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Robert Nash was active in various liberal and radical groups in Portland dealing with housing, crime prevention, and socialism. Collection includes programs, ephemera, minutes, and other papers relating to Alcoholics Anonymous, the Central Area Crime Prevention Committee, the Democratic Party, the Downtown Community Association, the Portland Tenants Union, the Rainbow Coalition, I.W.W., and the Socialist Party.

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Oral history interview with Helen Nickum, conducted by Gregory Karnes in seven sessions, from January 25 to April 7, 2011, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Nickum talks about her career as a secretary in Portland, Oregon, and in Washington, D.C.; about her involvement in a sex-discrimination class action lawsuit; and about her work as executive secretary for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757.

Abstract Henry Brooks Van Duzer was born in New York in 1874 and came to Oregon in 1898. He was the president of Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company and the Portland Chamber of Commerce, and served on the Oregon State Highway Commission from 1923 to 1931. Collection includes personal, family, and business correspondence; scrapbooks and memorabilia regarding Duzer's activities with the U.S. Fir Production Board, the Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic Party, and the highway commission; and minutes, financial...