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Oral history interview with Sara C. Lusk
Oral history interview with Sara C. Lusk conducted by Linda S. Dodds from January 22-27, 1982. Lusk discusses her early life in Portland, Oregon; her art studies; and her marriage to Hall S. Lusk, as well as his career as a lawyer, judge, and U.S. senator.
Lutheran Schools Committee records
Records compiled by the Lutheran Schools Committee of Portland, Oregon, largely as part of a 1922 political campaign to defeat the Compulsory Education Bill, which sought to make public school attendance mandatory in Oregon for children ages eight to sixteen. Materials include clippings, campaign literature, posters, correspondence, ephemera, and voter registration lists.
Horace Lyman diary
Manuscript diary describing Horace Lyman's sea voyage from New York to San Francisco aboard the vessel Whitton and from San Francisco to the Columbia River aboard the Toulon. Lyman (1815-1887) was a congregational clergyman and teacher. He founded the First Congregational Church, Portland, Oregon, in 1851.
Jack Lynch papers
Jack Lynch (1896-1973) served as an Oregon state senator from 1943 to 1952. Collection includes correspondence, 1940-1973, regarding advice on campaign strategies to Douglas McKay and Bob Packwood; political speeches; legislative records regarding chiropractors, health professions, and small businesses; newspaper clippings and other papers regarding the "Fugitive Fathers Bill" and a bill prohibiting the sale of firecrackers, both of which were introduced by Lynch.
Lyon Lumber Company records
The Lyon Lumber Co. owned timber lands in Linn County, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, deeds, abstracts of title, minutes, accounts, stock certificates, ledgers and registers regarding land in Oregon and Louisiana.
Daniel Jackson Lyons account book for Lord and Peters
Manuscript bound account book of D. J. Lyons, June 1857-April 1858, tracking items purchased from Lord and Peters, Scottsburg, Oregon.
M. Seller & Company records
Collection includes records of M. Seller & Company, a crockery and glassware business that opened in Portland, Oregon, in 1859. Records include business correspondence, 1875-1904; legal papers, 1900-1905; financial records, 1864-1900; inventory book, 1910; advertisements; samples of correspondence and other forms; and ephemera.
M. Senders & Company records
M. Senders & Company was an agricultural business engaged in the sale of wool, wheat, rye, and seeds in the Albany, Oregon, area. Records include business correspondence, bills and receipts, sales invoices, tax records, seed purity tests, and stock certificates.
John Maben diaries and letters
Typescript diaries, December 1926-March 1927, regarding John Maben's life as caretaker of Crater Lake Lodge, including a ski race from Fort Klamath to the lodge in 1927. Collection also includes miscellaneous correspondence, 1951 and 1977.
E. Kimbark MacColl papers
Draft copy of the introduction for a book about the history of Portland, Oregon's development, and a speech about significant Jewish people in Oregon's history, both by E. Kimbark MacColl (1925-2011). MacColl was an educator and historian who, in the 1970s and 1980s, wrote three books about the history of Portland's development as a city.