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Album, circa 1910-1930, filled with advertising poster stamps, including those for: Portland Rose Festival, Northwestern National Bank, Great Northern Railway, Meier and Frank, Elgin Watches, Edison Mazda Lamps, Samuel Rosenblatt & Co., American Hawaiian Steamship Co., Nortonia Hotel (now Mark Spencer Hotel), and Portland World's Fair, 1925 (which never happened).

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Bardsley and Haslacher was a public opinion research firm. This unprocessed collection of records includes reports and surveys, circa 1947-1985, conducted on behalf of businesses, political parties, candidates, and state agencies regarding advertising and public opinion on a variety of issues.

Abstract Papers and ephemera of spouses Harry E. Bell and Faye Bell, who both worked in the apparel retail business in the early and mid-20th century. The collection includes advertising materials, publications and ephemera of retail manufacturers whose products the Bells sold; papers and designs documenting Hirsch-Weis's White Stag line of clothes and its work with the Adolph L. Bloch Advertising Agency; and papers and photographs of other individuals whose connection with the Bells, if any, is...

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Carnation Milk poster showing the Tigner quadruplets of Portland, Oregon, at age four. The Tigners were Black fraternal quadruplets born in 1946; they were sponsored by Carnation Milk for advertising purposes, though only two known advertisements featuring them were produced.

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Communications Consultants, Inc. was founded in 1965 by Duane Nielsen to offer "a complete scope of consulting and audio-visual production services." Records include correspondence; proposals for an architectural preservation documentary about Portland; and materials relating to projects on the Sea Lion Caves and Boston.

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Two advertising posters describing Meier and Frank's outlets and celebrating its history, growth, and development.

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Labels for canned fruits and vegetables, crated fruit, and canned seafood packed by Oregon companies. Labels are from the mid-20th century.

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Collection of printed material from Oregon's territorial period and early statehood, including legislation, advertisements, notices, proclamations, and ephemera. George N. Belknap (1905-1996) listed most of the items in this collection in his 1968 work, "Oregon Imprints, 1845-1870," or in addendums to that work.

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This collection, created by the Oregon Historical Society, contains ephemera relating to the wine and spirits industry in Oregon. Included are clippings, brochures, newsletters, newspapers, magazines, wine labels, business cards, posters, programs, bulletins, and monographs, relating to wines, their production and marketing, relevant issues, and affiliated industries. Most of the materials date from 1972-2002.

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Collection consists of three copies of a color comic book made for bulk mailing to voters by the organization People For A Better Oregon in 1985, along with paste-ups of the original artwork. The comic book, titled "Oregon's Balanced Tax Plan: Ballot Measure #1" describes and advocates for a ballot measure that would have created a sales tax to fund education in Oregon.