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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Harry Oscar Bell was the owner of a successful Ford automobile dealership in Missoula, Montana from 1915 until about 1970. He also owned and operated the Bar Lazy B Ranch near Ronan, Montana, specializing in Arabian horses. This collection consists of publications, financial records, photographs, correspondence, artifacts and films relating to H.O. Bell, his family, his ranch, and his Ford dealership. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of writer and professor Jack Cady (1932-2004). It includes his works and materials associated with them, as well as personal documents. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | A brief biography of John Storseth (1863-1946), an immigrant from Hemne, Norway, who became a successful businessman and community leader in Poulsbo, Washington. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Passport in Time interviews were part of a heritage research project of the region done by United States Forest Service employees and regional volunteers. The fifteen interviewees, recorded for the Lewis and Clark National Forest Passport in Time Oral History Project by staff and volunteers in 1997, describe growing up on Montana ranches, sheepranching, grazing in national forests the Crazy Mountains, and other areas and towns in or near the National Forest from about 1930 to 1950. |
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| Repository: | University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives |
| Summary: | This collection consists of notes, correspondence, a draft manuscript and published book of The Trees Grew Tall by John B. Miller, a history of the pioneer and early years of the town of Bovill, Idaho and the surrounding area in Northern Idaho. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | William Robert (Bud) Moore was a well-known forester and conservationist from Montana. Formerly the Division Chief of Fire Control and Air Operations for the Forest Service Northern Region, Moore wrote and spoke on sustainable forestry, trapping, hunting, and other wilderness topics following his retirement in 1974; he also published his novel The Lochsa Story: Land Ethics in the Bitterroot Mountains in 1996. This collection contains articles, photographs, videos, maps, journals, notebooks, research files, correspondence, and other personal papers created by and about Bud Moore. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Oregon Folklife Program provided statewide services supporting folklife, traditional arts and artists, and folk arts in education in Oregon from 1988 to 2009, first at Lewis and Clark College, 1988-1993, and then the Oregon Historical Society, 1993-2009. This collection comprises the Oregon Folklife Program’s records, 1988-2009, including folklore fieldwork documentation in the form of photographs, sound recordings, and video recordings of cultural events and traditional arts and artists in urban and rural Oregon communities; program materials, including exhibitions and table-top exhibits, learning units for grades 3-6, radio and video productions on folklife in Oregon; and administrative files, including artist files, accounting files, research files, and digital files. Oregon Folklife Program programs and projects included apprenticeship programs for traditional arts, exhibits and community events, educational units and instructional materials, regional folk arts surveys, youth community documentation projects, and radio and video productions on folklife in Oregon. The collections include rich visual documentation of traditional arts and artists in cultural, occupational, and religious communities in Oregon, including refugee communities, immigrant communities, rural communities, and Native American communities. |
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| Repository: | University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives |
| Summary: | This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs and scrapbooks of George Albert Rubedew. Mr. Rubedew was a Moscow, Idaho hotel operator and lumberman with interests in Elk River and Post Falls, Idaho. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Norman Nienstedt Rupp was a timberland owner and investor. With his father, John J. Rupp, he bought, leased and sold timber lands in Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California. Rupp moved from Saginaw, Michigan to Portland, Oregon. He was associated with the Huron Timber Company, the Mitchell, Dorr Real Estate Company, the Rupp Investment Company, and the Rose Gold Mining and Milling Company. The collection includes the diaries of John J. Rupp, 1875-1927, letters, books, journals and ledgers and other business papers. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Western Pine Association formed in 1931 with the goal of setting uniform grade standards for lumber. The newly formed association grew out of a merger of the Western Pine Manufacturers Association of the Northwest and the California White and Sugar Pine Association. The association’s president in 1931, S. V. Fullaway, Jr., oversaw the 75 mills that made up the newly formed group. The Western Pine Association Records include the business papers, reports, industry publications, and legal case files of the organization. |
