Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...

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Two posters: "Long Live the Oregon," promoting United States War Savings Bonds Stamps, Daily Journal of Commerce; and "Don't give up the ship!," for 1938 campaign to create a Battleship Oregon Park on the Portland waterfront.