Oral history interview with Janet Liu conducted by Sankar Raman and Jessica Pollard on August 10, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Liu's father was a Chinese scientist working in the United States, and after an executive order by President John F. Kennedy allowed foreign researchers to bring their families, Liu and her mother emigrated from Taiwan in 1961. Liu was granted legal resident status in 1968 and later became a computer programmer and real estate investor.

Collection includes legal documents and correspondence regarding immigrants (including Chinese), labor, politics, transportation, Portland bridges, lumbering, Thomas Ryan Gough's activities during World War II, and various misdemeanor and felony cases.