Photocopy typescript book and typescript carbon rough draft, with footnotes and appendix, regarding the history of the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road and the company that formed it, from approximately 1825 to 1940.

Papers of Lewis A. McArthur (1883-1951) and his family, particularly papers relating to research on Oregon place names. McArthur was a historian who published Oregon Geographic Names in 1928. He published a second edition of the work in 1944, and had completed most of the work for the third edition before his death.

Copy of the sixth edition of Harrington Emerson's book "The Twelve Principles of Efficiency," with a typed inscription from Fred G. Meyer (1886-1978) to Oran B. Robertson (1917-1999). Meyer was the founder of the Fred Meyer grocery and department store chain, which he established in Portland, Oregon, in the 1920s. Robertson began working at Fred Meyer in 1945, and became the company's chief executive following Meyer's death.

Records of the Portland, Oregon, chapter of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, including administrative and event records, videos, and educational materials. The Portland chapter of the NAMES Project, an AIDS activism organization based in San Francisco, California, was founded in 1988 and participated in showings of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Portland and in Washington, D.C. The chapter closed in 2003.

The collection consists of materials compiled by Roger Rasmussen. These include records and ephemera of Baker Klan No. 13, to which his grandfather Walter Lee Lansing (1897-1962) had belonged; Rasmussen's own research about members of the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon and other individuals; and books and articles about the Klan, white supremacy, and anti-Catholicism.

Typescript photocopy book, 1978, containing Haralambos Kambouris' diary, 1912-1915, describing his life in America and work on various northwest railroads and mining enterprises in Utah; poems; photographs; and miscellaneous documents and letters, many in Greek. Kambouris (1898-1964) was a Greek immigrant who lived in Oregon and various western states.