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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | "Mack," of Corvallis, Oregon wrote a letter to his sister, dated February 22, 1863, in which he describes Patrick Malone, editor of Oregon Weekly Union (a Corvallis newspaper), and mentions the paper is about to close, and also that he expects to travel to California. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains a letter dated April 17, 1889 from "T. J. S.," of Eugene, Oregon to Frank [Hyland?]. In the letter, T. J. S. advises Frank to proceed with county improvements regardless of the supposed will of the voters. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | In 1922, the West Coast Lumberman's Association sued the Abilene and Southern Railway Co. regarding "unjust and unreasonable" lumber rates. The collection (1922-1924) contains testimonies, briefs, exhibits, lumber company statistics and research, and correspondence used in the case. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Academic Distinctions committee at the University of Oregon was concerned with reviewing the requirements for achieving various academic distinctions. Collection contains material regarding a new grading system and the honors college, 1970-1971. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | A. R. Shipley and Company was a "Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Standard and Miscellaneous Books" in Portland, Oregon. The collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, and invoices. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Frank Ramsay Adams (1883-1963) was a writer for magazines, film, and television. He also wrote music. The collection contains correspondence, literary manuscripts, sheet music, and selected publications. |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | The Glen Cameron Adams Correspondence Collection contains correspondence from Glen Cameron Adams to various people in the Eastern Washington University (EWU) library. |
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| Repository: | Willamette University Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Kathleen Gemberling Adkison papers reflect Adkison's work as a Northwest painter. Papers consist of correspondence, an interview transcript, and exhibit materials and pamphlets for Adkison's shows. Also included are photographs, negatives and prints, as well as newspaper clippings and awards for her work. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Gladys Lucy Adshead (1896-1985) was a noted educator, school administrator, and the author of many children's books. The collection consists of correspondence related to production and publishing of her books, and manuscripts. |
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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 Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Duncan Aikman (1889-1955) was a journalist and author. Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, tear sheets, newspaper tear sheets, poetry, a Guggenheim Foundation proposal, miscellaneous notes, biographical information, photographs, and magazines with articles by Aikman. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Clyde Bruce Aitchison (1875-1962) was an attorney, Commissioner of the Oregon Railroad Commission/Public Service Commission, solicitor for the National Association of Railroad Commissioners, and Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Papers include personal correspodence, family records, business records of organizations, professional correspondence memos, project files, case files, diaries, and publications. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Aitken Family Papers tell the story of a widowed mother and her two daughters, in their dedication to the Unitarian church; teaching kindergarten; teaching home economics in elementary, and junior high schools; and music in colleges in Hawaii and New York. This collection consists mainly of correspondence, diaries, scrapbook and photograph albums, photographs, a few funeral papers, and miscellaneous familial memorabilia. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Correspondence and records of the Alaska Livestock and Trading Company, which operated a sheep and cattle ranch on Unalaska Island, Alaska. The company had previously been the Western Pacific Livestock Company before Roy T. Bishop (1881-1950) of Portland, Oregon, purchased a controlling share in 1936 at the behest of the Western Pacific Livestock Company's founder, Dr. Adam C. Smith. After Roy T. Bishop's death, the company was managed by his sons Thomas B. Bishop and William H. Bishop until the 1970s. |
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| Repository: | Pacific University, Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs pertaining to Mary Drain Albro, founder of the Pioneer Rose Association, and the Old Memorial Rose Dedication at Pacific University. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Lewis R. Alderman (1872-1965) became a prominent and influential educator, first as a principal and school superintendent in McMinnville, then as superintendent in Yamhill County and Eugene, a University of Oregon faculty member, Superintendent of Schools for Oregon, Director of Education of enlisted men in the Navy, and Chief of the Service Division in the USO Office of Education. The collection contains, scrapbooks, speeches, radio talks on education, correspondence and documents on adult education in the Navy, writings, manuscripts, and publications about adult education, and an autobiography. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | William L. Alderson was a professor of literature at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. The collection (1944-1963) folk songs, folk sayings, and tales, course outlines, correspondence, and transcriptions. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Edwin B. Aldrich (1879-1950) became a newspaper editor and publisher with the East Oregonian (in Pendleton) and was active is public affairs in Oregon all his adult life. The collection contains correspondence related to newspaper business, public affairs, political and personal concerns and includes letters exchanged with Oregon politicians and public figures. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of Thomas T. Aldwell, a public official, businessman, power company executive, and civic leader from Port Angeles, Washington. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Charles Alexander was a writer of popular fiction. The Collection consists of correspondence, literary manuscripts, reviews, notebooks, clippings, personal material, and miscellany. The majority of the correspondence is with family members, publishers, and other writers such as Ernest Haycox, Robert Ormond Case, and Albert Wetjen. The reviews are for Alexander's books: Bobbie, a great collie, The fang in the forest, and The Splendid summits. The Manuscripts section is the largest, containing materials for over 200 short stories by Alexander. Many of these stories have at least one manuscript draft. Others are represented only by the published version; these are marked with an asterisk (*) in the inventory. Alternate titles for the stories are given in brackets after the official title. There are also manuscripts for the novels The fang in the forest and The splendid summits. A collection of paperback books by other authors (collected by Charles Alexander) is housed separately. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection comprises the papers of American authors Don B. Allen and Terry Allen, including literary manuscripts and research materials for works of historical fiction and non-fiction about the West and about Native Americans, as well as collections of creative writing and poetry by young American Indians edited by Terry Allen. |
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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 Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Eric W. Allen (1879-1944 ) was the first Dean of the School of Journalism, University of Oregon, and held that post from 1916 to his death in 1944. The collection (1917-1934) contains personal and professional correspondence, and a few manuscripts. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence of John B. Allen regarding a court case involving Allen's son in Nome, Alaska |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Sally Elliot Allen (1880-1943) was a Pacific Northwest writer and playwright. The collection (1906-1943) contains play, novel, novelette, short-story, and poetry manuscript material, correspondence, published stories and poems, a scrapbook, mementos, and personal materials. |
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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 Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | George Allingham ( d.1873) was a resident of Warren County, Illinois, whose son, William, emigrated to Oregon in 1850. The collection consists of a photostat copy of a letter from the elder Allingham to his son. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | George Allingham ( d.1873) was a resident of Warren County, Illinois, whose son, William, emigrated to Oregon in 1850. The collection consists of a photostat copy of a letter from the elder Allingham to his son. |
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| Repository: | Confederated Tribes of the Siletz, Tribal Cultural Collections |
| Summary: | The correspondence discusses accusations of corruption against Siletz Agent T. Jay Buford and the mistreatment of Siletz tribal members by agency employees. |
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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: | Major Benjamin Alvord of Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, wrote a letter dated July 16, 1863 to J.M. Sutton of Jacksonville, regarding fighting in the Rogue River Valley. The collection contains the letter, which references Jesse and Lindsay Applegate. |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | The American Aid to France, Spokane Unit Records contains news clippings, correspondence and agendas on the support of the war effort during WWII. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Records and scrapbooks of the Portland branch of American Association of University Women (AAUW). |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (AAHPER) was founded on November 27, 1885, and the mission of the organization is to advance professional practice and promote research related to health and physical education, physical activity, dance, and sport. The collection (1930-1967) contains records from the North West District and material includes minutes, correspondence, by-laws, historical summary, and convention publications. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) purpose is to advance academic freedom and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Records include correspondence, minutes, committee reports, membership lists, programs, office files, faculty unions and bargaining information, hearings and legal records, salary research materials, and records on the 1952 Loyalty Oath controversy. |
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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 Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a lumber company executive, banker, and political activist in Seattle, Washington. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | James F. Amis was an attorney who served as the first justice of the peace in Eugene, OR. Records include letters, legal documents, checks, receipts, cash book, one bound domestic bible with family records, and other miscellaneous items |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a fisheries biologist working in Washington State and Alaska. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Van Winkle Anderson was a Realtor in Portland, Oregon, and a writer. The collection consists of correspondence and manuscripts. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Roy C. Andrews was a school teacher and administrator in Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Washington and Oregon. He was a chemistry instructor at the University of Oregon from 1935 until his retirement in 1950. Andrews is noted for his photographs of one-room schoolhouses in southern Lane County, 1911-1913. The collection consists of diaries, one account book, two ledgers, music concert lists, correspondence, University of Oregon material, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Homer Angell was an attorney, served in the Oregon house and senate, and served in the US Congress as a Republican Congressman from Oregon's Third District. The collection contains administrative files, departmental files, legislative files, bill files, speech files, and correspondence that includes over 7,000 letters. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains a letter dated July 15, 1904 from Levi Ankeny of Walla Walla, Washington, to Joseph N. Teal of Portland, Oregon. In the letter, Ankeny informs Teal about the population and agricultural crops of Franklin County, Washington. |
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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: | Edward Anthony (1895-1971) was a writer and collaborator, directed publicity for Herbert Hoover's presidential campaign, and became an editor and publisher, most notably for Collier's. The collection contains supporting materials for thirteen books, article and short story manuscripts, personal and business correspondence, and Crowell-Collier Publishing company material consisting of inter-office memos, financial, promotional material, and the professional and personal papers of Don Marquis. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Benjamin Appel (1907-1977) was a writer whose "voice of the streets" reflected his New York City childhood and his military experience. His work has been compared to Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials from his work, including the 1943 Dark Stain, which addressed racism. |
