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| Repository: | Willamette University Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The 12x16 Gallery records (bulk 2006-2018) feature promotional postcards and brochures, Myron Filene's photographs of the gallery, administration files, folders on specific artists, a scrapbook, employee log books, the gallery visitors' books, and an archived version of the website. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Postcards from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an art critic in Seattle, Washington related to artists in the Seattle area |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Legal advocacy organization |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs and postcards of Denmark and of Danish emigrants in Enumclaw, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Clarence Leroy Andrews was an employee of the Interior Department Bureau of Education and Reindeer Service in Alaska in the 1920s. He focused on Eskimos and their use of reindeer herds, writing several books about Eskimo life in Alaska. He was especially concerned with corporations which exploited reindeer herds, and led a campaign in the 1930s to remove Carl Momen of Seattle from control of the reindeer industry. The C. L. Andrews papers consist largely of business and personal correspondence, published and unpublished manuscripts, and photographs. Important to the collection are the W. T. Lopp files that relate to education in Alaska and the reindeer service from 1908-1939. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Postcards from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Ball Studios in Corvallis was established by W. Maurice Hall in 1903 and continues to operate. The collection consists of sixteen images from the 1920s, primarily of the Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Beekman family consists of Cornelius C. Beekman, the founder and owner of Beekman Bank in Jacksonville, Oregon, his son Benjamin Beekman, a Portland, Oregon lawyer and UO Law School faculty member, and his daughter Carrie Beekman, who donated substantially to the University of Oregon. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, miscellaneous manuscripts and publications, scrapbooks and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Images relating to Klondike Gold Rush packer and muleskinner John "Packer Jack" Newman. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Frazier Augustus Boutelle was an army officer who served in the Civil War, and also in various frontier posts in Oregon, Texas, Montana, and California. From 1889 to 1890, he was superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, and in 1895 became adjutant general of the state of Washington. His son, Harry Moss Boutelle was killed in action in 1899 in the war in the Philippines. The collection consists mainly of family correspondence and photographs. Frazier Boutelle's letters describe army life, and his work after his service in the army. A major part of the collection are the letters from 1890 to 1898, of Mrs. Boutelle and son Harry Boutelle, describe Harry's college life and service in the army. The photographs document Boutelle's career and include military scenes of the Indian Wars from 1870s-1890s, images from the Philippines from 1898-1899, and images of the Yellowstone area from 1889-1890. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Walter S. Bowman (1865-1938) was a professional photographer who worked in Pendleton, Oregon, from the late 1880s to the mid 1930s. Bowman's photographs document daily life in Eastern Oregon, including special events such as the Pendleton Round-Up. The collection consists of almost 800 negatives and prints representative of the span of the photographer's work, but his noted images of tribal people were largely destroyed after his death. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers and images relating to the life and career of Methodist minister William Sherman Burgoyne. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection includes letters, manuscripts, documents, financial material, memorabilia, and photographs of the J. J. Burton family. Most of the material is from Margaret W. Burton (Mrs. J. J.) addressed to her sons and daughters. |
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| Repository: | Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center |
| Summary: | The Brooks and Melba Labbe Caldwell Collection contains materials generated, collected, and assembled by Brooks Caldwell and his wife Melba Labbe. Documenting their educational histories, professional lives as a pharmacist (Brooks) and florist (Melba), and social interests, this collection includes certificates, photographs, postcards, publications, an account ledger, and a scrapbook. Brooks Caldwell graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1925 in Pharmacy. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Hazel Chamberlain was a Christian missionary stationed in Paraguay in the 1920s. The collection includes correspondence, an essay, and photographs that reflect Chamberlain's life as a missionary. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Ephemera from the Collectors Club of Seattle, a philatelic group. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Miriam L. Condon was a writer of stories for young people, and was possibly a relative of Frank Condon. The collection (1892-1968) contains correspondence including letters from publishers, manuscripts of anecdotes, poems, and short stories, legal documents, including deeds and contracts belonging to Frank Condon, photographs and historical postcards, negatives, and a travel notebook of a trip to Mexico. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of ethnic clothing, costume and textiles from ancient times to the 20th century |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of prominent photographer Edward S. Curtis; also includes photographs of American Indians made by Curtis as well as materials advertising Curtis' exhibitions and entertainments. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of the Raphael (Ray) Curtis family at their homes, formal portraiture, and the 50th wedding anniversary of Raphael and Harriet Curtis. This Curtis family is related to famous photographers Asahel and Edward Curtis. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Timothy Woodbridge (T.W.) Davenport (1826-1911) and his family left Ohio for Oregon in the early 1850s, settling in the upper Willamette Valley. T.W. Davenport was a farmer, surveyor, state representative, state senator, and special Indian agent at the Umatilla Agency in the 1860s. T.W. Davenport’s son, Homer Davenport (1867-1912) became the most highly paid political cartoonist of his time. He also traveled to the Ottoman Empire, returning with the first purebred Arabian horses in America. The Davenport Family Papers contain the personal papers of T.W. Davenport, Homer Davenport, and the Davenport family. The collection includes correspondence, essays, drawings, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Of note are the handwritten and typewritten memoirs of T.W. Davenport and original political cartoons by Homer Davenport. |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | This collection contains a lithograph print on a postcard featuring Camp Lewis, Washington, (later known as Fort Lewis) during World War I. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | James R. Dilworth was a cattleman who directed a cattle drive from The Dalles, Oregon, to Miles City, Montana, in 1881-1882. The collection consists mostly of his correspondence back to his wife during that drive, as well as other family correspondence. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Alice Henson Ernst was an American author, playwright, and teacher, at University of Washington, 1920-1923, and University of Oregon, 1924-1950, who had special interests in the history of the early theater of the Pacific Northwest and masked ritual dances of Northwest Coast tribes. Collection comprises correspondence, including letters from Franz Boas; manuscripts of books, plays, essays, and poems; diaries and notebooks, 1909-1964; playbills; broadsides; and photographs, most relating to Native American masks. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | This collection primarily contains photographs taken by Benjamin A. Gifford, who worked both in Portland and The Dalles, Or. from 1890-1920, both as a solo photographer and in partnerships with Herbert Hale as Gifford & Hale and with Arthur M. Prentiss as Gifford & Prentiss. The collection also contains photographs taken by Benjamin's son, Ralph I. Gifford, who began work in his father's studio and later was a photographer for the Oregon State Highway Commission until his death in 1947. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | James Taylor Gray (1852-1928) was a ship designer and transportation magnate involved in railroads and shipping in Oregon and Alaska. The collection consists of correspondence, business papers, plans and specifications for steamboat designs and parts, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs relating to the life and career of Jessie Nores Haas, an actor, director, and author who was active in the vaudeville and theatre community in Seattle, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Binger Hermann (1843-1926) was a Roseburg attorney and politician who represented Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives for sixteen years, and served as commissioner of the General Land Office (GLO) under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. The collection (1888-1920) contains Hermann's personal and professional papers. |
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| Repository: | Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Approximately 100 postcards of varying areas; a few World War II protest papers, two Pullman Townsite Company stock certificates, and twenty-seven books mostly in Norwegian with some items in English. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Documents and ephemera of an active member of the Salvation Army in Washington State and Idaho |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Chiefly photographs of totem poles and native villages, Ketchikan, Alaska, and images of Tlingit Chief William Kininnook and the wedding of Lucy Kininnook and Edward Mardsen, 1887-1905. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Fred H. Kiser, an accomplished mountaineer and promoter, was one of the most successful and widely known landscape and commercial photographers in the American West during the first two decades of the early 20th century. His work is credited with popularizing Crater Lake National Park and the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon and establishing Glacier National Park in Montana. He and his brother Oscar also operated the Lewis and Clark Official Photographic Co. at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Or. The collection includes photographs taken by the brothers, as well as by Clarence L. Winter, Fred's partner who later operated Winter Photo Company. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Bonus Expeditionary Force was a group of World War I veterans that marched on Washington, D.C, in 1932, to demand early payment of bonuses promised them. George Kleinholz was regimental commander of the Oregon group of the Bonus Expeditionary Force. The collection (1932) contains mementos, clippings, and photographs of the march and encampments. |
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| Repository: | University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives |
| Summary: | Postcards showing scenes from Idaho, Washington and Oregon, some written and postmarked. |
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| Repository: | Western Oregon University Archives |
| Summary: | Photographs, postcards, research notes, publications, personal materials, and educational glass slides belonging to Professor L.A. Robinson while working at Oregon State Normal School in Monmouth, Oregon. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Ben Linder (1959-1987) was an American mechanical engineer who worked in San Jose de Bocay, Nicaragua from 1983 until his death by the Contras on April 28, 1987. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, articles on political and engineering subjects, photographs, and the Linder family's records, all of which reflect Linder's humanitarian work, his political activism, and the impact his death had on American foreign policy debates and within the general public sphere. |
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| Repository: | Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives |
| Summary: | Photograph album, which contains various postcards and some photographs. The album visually documents geological and urban landscapes in Linn County, Oregon. Circa 1910, photos include images of the greater Portland area; Lebanon, Oregon; Albany, Oregon; the Oregon Coast; and various other locations across the United States. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Eugene P. Lyle Jr. (1873-1961) was a journalist and a writer of pulp fiction who resided in Mexico for a number of years. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, printed works, subject files, photographs, and the papers of his son, Eugene Lyle III. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection created by the Oregon Historical Society containing ephemera related to social life and customs, primarily in Oregon and Portland. Includes autograph books; calendars; invitations; greeting cards of all kinds; personal scrapbooks; and materials relating to exhibitions, expositions, celebrations, holidays, special events, sports, weddings, and patriotism. Most of the materials date from circa 1880-1970, with special emphasis on the early 20th century. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Charles L. Marshall (1882-1957) was a mining engineer and surveyor. He was born in Portland, Oregon and educated at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1911 or 1912. The papers include a diary, Jan. 1907 to June 1908, describing Marshall's labors in the R and S gold mine, Curry County, Ore. The second volume of the diary has 10 pages of "Mining stories," folklore of southern Oregon and northern California mines. There are two account books showing receipts and expenses at the R and S mine, 1906-1908, and of Marshall's years at the University of Oregon, 1908-1911. From July to December 1918 he was an enlisted man in the U. S. Army, stationed at Washington Barracks, D.C. There are 41 letters, Marshall to his mother, describing his experience in Co. E, 1st Replacement Regt. Engineers. The photograph portion of the collection consists of three albums of photographs black and white prints, real photo postcards, a few commercial postcards, and 17 glass plate negatives. The dates for almost all of the images are from around 1905-1915, with the largest concentration from 1911-1912. The photographs cover mining operations in Southern Oregon, including the Bohemia mines, Lucky Boy mine, Treasure Mine, Crystal Mine, and the Champion (or Champiom) Mine. Also included are images of bridge construction in the Portland area, construction of the Walterville power plant, and Eugene's Municipal Power plant. There are also prints from several trips taken in Oregon and the Northwest, as well as postcards from a trip to South America by a friend. Several real photo postcards of the University of Oregon campus from 1911 are in the collection, a few of which are included in the 1913 Oregana. There are pictures of the buildings as well as of construction of the tennis courts and photographs from a track meet. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington and civil rights activist for Japanese Americans |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Dr. John McLoughlin (1784-1857) was a prominent figure in early Oregon history. The collection consists of seven postcards and an engraving of the McLoughlin House in Oregon City, constructed in 1846 and relocated in 1909. The house was declared the first Western National Historic Site in 1947, and is managed by the National Parks. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Thelma Mills worked in education, primarily with foreign students, in China, Taiwan and in the US; while in China (1925-1927) she observed the Chinese civil war. The collection contains diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, travel mementos, postcards, and photographs, 1925-1976. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Ruth Evelyn Morse (1899-1983) taught in American Indian schools and was employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and her husband, Austin Flint Parkhurst (1885-1965), was in the Navy during WWI and became a radio engineer. The collection contains personal and professional records of Ruth Parkhurst, including her career as a teacher in American Indian schools and her work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as well as personal and professional (mostly military) records of Austin Parkhurst, and photographs and negatives of Europe during WWI. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Postcards with photographs and cartoons portraying Seattle's "Umbrella Man" Robert W. Patten, 1910 |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of the launch of the steamships USS West Lianga and USS Nile from Seattle, Washington in April 1918 and November 1919 |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Collection of postcards arranged by the United States (by state); The World (by country); and Subjects |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Prior and Norris vaudeville troupe photographs and ephemera; also, other turn-of-the-century American vaudeville performers and stage productions. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Postcards of Rajneeshpuram, a religious commune lead by the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in eastern Oregon from 1981-1985 |
