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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 641 Collections and/or Records:

Concentrated Employment Program records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1345
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1968-1970

Oral history interview with Lew Cook

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9338
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1979 June 20-26

Kenneth L. Cooper papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2796
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1898-1970

H. L. Corbett residence sketches

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3161
Abstract

Collection includes preliminary sketches on 4 sheets of a residence for Henry Ladd Corbett in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1917 September 17

Cox Cable of Portland, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2682
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1973-1980

Harriet Park Cramer photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 477
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1931

Oral history interview with Jerry F. Cundari

 Collection
Identifier: SR 1164
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2023 August 23

Jesse A. Currey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2803
Abstract Jesse Albert Currey (1873-1927) was sales manager for the Portland district of Trussed Concrete Steel Co. He also wrote a column about gardening and founded the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings relating to the Portland Rose Society, Rose Test Garden, and the Portland Rose Festival, as well as clippings of Currey's "In My Garden" column and others relating to his business and volunteer activities. Also included...
Dates: 1909-1952

Jesse A. Curry residence plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3203
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1912

Oral history interview with Edith I. A. Dailey

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9427
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1982 April 21