This collection contains primary source materials relating to a variety of Western Americana, including Oregon and Northwest businesses, Northwest authors, and other authors and organizations. Types of materials present in the collection include correspondence, business records, diaries, printed materials, biographical and autobiographical materials, financial records, scrapbooks, and ephemera. People, organizations, and businesses represented in the collection include: Richard Baird; Frederic Homer Balch; E. W. Ball; Charles Henry Carey; Eli Colter; Sabra Connor; Walter M. Cook; Belle W. Cooke; Robert Duniway; Daniel Giles; Eli Sheldon Glover; Elwin G. Greer; Lafyette Grover; Bernard Hinshaw; Bruce LeRoy; Chester A. Lyon; John McCracken; Joaquin Miller; Joseph Ouper; Emil Peters; M. A. Pflug; George Pope; Dr. D. H. Rand; Oswald West; the Auto Freight Company; Big Brother Farm (Lebanon, Oregon); Ladd & Tilton Bank; the Oregon Council for the Protection of Roadside Beauty; the Oregon Diamond Coal, Mining, and Developing Company; the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company; and the Vancouver Transportation Company. The collection also includes Sunday school records from Aumsville, Oregon; catalogs by Oregon rose growers; papers from the Tule Lake incarceration camp, where Japanese Americans were held during World War II; a record book of an unidentified Portland physician; and information about the origin and unveiling of the Pioneer Mother statue in Eugene, Oregon.