Portland
Found in 641 Collections and/or Records:
Concentrated Employment Program records
Records of a federally sponsored educational and employment program for low-income individuals in selected Portland neighborhoods. Collection includes project proposals and applications, contractor agreements, and budget reports and statistics.
Oral history interview with Lew Cook
Oral history interview with Lew Cook conducted by Martha Gies in two sessions on June 20 and June 26, 1979. Cook discusses the difficulty of safely storing nitrate film, which can spontaneously combust; talks about spending time at Portland’s Film Row in the early 1920s; and describes running his own business showing films in towns around Oregon.
Kenneth L. Cooper papers
Kenneth L. Cooper (1884-1972) served with the 364th Infantry during World War I and was elected to the Portland City Commission in 1940. Collection includes papers related to his tenure as Portland City Commissioner, 1940-1945; typescript and manuscript correspondence, 1914-1970, some from World War l; and personal papers and ephemera.
H. L. Corbett residence sketches
Collection includes preliminary sketches on 4 sheets of a residence for Henry Ladd Corbett in Portland, Oregon.
Cox Cable of Portland, Inc. records
Collection consists of materials relating to the city of Portland, Oregon's decision to award a cable communications franchise, and to Cox Cable of Portland's pursuit of the franchise. Among the materials are reports; a draft of the city's request for proposals; evaluation and analysis of companies seeking the franchise; information about Cox Cable of Portland; correspondence of board member Elizabeth Crownhart Vaughan; and Cox Cable's application for the franchise.
Harriet Park Cramer photographic collection
Photographic prints and nitrate negatives depicting Caroline Augusta Kamm, the Kamm children, and the Kamm house in Portland, Oregon; Elijah "Lige" Coalman; children and staff at the Fruit and Flower mission; and the grounds of the E. B. MacNaughton estate.
Oral history interview with Jerry F. Cundari
Oral history interview with Jerry F. Cundari conducted by Kerry Tymchuk on August 23, 2023. Cundari, a longtime amateur golfer and inductee to the University of Oregon Hall of Fame, discusses playing in golf tournaments.
Jesse A. Currey papers
Jesse A. Curry residence plans
Collection includes 5 blueprint plans, 6 elevations and 6 details on 11 sheets of a house for Jesse A. Curry on SW Montgomery Dr. in Portland, Oregon, by architect Harrison Allen Whitney.
Oral history interview with Edith I. A. Dailey
Oral history interview with Edith I. A. Dailey conducted by Linda S. Dodds on April 21, 1982. Dailey discusses her experience as Portland Rose Festival queen in 1924.