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United Steelworkers of America Local 2070 records
Records of United Steelworkers of America Local 2070 of Portland, Oregon, compiled by Jack Heathman (1911-1994), who served as the local's president and as chair of the grievance committee. Local 2070 represented workers at the American Can Company's plant in Portland from 1938 until 1960, when the plant relocated to Eugene, Oregon.
Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Institute records
Bound manuscript minutes and accounts of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Institute, Salem, Oregon.
Inventory of architectural files at the University of Oregon Library
Photocopy inventories of the contents of architectural collections at the University of Oregon Library in Eugene, Oregon, circa 1970. Included are inventories for collections related to: Herman Brookman; Harry Herzog; Francis B. Jacobberger; Francis Keally; Ellis Fuller and Henry Abbot Lawrence; Richard Sundeleaf; Chachot Therkelson; W. R. B. Wilcox; and Jacob Jacobberger, Everett Franks, John Stanton, Richard Norman, Smith and Elmer Zeller.
The unwanted settlers: black and mulatto pioneers in Oregon, 1840-1875
Typescript working copy of an article regarding the history and social conditions of African-American pioneers in Oregon.
Urban League of Portland flyer refuting housing myths
Flyer from the Urban League of Portland providing evidence against claims that Black people moving into or attending church in majority-white neighborhoods would cause property values to decrease. The Urban League of Portland is a civil rights and advocacy organization for Black residents of Portland, Oregon, that was founded in 1945.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District architectural records
Blueprint and diazo copies of plans for projects in Oregon and Washington, including the Willamette Falls locks; modifications to a dam and lock on the Yamhill River; gun emplacements at Fort Stevens; and a Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway station and water tower. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a hybrid military-civilian organization that has played a role in developing Oregon's water infrastructure since the 1860s, and which established an office in Portland, Oregon, in 1871.
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.