Archives West Finding Aid

Arrangement: Records of the Regional Office have been divided into two parts, one for the Portland office, approximately 1935-1959, and the other for the Seattle office, approximately 1950-1968. The Portland office functioned as the Regional office until January 1956, when the Seattle office became the Regional office. The Portland office continued to function until about 1959. The Seattle office existed for a number of years before it acted as the Regional office. Directors of the office have included: for Portland, David Robinson, and for Seattle in chronological order, Sam Holcenberg, P. Allen Rickles, Stanley Jacobs, Len Schroeter, and Seymour Kaplan.Portland office files integrated with those of the Seattle office have been treated as part of the Seattle office files. At this stage of processing, series have been identified by the predominant kind of material contained in a file. Thus, incoming letters might also include some outgoing letters or minutes of meetings.Portland office files concerned with the passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act in Oregon were acquired in 1967 and have been retained as a separate accession.Restrictions apply to these records. Researchers are advised to discuss them with the Curator before requesting records.