Posts Tagged ‘Oregon history’
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Asahel Bush (1824-1913) was a prominent early Oregon citizen who worked as a printer, was the founder and editor of the Oregon Statesman newspaper, and was a banker. The collection (1850-1914) contains photostat copies of correspondence.
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Guide to the Asahel Bush Papers
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 1850 - 1900, 1900 - 1950, banking, editors, journalism, Oregon history | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Annette Baldwin lived on the Oregon coast during the late 1800s. The collection (1881-1908) contains correspondence.
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Guide to the Annette Baldwin Letters
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: 1850 - 1900, 1900 - 1950, Oregon history, women | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Lillian Caldwell Blackwood was an Oregon pioneer who lived in Jacksonville, Oregon. The collection (1877-1928) contains correspondence regarding family and Oregon society and family photographs.
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Guide to the Lillian Caldwell Blackwood Letters and Photographs
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: 1850 - 1900, 1900 - 1950, families, Oregon history, pioneers, women | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
James R. Harvey was secretary of the Grants Pass, Oregon, Chamber of Commerce. The collection consists of business correspondence and files containing correspondence and other documents regarding projects important to Grants Pass and Josephine County such as the California and Oregon Coast Railroad, Crescent City Harbor Development, and Old Channel Mine.
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Guide to the James R. Harvey Papers
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: 1900 - 1950, business, mining, Oregon history, railroads | No Comments »
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
The collection consists of a single volume of school records for Marion County School District 47, as well as two pieces of correspondence from 1947 relating to the acquisition of the volume.
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Guide to the Marion County School District Records
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: 1850 - 1900, 1900 - 1950, education, Oregon history | No Comments »
Friday, March 1st, 2013
In 1936, the State Board of Higher Education combined the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, the Condon Museum of Geology, the University Herbarium, and the Museum of Zoology into the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History. The collection contains correspondence, reports, meeting notes and minutes, Herbarium historical documents, glass negatives, photographs, a Museum of Anthropology accessions/inventory journal, and a negative of Fort Rock sandals.
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Guide to the Museum of Natural and Cultural History Records
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: museums, natural resources, Oregon history, science, social science, UO records | No Comments »
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Villard Hall was the second building opened on the University of Oregon campus in 1886. The records document the history of the building as well as planning around the centennial celebration.
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Guide to the Villard Hall Centennial Records
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: Oregon history, UO records | No Comments »
Friday, February 1st, 2013
During the 1990s, a group of activists formed a political action committee called Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) to fight against legislative measures in Oregon aimed at limiting gay and lesbian civil rights. The collection contains records from several state and local community organizations and is composed primarily of general administrative, campaign, and financial records, correspondence, newsletters and pamphlets, volunteer lists, audio and video tapes and reels, and artifacts.
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Guide to the Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) Records
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: government/politics, LGBT, Oregon history, social activism | No Comments »
Friday, February 1st, 2013
Jefferson Myers (c.1860-1943) was a native Oregonian born of pioneer parents, who served as Oregon State Senator, on state commissions, and as a Board of Regent for Oregon Agricultural College. The collection contains material from the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and the Jamestown Tri-Centennial Exposition, as well as personal correspondence, some Oregon state documents, and photographs.
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Guide to the Jefferson Myers Papers
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: 1900 - 1950, agriculture, government/politics, Oregon history, pioneers | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
A native of Tillamook and the son of a fisherman, Howard Vincent Morgan (1914-2012) served in the Oregon state legislature, as Oregon’s Public Utilities Commissioner, as Federal Power Commissioner, and also chaired the Democratic Party of Oregon from 1952-1956. The collection contains Federal Power Commission files including correspondence, memoranda, and subject files, Oregon files that include Oregon Public Utilities Commissioner files, correspondence relating to Oregon matters, Morgan’s senatorial campaign files, biographical material, and printed matter.
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Guide to the Howard Vincent Morgan papers
Posted in Finding Aids, NHPRC | Tags: electricity, fishing, government/politics, Oregon history | No Comments »