Abstract Papers of labor activist Ken Cropper of Portland, Oregon. The bulk of the papers relate to his work as a political organizer for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 140, which represents custodians for public schools in Portland. These papers primarily relate to Local 140's dispute with Portland Public Schools during the 2000s, when the school board laid off custodians who belonged to Local 140 to replace them with contract workers from Portland Habilitation Center as a...

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Album containing 109 black and white photographs of activities of the Portland Public Schools during World War I. Includes exterior photographs of school buildings, as well as interior views of classrooms and workshops, and classes and activities such as mechanical drawing, forging, wood turning, plumbing, carpentry, textiles, printing, gardening, cobbling, and band.

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Collection consists of architectural plans and drawings for the Administration Building, also known as the Old Holladay School, for School District No. 1 (Portland School District) at 1343 NE 9th Ave., Portland, Oregon, by architect George Howell Jones. The site later became the location of the Lloyd Center.

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Typescript carbon copy, 1958, and manuscript draft of a script for a film about the history of Portland, Oregon, produced for Portland Public Schools.