Jones, Webster A. (Webster Anderson), 1904-1990
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Webster A. Jones
Collection
Identifier: SR 9456
Abstract
Oral history interview with Webster A. Jones, conducted by Louis Flannery on December 11, 1980. Jones discusses his journalism career at the Oregonian newspaper in Portland; his experiences as a pilot; and his interest in collecting books on Oregon history.
Dates:
1980 December 11
Webster Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 2927
Abstract
Webster Jones (born 1904) was a book collector, a graduate of the University of Oregon, and the first aviation editor at the Oregonian newspaper in Portland. This unprocessed collection includes correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and ephemera on subjects including Webster Jones' father, Frank G. Jones, and Charles N. Kessler; diaries of Lillian Gilstrap regarding her trips across North America in the 1920s and 1930s; and scrapbooks relating to aviation history in the Pacific Northwest.
Dates:
circa 1881-1961
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Aeronautics -- Northwest, Pacific -- History 1
- Air pilots -- Oregon 1
- American newspapers -- Oregon -- Portland 1
- Book collecting -- Oregon 1
- Canada -- Description and travel 1
- Journalism 1
- Journalism -- Oregon -- Portland 1
- Journalists -- Oregon 1
- Journalists -- Oregon -- Portland 1
- Oral Histories 1
- Recreational aviation -- Oregon 1
- Transportation 1
- United States -- Description and travel 1
- correspondence 1
- diaries 1
- interviews 1
- oral histories (literary genre) 1
- printed ephemera 1
- scrapbooks 1 + ∧ less
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