OHYLot_1007 Guide to the Richard L. and Maurine Brown Neuberger Photographs Collection 1893-ca. 1997 Neuberger Family Photographs Collection Finding aid prepared by Sharon M. Howe and Gayle Mirken Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Oregon Historical Society, Research Library © 2003 Finding aid encoded by Sharon M. Howe 2004 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Feb. 2008 Changed title, <scopcontent>, and <controlaccess> elements, MKF 2015 Revised to reflect updates to best practices. Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library Org. Lot 1007 Richard L. and Maurine Brown Neuberger photographs collection 1893-circa 1997 1950-1966 1.16 cubic feet 142 photographic prints in 1 box and 5 oversize folders This collection contains photographs that document the personal and political lives of Richard L. and Maurine Brown Neuberger, Oregon's first married couple to serve together in the state legislature. The collection includes photographs of the Brown, Kelty, and Neuberger families, but the bulk of the images documents the political lives of Richard and Maurine in the Oregon Legislature and United States Senate from 1950 to1966. Photograph captions are in English. Biographical Note

Richard Lewis Neuberger (1912-1960) and Maurine Brown Neuberger (1907-2000) were the first couple to serve together in the Oregon Legislature, Maurine in the House of Representatives and Richard in the House and Senate. Richard was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954 and died shortly before completing his term. After Richard’s death, Maurine was elected the first woman U.S. Senator from Oregon, becoming the third woman ever to serve in the Senate.

Harvey Maurine Brown was born in Cloverdale, Oregon, to Ethel Kelty Brown (1875-1966), daughter of Oregon pioneers, and Dr. Walter T. Brown (d. 1929). Her brother, Robert, was born in 1907. It has been suggested that Maurine was named after her great-grandfather, the Rev. Amos Harvey. After two years at Monmouth Christian College, Maurine graduated from the University of Oregon and taught English at Lincoln High School in Portland for 14 years.

Richard Lewis Neuberger was born in Portland, Oregon, to Isaac Neuberger and Ruth Lewis Neuberger (d. 1980). His sister, Jane Neuberger (Goodsell), was born in 1921. Richard entered the University of Oregon in 1931 and was put in charge of the sports desk at the Oregon Daily Emerald. In 1932, he was elected editor-in-chief. At the urging of Dean Wayne Morse, he entered UO Law School in 1933. The next year, Richard was charged with copying answers. Although Morse supported him throughout the disciplinary hearing, the dean recommended Richard’s resignation from law school after he failed his Criminal Law class.

In 1935, Richard became a stringer for the New York Times . In 1940, he was elected a Democratic state representative from Portland. Richard and Maurine were married at Missoula, Montana, in 1945. After military service in Alaska as aide-de-camp for General O’Connor, supervising construction of the Alaskan Military Highway, Richard was elected to the first of four terms in the Oregon Senate in 1948.

Maurine was elected to the first of three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1950. She became a household name in Oregon after her demonstration of the difficulty housewives experienced in coloring oleo margarine to look like butter. On the opening day of the 1951 Legislative Session, the Neubergers introduced a bill to end Oregon’s 38-year-old ban on colored margarine.

Richard was narrowly elected to the U.S. Senate in 1954, giving the Democrats a one-vote majority in the Senate and shifting the center of Oregon politics. Maurine resigned from the Oregon Legislature and served as her husband’s aide in Washington, D.C. Richard’s interests included journalism, conservation, and historic preservation. As the author of six6 books and more than 400 magazine and journal articles, he thought of himself as a journalist first and a politician second. Richard died March 9, 1960, of a massive cerebral hemorrhage.

Two days after her husband’s death, Maurine met the filing deadline for the primary ballot and was elected in November 1960 to the Senate, where she pursued education, health, and consumer issues. She sponsored one of the first bills to require warning labels on cigarettes and also worked for pollution controls on automobiles. She served on the Agriculture Committee, Banking and Currency Committee, Special Committee on Aging, President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and national board of the American Association for the United Nations.

In 1964, Maurine married Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Solomon, and chose not to run for re-election in 1966. She taught at Boston College, Radcliffe, and Reed College, becoming the venerated elder stateswoman of Oregon. In 1972, the Neuberger Building at Portland State University was dedicated to Richard. In 1985, the U.S. Forest Service dedicated the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area in his memory.

Photographs of the personal and political lives of Richard L. and Maurine Brown Neuberger, the first married couple to serve in a legislature. The bulk of the collection documents the Neubergers' political lives, including both Richard's and Maurine's terms as Oregon state legislators and United States senators. Subjects include Maurine Neuberger's famous margarine demonstration in front of the Oregon house of representatives in 1951; the Neubergers with national political figures such as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S, Truman, John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as Oregon politicians Edith Green, Tom McCall, and Wayne Morse, among others; Democratic party events; and Maurine's professional and personal life after she left politics in 1967. The collection also includes photographs of various members of the Brown, Kelty, and Neuberger families, dating as far back as 1893. Includes color photographs.

Photographers represented in this collection include Fabian Bachrach, Allen J. deLay, Burt Glinn, and Carl Vermilya, among many others.

This collection is organized in the following series and sub-series:

Series A. Maurine Brown Neuberger photographs, 1893-circa 1997 Subseries 1. Brown family photographs, 1893-1962 Subseries 2. Later years, 1980, circa 1997 Subseries 3.Oregon Legislature, 1950-1955 Subseries 4. Portraits, circa 1962 Subseries 5. U.S. Senate, 1960-1966 Series B: Richard Lewis Neuberger photographs, circa 1917-1959 Subseries 1. Early years, circa 1917-1941 Subseries 2. Book, The Lewis and Clark Expedition, circa 1951 Subseries 3. Oregon Legislature, circa 1954 Subseries 4. Portraits, circa 1954-1958 Subseries 5. U.S. Senate, 1955-1960 Series C: Richard and Maurine Neuberger photographs, 1950-1958 Series D: Democratic Party Functions, 1957-1958

The collection is open to the public.

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 before any publication use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. Permission for reproduction or publication of some images must be obtained from the photographers. See individual photographs for further information.

Richard L. and Maurine Brown Neuberger Photographs Collection, Org. Lot 1007, Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Some prints from the collection were donated to the Oregon Historical Society by Maurine Neuberger in 1987, along with a collection of the papers of her and her husband, Richard. The prints were transferred to the Photographs Collections. The bulk of the collection was donated to the Historical Society by nieces, Kate Marquez, Ann Goodsell, and Molly Goodsell, in 2001.

Library accession no. 18396 (Photo accession no. 1987D031) and Library accession no. 24438 (Photo accession no. 2001D032).

Prints that came with the manuscript collection are annotated on the verso of the photograph as, “From Mss 791.”

Some of the photographs in this collection were separated from the Richard Lewis Neuberger and Maurine Brown Neuberger Papers, Mss 791, in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Neal, Steve, ed. They Never Go Back to Pocatello: The Selected Essays of Richard Neuberger. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1988.

Collections of Maurine Brown Neuberger and Richard Lewis Neuberger papers are located at the University of Oregon. A small collection of correspondence relating to agriculture from their Senate years is located at Oregon State University.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973--Photographs. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Photographs. McCall, Tom, 1913- --Photographs. Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974--Photographs. Neuberger, Maurine Brown, 1907- --Photographs. Neuberger, Richard L. (Richard Lewis), (1912-1960)--Photographs. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Photographs. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972--Photographs. Bachrach, Fabian, 1917- Glinn, Burt, 1925- de Lay, Allen J. Vermilya, Carl Democratic Party (Or.)--Photographs. Democratic Party (U.S.)--Photographs. Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives--Photographs. Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Senate--Photographs. United States. Congress. Senate--Photographs. Dairy products industry--Law and Legislation--Oregon--Photographs. Legislators--Oregon--Photographs. Legislators--United States--Photographs. Women legislators--Oregon--Photographs. Women legislators--United States--Photographs. Women’s rights--Law and Legislation--United States--Photographs. Oregon Photographs Government and Politics Photographic prints.

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series A Maurine Brown Neuberger photographs 1893-circa 1997 85 items.

The series is arranged into five sub-series: Brown family, 1893-1962; Later years, 1980-ca. 1997; Oregon legislature, 1950-1955; Portraits, ca. 1962; and U.S. Senate, 1960-1966. Within the sub-series, folders are arranged alphabetically.

 Subseries 1 Brown family photographs 1893-1962 1/1 Walter Brown, Ethel Kelty, and Robert Brown 1893-1962 1/2 Over A/1 Harvey Maurine Brown 1908

Caption documents her first name as Harvey.

 Subseries 2 Later years 1980-circa 1997 1/3 Maurine Brown Neuberger circa 1997 1/4 Michael Dukakis circa 1988 1/5 Ruth Neuberger and Ernie Bonyhadi 1980 Subseries 3 Oregon Legislature 1950-1955 1/6 Maurine Brown Neuberger 1950-1955 Milk Bill 1950 Women in Legislature 1953 Farewell party 1955 1/7 Demonstration: Adding color to oleo margarine 1951 Subseries 4 Portraits circa 1962 1/8 Maurine Brown Neuberger circa 1962 Official Senate photograph Holding Muffet, her Manx cat Over A/2 Formal portrait Subseries 5 United States Senate 1960-1966 1/9 African-American women circa 1961 1/10 Celebrities circa 1960-1966 Cary Grant (and Mike Mansfield) Ann Landers Charles Laughton Harpo Marx 1962 Anthony Quinn 1/11 Demonstration for Flammable Fibers Act 1966 Over A/3 NATO Conference (with Senator Estes Kefauver), Paris 1961 1/12 Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower 1966 1/13 Fellow Senators 1961-1963 Clifford Case circa 1961 Frank Church 1963 Hubert Humphrey circa 1961 Mike Mansfield 1961 1/14 Female members of Congress circa 1961 1/15 Rep. Edith Green (Or.) circa 1961 1/16 Jane Neuberger Goodsell circa 1961 1/17 Hearings on Health Screening Tests 1961 1/18 President Lyndon Baines Johnson circa 1962-1964 Senator Ellender’s gumbo dinner, with Perle Mesta Peace Corps training 1/19 President John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 Signing bill related to women’s rights July 1963 Tongue Point enroute to the Oregon Dunes 1/20 Perle Mesta party circa 1961 1/21 Senator Wayne Morse circa 1961 1/22 Eleanor Roosevelt circa 1964 1/23 Senator Margaret Chase Smith circa 1962 1/24 Senate Campaign 1960 At Timberline Lodge with Dick Kostennan 1/25 Senate Staff and Office circa 1961 1/26 Women’s National Press Club Dinner for 87th Congress 1961

Includes Everett Dirksen, Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, Lady Bird Johnson, Mike Mansfield, and Adlai Stevenson

 Series B Richard Neuberger photographs circa 1917-1959 38 items.

Includes images from Richard’s childhood and early careers but most document his political career.

The series is arranged in five subseries: Early years, ca. 1917-1941; Book, The Lewis and Clark Expedition, ca. 1951; Oregon Legislature, ca. 1954; Portraits, ca. 1954-1958; and U.S. Senate, 1955-1960. Folders are arranged alphabetically in the subseries.

 Subseries 1 Early years circa 1917-1941 1/27 Early years circa 1917-1941 Harold Ickes circa 1941 Isaac Neuberger Subseries 2 Book, The Lewis and Clark Expedition (pub. 1951) circa 1951 1/28 Richard Neuberger with his book circa 1951 Subseries 3 Oregon Legislature 1954 undated 1/29 Oregon Legislature 1954 undated The Last Gold Spike Tom McCall 1954 Subseries 4 Portraits circa 1954-1958 1/30 Over A/4 Portraits circa 1954-1958 Includes photocopy showing Richard Neuberger with newspaper headlines Senate race 1954 Subseries 5 U.S. Senate 1955-1960 1/31 Freshmen Senators 1955 1/32 Senator John Kennedy and Billy Graham circa 1958 1/33 Senator Wayne Morse circa 1958 1/34 Eleanor Roosevelt and son, James Roosevelt circa 1956 1/35 President Harry Truman circa 1958 1/36 U.S. Senate 1955-1959 Feeding squirrels, White House lawn 1955 Series C Maurine and Richard Neuberger photographs 1950-circa 1958 21 items. 1/37 Maurine and Richard Neuberger circa 1955

Includes primarily images of political activities in Oregon and Washington, D.C.

Folders are arranged alphabetically.

 Christmas card Jane Goodsell, Ann Goodsell, and Kate Goodsell Marquez 1/38 Oregon Legislature 1950 Over A/5 Public event with Isaac and Ruth Neuberger circa 1958 1/39 U.S. Senate circa 1955

Check presentation to Dean W.E. Baird, University of Oregon Medical School. Also pictured: Doctor Thomas Fitzpatrick and Doctor Howard Mason.

 Series D Democratic Party functions 1957 1958 2 items 1/40 Dinner 1957 Maurine Neuberger in swimsuit, with Senator Estes Kefauver and donkey 1/41 Benefit 1958 Maurine and Richard Neuberger with donkey