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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 617 Collections and/or Records:

Harrison Hotel register

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1354
Abstract

Collection consists of a register for the Harrison Hotel, 1 volume, 1916-1919. Includes records of the Multnomah Hotel.

Dates: 1916-1919

Steamer Harvest Queen plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 4032
Abstract

Plans related to the sternwheel steamboat Harvest Queen, originally designed by John Gates. They include a side view; a deck plan; a plan of the cabin, texas, and pilot house; and a lines plan taken from a model by Gates. It is unknown whether these plans are original or are later replicas. Also included in the collection is a photocopy of a Harvest Queen plan dated August 1900, showing top and side views of the steamer.

Dates: circa 1878-1950

Hegardt & Clarke records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1706
Abstract

Hegardt & Clarke was a consulting and civil engineering firm in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, business records, field notes, maps, and plans.

Dates: 1905-1916

Oral history interview with Francis J. Heitkemper

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9556
Abstract

Oral history interview with Francis J. Heitkemper conducted by Charles Digregorio on March 22, 1977. Heitkemper discusses the history of his family's business, the Heitkemper Jewelry Store, in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1977 March 22

Henry Thiele's Restaurant menu

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 304
Abstract

Menu from a popular restaurant in Portland, Oregon, with autographs of singer Nelson Eddy, restaurant owner Henry Thiele, and others.

Dates: circa 1939

Hewitt & Company account books

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1359
Abstract

Collection consists of account books, 1882-1895, for Hewitt & Company, an insurance company in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1882-1895

Oral history interview with Benjamin W. Hill

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9557
Abstract

Oral history interview with Benjamin W. Hill conducted by Roberta Watts on February 27, 1978. Hill discusses serving as headmaster of the Hill Military Academy from 1922 to 1950.

Dates: 1978 February 27

Frank C. Hirahara photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1078
Abstract

Photographs taken by Frank C. Hirahara of Patti Throop, a Portland Rose Festival princess who became Miss Oregon in 1953 and was a semi-finalist in the Miss America contest of 1954. Hirahara was an amateur photographer who lived in Portland, Oregon, from 1948 to 1954 and was a member of the Photographic Society of America, the Portland Photographic Society, and the Oregon Camera Club.

Dates: 1951-1952

History of "Old Number 3"

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2144
Abstract

Mimeograph typescript essay, "History of 'Old Number 3,'" by Herbert T. Williams, 10 pages, 1954, an account of the last horse-drawn streetcar and a history of horse-drawn streetcars in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1954

Woody Hite collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 280
Abstract

Photographs, clippings, posters, and ephemera documenting Woody Hite and his big band, who were active in northwestern Oregon from the 1930s and 1940s; the band was revived in the early 1970s by Hite's brother Don Hite. Photographs include images of Duke Ellington and his band in Portland, Oregon, in 1941.

Dates: circa 1919-1988; Majority of material found within 1937-1955