Willamette University and Northwest collection, 1770-1975

Includes writing by Arthur S. Miller, J. A. Fleming, Chester Luther, and Cecil Monk.

Ketturah Belknap came to Willamette University in 1935. Her remembrances largely pertain to the Methodist church, her family's experiences living in Oregon, and the Ebenezer School House.

Largely comprised of Ketturah Belknap materials compiled by Robert Moulton Gatke.

Ketturah Belknap's Chronicle of a Pioneer Settlement edited by Robert Moulton Gatke.

Inventory.

Catalogs

Catalogs

Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.

Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.

Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.

Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.

Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.

Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.

Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.

Topics include the Willamette University libraries' Northwest history collection, funding requests, the Lee Mission Cemetery Deed, Arthur J. Prideaux, G. A. Reichman report cards, and a letter from F. R. Spaulding to William Youngson.

Programs

Letter of sympathy regarding Hobson's recent illness.

Programs and pamphlets.

Class schedules, University and Salem history, open house, and exhibition labels.

Photographs

Calendars

Tributes

Materials regarding President Roger J. Fritz. Includes taped interview with former Salem mayor Al Loucks regarding support for Fritz and Loucks' Physical Education and Recreation Center.

Regarding President Roger J. Fritz.

News clippings and 1861 salary notice.

A photocopy.

Brochures and pamphlets.

An Oregon Pioneer.

Prideaux was educated at Willamette University and Pacific University. He taught and was principal of the Woodstock School in Portland, Oregon, and was a long-time member of the YMCA.

Copies of articles and clippings describing Waller Hall.

Materials of Christian Wilhelm Brütt of Cadenberge, Germany.

Photocopy of original material. Includes a letter with some context.

Tribute program during the building of Baxter Hall, along with photograph of President Carl Gregg Doney.

From the Salem Fire Department.

Clements (1868-1941) taught at the Willamette medical school from 1908 to 1910. Campbell, his nephew, was a 1932 Willamette graduate and worked at the Salem Hospital from the 1930s to the 1980s.

From the State of Oregon Department of Public Instruction.

Photograph

Self support questionnaire, letter of interest in Willamette, and "Paths of Life" poem by Adelaide Lacey.

Includes commencement information letter and letter of thanks to Paul Wallace.

Copy of map

Copy of map

Sketch contained in an inspection report of various forts in the Pacific Department made in 1854 by Inspector General Joseph K. F. Mansfield and submitted to Major General Winfield Scott, Commander of the U.S. Army and Waller.

Copy of map

Copy of map

Copy of map

Includes photograph of the Marion County courthouse.

Submitted by President Doney.

Assorted photographs including Willamette University presidents, faculty, and Paul Doney wedding party.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Odd Teel attended Willamette University in 1883-1885. He was a member of the Philodosian society and received awards for penmanship.

Excuses from Chapel and classes.

Photocopy of original materials held at the New York Public Library. Charlotte Lambert Whipple and her family travelled the Oregon Trail in 1852. They established a home in Portland in 1853. Her 1852 diary is available via the Internet Archive.

Photocopy of original materials held at the New York Public Library. Charlotte Lambert Whipple and her family travelled the Oregon Trail in 1852. They established a home in Portland in 1853. Her 1852 diary is available via the Internet Archive.

Copies

Grubbs' compilation of newspapers and newspaper clippings pertaining to Oregon history, Portland, Oregon, and Jason Lee. Also includes the Pacific Christian Advocate of March 23, 1882; November 4, 1891; February 13, 1907; and April 22, 1908.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters compiled by Francis Grubbs. Includes Confederate bills and letters from Jason and Daniel Lee to family.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters compiled by Francis Grubbs.

Adopted daughter of Gustavus and Lydia Hines.

John Commingers Ainsworth (1822-1893) was a pioneer businessman and piloted a steamboat on the Willamette River in Oregon. He was the founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company in 1860. This manuscript is an autobiography by Ainsworth, transcribed in Berkeley, California in 1938.

Compilation of items written by Jesse A. Applegate including Settlement in Polk County, Views of Oregon History, Notes Upon Oregon History, and Organic Law of 1843.

Ross, Alexander: Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: Being a Narrative of the Expedition Fitted out by John Jacob Astor to establish the Pacific Fur Company. (London: 1849).

Excerpt from Workshops at Oregon City

Narrative of Bacon's recollections while traveling on the Oregon Trail, as well as working in the Willamette Valley. Excerpt from Mercantile Life at Oregon City.

Copy of a speech given by Edith Field Bagley to the Philodosian Literary Society. Her address includes a short history of the society, its members, and what a few of the members have been doing after graduation from Willamette.

Letters written from Jesse Applegate to historians, H. H. Bancroft and Mrs. F. F. Victor regarding the History of Oregon and updates on contemporary matters.

Oregon and California in 1849.

Article from the Pacific Christian Advocate.

Excerpt from The Catholic Missionaries of Oregon.

A New Log of the Columbia, 1790-1792. Pages document Boit's voyage from Boston to the northwest coast of America on the Columbia. Copy is missing pages one and two.

Autobiography of J. Henry Brown of Salem, Oregon. Autobiography includes Brown's travels on the Oregon Trail, the condition of the United States, and his time as a soldier in Oregon during the Civil War.

Dictation of J. W. Brazee, telling of work on the Oregon railroad.

E. L. Bristow's narrative Encounters, with Indians, Highwaymen, and Outlaws.

Enterprises at Oregon City by William Buck.

Short notes regarding Peter Burnett.

Cardwell's Emigrant Company.

A Young Woman's Sights on the Emigrant Trail

Ross Cox emigrated from Dublin, Ireland to America in 1811, becoming a clerk in the American Fur Company and the North West Company. This is an unpublished version of his Adventures on the Columbia River.

Typed copies with edits.

Typed copies with edits.

Extracts from an American reprint in "Smith's Weekly Volume."

Biography of George Ebbert including an account of his trip across the plains in winter.

Two letters written between Jesse Applegate and William Gray regarding politics and writing the history of Oregon.

Diary written by Mrs. Hanna, of her travels from Pennsylvania to Oregon.

Autobiography of Henry Clay Huston of Lane County, Oregon.

Account of Longworth's travel to Benton County, Oregon with company of preachers in 1853. Transcribed by the Historical Records Survey division of Women's and Professional Projects Works Progress Administration.

Typed copy with edits, from "A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North-West Passage, between Asia and America; Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779."

Excerpt from "Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean." Includes newspaper clippings about finding Lewis and Clark's field notes in an attic in Minnesota and dispute over their ownership.

Excerpt from "Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions, in the years 1835, '36, and '37."

Copied from Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California.

Excerpt from Oregon and its Institutions: Comprising a full history of the Willamette University, the First Established on the Pacific Coast by Reverend Gustavus Hines. Excerpt from Voyages from Montreal through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 with an account of the rise and state of the fur trade by Alexander Mackenzie.

An account of Radcliff's life in Oregon and California.

Account of Radcliff's life in Oregon and California.

Constitutional review for the Northeast Salem Lions Club.

Simeon Gannett Reed (1830-1895) was co-founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation company and namesake of Reed College. This is an autobiography copied from Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California.

Excerpt from the Journal of George Simpson.

Account of travel from Wellsville, Ohio to Portland, Oregon.

Article written for the Sunday Journal Magazine.

Excerpts from Townsend's Early Western Travels and Townsend's Original Journal - The Call of the Columbia.

Excerpt from A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World. Includes newspaper clippings about Fort Vancouver.

The letter addresses "Dear children" but the "envelope" addressee is Reverend Gustavus Hines.

Found among the papers of John Parsons