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John Newsom diary and letter
Pocket diary of John Newsom (1828-1902) from his travels to Idaho for gold mining, and an 1866 letter from Newsom to G. W. Taylor. Newsom came to Oregon in 1852, and did work mining and surveying in the Pacific Northwest and California until moving to Salem, Oregon, in 1864.
Oral history interview with Dominic Vu Nguyen
Oral history interview with Dominic Vu Nguyen conducted by Rachel Ramirez on July 9, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Nguyen's family fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and later immigrated to the United States. He studied chemical and electrical engineering and became a fitness coach in Portland, Oregon.
Nightfires: a story of the Oregon Country
Typescript series of historical sketches of Oregon, 194 pages.
Mercedes Niiranen photographic collection on the United States National Bank of Portland, Citizens Branch
Seven black and white photographs, including one duplicate, of the employees of the United States National Bank of Portland, Citizens Branch, in Portland, Oregon, at Christmas parties and other events. Includes one portrait of a person identified on the back of the print as "Mr. Young."
Harry M. Niles papers
Oral history interview with Belise Nishimwe
Oral history interview with Belise Nishimwe conducted by Elanya Yussen on June 10, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Belise discusses her life in the Mutabira refugee camp in Tanzania, her life after immigrating to the United States in the mid-2000s, and her participation in the Poetry Out Loud contest.
John F. Noble papers
Papers of an Indian agent, stock rancher, and Army officer of Oregon and Washington State. Includes an incomplete overland diary of 1849; an 1860 diary of a hunting trip on the Deschutes River; a diary of a trip of 1864-1865 through Indian country; survey notes; Chinook vocabulary; papers of Noble & Scholl relating to stock raising near The Dalles, Oregon; military papers; and papers regarding an Indian depredation claim by Brooke, Bomford and Company.
Oral history interview with Sherma J. Norris
Oral history interview with Sherma J. Norris conducted by Robert J. Gassner on August 26, 1988, as part of the Portland's Syrian/Lebanese-American Community series. Norris was a Lebanese-American living in Oregon.
Shubrick Norris papers
Financial records and business letters of a pioneer businessman of Portland, Oregon, dating primarily from the early 1850s. Includes records of Norris & Company, S. M. Holderness & Co., and Winter & Latimer of San Francisco, California. Also included are commissary accounts of the Oregon Mounted Volunteers, 1855, and a record of witness fees from the U.S. Circuit Court in Multnomah County, Oregon, 1859-1866.
North Bank Road photograph album
Photograph album, possibly compiled by the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway, containing black and white photographs, most taken by Fred H. Kiser, of landscape scenes along the Oregon Trunk Railway. Among the subjects depicted are the Celilo Bridge, the Deschutes River, the Tygh Valley, Mount Jefferson, Crooked River Canyon, and Benham Falls.