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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of a labor organization that functions as the political and legislative arm of the AFL-CIO in Washington |
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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: | Records of Allied Arts of Seattle, an arts advocacy organization. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of an environmental conservation organization in Washington State. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Launched 1879 with five alumni, the University of Oregon Alumni Association works to keep alumni connected to the university. The collection contains Alumni Holding Company and Alumni Association records including correspondence, minutes, publications, reports, and newsletters, directories, resolutions, financial records, donor relations files, reunion information, photographs, slides, and negatives as well as correspondence and other information on students who served in WWI and WWII. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The American Council for Emigrés in the Professions (ACEP) aided professional émigrés in all aspects of resettlement in America. The collection (1945-1966) contains correspondence, reports of projects and grants undertaken and awarded, annual reports, and name and employment information of the émigrés. |
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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: | 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 Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Elizabeth Southworth Anderson was a member of an Oregon pioneer family that settled in the city of Burns, in Harney County, Oregon, during the 1850s. The collection contains a report dated July 17, 1915 written by Anderson (to Oregon journalist Fred Lockley?) that seeks to contradict another previous account regarding her family's donation claim, and a "negro," who Anderson says "lide" (sic) about something. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Leonard A. Andrus was a civil engineer who surveyed and reported on Pacific Northwest firms during the 1920s. The collection (1921-1930) contains financial, asset, and policy reports on firms in the Pacific Northwest. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a faculty member and chairman of the University of Washington Department of Urology. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Asklepiads Pre-Med Society is a student-run organization at the University of Oregon open to all students interested in the medical field. The collection (1929-1983) contains meeting minutes, ritual, photographs, and treasurer's reports. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a King County, Washington, Republic party leader. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John H. Baldwin (1951-2005) was a professor in the Planning, Public Policy, and Management (PPPM) program in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon (UO), the founding director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at UO, and was head of the Environmental Studies Program. The collection (1972-2005) contains Baldwin's faculty and administrative papers, professional research and service files, course materials, and personal papers. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Thomas O. Ballinger (1911 - 1998) was a professor in Art Education at the University of Oregon beginning in 1952, and during the 1950's he undertook research projects regarding the people and art of Nepal. The collection (1952-1971) contains his faculty papers, and they include correspondence and committee files as well as research files and reports from Ballinger's work in Nepal. |
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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: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | None |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Homer V. Bradshaw was a missionary doctor in China who authored a report about the seizure of the Prebysterian missionaries at the American Presbyterian Mission at Linhsien, Kwangtung Province, China, between 1949-1954. The collection contains his report titled, "Behind bars, behind the Bamboo Curtain." |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor and dean of the University of Washington School of Social Work. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | 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: | George E. Carter, Jr. ( - 1968) served as a Methodist Episcopal minister of Allen Temple in Portland, Oregon, and was chairman of Albina Citizens War on Poverty from 1965-1968. The collection contains sermons, Methodist Episcopal church material that includes publications, conference and meeting material, reports, minutes, yearbooks, and a church study, Urban League material, photographs of Mississippi Tent City (1966), and reel-to-reel tape recordings, 1960s. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an attorney and civil rights leader of Seattle, Washington |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration, a division of the Institute for Community Studies, was established in 1964 with funds granted by the Research and Development Program of the United States Office of Education. Collection includes correspondence, committee and general reports, and general office records, 1966-1970. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The UO Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC) is committed to advancing inclusive excellence through critical thinking and an ethic of care. The collection contains reports and VHS tapes on CoDaC projects concerning diversity and affirmative action. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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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| 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 Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Henry Chalmers was an economist who worked in state and national offices. His collection consists of memoranda, position papers, special studies, and correspondence relating to economic affairs. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a fisheries biologist and administrator at the University of Washington |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | Professional documents, family papers, scrapbooks, and ephemera relating to the public service and personal life of Senator Charles Linza McNary. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of an organization of Christian churches in Seattle, Washington. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of an environmental organization founded to oppose the establishment of oil ports and off-loading facilities on Puget Sound in Washington State. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Executive Thinking Program, offered at Seattle University from 1958-1968, was a non-credit seminar designed for Seattle area business and professional leaders to hone their skills in communication, analyzing complex ideas, and to supplement their knowledge of economics, politics, and ethical thought. The collection includes correspondence, course materials, enrollment lists, typed and handwritten manuscripts of program director Thomas L. O'Brien, SJ , photographs, publicity brochures, newspaper articles and audio tapes. |
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| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | The records of the College of Sister Formation document a baccalaureate degree program (1957-1967) offered at Seattle University to four Catholic religious orders of women. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of a national commission that studied the freedom and accountability of the press. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Committee on Status of Women at the University of Oregon may have begun operating in the 1970s and may have consisted of only women; by the 1990s, males were included in membership and the committee reported to the University Senate. The collection contains committee charges, correspondence, and reports regarding (among other topics) sexual discrimination, tenure, and pay rates, primarily about female faculty, but also students. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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 of Seattle school of the arts |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | None |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Originally from Maine, A. P. Dennison (1827-?) held numerous minor political offices in the Oregon Territory, including Adjutant General. The papers consist of receipts, letters of appointment, reports, and a bound scrapbook. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The University of Oregon offered a major and minor in American Studies from 1984 until 1991. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The genesis of the UO Department of Anthropology can be traced to the arrival of Dr. Luther S. Cressman in 1929, who was hired to develop advanced research in sociology and to teach social anthropology; by 1935-1936, Cressman had established himself as an active archaeologist, and he became the first, and sole, member of a newly created Department of Anthropology. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes and staff reports, course information, faculty bulletins and legislation, conference materials, Department Head meeting minutes, research grants and proposal files, department and biennial reports, slides depicting prehistoric humans from cave walls in France and Spain, and other materials. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The study of literature, writing, and rhetoric has been a part of the curriculum of the University of Oregon since it opened its doors in 1877. The collection (1893-2004) contains the records of the Dean, administrative office, and faculty, and include memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, program reviews, and other historical records. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | During the 1950s and 1960s at the University of Oregon, language study was offered within the Foreign Language Department. The collection (1948-1967) contains records largely from the Classic and Modern language major (sometimes referred to as a Department in its own right). |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon offers undergraduate major and minor, Master's and Ph.D options. The collection contains records transferred from the Department of German and Scandinavian and from the former German department which also taught Russian language and literature. Materials include correspondence, faculty meetings, advising, visiting speakers, committee minutes, reports, policy and program information, and department files, 1962-1984. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of History at the University of Oregon offers major, minor, and graduate degrees. The collection (1940-1999) includes faculty and committee minutes, curriculum change material, Beekman Chair files, and documents relating to history of department faculty, among other material. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Physics at the University of Oregon grew out of the Natural Philosophy curriculum that was offered at the university beginning the year it was founded, 1876. The collection contains grant reports and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission records. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon was created in 1930. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department. |
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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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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a conservationist and arborist in Seattle, Washington. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a public official and businessman who commanded the U.S. Army's Spruce Products Division during the First World War. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Distinguished Service Awards and Honorary Degrees Committee at the University of Oregon reviews and recommends nominees for awards for distinguished service to the state and region, and for honorary degrees. The collection includes reports, 1936-1946. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | William Daniel Boone Dodson (1871-1950) had a long career with the Portland Chamber of Commerce, serving as general manager, executive vice-president, and as director of industrial promotion where he worked chiefly on the industrial development of Oregon. The collection (1947-1949) contains correspondence, reports, biographical information, and publications. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor of fisheries at the University of Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | E. C. M. Rand was commissioned in 1893 to investigate and report of the affairs of the Willamette Valley and Coast railroad and the Oregon Pacific railroad. |
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| Repository: | University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections |
| Summary: | Materials from two archaeological excavations and surveys in which Professor Douglas Edwards of the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington) served as director or consultant. Most of the material is related the Khirbet Qana (also known as Khirbet Kana or Cana) archaeological project in Israel, on the site of a historical village of Roman Galilee, eight miles northwest of Nazareth, on the north side of an important trade route, the Bet Netofa Valley. Other material is from the Chersonesos archaeological project (Black Sea Project), on a site in present-day Sebastopol, Ukraine. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a University of Washington faculty member and chair of the University of Washington Sociology Department, 1975-1978. |
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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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| Collection Title: | |
| 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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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Northwest conservationist, lobbyist, and civic leader |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Faculty Advisory Council at the University of Oregon is a university standing committee responsible for providing the President and other administration officials with faculty opinion and counsel on a wide range of university affairs. The collection (1913-1988) contains a history of the council, minutes, memoranda, reports, and curriculum files. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor of social work and author focused on health, aging, death, and dying |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Washington State longshoreman, labor organizer, and charter member of Local 38-76 (Everett, Washington) of the International Longshormen's Association. |
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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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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | Records and photographs of the First Congregational UCC church in Portland, Oregon. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an American official of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency primarily concerning his work in Jordan and Gaza during the late 1950s to early 1970s. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an oceanographer who taught at the University of Washington and engaged in major research projects, such as the first comprehensive synoptic survey of the Northern Pacific Ocean. |
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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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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a female temperance advocate from Tacoma, Washington |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Griffenhagen-Kroeger Inc. Philippines Public Administration Study researched into two areas of Philippine government: wage and position classifications and government survey and reorganization. The collection contains working papers and reports of the study. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a lawyer, civic leader, and politician of Seattle, Washington. |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | None |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a civic leader and conservationist from Seattle, Washington. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor and dean of business administration at the University of Washington |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor of history, University of Washington |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Seattle African-American and Catholic activist. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Information Technology services at the University of Oregon (formerly known as the Computing Center) opened in 1967. The collection (1967-1973) contains minutes, correspondence, committee files, reports, and memoranda. |
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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 Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Institute of Molecular Biology was founded in 1959. It is a research community and graduate program that is dedicated to investigating biological questions at the molecular level. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of this institute. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family 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: | James Tertius Jardine worked as a civil servant in agriculture; he was director of Oregon agricultural experiment stations, and chief of the Office of Experiment Stations, U.S.D.A. He played an important role in grazing research. The collection (1910-1951) contains contracts and appointment notices, reports on grazing policies, correspondence, and personal information and papers. |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | None |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | None |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Paul Knight was a staff assistant and member of the Resource Program Staff which was responsible to the secretary of the Department of the Interior, Stewart Udall. The collection (1961-1967) contains the working files of Knight from when he served as assistant to Secretary of the Interior and includes source research, subject files on environmental, conservation, water, and pesticide issues, memoranda, briefs, reports, interdepartmental correspondence and letters to citizens on behalf of the President or Secretary, and a manuscript by Knight. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers include correspondence (1848-1875) received during Lane's service as Oregon's delegate to Congress; territorial proclamations (1847-1849); copy letters written by Lane (1848-1861); photocopy of report (1849) to the U.S. secretary of war concerning the customs and locations of various Indian tribes in the Oregon Territory; mailing lists (1848-1859) of Lane's constituents when he held public office; survey of Lane's donation land claim; orders, reports, and requisitions created while Lane served in the Mexican War; documents (1849-1851) related to the Rogue River Indian wars and Whitman Massacre. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Lane County Farmer's Union Cooperative mill was built in 1923, primarily to process grain. The collection contains meeting minutes, reports, audits, ledgers, and pamphlets. |
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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 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: | 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 Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Presbyterian minister who was active in Seattle, Washington, 1902-1940. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Daniel J. McGarity was general manager of the Commission of Public Docks in Oregon. The collection (1944-1952) contains correspondence, brochures, reports, and other documents concerning development of the Port of Portland. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor of Far Eastern studies at the University of Washington. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Marmion D. Mills was a transportation engineer and consultant who worked at one time for General Moters. The collection contains studies of urban transportation systems for companies or for municipalities, with occasional correspondence. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | This collection consists of personal papers of Robert Huston Milroy, family correspondence, and U. S. Indian Agency correspondence and reports, primarily from Milroy's years in Washington Territory, 1872-1890. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | Thae Murdock compiled this collection of family history telling the story of her pioneer ancestors, the McCully and Hendershott families, and the Reitzel branch, through genealogical research, family documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Papers relating to her parents, Gail Berg Reitzel and Raymond J. Reitzel, who met in Siberia while in service to the YMCA International Committee among prisoners of war, consist of correspondence, journals, reports, and photographs from prisoner of war camps in Hungary, on the Russian Front, and Siberia during World War I and the Russian Revolution, their marriage in Siberia in 1919, as well as Raymond’s career in medicine. The Reitzels documented their personal stories and family life in two memoirs, also contained in this collection. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Francis Hayes Murphy (1878-1968) became an electrical engineer; he worked first in Wisconsin and later in Oregon, where he was employed for the Portland Railway Light and Power Company. The collection (1920-1940) includes minutes, reports, contracts, codes, photographs, and other historical data and documents on electric lighting in Oregon. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The National Hells Canyon Association was composed of farm, labor, public power and consumer groups who lobbied for construction of Federal, high, multipurpose dams on the Snake River. The collection includes correspondence, reports and publications. |
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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 Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Administrative papers of a Seattle company involved primarily in acquiring, processing, marketing and trading of seafood |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Harold Joyce Noble (1903-1953) was a history professor at the University of Oregon who specialized in Far Eastern affairs and who also worked as a foreign correspondent and served as First Secretary of the American Embassy at Seoul, South Korea. The collection (1918-1948) contains minutes, reports, correspondence, and other documents reporting conditions and events in South Korea and Japan and activities of the agencies Noble worked with. |
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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: | The Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity is responsible for working with all members of the University of Oregon community to ensure that the university is meeting the letter and spirit of its legal obligations related to affirmative action, equal opportunity and nondiscrimination, and to support the university's commitment to diversity. 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: | The Office of Public and Government Affairs (PGA) promotes the University of Oregon throughout the community, state, local and federal governments. The collection contains Upward Bound and Vista files, office files, memoranda, reports and program information. |
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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: | Donald Milton Erb served as the President of University of Oregon from 1938 to 1943. The collection contains records from the Office of the President from 1933 to 1942. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Frank Strong served as president of the University of Oregon from 1899 to 1902. The collection contains records of the Office of the President from 1899-1902. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Orlando John Hollis served as interim president of the University of Oregon from 1944 until Harry K. Newburn became the eighth president in 1945, serving until 1953. The collection contains records from the Office of the President from 1945-1953. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Myles Brand (May 17, 1942 – September 16, 2009) was a philosophy professor and served the University of Oregon as President from 1989 to 1994. The collection contains records from the Office of the President from 1989 to 1995. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Paul Olum (1918-2001) was a mathematician, university administrator, and President of the University of Oregon from 1980-1989. Records include correspondence, reports, speeches, statements, materials regarding committees, departments, and specific subjects. |
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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: | 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 Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Office of University Housing at the University of Oregon operates two types of student housing: residence hall housing and family student housing, intended primarily for student families and non-traditional students. The collection contains records of dorms, Westmorland, and East/West Campus housing, and material includes housing policies, council reports, reports, child care files, and files from the Dean of Men's office, 1923-1991. |
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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 Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Seattle, Washington, ship pilot and Norwegian American community leader |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Oregon and California Advisory Board (O&C) dealt with the administration of revested land in Oregon. The collection contains correspondence, reports, research files, and minutes. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Capitol Reconstruction Commission was established in November, 1935, during a special session of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, to plan the construction of a new capitol building. The collection (1935-1936) contains the files of commission member George A. Marshall, and include minutes, bulletins, official and unofficial correspondence, and the commission report. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Founded in 1899, the Oregon Daily Emerald (ODE) is a student-run independent daily campus newspaper at the University of Oregon. The collection (1920-2004) contains photographs, negatives, and slides, assignment ledger, ODE issues, minutes, reports, correspondence, and office files. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family 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 collection contains records of the Oregon Governor's Advisory Committee to Study Problems of Workmen's Compensation. The collection (1961-1962) contains committee meeting minutes, transcripts of proceedings of meetings, draft report, comments on draft report, and a final report. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Oregon Governor's Committee for the Oregon Museum of History, Science, and Industry was tasked to gather information and support needed to create a new Oregon museum; the resulting museum would become OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry). The collection (1943-1944) contains meeting minutes, and reports. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Oregon Governor's State Committee on Children and Youth began in 1959, and were concerned with the safety, care, education, employment opportunities for Oregon children and youth. The collection (1960-1963) contains committee minutes, rule and procedural documents, conference and workshop reports, Youth Employment Kit pamphlets, and other reports and printed material. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Oregon Interim Committee on Social Problems was a committee of the Oregon House of Representatives which investigated social issues such as sex offenses and divorce. The collection (1961-1962) contains records from the files of Oregon representative William J. Gallagher, and consist of working papers, minutes of the full committee, and the subcommittees on social problems, divorce, and sex offenders, and also includes reports, statistics, and correspondence. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Interim Committee to Make a Study of the Needs of the Workman's Compensation Laws records. The collection (1939-1941) consists of the committee chairman's files and material includes correspondence, minutes, and drafts of reports. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains the records of the Oregon Legislative Assembly Interim Committee on Technical Unemployment. The collection (1963-1965) contains committee minutes, progress report, preliminary report, and related papers. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Joint Resolution 24, by the Oregon Senate, created an interim Committee of Judicial Administration that was empowered to inquire into and make recommendations regarding the feasibility and need for reorganization of judicial districts in Oregon. The collection (1957-1959) contains questionnaires and evaluations of judges and courts, drafts of bills, subcommittee reports, and recommendations. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The records in this collection are from the Lane County, District no. 10 (Eugene) division of the Oregon State Defense council. The collection (1942-1944) contains correspondence, minutes, committee records, evacuation plans, emergency test reports, minutes of the police reserve group, and University of Oregon Aircraft Warning Service observation post log books. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | In 1932, the Oregon Statewide Relief Council investigated and reported on unemployment, food surpluses and deficits, and educational opportunities in Oregon. The collection (1932) contains minutes, correspondence, reports, and also food, unemployment, and education surveys. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family 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 Fireman, 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: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family 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: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family 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: | According to the University or Oregon bulletin of 1935/1936: "The University Publications Committee has general responsibility for all scholarly and research publications issued by the University of Oregon." The collection contains minutes, memoranda and correspondence regarding scholarly writings and University publications, 1955-1958. |
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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: | The bid to consolidate higher education in Oregon began with the the Zorn-Macpherson School Moving Bill of 1932. The collection (1932-1934) contains research files and a scrapbook of the Register Guard Eugene newspaper regarding arguments and statistics surrounding the consolidation attempt. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Milnor Roberts (1877 - ?) was a mining engineer, a professor, and Dean of the College of Mines at the University of Washington. The collection (1901-1945) contains project, research, and field work files on mines, harbors, and mining projects in many western states and in Africa, and material includes reports, correspondence, notes, maps, and printed material. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center (REESC), established in 1968, is the home of undergraduate and graduate programs in all fields connected to Russia, Eastern Europe, and former Soviet Eurasia at the University of Oregon. The collection includes minutes, reports, activities and flyers, 1960s-1982. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | University of Oregon Safety Advisory Committee is a standing administrative committee appointed by the President and reporting directly to the Vice President for Finance and Administration.. The collection includes minutes, correspondence, reports, and a safety mandate, 1982-1993. |
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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: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | None |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The University of Oregon School of Architecture and Design was founded in 1914 by Ellis Lawrence; it has gone through many name changes and department additions and eliminations. The collection (1905-2007) contains records from multiple departments and the school depending on how it was organized at the time when the records were created. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | While the University of Oregon had offered library courses since the 1920s, the School of Librarianship was not established until the fall of 1966; the school was disbanded in 1977. The collection contains records that document the functions, activities, and people of the department. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The University of Oregon's Music department was founded in 1886, was reorganized as the School of Music in 1900, and merged with the Department of Dance in 1991, and in 2005 was formally designated as the School of Music and Dance. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of the old School of Music, Department of Dance, and the new School of Music and Dance. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
| Summary: | The OHSU School of Nursing began in 1919 at the University of Oregon and offered the state’s first professional courses in nursing. In 1926, the University introduced a five-year curriculum culminating in the Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Nursing. Later, and the program has been growing and changing ever since – adding certificate programs, pre-nursing curricula, continuing education and distance learning, Master’s and Doctoral degree programs, and a wide variety of care-focused nursing concentrations. This is collection contains virtually every kind of documentation and format covering all facets of the School’s administration and history. |
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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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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of the Seattle chapter of a conservationist and birdwatching organization |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of the Parks Department's Facilities Maintenance Division. The records document changes and improvements in Seattle parks as well as the planning, design, and construction of new parks. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Organizational records documenting the history and outreach services of the second oldest church in Seattle, Washington. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | The School of Nursing was founded at Seattle University in 1948 and was originally affiliated with the Sisters of Charity of Providence. |
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| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection contains accreditation reports, admissions brochures for various academic programs, programs for "Project Day," publications and newsletters, strategic planning documents. |
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| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Seattle University's Faculty Senate was established in 1966 as an advisory body to the university administration. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection documents the administrative and operational functions of Seattle University's A.A. Lemieux Library, renamed the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons in 2010. The collection is not comprehensive. |
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| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | A.A. Lemieux, SJ served as the 15th president of Seattle University from 1948 until 1965, and also as Chancellor from 1976 until his death in 1979. Father Lemieux was recognized as a vibrant ambassador, civic leader, extraordinary fundraiser and one of the most successful presidents in Seattle University history. This collection contains the files generated and compiled by Seattle University's Office of the President during his administration. |
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| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | John Fitterer, SJ served as the 16th president of Seattle University from 1965 until 1969. This collection contains the files generated and compiled by Seattle University's Office of the President during his administration. |
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| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Kenneth Baker, SJ served as the 17th president of Seattle University from January - November 1, 1970. This collection contains some files generated and compiled by Seattle University's Office of the President during his administration. |
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| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Louis Gaffney, SJ served as the 18th President of Seattle University from 1970 until 1974. This collection contains the files generated and compiled by Seattle University's Office of the President during his administration. |
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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: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
| Summary: | Laurence Selling (1882-1964) was a neurologist and lecturer, he was the Clinical Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department at the University of Oregon Medical School (UOMS), enlisted with the UOMS Unit in the U.S. Army Medical Corps for World War I, and one of the founders of the downtown Portland Clinic. The Laurence Selling first 100 cases collection contains index cards with patient information and diagnoses. The handwritten cards are from patients Dr. Selling took in between 1912 and 1913, when he was first starting his career as a neurologist and medical practitioner after earning his graduate degree. |
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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 Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Silver Creek Recreational Area Advisory Committee promoted and planned the use of land east of Silver Creek Falls State Park, in Marion County, Oregon, as a public "organized camping" and recreational area. The collection (1936-1942) contains correspondence, reports, and minutes from the files of committee member, Karl Onthank. |
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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: | Harrison Spangler (1879-1965) was a Spanish-American war veteran who later served as a committee member and National Chairman of the Republican Party during the 1930-1940's, and after WWII became involved with Oregon politics. The collection consists of five major series: Wayne Morse, Robert Taft, Richard Neuberger, the Republican Party, and Harrison Spangler personal records. |
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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: | None |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | None |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Peter Steele (1918 - ) was a political and industrial writer who supported conservative causes and wrote against socialism and left-wing politics. The collection contains correspondence, writings, speeches, Associated Industries of Missouri (A.I.M.) files, General Electric reports, Group Research Reports, Inc files, Communications Research Reports, research lists, and cassette tape recordings by Steele. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of Justus Steinberg, particularly from his time in the 1850s working for Adams & Co. and then for Pacific Mail Steamship Co. |
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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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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Albert Montreville Taylor served in the Phillipine Constabulary. The collection (1900-1966) contains correspondence, diaries, constabulary records and publications, and also personal papers, photographs, and memorabilia. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a scholar in Chinese Studies and director of the Far Eastern and Russian Institute at the University of Washington from 1946 to 1969. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a former United States Congressman for Washington state. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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 the Spruce Products Division was responsible for overseeing the logging of Northwest Spruce, and the manufacturing of Spruce products. The collection (1918-1919) contains orders and special orders, U. S. War Department memoranda, weekly bulletins, efficiency reports, correspondence, publications, liquidation files, and files on timber and railway companies. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of the University of Washington Department of Nuclear Engineering |
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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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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Statistical reports regarding student enrollment compiled by the University of Washington Registrar's Office, Data Management Services |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of the University of Washington Rules Coordination Office, which is responsible for coordinating and disseminating rules associated with the Washington Administrative Code |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
| Summary: | This small collection contains a variety of information of historical interest regarding the early years of the University of Oregon Medical School. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The University of Oregon Medical School was charterd in 1887 by the Board of Regents, and grew to include the School of Nursing, the Dental School, the Doernbecher Children's hospital, University State Tuberculosis Hospital, the Medical School Hospital, and Multnomah Hospital, and in 1981, was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), becoming an autonomous university. The collection contains bulletins, catalogues, yearbooks, and commencement programs of the schools, as well as surveys, projects, and reports, 1887-1981. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence, programs, scrapbooks, subject files, committee records, musical scores, reports and publications, and other records of the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle, Washington |
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| Repository: | Oregon Health & Science University, Historical Collections & Archives |
| Summary: | The OHSU library was founded in 1893 as part of the University of Oregon Medical Department. In 1919, the library's 4,000 books moved up the hill to what is now Mackenzie Hall. In 1939, the library moved into a new building next door and then relocated again in 1991 with the opening of the Biomedical Information Communication Center (BICC). This collection spans the library's history, with materials produced largely by library employees and committee members. |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | None |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | This collection contains Western Union Telegraph Co. transcripts of reports of an exploration expedition to the Alaska-Yukon territory, 1865 to 1867. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The University of Oregon Women's Faculty Club began in the 1920s (or earlier). Collection is comprised of secretary's ledgers, annual reports, constitutions, minutes, membership and account ledger, publications, correspondence, scrapbooks, and Newcomer's Club material including event and activity notebooks, and President's notebook. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| 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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| Collection Title: | |
| 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. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an Everett, Washington, conservationist. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Democratic representative to the United States Congress from Seattle, Washington. |
