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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Herbert Edward Arntson (1911-1982) was an author, English professor, and musician. The collection includes manuscripts of books and short stories, poems, speeches and correspondence, which reflect his work. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family 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: | The Burgess family papers consists mainly of the records of Chalon Burgess, a presbyterian minister, his wife Emma, their sons Edward Sandford and Theodore Chalon, their daughter Sarah Julia Burgess (who went by Julia), as well as other family members. Collection material includes correspondence, school and professional papers, prose and poetry, travel material, financial and investment documents, material on the Burgess rare manuscripts and book collection, miscellaneous manuscripts and publications, scrapbooks and photographs. |
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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, Davies Family 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: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | J. Hugh Pruett (1865-1955) was an educator and an amateur astronomer who passionately tracked Northwest meteors, built and operated the Evergreen Observatory in his home in Eugene, taught astronomy classes through the University of Oregon Extension for thirty years, served as Pacific Coast director for the American Meteor Society, and wrote articles for astronomy journals. The collection contains correspondence, articles and manuscripts of articles, an Evergreen Observatory visitor registration book, Port Orford meteor information, clippings, scrapbooks that document his prolific radio essays, speeches, and newspaper articles, and also clippings of his father's newspaper writings and participation in the Baptist church, as well as photographs and negatives that document the activities of Evergreen Observatory and illustrate Pruett's writings and lectures. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family 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: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains over 4800 photographic negatives of University of Oregon faculty, students, buildings, organizations, and events, circa 1929 to 1973. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family 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: | 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: | 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. |
