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Paul Bragdon was the president of Reed College in Portland from 1971 to 1988. Collection includes correspondence; administrative records; and admissions records, development correspondence and proposals, committee correspondence and meeting notes, faculty files, trustee files, provost files, student services documents, issues and activities, etc., regarding Reed College. Also included are miscellaneous papers of Nancy Bragdon.

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Eastmoreland Study Club was founded in 1918 to promote scholarships for Reed College and provide community service. Collection includes scrapbooks, minutes, programs, and account books.

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Oral history interview with Julia E. Johnson, conducted by Deborah M. Olson in five sessions, from July 20 to November 11, 1987. Johnson discusses her early life in Jacksonville, Oregon; the operations of the Opp mine, which was owned and operated by her father, John Wesley Opp; teaching at Grant High School in Portland from 1926 to 1944; her involvement with the Girl Scouts of America; and her involvement with the Republican Party of Oregon.

Abstract Abraham Walter Lafferty (1875-1964) practiced law in Portland and was elected as a Republican to the sixty-second and sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915). He moved to New York City in 1919 and continued the practice of law there until 1933. He returned to Portland and later unsuccessfully ran for political office several times. Papers include letters to E. B. MacNaughton, January 1949, urging Reed College to purchase Calvert Mansion in Riverdale, Maryland; and miscellaneous...

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Twenty-eight black and white photographs of Amanda Wood Reed; Simeon Gannett Reed; the interior of the Reed house in Portland, Oregon; the Reed College campus; and Reed students.

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Oral history interview with Catherine R. Sabin conducted by Charles Digregorio on June 15, 1976. Sabin discusses her family background and early life in Portland, Oregon, in the 20th century.

Abstract The Velde Committee, or Committee on Un-American Activities, met in Portland, Oregon, in June 1954 to investigate the political affiliations of three Reed College professors, who refused to answer questions put to them by the committee. Collection consists of documents gathered by Donald Sterling Jr., who covered the hearings for the Oregon Journal newspaper. Among the materials in the collection are an open letter by Reed College Professor Stanley Moore; the prepared text of a speech to be...

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Oral history interview with David R. Williams conducted by Elizabeth Reichow from December 16, 1991, to January 16, 1992, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Williams was an attorney in Portland, Oregon.