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Justin Chenoweth papers
Handwritten diary, letterbooks, and documents relating to Justin Chenoweth's travel to Oregon and work as a surveyor, mail carrier, and justice of the peace in Oregon and Washington Territory, primarily from the years 1848 to 1862. Includes family correspondence.
Cheryl James Defense Committee records
Cheryl Dawn James was an 18-year-old African-American woman from Portland, Oregon. In 1971, she was convicted of assaulting an FBI agent who came to the James' residence to arrest her brother, Charles T. James Jr., who was absent without leave from the Navy. Collection includes correspondence, financial records, news clippings and ephemera regarding the case and the work of the Cheryl James Defense Committee Fund.
Oral history interview with Sumitra Chhetri
Oral history interview with Sumitra Chhetri conducted by Sankar Raman on March 19, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Chhetri grew up in a camp for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and immigrated to Portland, Oregon, in 2008.
Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, Portland Lodge, photographs collection
The collection consists of 50 black-and-white portraits of the founding members of the Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, Portland Lodge, 1921.
Nancy Chipman papers
Collection includes typescript correspondence to Nancy Chipman from Manuel Sesma Castellanos, 1940-1941; a typescript letter to Thomas H. Tongue Jr. from his brother, E. B. Tongue, 1901, regarding a horse race with "Chipman"; a wedding invitation for Rupert James Chipman and Edna Grace Wasserman, 1902; and a program from a memorial for Patricia W. Palmer, 1982.
Oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel
Oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel, conducted for The Immigrant Story by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, Juniper Yarnall-Benson, and additional unidentified interviewers. The interview was conducted in three sessions from January 15 to January 27, 2020. Choephel discusses her early life in Tibet and Nepal; her arranged marriage, which brought her to Camas, Washington; and running a food truck called Tibetan Family Momo in Dallas, Texas.
Louis Choris collection
Collection includes hand-colored lithographs of glaciers in Kotzebue, Alaska, and the Chukchi people in Kamchatka, Russia.
Oral history interview with Tito Chowdhury
Oral history interview with Tito Chowdhury, conducted by Sankar Raman and Lisa Cohn on March 12 and March 23, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Chowdhury discusses his early life in Bangladesh, including his family's experiences during the 1947 partition of India and the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, and talks about his involvement with FashioNXT, a fashion event in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Bob Christ
Oral history interview with Bob Christ conducted by Jack G. Collins on September 28, 1990, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Christ was the clerk of the U.S. District Court of Oregon.
Christen Christensen account book
Manuscript account book in Danish, containing mathematics exercises, 1865-1868, completed in Denmark and personal accounts, 1873-1886, for expenses and wages earned as a cabinetmaker in Portland, Oregon.