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Crick Collection, 1920-2013
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Crick, Rolla J. (Rolla Joe), 1918-2013.
- Title
- Crick Collection
- Dates
- 1920-2013 (inclusive)19202013
- Quantity
- 4.1 cubic feet, (5 document cases, 4 flat boxes, and 2 oversize folders.)
- Collection Number
- Coll 594
- Summary
- Papers, images, and ephemera relating to journalist Rolla J. ("Bud") Crick.
- Repository
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Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Rolla Joe "Bud" Crick was born on March 14, 1918 in Twin Falls, Idaho and was raised in Southern California. It was in Redlands, California that Crick first developed an interest in journalism when, as a high school student, he published a column for the San Bernardino Sun. He later moved to Oregon where he held a variety of occupations, including shipwright at the Oregon ship yards, chicken rancher and freelance journalist. During World War II, Crick served in the Pacific theatre where he was assigned to the Army’s Information and Education Detachment as a news writer and combat correspondent. Immediately following the surrender of Japan, Crick travelled to Japan with General Douglas MacArthur’s staff to establish the Pacific Starts & Stripes in Tokyo. As a Stars and Stripes journalist, Crick travelled across occupied Japan and was one of the first Americans to visit Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb. Following the War, Crick returned to Oregon where he found work as a reporter for the Oregon Journal and later for The Oregonian. Some of Crick's most notable stories were his coverage of the Vanport Flood in 1948, a city-wide crackdown on illegal abortion operations in the Portland area in 1951, an expedition to Antarctica in 1957 during which he became the first journalist to reach the South Pole, and his coverage of the Vietnam War. Crick held many positions and titles during his time as a journalist including Automobile Editor, Military Editor, Assistant City Editor, and Aviation Editor but also acted as a federal courts reporter and travel writer. Crick retired from the Oregonian in 1989 but would continue to write articles as a freelancer and would eventually volunteer as a public relations representative for the American Red Cross, visiting disaster areas across the country. It was in his capacity as a representative for the American Red Cross that Crick spent 57 days in New York City on three separate assignments in response to the September 11th attacks. Rolla Crick Passed away in 2013 at the age of 95.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection contains materials relating to the life and work of Rolla Joe “Bud” Crick, an Oregon journalist and world traveler. The collection includes typed autobiographical narratives, newspaper clippings, correspondence, speech transcripts, commemorative envelopes and stamps, photographs, illustrations, press passes and other identification forms, scrapbooks and certificates. A significant portion of these materials were taken from a set of scrapbook binders that contained a mixture of autobiographical writing and primary source materials. These materials have largely been kept in original order to preserve the narrative direction of the original scrapbooks. The collection also contains a substantial amount of materials relating to Crick’s 1957 Antarctica expedition,and transparencies of caricatures by cartoonist Jack Ohman..
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library prior to any use of reproductions. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use of reproductions may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright holders.
Preferred Citation
Rolla J. Crick collection, Coll 594, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The materials are organized in the following series:
- Series A: "Going Places" - Autobiographical Scrapbook Binders
- Series B: Other Scrapbooks and Binders [Not from the "Going Places series"]
- Series C: Images
- Series D: Antarctica Expedition
- Series E: Materials from Crick's Colleagues at the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian - all taken from Acc. 29103
- Series F:Oversized Materials
Acquisition Information
Lib. Acc. 28796, 29103
Processing Note
Processed by Alecia Giombolini
Separated Materials
16 mm film canister, containing footage taken at the South Pole during Crick's 1957 Antarctica trip. was separated to Film Collections, Oregon Historical Society
Several medals were separated to Artifacts collections - Oregon Historical Society
Circular NASA Patch separated to Artifacts Collections Oregon - Historical Society
Related Materials
Addditional materials relating to Crick's 1957 Antarctica expedition are designated Coll 28, Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series A : Going Places - Autobiographical Scrapbook Binders , 1920-2013 Return to Top
Materials taken from a series of binders labeled "Going Places: from the Collections of Rolla J. Crick” that included photographs, correspondence, documents, ephemera and other materials placed in the binder alongside autobiographical essays
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Subseries 1 : Autobiographical Binders |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | Capsule History and Biographical Notes |
Undated |
1/2 | Capsule History and Biographical Notes - Alternative
Draft from Acc. 29103 |
Undated |
1/3 | Childhood |
Circa 1920-2010 |
1/4 | Boy Scouts |
1973-2009 |
1/5 | Newspaper "Boy Salesman" Award Certificates
|
1931 |
1/6 | World War II and Stars and Stripes Newspaper
Includes military induction and discharge papers, Press
Passes, photographs, news clippings as well as portioned from Crick's
unpublished autobiography relating to his time working for Stars and Stripes
newspaper as well as other related military newspapers
|
Circa 1944 - 2010 |
1/7 | The Vanport Flood |
Circa 1948-2010 |
1/8 | Major Oregon Journal Articles - Abortion Ring,
Blackmarket Adoptions, Inside Oregon's Prisons and Oregon State Hospital for
the Mentally Ill Under Cover Investigation
Photographs, news clippings and documents relating to Major
newspaper articles and series written by Rolla Crick for the Oregon Journal.
including articles concerning Portland's underground abortion industry, black
market baby adoption, prison life in Oregon and an expose of life in the Oregon
State Mental Hospital. F6
|
Circa 1952-2010 |
1/9 | "Back to the Battlezone" Articles and Vietnam War
Reporting
The "Back to the Battlezone" articles were written by Crick
about military readiness in the Pacific twenty years after Peral Harbor
|
Circa 1961-2010 |
1/10 | WWII and the Black Sheep Squadron
Article and Research Materials for piece in Oregon Journal
about the Flying Tigers
|
1944-1988 |
1/11 | Journalism Career (1 of 2) |
Circa 1958-2010 |
1/12 | Journalism Career (2 of 2) |
Circa 1968-2010 |
1/13 | Antarctic Adventure (1 of 3) |
Circa 1957-2010 |
2/1 | Antarctic Adventure (2 of 3) |
Circa 1957-2010 |
2/2 | Antarctic Adventure (3 of 3) |
Circa 1957-2010 |
2/3 | "Peregrinations" - Travel Stories (1 of 3)
|
1992 - 2005 |
2/4 | "Peregrinations" - Travel Stories (2 of 3)
|
1996 -2002 |
2/5 | "Peregrinations" - Travel Stories (3 of 3)
|
1972 - 1992 |
2/6 | "Automobilia" - Automotive Stories |
1962 -1977 |
2/7 | Retirement |
1989-2002 |
2/8 | Heart Surgery and Death |
1977-2013 |
Subseries 2 : Speeches |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/9 | General
Materials relating to various speeches made by and
presentations made by Rolla Crick
|
Circa 1989 -2010 |
3/1 | September 11 World Trade Center Attacks
Transcripts of speeches given by Crick concerning his
experiences in New York City as a public affairs coordinator for Red Cross
following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
|
Undated |
3/2 | Faith |
2003 |
3/3 | South Pole |
Undated |
3/4 | Mt. St. Helens Eruption |
Undated |
3/5 | Swiss Watch Industry |
1996 |
3/6 | The Middle East |
Undated |
3/7 | Willamette View Speech |
1/20/1994 |
3/8 | Speech to Portland Journalism class |
2007 |
Series B : Other Scrapbooks and Binders , 1956-2012 Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
3/9 | News clippings - Travel Stories Written by Rolla
Crick |
1973 - 1988 |
3/10 | News clippings - Travel Stories not Written by Rolla
Crick |
1978-2004 |
3/11 | Correspondence: Letter from the U.S. Air Force to Rolla
Crick Regarding South Poll Film Reel
Letter was attached to physical film reel (separated)
|
1959 |
3/12 | Correspondence: Letter From Terry Schrunk (Portland
Mayor) to Mayor of Portland, New York, In Care of Rolla Crick |
1964 |
3/13 | Commemorative Envelopes and Stamps |
1973-1987 |
3/14 | Ephemera |
Circa 1989 |
3/15 | Oregon History
Documents regarding the history of Oregon - Including Articles
on Local topics written by Crick
|
1956-2012 |
Series C : Images , 1957-2010 Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
3/16 | Going Places Photo Album |
1957-2007 |
3/17 | Travel Photos |
Undated |
3/18 | Oregon Flood Photographs (likely 1996 Willamette Flood)
|
Undated |
3/19 | Slides: Oregon Coast Cape Meares Area Photograph Slides
|
1991-1997 |
3/20 | Slides: Pacific Northwest Travel Photography
|
1989-2004 |
3/21 | Oregon Photographs |
Undated |
4/1 | Photographs of Rolla Crick |
Circa 1973-2010 |
Series D : Antarctica Expedition , 1957 Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
4/2 | Photographs of Rolla Crick in Antarctica |
1957 |
4/3 | Antarctica Oregon Journal Articles Reprint |
1957 |
4/4 | Speeches, Article Transcripts and Related Photographs
|
1957 |
4/5 | Presentation notes
Includes his South Pole notebook
|
1957 |
4/6 | Slides |
1957 |
4/7 | Black and White Photographs with Captions |
1957 |
4/8 | Black and White Photographs - Penguins, Portraits and
Contact Sheets [Some of these photos are form the US Navy and united Press
Association] |
1957 |
4/9 | General Black and White Photos |
1957 |
4/10 | Color Photographs |
1957 |
5/1 | Antarctica Photographs - Black and White Negatives (1
of 2) |
1957 |
5/2 | Antarctica Photographs - Black and White Negatives (2
of 2) |
1957 |
5/3 | Antarctica Photographs - Color Negatives |
1957 |
Series E : Materials Created by Crick's Colleagues at the Oregon Journal and the Oregonian - all taken from Acc. 29103 , 1957-1996 Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
4/11 | Articles written by levrett Richards about Rolla Crick
|
1957-1968 |
4/12 | Book - Elephants Don't Snore by levrett Richards -
Signed copy addressed to Crick |
1996 |
4/13 | Jack Ohman - Sketches of Crick |
Undated |
4/14 | Jack Ohman - Original Editorial Cartoons of American
Political Figures |
Undated |
Series F : Oversized Materials , 1957-2005 Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Subseries 1 : Posters |
||
Box/Folder | ||
Oversize Folder 1 | Get-Well Poster for Rolla Crick following Heart
Surgery Operation |
1977 |
Oversize Folder 2 | "where in the World Is Bud" Poster
Presented to Rolla Crick Upon his retirement in 1989
|
Undated |
Box/Folder | ||
Box 6 | Subseries 2 : Scrapbook
Includes news clippings, photographs, letters and photograph
slides relatied to news articles published by Crick in the Oregon Journal. The
Scrapbook particularly focuses on Crick's "Back to the Battlezone" articles and
Vietnam Reporting.
|
1959-1968 |
Subseries 3 : Certificates, Illustration, Mounted Photographs and
Alluminum Oregon Journal Printing Plate |
||
Box/Folder | ||
7/1 | Mounted Photograph of Wild Horses at Warm Springs
Reservation |
2002 |
7/2 | Mounted Photograph of Rolla Crick |
Undated |
7/3 | Domain of the Golden Dragon - Unofficial US Navy
Certificate |
1945 |
7/4 | Celestial Order of the Twice Lived Day - Philippines
Airlines Certificate |
1945 |
7/5 | Solemn Mysteries of the Ancient Order of the Deep -
Unofficial US Navy Certificate |
1945 |
7/6 | The Royal Order of Deepfreeze Certificate
|
1957 |
7/7 | Round the World (Magellan) - Unofficial US Navy
Certificate |
1957 |
7/8 | Celestial Order of the Twice Lived Day - Philippines
Airlines Certificate |
1966 |
7/9 | Illustration - Going Places with Rolla Crick
Presented to Rolla Crick Upon his retirement in 1989
|
Undated |
7/10 | Oregon Journal Aluminum Plates of Crick Articles
|
1975 |
Subseries 4 : Portlandia Statue Photograph Series |
||
Box/Folder | ||
8/1 | "Portlandia Statue Photograph Series Supporting
Documents "
Includes: News clipping: "Portlandia Makes Hometown Debut" -
Written by Rolla Crick and letter from the Willamette View Executive Director
to Rolla and Elanor Crick Regarding the display of the Portlandia Photographs
|
8/10/1985 - 11/30/2001 |
8/2 | Signed Photograph of Raymond Kaskey -Portlandia
Sculptor |
4/23/2005 |
8/3 | Photograph: Arrival and Instiliation of Portlandia (1
of 8) |
1985 |
8/4 | Photograph: Arrival and Instiliation of Portlandia (2
of 8) |
1985 |
8/5 | Photograph: Arrival and Instiliation of Portlandia (3
of 8) |
1985 |
8/6 | Photograph: Arrival and Instiliation of Portlandia (4
of 8) |
1985 |
9/1 | Photograph: Arrival and Instiliation of Portlandia (5
of 8) |
1985 |
9/2 | Photograph: Arrival and Instiliation of Portlandia (6
of 8) |
1985 |
9/3 | Photograph: Arrival and Instiliation of Portlandia (7
of 8) |
1985 |
9/4 | Photograph: Arrival and Instiliation of Portlandia (8
of 8) |
1985 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Personal Names
- Crick, Rolla J. (Rolla Joe), 1918-2013 --Archives
- Ohman, Jack
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Richards, Levrett (creator)
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Corporate Names
- Oregonian(Firm)
- Oregon Journal(Portland, Or.)
- Stars and Stripes (Newspaper)
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Geographical Names
- Oregon--Journalists.
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Antarctica
- Journalism--Oregon
- Journalism--United States
- Press--United States
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- World War, 1939-1945
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Form or Genre Terms
- Autobiographies (documents)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Negatives (photographs)
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks
- Slides (photographs)