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Vue du port d'Okhotsk
Engraving taken from an unidentified book, showing the Russian town of Okhotsk, on the Pacific Coast, with people in boats in the foreground. Okhotsk was the first Russian settlement on the Pacific Coast, established as a military camp in 1643.
Vue d'un établissement des habitans du port des Français pour la saison de la pêche
Lithograph of a temporary settlement in Lituya Bay, Alaska, used for the fishing season, circa 1750-1799. Plate 21 from "Atlas du Voyage de la Pérouse," a book about the travels of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.
Oral history interview with Marjorie M. Vuylsteke
Oral history interview with Marjorie M. Vuylsteke conducted by Jamie Minkus and Kirsten Wall on May 3, 2002, as part of the Oregon Wine Archives Oral History Project. Vuylsteke discusses the founding and operations of Oak Knoll Winery in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Eugene M. Waddle
Oral history interview with Eugene M. Waddle conducted by Curtis Johnson on November 21, 1980, as part of the Drive-in Restaurants of Portland Oral History Project. Waddle founded Waddle's Restaurant on Hayden Island and the Original Taco House in Southeast Portland, Oregon.
Robert M. Wade collection
William Wadhams letters
William Wadhams (1831-1905) was a pioneer grocer and founder of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, Sellwood Presbyterian Church, and the Portland YMCA. Collection includes correspondence regarding Reverend W. H. Landon and his move to Portland to become pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, William Wadhams' business, Wadhams and Kerr Brothers, and church work.
Donald Waggoner papers
Donald Waggoner was president of the Oregon Environmental Council and was active in researching and lobbying for the Oregon Minimum Deposit Act (Bottle Bill), which went into effect in October 1972. Collection includes correspondence, articles, reports and testimony regarding state and national minimum deposit container legislation.
George Andrew Waggoner collection
Collection includes typescript and manuscript literary manuscripts of "Buckskin Fight with the Wolves," "A Test of Courage," "Oregon Pioneering," "A Race with the Wind," and "Was it Luck or Providence?"
Charles Wagner Willamette Valley flax industry photographs
Photographic prints produced by Charles Wagner, manager of the Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau (later the Pacific Fire Insurance Rating Bureau) to document the value of crops, facilities, and equipment associated with the flax industry in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The images include facilities in Canby, Corvallis, Dayton, Harrisburg, Irving, Monroe, Mount Angel, Santiam, Silverton, Springfield, St. Paul, and Washington County.
Wagon train photograph by the Aune Studio, Portland, Oregon
Cabinet photograph depicting four covered wagons, with horses, livestock, and people. Background appears to be Mt. Hood. The mark and address of the Aune studio in Portland are printed on the card below the photograph.