This collection was compiled by the Oregon Historical Society, and consists of correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, logs, personal papers, photographs and drawings, and mementos of the battleship U.S.S. Oregon, the Battleship Oregon Commission, and the Battleship Oregon Memorial and Museum. Among these are materials concerning the vessel's construction, launch, actions in the Spanish-American War, service as a memorial and museum in Portland, and dismantling following World War II. The materials also include correspondence with the National Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans, the papers of Chester Lincoln Coon (1915-1919), the 1898 diary of Sargent Weed in the Philippines, and an 1898 logbook taken from the Spanish ship Cristobol Colon.