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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 653 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Rachael Griffin

 Collection
Identifier: SR 1045
Abstract

Oral history interview with Rachael Griffin conducted by Marian W. Kolisch on April 22, 1976. Griffin discusses her career as an instructor at the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon, now the Pacific Northwest College of Art, from 1933 to 1951, and as curator for the Portland Art Museum from 1953 to 1974.

Dates: 1976 April 22

Franklin Griffith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1687
Abstract

Franklin Griffith was a Portland, Oregon, lawyer, businessman and civic leader. Collection includes correspondence and documents regarding Griffith's election as Portland's First Citizen of 1938 by the Portland Realty Board, scrapbooks, and obituary notices.

Dates: 1913-1952

Hilmar Birger Grondahl scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2622
Abstract

Hilmar Birger Grondahl (born 1899) was the music editor of the Oregonian newspaper from 1933-1977. Collection includes scrapbooks with newspaper clippings of Grondahl's reviews concerning musical events in Portland, Oregon, and elsewhere.

Dates: 1929-1977

Gus J. Solomon United States Courthouse construction photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 708
Abstract

Thirty-eight black and white photographs depicting construction of the Gus J. Solomon United States Courthouse in downtown Portland, Oregon. The courthouse was designed by architect Morris Whitehouse and built by Murch Brothers Construction Co.

Dates: 1932-1933

Absolom Hallock papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 92
Abstract

Papers of Absolom Hallock include mixed journals and account books; correspondence relating to business, personal matters, and the Portland Fire Department; and receipts. Hallock (1826-1892) was a mechanic, draftsman, civil engineer, and surveyor. He served on the Portland Common Council as chief of the Fire Department, and was the first postmaster of the Barnegat post office in Tillamook County, Oregon.

Dates: 1851-1892

Oral history interview with Mary P. Hamblet

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9445
Abstract

Oral history interview with Mary P. Hamblet conducted by Roberta Watts on November 25, 1977. Hamblet was an antique dealer and estate appraiser in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1977 November 25

George F. Hammond plans for American Chicle Co. warehouse in Portland, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 3197
Abstract

Photocopies of plans by architect George F. Hammond of Cleveland, Ohio, for an American Chicle Company warehouse at Johnson and 14th streets (now NW Johnson Street and NW 14th Avenue) in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1908

Harbor patrol tugboat plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss4048
Abstract

Two negative photocopy plans on 1 sheet of a harbor patrol tugboat for the Commission of Public Docks in Portland, Oregon, by architect J. H. Johnston.

Dates: 1925 February 21

Harbor view, city of Portland, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1063
Abstract

Poster featuring a printed half-tone panoramic photograph of Portland, Oregon. The photograph was taken from the east side of the Willamette River and shows the river, steamboats, bridges, and waterfront buildings on the west side of the river.

Dates: circa 1908

Robert C. Harder collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5371
Abstract

Sketches in pen, pencil, marker, pastels, etc., of trains and buildings in the Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington area. Scenes include: Kerns Grammar School (in 1923) and Montavilla School (in 1917) in Portland, Oregon; Oakville Church in Oakville, Oregon; and a streetcar in Vancouver, Washington.

Dates: 1979-1981