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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for 10 years, passed as the Chinese Exclusion Act later that year, was renewed in 1892, made permanent in 1902, and repealed in 1943.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.
Oral history interview with Zsuzsanna Vamos
Oral history interview with Zsuzsanna Vamos conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on August 20, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Vamos immigrated to the United States from Hungary in 1989. She worked at the Kansas University Medical Center, became a pharmacist in Hillsboro, Oregon, and exhibited art at galleries in the Pacific Northwest.
Ruth L. Van Beber oral memoir
Oral memoir by Ruth L. Van Beber recorded from October 12, 1992 to May 7, 1993. Van Beber recounts her life story, including her childhood; experience in a Salvation Army Home for Wayward Girls; hitchhiking across the country during the Depression; homesteading in Oregon; running cafes; and the 1964 earthquake in Alaska.
James O. Van Bergen papers
Collection consists of a manuscript bill of sale for the steamer Fashion from James O. Van Bergen to William N. Horton, 1853; oath of master, Van Bergen, for the steamer J. H. Couch of Portland, Oregon, 1865; and shipping agreements, 1853 and 1857.
Fanny Van Duyn photographic collection
Small collection of black and white copy prints of photographs of and taken by Fanny B. Wright Van Duyn of Tygh Valley, Oregon. The bulk of the photographs are portraits of Native people on the Warm Springs Reservation.