and businesses were buying at the time. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Records of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs from the 1990s and scrapbooks of the Oswego Woman's Club. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Oregon Freelance Club was an organization of amateur and professional writers from the state of Oregon. The collection (1952-1965) contains correspondence, reports, membership lists, and financial records. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Oregon State Industrial Accident Commission was established to oversee worker's compensation distributions from the state's industrial accident fund. The collection consists of the business and administrative records of the Commission from 1935-1960. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Oregon Infantry, 1st Regiment, Company B, was part of the Oregon Volunteer's regiment during the American Civil War. The collection (1864-1867) contains letters received and sent by Captain Ephraim Palmer, and also financial records and "monthly returns." |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Created in 1933, The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) has the authority to control the distribution, sales and consumption in the state of Oregon. The records include monthly analytical reports, quarterly financial reports, and yearly financial reports spanning 1939-1950. |
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Repository: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
Summary: | The Oregon Public Health Association (OPHA) brings together public health professionals, including doctors and nurses, educators, and researchers to engage in professional development, advocate for public policy, and reach out to local communities in order to improve the public health of Oregonians. The collection consists of physical and electronic records created or kept by OPHA during the years 1999-2013, documenting the administrative, financial, event, and community outreach activities of the non-profit organization. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative Association (ORECA) was formed in 1942. The collection contains articles of association, membership information, committee minutes and reports, financial records, correspondence and memoranda, contracts, and publications, 1952-1958; the Association destroyed its earlier records. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The office of Oregon State Treasurer was officially established when Oregon was recognized as a state in February of 1859. The collection consists of a single promissory note issued in April of 1848. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Business records of Oregonian Publishing Company. Includes financial, legal, and organizational documents; assorted subject files covering Oregonian financial interests; reports, studies, and surveys; photographs; publications; and limited correspondence and other documents from Henry Pittock's time as owner and publisher. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders, and Wipers Association (union) was founded October 1883, in San Francisco, California. The collection (1934-1955) contains meeting minutes, reports of the Auditing Committee, financial reports, shipping reports, and agent's reports. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Pacific Cooperative Poultry Producers (PCPP) cooperative was organized in 1920, and the Pacific Egg Producers (PEP) cooperative was established in 1922. The collection contains records of both cooperatives including financial records, reports, correspondence, and minutes. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Pacific Stationery and Print Company, of Portland, Oregon, provided stationery, printing services, record organizing services, book binding, lithographing, embossing, and office furniture. The collection (1902-1936) contains financial records, articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, and a catalog. |
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Repository: | Pacific University, Archives |
Summary: | Various documents pertaining to the founding and development of Tualatin Academy and Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. |
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Repository: | Pacific University, Archives |
Summary: | The Pacific University Women's Club, also known as the Faculty Women's Club, was a group made up of female faculty members and faculty wives. The collection includes meeting minutes, records related to events, ledgers, President's report, bank statements, handbooks, and dues records, created over several decades. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers and tape-recordings of fisheries executive of Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Records of a small woolen mill located in Stayton, Oregon, which operated from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries and produced primarily blankets and clothing fabrics. Most materials date from the 1950s through the 1970s and include extensive correspondence files, finanical records, and detailed production records. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records from the University of Washington chapter of an international honor society |
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Repository: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
Summary: | The collection consists of one single bound receipt ledger for an unidentified medical organization listing monthly dues, initiation fees, and fines charged doctors as well as suspensions and expulsions of members from 1847-1853. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Pioneer Realty Company was founded in 1896 and based in Portland, Oregon. The collection contains corporate records including minute books, stock books, journals, and ledgers. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Records of a leading performing arts organization in Portland, Oregon, from its inception in the mid-1920s to its dissolution in the early 1990s. Includes administrative and financial records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, personnel files, scrapbooks, posters, programs, and records of the theatre's educational activities. |
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Repository: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
Summary: | This collection is a wide variety of correspondence to and from the Portland Free Dispensary in its last year (1929-30) before moving up to the medical school campus on Marquam Hill in 1931. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Photographs and documents relating to the history and development of Portland General Electric. The photos in this collection include color and black and white photographs, negatives and slides of employees, power generating stations, office buildings, recreational sites, power lines, towers, streetcars, streetcar tracks, office buildings and equipment. The documents in this collection include correspondence, logbooks, account books, manuals, ephemera, newsletters, clippings, etc. regarding employees, power stations, office buildings, operations, outside organizations and the electrical industry as a whole. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Portland Hebrew Sick Benefit Association was founded by Russian and East European Jews of Portland, Oregon, and assisted members with death benefits, tombstones, and contributions to Histadrut, a labor federation in Israel. The collection (1933-1937; 1940-1958) consists of five volumes of treasurer's record books. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Portland Reporter, printed from 1959-1964, was started by sriking union newspaper workers in Oregon. The collection contains the administrative, editorial, and printing records of the short-lived newspaper. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers and ephemera relating to Gisele Currier and the Timbers Army, along with photographs, magazines, clippings, and ephemera relating to professional soccer, and particularly the Portland Timbers. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Historian and journalist in Washington state |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers relating to Holly Pruett's work in gay rights activism, particularly with the 1994 No on 13 campaign. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The papers of Marta Randall, Nebula-nominted science fiction author, are primarily comprised of manuscripts for her novels, short fiction, and non-fiction and include associated correspondence, publicity materials, and financial records. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of Seattle community activists Eli Rashkov and his wife Esther concerning the development of Seattle area parks and the use of Forward Thrust funds. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Malcolm Reiss (1905-1975) was an editor, author of stories and a book, China Boat Boy, and also an author's agent. The collection contains personal papers including correspondence, manuscripts, and published articles, and also business records of Fiction House including correspondence, contracts, and financial records. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Right to Pride is a political action committee and a non-profit organization "dedicated to ensuring full human and civil rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual Oregonians." The collection contains minutes and correspondence, fundraising and other financial records and reports, artifacts such as posters and buttons, candidate information, membership and supporter lists, and videos of events including Lucille Hart dinners and government sessions. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Archibald E. Roberts (1915-2005) was a retired lieutenant colonel and founder of the Committee to Restore the Constitution. The collection consists of Roberts' correspondence, speeches, and writings as well as numerous boxes of printed and audio-visual propaganda from Robert's personal collection. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a pioneer family concerning real estate and mining ventures in Asotin County, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a businessman relative to his business activities in shipping, railroad construction and fisheries in Seattle, Alaska, and Siberia |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of president of the Pacific Northwest Region of United Synagogues of America |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Lippman Sachs and his brothers immigrated to American in 1861 and settled in Jacksonville, Oregon where they operated a dry goods store until 1875; the Reames Brothers then purchased the building and continued a general store until 1886. The collection (1874-1875; 1881-1884)) contains a Sachs Bros. ledger account book which also includes account pages of the Reames Bros. store. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Correspondence, financial records, client files, contracts, membership records, legal documents, and other records of Save All Ethiopian Jews, a human rights organization in Western Washington that worked covertly to expedite the immigration of Jews from Ethiopia to Israel |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a leader of cooperative movement and chemist of Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Lin (Lynn) J. Searles (1914-1972) was a professional magician/proprietor of magic shops and writer of Western stories and television series'. The collection consists of his correspondence, manuscripts, tear sheets, and financial documents. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the company |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the Seattle chapter of a conservationist and birdwatching organization |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a Seattle, Washington, women's federation involved in community service and academic study. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the Seattle-based community vocational center that provided pre-apprenticeship training from 1966 to 1986. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Historical information, correspondence, minutes, agendas, reports, production books, scripts, legal documents, clippings, news releases, programs, reviews, brochures, publications, playbills, newsletters, posters, scrapbooks, ephemera, photographs, sound recordings, and video recordings of the Seattle Repertory Theatre, a professional theatre in Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of an interracial community social service agency in Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a lawyer, Oregon state printer, and governor of Washington Territory |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Chicano professor at the University of Washington who was also a state and community activist. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the Union |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Social Science Club held programs devoted to exploring topics relating to the social sciences. Records include office files, minutes, meeting notices and programs, correspondence, membership data, financial records, and speeches from 1930-1953. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a Seattle political labor organization |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Socialist Party of Albany, Oregon Local No. 2 was in operation in the early 1900s, and then again in the 1930s. The collection (1904-1934) consists of secretary's and treasurer's books that contains minutes, constitution, charter, membership reports, flyers, brochures, and other ephemera. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Socialist Party of Springfield, Oregon Local was operational in the early 1900s. The collection (1911-1914) consists of a treasurer's book that contains membership and dues information. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Administrative records of the Society of American Foresters |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Sigma Xi was founded in 1886 (nationally) to honor excellence in scientific investigation and encourage a sense of companionship and cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering. The Society of the Sigma Xi, University of Oregon Chapter, was founded in 1923 after a two year effort. Collection contains office files, correspondence, fraternity records, chapter book, and historical information. |
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Repository: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
Summary: | The Southern Oregon Medical Society, founded in 1892 in Medford, OR, represented nearly every well-known school of medicine in North America. The collection consists of three journals of minutes as well as registration and finance books, created and kept by the Society from 1892 to 1961. |
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Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
Summary: | The C. F. Spiesshofer Diary covers the life of Mr. Spiesshofer from 1904 through 1907. Spiesshofer's diary discusses his finances as well as his trek through Yellowstone Park. Throughout his twelve days traveling the park, he describes such destinations as Madison Canyon, Madison River, Firehole River, Fountain Geyser, Mushroom Pool, Five Sisters, Black Warrior Geyser, Sulphur Pool, Midway Geyser Basin, Upper Geyser Basin, Old Faithful, Elephant Ear, Yellowstone Lake, Canyon, Hayden Valley and Yellowstone Falls. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | Incorporated in 1965 as a community action program to combat poverty in the Spokane area. Collection includes agreements, contracts, memoranda, reports, personnel files, and financial statements. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | The Spokane Federation of Social Workers Records consists of correspondence, financial records, minutes, ephemera, and reports of the Spokane Federation of Social Workers. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Transfiguration Social Club was a part of St. David's Episcopal Church of Portland, Oregon, and its purpose was to promote social activities in the community and to assist in the improvement of the Transfiguration chapel. The collection (1923-1926) contains a record book of meeting minutes, treasurer's accounts, a constitution, bylaws, and loose meeting minutes. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Stadelman Fruit Company was established in 1893 by Peter J. Stadelman and operated as growers, packers, and shippers. The records include accounts receivable (1909-1933), general ledgers (1921-1949), accounts and insurance volumes, sales and cash receipts, and photographs. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Standard Corporation was an investment and mortgage company that operated under successive names and partnerships: Shaw-Fear Co., Fear and Gray, Standard Corporation, and Financial Service Corporation. The collection (1904-1939) contains major account files for the Oregon Washington Investment Co., Seaboard Continental Corp., Provident State Securities Co., Pacific Northwest Timber Co., and Central Oregon Irrigation Co. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Steinberger was an Army officer in command of the District of Oregon in 1862. Most of the correspondence concerns military matters in Oregon and Washington, 1862-1865, with political and personal overtones. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers of Justus Steinberger (1825-1870), particularly from his time in the 1850s working for Adams & Co. and then for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Steinberger was an agent for Adams & Co. in Portland, Oregon; he later became an officer in the U.S. Army. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers and tape-recorded interviews of Jewish community member, Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a professor of architecture, University of Washington. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Ledger sheets relating to the practice of Dr. E. B. Stewart, as well as the medical practices Seely, Sether & Stewart; Sether & Stewart; and Stewart & Hess. E. B. Stewart was a physician in Roseburg, Oregon, during the first half of the 20th century. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview and papers of Seattle dentist Doris J. Stiefel, regarding her education, marriage, and involvement in the Caroline Kline Galland Home for the Aged, Congregation Beth Shalom, and the North End Group of Hadassah in Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a president of the University of Washington |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Townsend Plan was an old-age pension plan idea proposed by California physician Francis E. Townsend in 1934 prior to the enactment of Social Security; local chapters of the organization included Albany, Oregon. The collection 1935-1945) contains meeting minutes, membership record book, miscellaneous financial papers, correspondence, and convention information, and records of a Townsend President (Fred Stillwell) including correspondence. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Agreements, contracts, and financial records of the 19th-century railroad firms Oregon and California Railroad Company; the Oregon and Transcontinental Company; the Oregon Improvement Company; and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. The collection also includes Oregon Railroad Commission reports, railroad guidebooks, and files of the Southern Pacific Railroad research team. The materials were compiled by Transport Consultants, Inc., whose president, Lynn D. Farrar, had worked for Southern Pacific and was a railroad historian. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers concerning the activities of the Tuttle Hereford Ranch near Prairie City, Oregon, and Clarence Ewing Tuttle. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | On February 17, 1934, President Roosevelt established a code of fair competition for the graphic arts industries by executive order; the regional administers in Oregon was Arne Rae, who was succeeded in January 1935 by Steen M. Johnson. The collection (1930s) contains the records from Arne Rae's office included minutes, expense accounts, correspondence, copies of the code, schedules, and forms, and bulletins of the Joint National Code Authority. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records collected and published by United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 81, including earlier groups which merged into the UFCW Local 81. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | United States Spruce Production Corporation was incorporated in Washington, on August 19, 1918, and set out to manufacture Spruce products, especially for war planes during WWI. The collection (1918-1946) contains three volumes of corporate records including articles of incorporation, meeting minutes, correspondence and telegrams, lumber company information, and financial records. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records documenting the administration, research activities, curricula, and committees of the University of Washington Department of Sociology. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the University of Washington Trademarks and Licensing Office, which administers the university's licensing program to control the commercial use of the university's name and registered trademark. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a University of Washington club for alumni who had graduated within ten years of joining. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records documenting the administration and research projects of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory, the Laboratory of Radiation Biology, and the Laboratory of Radiation Ecology at the University of Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | In 1954, the University of Oregon Basketball team undertook an exhibition tour of Asia and the Business Manager for the tour, J.O. Lindstrom, accompanied the student athletes and kept a diary. The collection (1954-1955) contains Lindstrom's diary, reports, and also programs and itineraries of the tour, correspondence and postcards, photographs, collected business cards, and newspaper clippings. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | In 1876, the Oregon legislature vested a Board of Regents with governance of the University of Oregon, a role that lasted until 1929. Collection contains office files, correspondence, minutes, biennial and annual reports, Deady Hall repair files, department, dorm, and building naming and dedication files, professor profiles, dorm information, and a record book. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Administrative papers, handbooks and photographs of the association |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Theatre productions were performed at University of Oregon long before the University Theatre was built in 1949; the Horace Robinson Theatre (as it is now known) is used primarily for Department of Theatre Arts productions. The collection (1909-2009) contains annual reports, publicity materials, production reports, photographs and slides, reviews, correspondence, meeting minutes, and also records from Carnival Theater and Very Little Theatre. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Correspondence, membership records, business records, funeral records, scrapbooks and photography book of a Japanese American who operated a landscaping and garden ornament importing business |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Records of an eastern Oregon farm, near Athena, Oregon, Umatilla County, engaged in large-scale farming of wheat, oats, and peas in the 1940’s to the 1960’s. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Seattle film producer |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of an ecumenical church organization |
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Repository: | Pacific University, Archives |
Summary: | Two volumes, plus loose pages, of treasurer's records from the Washington County (Oregon) Bible Society. |
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Repository: | Pacific University, Archives |
Summary: | Collection contains the records of the Willamette Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches and also the West Willamette Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Photographs and papers of the Winch family of Portland, Oregon, including materials relating to Martin Winch, his wife Nellie Amelia Wygant Winch, their son Simeon Reed Winch, and Simeon's second wife Margaret (Mary) Tobin Winch. Additional materials pertain to related families, including the Rae, Reed, Wood and Wygant families, and Dr. John McLoughlin. Materials include financial records, correspondence, house inventories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, daguerreotypes, and drawings. Also included is correspondence of Simeon Gannett Reed and letters to Reed from William S. Ladd. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Woodlawn Plywood company was located in Hoquiam, WA. The collection contains ledgers and journals, cash, sales, account, and stock information, correspondence, deeds and leases, contracts and mortgages, and ledgers of the Northern Timber company. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Edwin A. Woodwoorth (1890-1966) became county superintendent of schools for Clackamas County, Oregon. The collection contains minutes and other material from national, regional and local education association meetings, as well as correspondence, publications, and daily desk diaries/journals. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | First National Theaters, Inc. leased and owned motion picture theaters in the Pacific Northwest, and in 1958, Yakima Amusement company bought out First National Theatres. The collection (1921-1959) contains financial records and correspondence of First National Theaters, Inc., of Yakima Amusement Co., and also includes financial information regarding Pioneer Securities Co., New Enterprises Inc., and C. S. Jensen. |
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Repository: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
Summary: | The Yamhill County Medical Society (YCMS) was formed as an organization for physicians residing in Yamhill County, Oregon. The YCMS was a sub-society of the Oregon Medical Association (OMA), which was a part of the American Medical Association (AMA). The records of YCMS consist of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, announcements, articles, membership applications, rosters, a diskette, and AMA and congressional booklets. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Chicano professor of romance languages and literature at the University of Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of the Young Women's Christian Association, University of Washington Branch, a women's religious and service organization that grew to sponsor feminist and political activities. |