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Prose and Poetry Collection, 1832-2009

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Oregon Historical Society
Title
Prose and Poetry Collection
Dates
1832-2009 (inclusive)
1880-1986 (bulk)
Quantity
3.2 cubic feet, (7 document cases, 2 flat boxes, and 1 oversize folder)
Collection Number
Mss 1507
Summary
Collection created by the Oregon Historical Society containing essays, stories, poems, and other writings, mostly in manuscript and typescript form, and largely by Oregon authors.
Repository
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
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

Since its founding in 1898, the Oregon Historical Society has collected manuscript materials of all kinds, most of it documenting the history of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. In the mid-20th century, librarians at the Society began organizing single items into what became known as "Topical Collections." One such collection, the Prose and Poetry Collection, collated essays, poems, and other writings that did not belong with multi-item collections formed around individuals or corporate bodies.

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Content Description

Collection created by the Oregon Historical Society containing essays, stories, poems, and other writings, mostly in manuscript and typescript form, and largely by Oregon authors. Also includes some published pamphlets, chapbooks, broadsides, commonplace books, a scrapbook documenting the travels of Mr. and Mrs. Hebert Qualman in the Pacific Northwest (1935-1938). Among the authors represented are: Ben Hur Lampman, Martha Fergusen McKeown, Harvey W. Scott, and Averta Terney.

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Use of the Collection

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

Prose and Poetry Collection, Mss 1507, Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following series:

  • Series A: Anonymous and anthologies, 1893-1959
  • Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
  • Series C: General materials, 1918-2008

Acquisition Information

The Oregin Historical Society assembled the collection from a variety of sources.

Future Additions

Materials are added to the collection from time to time.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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

  • Series A: Anonymous and anthologies, 1893-1959

    • Description: Anonymous essays

      Includes:

      • "Wagons west : the story of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman," 1946
      • "Did Dr. Whitman save Oregon?"
      • "The legend of sparkling water
      • "A brief sketch of the life of Joshua V. Himes"
      • "Travels on the western slope"

      Dates: circa 1890-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 1/1
      Location: Series A: Anonymous and anthologies, 1893-1959
    • Description: Anonymous poetry

      Includes:

      • "Whitman's ride," by "A lady of Brooklyn," published by Baumgardt and Palmer, Portland, Oregon, circa 1893, gift from Caroline Gray Kamm to George Himes
      • "The survivors of the Whitman massacre" (typescript)
      • "Not understood : a tribute to the memory of John H. Mitchell" (broadside, crica 1905)
      • "Master Frank's account of himself" (manuscript), by "Frank the Student."

      Dates: circa 1893-1940
      Container: Box/Folder 1/2
      Location: Series A: Anonymous and anthologies, 1893-1959
    • Description: "But in each place below the sun..." (manuscript)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1/3
      Location: Series A: Anonymous and anthologies, 1893-1959
    • Description: Anothologies of poetry

      Includes Popular hobo poems, published by the Hobo News, New York, 1937, and Poems Composed by Convicts in Oregon State Penitentiary, circa 1930.

      Dates: circa 1930; 1937; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1/4
      Location: Series A: Anonymous and anthologies, 1893-1959
    • Description: Anthologies of poetry--Volumes

      Includes:

      • Gatherings of the wayside, published by the Ladies of the First Congregational Church, Portland, 1893
      • Poems composed by the convicts of the Oregon State Penitentiary, circa 1900
      • Rhymes of the Rockies, Chicago, 1900
      • Oregon centennial anthology, 1959

      Dates: circa 1895-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1/5
      Location: Series A: Anonymous and anthologies, 1893-1959

  • Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000

    • Description: Adams, Myra L., and Ben Hur Lampman--"Editorials from the Oregonian"
      Dates: circa 1950-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1/6
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Aitchison, Clyde B., "Like silver lamps"
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Akin, Otis F.--A reminiscence of the Klondike rush of 1898, ca. 1950's printed from a talk given in 1920
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Alderman, Ruch, "On Mission Rose Farm" and other verses
      Dates: 1915 August
      Container: Box/Folder 1/9
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Alderson, Matt W., "How she felt in her first corset" (originally published 1887)
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1/10
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Ammidwon, Edward, "Illahee"
      Dates: 1901 October
      Container: Box/Folder 1/11
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Applegate, O.C., and General E. L. Applegate, "The Pilgrims," "Arnold Bray," and "Uncle Hill"
      Dates: 1901
      Container: Box/Folder 1/12
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Atterbury, Vivian Corbett, "My wonderful Oregon"
      Dates: circa 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 1/13
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Baker, Lydell--Essay on reconstruction
      Dates: circa 1900
      Container: Box/Folder 1/14
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Baker, Mina E.--Poems
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1/15
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Ball family--Copy book with poetry, prose, and clippings, probably compiled by Mrs. Ezra Ball's mother
      Dates: circa 1860
      Container: Box/Folder OSA-1/1
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Beck, Borden F., Jr.--Poems
      Dates: circa 1970-1979
      Container: Box/Folder 1/16
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Behel, Sidney E., "Shed not a tear," "Come to the woods in June," "On visiting the grounds where a camp meeting was held"
      Dates: 1843-1844
      Container: Box/Folder 1/17
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Bissell, G. P.--Poems
      Dates: circa 1900
      Container: Box/Folder 1/18
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Blake, C. F., "The birth of Oregon" (long poem)
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 1/19
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Booth, Robert A.--Speech at the annual reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box/Folder 1/20
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Br

      Includes:

      • Bradshaw, C. W., "Marching to Berlin," 1918
      • Brindley, W. E., "How wheat saved the Oregon Country to the Union," 1905
      • Brown, Elinor Henry, "Dream awake and remember," undated
      • Bryant, William Cullen, "The flood of years"

      Dates: 1905-1918; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1/21
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Brogan, Phil F.--Concerning George Cecil Carrol
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box/Folder 1/22
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Burdick, Louisa Antoinette, "Birds and Flowers Mentioned in Thirteen Hundred and Eight Poems of Pacific Coast Writers"
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Box/Folder 1/23
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Burke, Frances Striegel, "A nocturne" and "Oregon symphony"
      Dates: 1916-1917
      Container: Box/Folder 1/24
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Burney, Nancy K., "The house that was of yesterday"
      Dates: 1912
      Container: Box/Folder 1/25
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Ca-Ce

      Includes:

      • Canse, John M., "Discovery Days in the Northeast Pacific, the Sesquicentennial of Yankee Exploits Along Unchartered Shores," February 7, 1942
      • Carey, Charles H., "Edwards at Eighty"
      • Cee, Jay, "Some Simple Rhymes"

      Dates: 1942; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/1
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Ch-Cl

      • Chaplin, Ralph, "Only the Drums Remembered," 1960
      • Chesnut, Lillian Billups, "Oregon: Six Golden Letters"
      • Chilo, "Our Country"
      • Clarke, S.A. (volume of poems)
      • Clemson, "How Shall It Be?"
      • Clor(sp.?), "The Little Blue Girl"

      Dates: 1960; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/2
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Clatsop County Chapter of Oregon Hist. Soc.--assembled for CCHS, "General History, Harbor Defenses of the Columbia River"
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box/Folder 2/3
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Co-Cu

      • Coffey, Thoalson, "The Mountaineers, Barewell" Feb. 20, 1963
      • Copple, R.A, Her Poems, ca. 1950
      • Cranch, S.P., "By the Shore of the River"
      • Cullier, P.M., "Forest Fires"
      • Curtis, Walt
      • Curtis, Wintertron C., "Cape Cod Horizons and Other Verse"

      Dates: ca 1963-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 2/4
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Cox, L. B., "Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Party" (typescript)
      Dates: circa 1900
      Container: Box/Folder 2/5
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Crandall, Lulu D.--Memoirs
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/6
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Da-Di

      • Dana, Marshall N., "It Doesn't Rain Rain in Oregon"
      • Darby, John Nelson, "The 'Man of Sorrows'"
      • Davies, Laura Thomas, Pacific Northwest Souvenir, Davies Poems, 1936-1937
      • Dawson, J.J., Closing Prayer of District School No. 3 of Tillamook Co. Oregon, for the special purpose, Oct. 11, 1889

      Dates: 1889-1937; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/7
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Dempster, L., "Spotsylvania"
      Dates: circa 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 2/8
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Do-Doughty

      • Donthil(sp.?), Mary Osborn, "The Oregon Trail"
      • Doughty, Lucy, (several essays of an autobiographical/historical nature)

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/9
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Drenner, Robert S., "Whistling wings"
      Dates: circa 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 2/10
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Dunbar, Agnes, "Heppner"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/11
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: E

      • Eberhard, E., "Matthieu at Champoeg"
      • Eliot, Henrietta R., The Unwelcome Guest and Other Verses, 1937
      • England, Olive S., Sweet Peas
      • Esson, Alexander, untitled, May 22, 1861
      • Euwer, Anthony, "The Yucca"

      Dates: 1861-1937; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/12
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Farber, Norma, "Journey to the western sea"
      Dates: circa 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 2/13
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Fe-Fi

      • Ferguson, W.H.L. Co., "We've Done Our Hitch in Hell"
      • Field, Sara Bard, "The Gift" (Christmas 1914)
      • Finch, F.M., "Class Song," "Smoking Song," "Hymn" July, 1852

      Dates: 1852-1914; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/14
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Fenton, Mabel Copley (Mrs. Ralph A.), "A doughboy saved" (play)
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box/Folder 2/15
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Fenton, William D.--Essays

      "Russian Rashness," "Ingersoll's Oration at his Brother's Grave, "Labor Unions" (also included: an essay of unidentified authorship--possibly James Davis Fenton), Speech on Woman Suffrage--delivered Oct. 4th, 1876 in the Oregon House of Representatives.

      Dates: 1876; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/16
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Flory, Even, "Oregon song"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/17
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Ford, J. T., "The Sparkling Rickreall"
      Dates: 1915
      Container: Box/Folder 2/18
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Fox, Clayton Hobart

      "Legend of the Willamette Valley" 1978, "Legend of the Pioneers" 1978, "Legend of the Pacific Ocean" 1978, "Legend of Crater Lake" 1978, "Legend of the Columbia River" 1978, "Legend of the City of Portland" 1978.

      Dates: 1978
      Container: Box/Folder 2/19
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Franzen, Andrew, Poems of Oregon and other verses; and "Margaret"

      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box/Folder 3/1
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Frey, George, untitled collection of poems
      Dates: circa 1890-1920
      Container: Box/Folder 3/2
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Gal-Gar

      • Gale, Joseph, "My Legacy," "My Friend Joe," March 17, 1885
      • Gardiner, Mary, "Around the Pioneer Campfire, Portland, OR."
      • Garfield, E., "Rainbow Rays" "Entreaty" "A Heart Gift"
      • Gale, Vi, Nineteen Ing Poems

      Dates: 1924; 1970; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/3
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Gib-Gris

      • Gibson, Elaine B., "Bring flowers," 1847
      • Gordon, William Steward, "Jason Lee."
      • Grissen, Charles, "Birth of Oregon," 1903

      Dates: 1847; 1903; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/4
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Gilbert, William Ball
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/5
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Hal-Har

      • Hall, Hazel, "Your audience"
      • Hammond, Charles F., Poems of Portland and the great Northwest
      • Harmon, Alvin B., (revision of author's work), 1935
      • Harness, Alden, Poems for metal workers, 1927

      Dates: 1927-1935; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/6
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: He-Hill

      • Henry, Francis, Hon.--Song, 1902
      • Hidden, Maria L. T., "Oregon pioneers," 1910
      • Hill, William Lair, "The cottager's Thanksgiving"

      Dates: 1902-1910; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/7
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Hoe-Howard

      • Hoerlein, Hans, "Mt. Adams moonlight climb"
      • Holman, Frederick V.--Address at the unveiling of the statue of "The Pioneer" on the University of Oregon campus, May 22, 1919
      • Honeyman, Arthur, "Salute to Lady Skidmore"
      • Howard, D. F., "The first white men to dwell in Oregon"

      Dates: 1919; 1988; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/8
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Hoening, Jesse, "Poems"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/9
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Howay, F. W., "Early navigation of the straits of Fuca"
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box/Folder 3/10
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Huntington, Mary, "Fish story"
      Dates: 1890
      Container: Box/Folder 3/11
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Jackson, Lucille J., "A book is born"

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/12
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Johnson, Lionel A., Oregon at Malabon and other poems
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box/Folder 3/13
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Jon-Jor

      • Jones, Otto M., Eventide on Wauna Lake
      • Jordon, Mrs. D. M., "Only Rue"

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3/14
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: K

      • Kerr, Anne, Poems, 1918-1919
      • Kirk, T. J., untitled, April 29, 1907

      Dates: 1907-1919
      Container: Box/Folder 4/1
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: La-Lan

      • Lacey, J.D., "Prayer unanswered for the Argus," "Took in," "Roundelay, to 'Ruby lips'"
      • Lampman, Ben Hur, Where to buy a dog, Them two guys is nuts
      • Landisburg, "Acrostic," 1846

      Dates: 1846; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4/2
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Lampman, Ben Hur--Scrapbooks (2) of his articles
      Dates: 1942-1951
      Container: Box/Folder OSB-1/1-2
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Lan-Law

      • Languille, H. D., Mostly Division R Days, 1941
      • Lawton, Arthur R., Homesteading in Oregon as a pastime, 1905

      Dates: 1905-1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4/3
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Lee, Mary, untitled volume, and The wisdom of Ingersoll
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4/4
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Leg-Lit

      • Legrand, Stella M., The lighthouse trail, 1922
      • Lerner-Aderman, J., R.E.L.A.X.* You know you're an Oregonian when . . ., 1990
      • Lewis, George Edward, Yukon lyrics, 1925
      • Literary map of Oregon

      Dates: 1922-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 4/5
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Loc-Lui

      • Lockhart, Agnes Ruth, "A legend of the Coos," 1909
      • Love, Robertus, "The dream of the star"
      • Lowell, Stephen A., The mystic birth of Oregon (address at the Astoria Exposition, August 12, 1911)
      • Luiten, Irv, "The education of a freshman"

      Dates: 1909-1911; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4/6
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Lofton, Blanche De Good, "Home from Sea (The Oregon)"

      Poem about the Battleship Oregon, with illustrations by Burt Leslie.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder Oversize Folder 1
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Lord, Eve

      • "American inventors"
      • "Our trip to the mountains"
      • "Some of my ideas about books"
      • "The long and the short"

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4/7
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: S. M. [sic]

      • "To J. T. Jr. by S. M.," 1872 January
      • "Thin pictures," February 3, 1872
      • "The Pioneers" March 3, 1872
      • "To the Willamette" Aug. 15, 1871
      • "Fourth of July Oration" by J.H. Reed July 7, 1868
      • Angle of the Road for Steamers, March 15, 1868
      • "The Woolen Mill of Oregon" March 14, 1868
      • "Ye Big Scare" Oct. 24, 1871
      • "The Willamette Milldam"

      Dates: 1868-1872
      Container: Box/Folder 4/8
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Mahone, L. D., Blazing new trails (typescript)
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 4/9
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Marton, A. M., The photo oleograph process : a combination of painting and photography
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box/Folder 4/10
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Matthews, Courtland W., Daffodils and Diesel Engines
      Dates: circa 1930-1940
      Container: Box/Folder 4/11
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Matilla, Walter, The theater Finns (typescript)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4/12
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Mac-Mas

      • Mack, George Cecil, "The Ballad of the Bull" 1925
      • Markham, Edwin, "Lincoln, the Man of the People," circa 1919 (autographed by Markham 1934)
      • Markham, Edwin, "The Man with the Hoe" 1933
      • Markham, Elizabeth, Poems, (published 1921)
      • Masiker, Carson C., "The Linchpin Wagon and its Bucket of Tar"
      • Mason, George (Rev.), "Lo! The Poor Indian" 1875
      • Mason, Otis T., The Ripening of Thoughts in Common, 1904

      Dates: 1875-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 5/1
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Masson, L. R., The Partners of the North West Company, translation from the French of Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest, (recent typescript)
      Dates: 1889
      Container: Box/Folder 5/2
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: McBride, John R., Essays
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5/3
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: McKay-McRaei

      • McKay, Genevieve, "Timberline Lodge Song" 1938-1939
      • McPherson, William Angus, "Portland Heights" Jan. 1891; "To Oregon" Oct. 1877
      • McRae, John, "The Ghost of Everest"

      Dates: 1873-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 5/4
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: McKenzie, Jane--Copy book with prose and poetry
      Dates: 1844-1849
      Container: Box/Folder OSA-1/2
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: McKeown, Martha Ferguson, "Certain aspects of Thoreau's emphasis on self" (Thesis, University of Oregon)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 5/5
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Meeker, Ezra

      • Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound, the Tragedy of Leschi, 1905
      • The Story of the Lost Trail to Oregon, 1915

      Dates: 1905; 1915
      Container: Box/Folder 5/6
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Miller-Mor

      • Miller, J.W., Killed by a Grizzly Bear--a Leaf from My Scrap Book, 1861
      • Minto, John, Rhymes on Life in Oregon, 1909
      • Modlin, Edith, Silly Dilly's
      • Moffat, Laura A., "The Historical Tree at Lower Cascades, Wash."
      • Moffat, R.M., "Sage of the Eola Hills"
      • Montgomery, Samuel, "A Life on the Ocean Wave"
      • Morgan, Carrie B., "The Old Emigrant Road"
      • Morley, Christopher, A Letter to Leonora, 1928
      • Moroney, Martha, "To the Rose"
      • Morrish, G., How to Get Peace

      Dates: 1861-1872; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5/7
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Monroe, Shannon, A New Song in Her Heart, (1st 3 chapters of an unfinished work)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5/8
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: N

      • Naehand, Henry, untitled poem, Sept. 18th, 1859
      • Nelson, Vera Joyce, Moccasin Prints West, 1955

      Dates: 1859; 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 5/9
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Neufer, Ray
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5/10
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: "O"

      • Oak, Henry Lebbeus, (an autobiography)
      • Ordway, June McMillen, "Life's Voyage"

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5/11
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: P

      • P, O. QM., untitled poem
      • P., W.H., "The Vultures of the Veldt"
      • Parker, Alfred, Untitled poem
      • Parrot, Joseph, "A Tribute to the Oregon Pioneers" Aug. 30, 1917
      • Pepper, K.N., "A Fact" "To O.P.L."
      • Pringle, O.M., Magic River Deschutes

      Dates: circa 1890-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 5/12
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Pennington, Levi T., "All kinds of weather"
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 5/13
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Pratt, Lawrence

      • Fragments of Now, 1968-1969
      • Adam Had No Belly Button, 1970
      • Cogito, (collection of poems) 1962
      • Quips and Cranks, 1963
      • Let Fancy Roam, 1963

      Dates: 1962-1970
      Container: Box/Folder 5/14
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Prosch, Thomas W., "The Indian War in Washington," (the annual address of the Oregon Historical Society, delivered December 19th, 1914 at Portland by T.W. Prosch of Seattle)
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box/Folder 5/15
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Qualman, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert, "Our vacations" (scrapbook of travels in the Pacific northwest

      Includes postcards, brochures, clippings, pressed flowers

      Dates: 1935-1938
      Container: Box/Folder OSA-1/3
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Quigley, Tom, "The Irrigatin' Ditch"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5/16
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Ray, Grace Ernestine, Humor-Flecked History of Warms Springs House
      Dates: circa 1950
      Container: Box/Folder 5/17
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Reid-Russell

      • Reid, R.L., "Bits" and "York Shillings" (paper delivered at the Pittsburgh Convention of the A.N.A. in 1935)
      • Reynolds, Mary Randolph, The Emigrant, a Scenario, 1928; The Greatest Woman, a Scenario , 1928
      • Russell, Irwin, "Christmas Night in the Quarters" (reprint of the original--first published in 1870, reprinted in 1970)

      Dates: 1928; 1935; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5/18
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: W. T.

      • "Crossing the Plains in 1850"
      • "The Battle Hymn of Victory"
      • "Easter Morn and Easter Rejoicing" (2 copies)
      • "America in 1917"
      • "Liberate Old Glory"
      • "Silver Creek"
      • "Our God is on His Throne" and "A Dirge to the Golden Stars"
      • "The Missing Soldier"
      • "What is Death?"
      • "Our Flag"
      • "America in Danger"

      Dates: 1917; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5/19
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Savage, Loretta--Fortune cards and poetry
      Dates: 1908-1918
      Container: Box/Folder 6/1
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Sa-Se

      • Saylor, F.H., Astoria, the Venice of Oregon, (ca. 1900)
      • Schnabel, Charles J., Memorial Day Address (delivered at Lincoln High School, Portland, OR 1915)
      • Scott, Julian P., "Music a Poem and Life"
      • Sellars, Donna, "Legacy"

      Dates: circa 1900-1972
      Container: Box/Folder 6/2
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Scott, Harvey W., Catalogue of Public Addresses and Lectures of Harvey W. Scott, Forty Years Editor-in-Chief, Morning Oregonian (compiled by Leslie M. Scott--2 copies)
      Dates: circa 1915
      Container: Box/Folder 6/3
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Simpson, Samuel Leonidas

      • "The Oregon Pioneers"
      • "Red Lacy"
      • Scrapbook of misc. articles, poems

      Dates: 1899; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6/4
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Smith

      • Smith, C.W., The Killing of Old Ship
      • Smith, Francis E., Achievement and Experiences of Capt. Robert Gray, 1923
      • Smith, Gene, "When Yankee Doodle Went to France" 1918
      • Smith, S.F., untitled, 1832
      • Smith, Susan W., "The Legend of Multnomah Falls" 1905

      Dates: 1832; circa 1900-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 6/5
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Sn-Su

      • Snodgrass, Prof. J.C., "A Brief Poem of the Leading Men and Events of Our Spanish-American War" ca. 1900
      • Stephens, E.K., "She Flies with Her Own Wings," 1912
      • Stuart, Robert F., "The House That Jack Built" (English and Chinook, translated by Robert Stuart)
      • Sullivan, Timothy, "Inspiration

      Dates: 1898-1912; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6/6
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Stafford, William--Catalog of exhibit about
      Dates: 2000
      Container: Box/Folder 6/7
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Stankey, Wilma W. W., Destination--Toutle River
      Dates: circa 1972
      Container: Box/Folder 6/8
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Stephenson, C.B., The Way it Was, a chronicle of events in the life of C.B. Stephenson
      Dates: circa 1971
      Container: Box/Folder 6/9
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Stewart, Earle, The Wilson Land Dispute and Willamette University, The Roster of Hudson's Bay Company Men
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6/10
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: T

      • Teck, Frank Carlton, Under Western Skies
      • Tupper, Martin F., "Ode"

      Dates: 1899; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6/11
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Terney, Averta B.

      • "Mad, Mad River" 1967
      • "You Are My Inspiration" 1967
      • "Ferryboat on the River" 1981
      • "Arlington" 1981
      • "Out in Oregon" 1964
      See also Mss 1523, Performing Arts Collection, for additional Terney writings

      Dates: 1964-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 6/12
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: V

      • Vennix, Arthur J., Oregon: A Century in Birth, 1953
      • Von der Green, B.K., Tommy Dolan of Pistol River, Ore., an Historical Poem, 1909 (2 copies)

      Dates: 1909; 1953
      Container: Box/Folder 6/13
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Waddlebaum, Ella Egan--Song lyrics
      Dates: 1893-1894
      Container: Box/Folder 6/14
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Wal-Wat

      • Walker, Cyrus H., "Blazing the Oregon Trail" 1905
      • Walker, Mary L., untitled, 1849
      • Warren, Churchill Howard, Reminiscence and Reverie
      • Watt, Ahio S., "Fireside Reveries" 1907; untitled; "Poetry. The Huntsman's Song," 1849
      • Watters, Dennis Alonzo, "The Sky Line Trail" (cover gives date Aug. 23, 1876-1906)

      Dates: 1849-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 7/1
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Warner, Eliott M.

      • "Memories of a Western Trip, Oct. 18th to Dec. 30th, 1915 : A Thank offering to My Friends I Met Along the Way" (broadside)
      • "Ho! For Portland" 1920
      • "Where the True Goal of the West Begins"
      • 2 small cards with unique pen and ink drawings by Elliott Warner

      Dates: 1915; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 7/2
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Wea-Wes

      • Weathers, Ben, Fellers and Things ("A Collection of Crude, Rough and Rude Rhymes of a Past and a Fast Passing Generation")
      • West, Norris G., Oregon-Banned, 1986
      • West, Oswald, Poetic and Politics of Early Oregon

      Dates: 1960; 1986; undated
      Container: Box/Folder 7/3
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Wheeler, Robert C., "Relics from the Rapids" (speech by Robert C. Wheeler from the 24th annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History)
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 7/4
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: White-Whitely

      • White, Eliza Elliott, "Leaders of Men"
      • White, W. Alice, "Pioneer Days"
      • (Whitely, Opal), Extracts from Reviews of Opal Whitely and Her Work

      Dates: unaded
      Container: Box/Folder 7/5
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Wil-Wol

      • Williams, John H., A Reviewer Reviewed 1914
      • Wolfe, Ulreeka--Song, 1935
      • Wygant, Nellie, (bound notebook containing prose and poetry)

      Dates: 1877; 1914; 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 7/6
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Wilson, Fred W., The Lure of the River(folder also contains three sheets of notes and a dateline)

      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 7/7
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Young, John R., "Dear Fellow Citizens:"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 7/8
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000
    • Description: Yamhill County Historical Society, The Way We Live in 1963

      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 7/9
      Location: Series B: Writings of individuals, 1832-2000

  • Series C: General materials, 1918-2008

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Authors--Oregon
  • Poetry--Oregon

Personal Names

  • Lampman, Ben Hur, 1886-1954.
  • Qualman, Herbert.
  • Scott, Harvey W. (Harvey Whitefield), 1838-1910.
  • Terney, Averta.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Commonplace books
  • Manuscripts for publication
  • Poems
  • Scrapbooks
  • Stories
  • Typescripts

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • McKeown, Martha Fergusen, 1903- (creator)

Finding aid prepared by Geoffrey B. Wexler
2009

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