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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | In 1922, the West Coast Lumberman's Association sued the Abilene and Southern Railway Co. regarding "unjust and unreasonable" lumber rates. The collection (1922-1924) contains testimonies, briefs, exhibits, lumber company statistics and research, and correspondence used in the case. |
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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: | Records of the local group affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers |
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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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection consists of Bond of Enrollment and Bond for License for steamer Echo issued to Alexander P. Ankeny, John Gates and Miles Bell, September 14, 1865. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Immigration certificate of Antoinetta Wilhelmina Nordström of Rone, Sweden. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Arthur McArthur's research files on the development of the Green Hills neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, from 1911 to 2006, and the draft of his history of the neighborhood and families residing there. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), Oregon-Columbia chapter was created in 1922 as a representative association for Oregon and Southwest Washington workers in the construction industry. The collection (1929-1961) contains correspondence and documents relating to labor negotiations and agreements, labor legislation, and the internal affairs of the association. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes correspondence and documents, 1911-1924, relating to the transferral of State of Oregon highway bonds (valued at $50,000) from the estate of John Jacob Astor to his daughter, Ava Alice Muriel Astor, at her coming of age in 1923. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Washington State pioneer, Methodist pastor, businessman, and civic leader. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Maida Rossiter Bailey was Dean of Women at Reed College and owned a ranch with her husband, Meredith Bailey, Jr., near Sisters, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, 1901-1971; business correspondence, 1914-1964, regarding agriculture, logging and the Deschutes Farmer's Co-op; legal and financial documents, 1915-1962; expense records, 1905-1960; contracts and leases, 1927-1954; tax records and property assessments, 1918-1935; ranch employee records, 1916-1935; crop and pasture records, 1925-1970; mortgages and promissory notes. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | The Baldwin Sheep and Land Company was established in 1873 by Dr. David M. Baldwin at Hay Creek, Oregon. Located in present-day Jefferson County, the company became one of the state's largest producers of wool and purebred sheep. The company ceased operation in 1910. The Hay Creek Ranch continued stock-raising operations at the same location under different ownership. Collection includes a record book with minutes, titles, agreements and mortgages; and mortgages, leases, contracts, and other legal papers regarding land holdings near Madras and Hay Creek, Oregon. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Manuscript Oath of Master, E. W. Baughman, for the steamer Rival, Oregon City, Oregon, October 21, 1865. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Oath of Master, Charles Bennet, for the steamer Wallamet, Oregon City, Oregon, October 7, 1854. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains a bond of indemnity signed May 20, 1887 by Henry Blackman and seventeen others. The bond was to protect to C. L. Andrews (clerk) and T. R. Howard (sheriff), both of Morrow County, Oregon, against expense of possible legal action arising from their refusal to move county records to Lexington, Oregon. |
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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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Records include correspondence, financial documents, minutes of annual meetings, reports, operation statements, and materials related to the purchase by Georgia Pacific Corp. |
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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: | David Bunting (1940-) and William Thomas Trulove (1943- ) researched the economic effects of the termination of the Klamath Indian Reservation. The collection contains research files, surveys and interviews, original manuscripts, and published material. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection consists of Oath of Master, D. W. Burnside, for the steamer Active, Canemah, Oregon, December 11, 1865. Dan Wyman Burnside was born in Vermont in 1825. He came to Oregon by way of California in 1852, and settled in Portland. |
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| Repository: | Willamette University Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Byars family papers consist of legal and financial documents, correspondence, photographs, and Willamette University memorabilia documenting the lives of several generations from approximately 1866 to 1990. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | University of Washington law student and law professor. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Gold miner whose discovery claim at Bonanza Creek on August 17, 1896, started the Klondike Gold Rush |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes court documents; deposition of Joseph Thomas, 1871, regarding the legitimacy of his son, Finice Caruthers; and a record book, 1 volume, regarding the administration of the estate. Finice Caruthers was the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Caruthers, who died in 1860 without heirs. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | In 1944, the Cascades Plywood Corporation purchased Evan Products Company of Portland. In 1945, Cascades merged with the Oak Ridge Timber Company. Cascades later acquired the assets of the Lyon Lumber Company. Records include correspondence; company history with profit/loss records; biography of Max D. Tucker, president; scrapbook; agreements and minutes; and ownership summaries. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection is comprised of the Certificate of Register issued to Herman C. Leonard by John Adair for the brig, Metropolis. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Seattle lawyer, politician, and civic leader. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Handwritten diary, letterbooks, and documents relating to Justin Chenoweth's travel to Oregon and work as a surveyor, mail carrier, and justice of the peace in Oregon and Washington Territory, primarily from the years 1848 to 1862. Includes family correspondence. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Clatsop County, Oregon School District No. 1 and J. Munson, entered into a legal agreement regarding land. The collection a legal document between the school district No. 1 and Munson, dated January 9, 1865. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Oath of Master, John W. Cochran, for the steamer Reliance, Canemah, Oregon, August 3, 1865. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Records of a federally sponsored educational and employment program for low-income individuals in selected Portland neighborhoods. Collection includes project proposals and applications, contractor agreements, and budget reports and statistics. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Miriam L. Condon was a writer of stories for young people, and was possibly a relative of Frank Condon. The collection (1892-1968) contains correspondence including letters from publishers, manuscripts of anecdotes, poems, and short stories, legal documents, including deeds and contracts belonging to Frank Condon, photographs and historical postcards, negatives, and a travel notebook of a trip to Mexico. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection contains correspondence, legal documents, publications and articles, miscellany, and newspaper clippings relating to the trial of Annette Buchanan, Managing Editor for the Oregon Daily Emerald, in the late 1960's. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Record book with minutes and certificate of dissolution. |
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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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Glenn Corning was a florist in Sherwood, Oregon. Papers include personal and business correspondence; Barriger vs. Corning lawsuit papers, 1930-1931; financial records; and plant and flower reference card files. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of one of the first female electricians for Seattle City Light and labor activist |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of the family of John Heard Couch, one of the original developers of the townsite of Portland, Oregon, and his descendents, including members of the Glisan and Robertson families. Papers include correspondence, legal papers, land ownership records, clippings, family Bibles, journals of John Heard Couch, and papers concerning Couch's wife Caroline and their descendants Caroline Wilson, Clementine Lewis, and Elizabeth and Rodney Glisan. Of special note is John Heard Couch's logbook, 1853-1858, for voyages on the ships Chenamus and Madonna; and the travel diary of Nan Robertson, 1911-1912, written during a trip to San Francisco and Southern Asia. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Crossley was a lawyer in Winterset, Ia., a member of the Iowa State Senate, 1900-1907, and an active supporter of the statewide primary law. Collection includes correspondence (1894-1954): personal and formal, college class notes from Yale University (1898), addresses, legal documents, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, published materials, maps, photographs, his diary which documents his experiences during WWI, and other miscellaneous materials. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes correspondence and advertising, 1938-1967; labor agreements, correspondence and reports, 1937-1968; correspondence and plans regarding plant construction and improvement, 1948-1966; accountant's reports, 1918-1920 and 1934-1936; and tax forms, 1938-1955. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers and photographs relating to Judge Mercedes Deiz and her family. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Elmer Perry Dodd (born 1869) was a developer and irrigation advocate for the Umatilla area of Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, research notes, documents and printed materials regarding irrigation projects in the Umatilla area, particularly the Umatilla Rapids Project and McNary Dam, 1902-1954; and correspondence and documents regarding the Columbia Valley Association, Inland Waterways Association, and Bureau of Reclamation hearings. Correspondents include Walter M. Pierce, Charles L. McNary, Frederick Steiwer, Marshall N. Dana and Homer D. Angell. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of Cindy Domingo, Filipino American labor activist, documenting her organizing work with the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes, Line of March, and the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP). |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Dooly & Company was an insurance and investment company in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes business correspondence, leases, notes, financial records, and documents, 1904-1958, regarding the purchase of hotels in Portland, Oregon; records of Dooly Investment Co., Davenport Dooly Co. and the Contractor Finance Association; business papers of Frank E. Dooly and Andrew C. Smith. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Wallace Ulysses Douglas (1868-1936) moved to Coos Bay, Oregon in 1890, worked for the Coast Mail, read law with John A. Gray, was admitted to the bar in 1898, and practiced law in the Coos Bay area thereafter. The collection contains business, legal, and political correspondence, law office ledgers, and records of five Oregon businesses that Douglas provided legal counsel for or was a shareholder: American Bank, Coos Bay Home Telephone Co., German-American Hospital Association, Home Mortgage Co., and Smith River Transportation Co. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Record book with minutes, receipts, agreements and land titles. |
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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: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | Primarily business records, letters, receipts, gas and oil leases, and other legal documents created or collected by the Troy Duncan or Erwin Packer families. Subjects include homesteading, Liberty county and communities therein, oil and gas exploration and leasing, and sheep and cattle ranching. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Biography and legal documents of early Tacoma shipbuilder, Edward Johnson, from Vanersborg, Sweden. |
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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: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence ordering immigration records and and a photocopy of the records. |
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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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Manuscript Oath of Owner, Edwin B. Fellows, for the steamer Yamhill, Canemah, Oregon, October 20, 1865. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John Finerty (1885-1967) was an attorney who worked for railroad companies before becoming involved with civil rights cases. The collection consists of case files, general files and personal records. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Oath of Master, Henry Fischer, for the schooner Elenora, Astoria, Oregon, August 11, 1865. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes scrapbooks, certificates and miscellaneous documents of members of the Fletcher family. Many members of the family were schoolteachers in Salem, Silverton, and other parts of Marion County, Oregon. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Oath of Master, Thomas J. Foster, for the schooner San Diego of Oysterville, Washington Territory, February 26, 1865. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes case files of Oscar Furuset, a Portland, Oregon, lawyer. Cases involve the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders & Helpers of America; the Western Bond & Mortgage Co.; Noble Lumber Co.; and Robert Dollar Co., circa 1930-1950. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John Gates (1827-1888) was a construction engineer for the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. and the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. From 1885 to 1888, he served as mayor of Portland, Oregon. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, diaries, scrapbook pages, steamboat plans and inventions, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Loyal M. Graham (1860-1961) was an attorney and legislator, and in 1919 as an Oregon state legislator he introduced the nation's first gasoline tax. The collection contains political correspondence, legal briefs, diaries and journals, scrapbook pages and speeches. |
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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 Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records from two nonviolent groups, the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and the Pacific Life Community, which protested the nuclear arms race, particularly Trident nuclear submarines at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base in Kitsap County, Washington |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers consist of one notebook and two examples of "vexel" (veksels). |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection consists of legal documents relating to the purchase of lands in Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Multnomah, Tillamook, and Washington counties, Oregon, by the Edmund Hall Land Co. of Detroit, Michigan, 1860-1910. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | John H. Hall, Sr. was U.S. District Attorney for Oregon. Papers include include correspondence, receipts, and documents relating to Auto Delivery Company and Ten Bar Ranch, and case files. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Photostat enrollment of schooner Morning Star, Charles W. Hendrickson, Tillamook, Oregon, February 1, 1855. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Hewitt & Sox was a law firm in Albany, Oregon, consisting of Henry H. Hewitt and Carlton Edward Sox. Collection includes correspondence, transcripts, and dispositions of cases, 1900-1931; and Sox family correspondence, 1870-1906. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a political activist concerning the American Protective League (Minute Men); the Republican Party of Island County; and the Washington Liberty Loan Committee; |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Gale Stockton Hill was a lawyer in Albany, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, transcripts, and dispositions of cases, and miscellaneous and personal 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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Lee Hawley Hoffman (1914-1998) was a prominent general contractor in the Pacific Northwest and a former executive director of the Oregon Historical Society. Collection includes records of Lee Hoffman, Inc., 1960-1962, with references to Oak Lodge Sanitary District, No. 1, Clackamas County; suit of Lee Hoffman v. U. S. regarding the construction of railroad bridge across the Deschutes River, 1962; personal and legal documents; financial records of Videorecon Corp., 1961-1962. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Louis R. Huber was a filmmaker and president of Northern Films in Seattle, Washington. Papers include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, scripts, legal agreements, receipts, brochures, film orders, news releases, menus, magazines, booklets, purchase orders, and invoices, as well as materials relating to the film "The Alaska Highway." |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Records of the case of the United States of America, et al., against Sadao Araki, et al., International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Apr. 29, 1946-Nov. 12, 1948. 318 v. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of William Irving include a manuscript bill of sale for the steamer Express from Irving to George Hoyt, 1857; and a license for the steamer Express, issued to Irving in Astoria, Oregon, July 28, 1857. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Charles Samuel Jackson (1860-1924) was the publisher of the Oregon Journal newspaper in Portland. Collection includes correspondence, 1881-1924, regarding Oregon conservation, local and national politics, and the newspaper business. Other materials include a diary, scrapbooks for the Journal Publishing Co. and on the dairy industry in Oregon; and papers of Maria Clopton Jackson. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Vaccination record for Johanne Jacobsdatter (1840-1911). |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Vaccination record for Kari Lodvarsdatter. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records relating to the policital organization Katipunan Ng Mga Demokratikong Pilipino (KDP) [Union of Democratic Filipinos] |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Manuscript Oath of Master, Joseph Kellogg, for the steamer Senator, Oregon City, Oregon, June 28, 1865; manuscript Bond for License for the steamer Senator for Kellogg and a second person, whose name could be either Asa A. M. Cully or Asa A. McCully, August 2, 1865. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of a merchant, civic leader, and territorial legislator of Portland, Oregon. Includes correspondence, financial records, notebooks, and ledgers. Materials relate to King's enterprises, including the firms of Butler & King, King & Kittridge, and a lawsuit concerning King's work on the Erie Canal. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | A November 1830 cowpox vaccination certificate for Knud Olsen Hovie. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | La Creole Academic Institute was incorporated by the legislature on January 28, 1856, as a university. Collection includes act to establish La Creole by the Oregon legislature, 1856; wills of John H. Robb and Albert Tebbetts, bequeathing property to La Creole, 1861 and 1863; quitclaim deeds, 1914; correspondence, notices, documents of dissolution, 1958; and memorabilia. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | The Land Collection, an artificial collection compiled by the Oregon Historical Society Research Library staff, contains title abstracts and other land ownership documents including land certificates, sale bills, titles, and indentures, regarding land in Oregon, Indian lands and railroad grants. Documents pertain to Portland and land in Oregon and Washington state counties. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Alexander Wilson Linthicum (1895-1969) was a Portland, Oregon businessman, naturalist and mountaineer. Collection includes correspondence, 1919-1940, regarding a job search and the cabin of the Timberline Ski Club; stock certificate book of the Wilson Investment Co., 1910-1938; correspondence, 1910-1967, regarding the Couch and Wilson families, estates and railway and automobile travel; contracts; financial records; journals, ledgers and minute books; correspondence regarding the Mary H. Couch estate, 1941-1951; diaries, 1929-1936; correspondence from Louise Linthicum, 1924-1929, regarding travels; wills, legal documents and genealogical material. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes journals, records of legal practice, and various association records collected by John Francis Logan, who was a lawyer in Portland, Oregon, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Baker Theatre Stock Co. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | The Lyon Lumber Co. owned timber lands in Linn County, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, deeds, abstracts of title, minutes, accounts, stock certificates, ledgers and registers regarding land in Oregon and Louisiana. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes records of M. Seller & Company, a crockery and glassware business that opened in Portland, Oregon, in 1859. Records include business correspondence, 1875-1904; legal papers, 1900-1905; financial records, 1864-1900; inventory book, 1910; advertisements; samples of correspondence and other forms; and ephemera. |
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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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | The Maier-Bettingen Company was a clothier in The Dalles, Oregon. Collection includes ledgers, minute book, cash books, order books, inventories, and legal documents. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Unprocessed collection that includes business records, correspondence, legal documents, receipts, shipping manifests, and ephemera, 1856-1882. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an environmentalist/political scientist and property owner in Stehekin Valley at the head of Lake Chelan in the North Cascades, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Job McNamee and D.H. Lownsdale were residents of the Oregon Territory that both claimed the same land. Collection contains two depositions consisting of three pages, each concerning land claims. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Stephen Mead was a businessman and property owner in Portland, Oregon. Papers include correspondence; business and financial papers, including leases; abstract titles, mortgages, deeds, building and realty appraisals; and blueprints of Mead Estate holdings. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains a legal document, dated July 20, 1868, signed by A. J. Megler and Joseph G. Megler, regarding a hotel Astoria, Oregon. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of a lumber company |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Michael A. Meyendorff (1849-1908) was a Polish revolutionary (in Russia), who was released to the United States through government intercession in 1866, and who later relocated to Oregon. The collection (1861-1908) contains personal and official correspondence (some in Russian), scrapbooks, an autobiographical manuscript, and estate papers. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Manuscript Bond of Enrollment, Master James D. Miller, D. P. Thompson and J. L. Barlow, for the steamer Yamhill, Canemah, Oregon, October 19, 1865; and manuscript Bond of License, Master James D. Miller, D. P. Thompson and J. L. Barlow, for the steamer Union, Canemah, Oregon, October 19, 1865. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains a legal document, dated December 20, 1869, by John Hipple Mitchell, of Portland, Oregon giving notice of his intention to redeem property purchased by Everding and Beebe at a sheriff's sale. |
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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: | Collection contains legal documents, photographs, clippings, and ephemera collected and created by Beverly Clarke Mosby, a Spokane attorney; also correspondence by Mosby's father, Colonel John S. Mosby, a Confederate guerilla leader during the United States Civil War. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes sentencing documents from the Lane County Circuit Court, 1923, for Tom Murray on the charge of "Assault with a dangerous weapon"; sentencing document from the Umatilla County Circuit Court, 1924, for James Willos on the charge of "Larceny in dwelling"; signed statement of Tom Murray, James Willos and Ellsworth Kelley, describing the crime that took place. |
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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: | Joseph Henry Neebe (1888-1970) was an advertising executive, playwright, and Broadway producer. The collection (1920-1970) contains correspondence, manuscripts, contracts, business files from various media projects, advertising and theatre production files, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Emigration registration document for Nils Andersson, who left Sweden in the early 1900s. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Oaths of Master, Oliff Olson, for the steamer Rescue, Portland, Oregon, March 9 and April 8, 1865. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Imprints from mid-19th century Oregon cataloged by George N. Belknap. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | This collection contains information about Oregon Quicksilver Incorporated and Mines Service Incorporated, both located in Oregon. The collection contains superintendent's reports, timecards, stocks, invoices, correspondence, photographs, and legal documents. Also contained in this collection is information about the Prosperity Mine and the Bonanza Bar in the form of placer claims, drawings of locations, legal documents and notes. |
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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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | The Patrick Lumber Company was founded in 1915 by Charles C. Patrick, who had previously been the sales manager for Bridal Veil Lumbering Company. Records include correspondence; lumber freight contracts; documents relating to lumber treating standards; financial records of the Bridal Veil Lumbering Company; advertisements; and lists of lumber prices and potential customers. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes correspondence and documents regarding legal cases, 1914-1961. Clients include the Nicolai family, Rose City Brewing Co., Shaver Transportation Co., and Peninsula Iron Works. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Oath of Enrollment, W. H. Pierson of San Francisco, California, for the schooner Isabel, Coos Bay, Oregon, January 25, 1865. |
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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 Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Historian and journalist in Washington state |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Correspondence, scrapbooks, genealogy, legal documents, warrants, diaries, ledgers, photographs and memorabilia belonging to members of the Randle family of Oregon. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers, photographs, and ephemera relating to the career of Oregon legislator and judge James Redden. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Carl Rostel (1850-1928), a German immigrant, worked variously as a barber, saloonkeeper, salesperson, and land speculator in Central Point, Oregon. The collection contains correspondence, commercial broadsides, catalogues, legal documents, account books, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers include photocopy manuscript agreements between David C. H. Rothschild and Captain George H. Werks, 1876, for a grain shipment, and Henry A. Webster, 1879, for rations; photocopy manuscript bond between Rothschild and Webster, 1880; photocopy manuscript list of vessels with names of captains and destinations. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes legal documents and correspondence regarding immigrants (including Chinese), labor, politics, transportation, Portland bridges, lumbering, Thomas Ryan Gough's activities during World War II, and various misdemeanor and felony cases. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes correspondence, reports, clippings, and miscellaneous documents and ephemera, 1949-1954, regarding the controversy over development of Snake River-Hells Canyon region. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Documents relating to cases that Portland lawyer Steven R. Schell worked on in the areas of environmental law, land use, energy, real estate, and construction in Oregon. |
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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: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Records include minutes, 1893-1930; bills of sale of enrolled vessels, 1893-1933; history of the Shaver Transportation Company, 1893-1959; plan of proposed boat mooring; history of Shaver Forwarding Co. and Tidewater-Shaver Barge Lines, 1932-1943. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of a lawyer and civic leader of Portland, Oregon. Includes extensive correspondence, 1870-1918, relating to land claims, real estate controversies, tax delinquencies, the Library Association of Portland, the Multnomah Law Library, the Portland Free Kindergarten Association, the Oregon Historical Society, and other organizations and business concerns. Also includes ephemera and personal financial documents. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Stearns and Chenoweth was a hardware store located in Oakland, Oregon, that dealt in hardware, stoves, tinware, guns, pistols and sewing machines. The collection (1855-1912) contains deeds and legal papers, account books, a map, and correspondence. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | James B. Stephens (1806-1889) was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1844, he traveled overland to Oregon. Settling first in Oregon City, he came to the new town of Portland in 1845. He operated the horse-powered Stark Street Ferry and laid out the townsite of East Portland. Collection includes a manuscript bond of James Bowles Stephens and Gideon Tibbetts, August 30, 1852, for Stephens to keep a ferry across the Willamette River opposite Portland; manuscript articles of agreement between Stephens and Joseph Knott, March 25, 1861, and January 24, 1862, for rights to Stephens' ferry franchise; and a typescript photocopy of "James B. Stephens: The Life and Times of Portland's First Ferryman" by Edmund G. Fisher, circa 1983. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of an Oregon businessman and leader in the lumber industry who served as a representative from Lane County in the Oregon State Legislature and in various state agencies from the 1950s to the 1980s. The papers cover the period 1927 to 1982 and include correspondence, minutes, reports, financial and legal records, diaries, newsclippings, photographs and government bills. The collection covers Stewart's industrial, political and personal activities and focus mostly on his business activities, and involvement in lumber related associations and politics. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes correspondence, account books, ephemera, land deeds and certificates, 1833-1954, for members of the Templeton family including Joseph H. Templeton, Emma D. Templeton, Leighton F. Templeton and Raymond E. Templeton. Also included are genealogical information and obituaries. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Records include business correspondence and minute books with articles of incorporation, balance sheets and certificate of dissolution. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | In November of 1847, a small band of Cayuse warriors killed 14 settlers and took 53 others captive in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The collection consists of photostat copies of court documents describing testimony brought against Tiloukaikt, one of the Cayuse leaders brought to trial for the crime. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The United States Commissioner for the district of Oregon, of the U.S. District court, was Joshua J. Walton. The collection (1888-1904) contains Commissioner Walton's record book regarding cases, evidence, judgments, and costs. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Ukase Investment Company was incorporated in 1910 with William Kanan Smith as president. Records include correspondence; homestead certificate; property lists; agreements; deeds; promissory notes; and mortgages. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Seattle painter, gallery owner, and friend of painter Mark Tobey. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection consists of a manuscript bill of sale for the steamer Fashion from James O. Van Bergen to William N. Horton, 1853; oath of master, Van Bergen, for the steamer J. H. Couch of Portland, Oregon, 1865; and shipping agreements, 1853 and 1857. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Materials related to Nicholas Versteeg and Versteeg Brick Works, his business in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes an account book, 1869-1872, for Versteeg Brick Works; Versteeg's will and estate papers; and family documents, including war ration books, 1942-1945. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of the granddaughter of Asa S. Mercer, a Seattle pioneer. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Records include minutes, certificate of dissolution, receipts, stock subscriptions and proxies, and stockholder lists. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Robert L. White (1865-1932) was a resident of Brownsville, Oregon. The collection (1865-1932) consists of legal documents such as indentures, deeds, warrants and citations, and also correspondence. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Donegan Reeder Wiggins (1888-1950) was a firearms expert and columnist. Collection includes personal and professional correspondence, 1906-1951; life history and research compiled by Ernest E. Baker, 1951-1952; sermons and correspondence of Rev. Duncan S. Donegan, 1871-1878; certificates of D. S. Donegan's career, 1865-1881; deeds and business papers, 1839-1886; legislative papers, 1870. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains a written legal agreement dated November 5, 1883, between T. F. Williams and G. W. Williams, both of Cascade Locks, Oregon, and also William Haaker of the Importing and Fish Preservation House, in New York City, concerning the sale of sturgeon and caviar. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Frederick Wallace Wilson (1872-1955) was an attorney and Circuit Court Judge in The Dalles, Oregon. The papers include correspondence, a letterpress copybook, legal papers, a manuscript, photographs, addresses and publications by Wilson as well as personal correspondence of Joseph G. Wilson, and certificates of Elizabeth Millar Wilson. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection includes quitclaim and warranty deeds, mortgages and articles of incorporation for Silverton Mining Co.; miscellaneous financial records, patents for hop drier and business correspondence, 1898-1910; ledgers, 1894-1921. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection consists of registration affidavits of German and other aliens residing in Oregon. The affidavits were compiled as a security measure during World War I. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Jean Young (1904-1992) served on the the King City, Oregon, city council and as mayor of King City. She also was vice-chairwoman of the Multnomah County Republican Party Central Committee and was a delegate to eight Republic national conventions. She was appointed to the Oregon State Wage and Hour Commission in 1947. Collection includes miscellaneous papers relating to Young's career in politics and the Republican Party in Oregon; legislation; correspondence; 1960 Oregon Census; papers relating to legal cases; and documents relating to issues Young was concerned with, such as women's rights, driving safety, and wages. |
