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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, Or. records
Manuscript and typescript routine correspondence to Captain Charles F. Powell, Captain of Engineers, at Portland, Oregon, 1886-1888, mainly regarding commerce at and between Fort Canby, Washington, and Fort Stevens, Oregon.
U.S. Army Department of the Pacific Special Orders No. 87
Handwritten copy of orders issued by Brigadier General Newman S. Clarke of the United States Army's Department of the Pacific in June 1857, prohibiting white persons from moving to specified lands in the eastern Washington Territory and Oregon Territory. The orders were issued during the Yakima War, a conflict in the 1850s between Euro-American emigrants and the Yakama, Imatalamłáma (Umatilla), Cayuse, and Walla Walla peoples.
U.S. Customs House, Astoria, Or. records
Collection includes microfilm of miscellaneous records of the U.S. Customs House at the Port of Astoria, Oregon, 1848-1868, with papers of employees and steamboats. Also included is a bound volume containing typescript copies of data and reports relating to steamboats, compiled from records of the collectors of customs in Astoria and Portland, including steamers registered with U.S. Customs, reports of supervising steamboat inspectors, and records of steamboat sales.
U.S. District Court biographies
Collection includes correspondence and research on the U.S. District Court, the renaming of the Pendleton Courthouse, Nels Peterson and Thomas J. White.
U.S. Post Office, St. Johns, Oregon, building plans
Includes plans, elevations, sections, and details. Also includes sheets for later renovations.
Extracts from U.S. Senate speeches regarding a Chinese exclusion bill
Printed extracts of speeches regarding an 1882 bill to prohibit Chinese immigration to the United States for 20 years, as well as vote tallies and U.S. President Chester A. Arthur's veto message. The bill referred to in this item failed to override presidential veto, but a modified version, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States for 10 years, passed as the Chinese Exclusion Act later that year, was renewed in 1892, made permanent in 1902, and repealed in 1943.
Photographs of the launching of the U.S.S. Alazon Bay
Photographs of the launching of the escort carrier CVE-55 USS Alazon Bay (later the USS Casablanca), at the Kaiser shipyards, Vancouver, Washington. Includes images of Eleanor Roosevelt at festivities and christening the ship, of Henry Kaiser, and of Josephine Hilda Schmid Coffin, governess to the Kaiser family.
Edward A. Valentine papers
Edward Autrey Valentine (1893-1980) was an insurance executive, chairman of the Portland, Oregon, chapter of the Red Cross, and served in both world wars. Collection includes diaries, 1943-1945, regarding his service during World War II in Italy; correspondence, 1943-1959; typescript reminiscences; and miscellaneous documents and memorabilia.
Edward Autrey Valentine photograph album
Album of black and white photographs depicting people and places in Northern Italy during the end of World War II, where Edward Autrey Valentine served as a provincial commissioner.
Valley Migrant League photographs
Collection consists of photographs taken primarily by staff of the Valley Migrant League for their program newspaper, "Opportunity News." Subjects depicted include VML-sponsored adult education and child care programs, working and living conditions for agricultural migrant laborers, labor organizing activities, and community events.