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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Photographs collected by Charles F. Berg (1871-1932) and his son, Forrest Talbot Berg (b. 1901), owners and operators of Charles F. Berg Company, a major women's apparel store in Portland, Or. The photographs depict the stores owned by the company, as well as its predecessors, as well as store events, fashions, sales, and personnel, 1900-1974. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Walter S. Bowman (1865-1938) was a professional photographer who worked in Pendleton, Oregon, from the late 1880s to the mid 1930s. Bowman's photographs document daily life in Eastern Oregon, including special events such as the Pendleton Round-Up. The collection consists of almost 800 negatives and prints representative of the span of the photographer's work, but his noted images of tribal people were largely destroyed after his death. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Hazel Chamberlain was a Christian missionary stationed in Paraguay in the 1920s. The collection includes correspondence, an essay, and photographs that reflect Chamberlain's life as a missionary. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | James Taylor Gray (1852-1928) was a ship designer and transportation magnate involved in railroads and shipping in Oregon and Alaska. The collection consists of correspondence, business papers, plans and specifications for steamboat designs and parts, and photographs. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Photographs taken by Maj. Lee Moorhouse circa 1897- 1919 of Cayuse, Umatilla, and other Indians and their settlements in the Columbia River Basin and Umatilla County; landscapes in Oregon and Montana; and of the Round-Up in Pendleton, Or. and other locations. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | This collection contains photographs and negatives of Charles A. Sprague, governor of Oregon from 1938-1942, as well as his wife, Blanche Chamberlain Sprague, and their children, Wallace and Martha. There are photographs of Governor Sprague's political activities, as well as the Sprague family's private life. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | American journalist and historian Herbert Cooper Thompson worked as a reported for the Associated Press in England and France during World War I and in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution from 1916 to 1918. From 1924 to 1940, he worked as a writer and observer for the American Red Cross, visiting Cuba, Puerto Rico and Europe. Collection comprises diaries, correspondence, literary manuscripts, and photographs by Thompson. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | This collection contains photographs relating to the Valley Migrant League, an organization based in Woodburn, Or. that sponsored re-education programs for migrant farm workers who were being replaced by machinery. Subjects include League-sponsored activities, as well as photographs of field work and picketing by laborers. |
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Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
Summary: | Black and white photographic prints and negatives, depicting mostly residential and a few commercial buildings in the Central District, circa 1961. |