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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 631 Collections and/or Records:

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

Oral history interview with Nell F. Hoak

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9449
Abstract

Oral history interview with Nell F. Hoak conducted by Linda S. Dodds on May 7, 1980. Hoak discusses her early life on a homestead in Imperial, Nebraska, and describes traveling to Siloam Springs, Arkansas, by covered wagon in the late 19th century.

Dates: 1980 May 7

Isaac Hodgson, Jr. architectural illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 3055
Abstract

Lithographic and watercolor illustrations depicting buildings in Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Isaac Hodgson, Jr., who worked in Portland during the early 1890s. The watercolors and one of the lithographs depict the Chamber of Commerce building; the other lithograph depicts the entrance to a proposed United Bank building.

Dates: 1891

Florence Hollister photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 836
Abstract

Collection consists of three photographs of Florence Hollister, wife of Claude N. Hollister. The images are a head and shoulders portrait of Hollister; a full-length portrait of Hollister as matron of honor at a 1935 wedding; and a photograph, credited to the Army Air Forces, of Hollister in uniform.

Dates: circa 1935-1943

Oral history interview with Ruth B. Hollister

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9395
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ruth B. Hollister conducted by Charles Digregorio on February 22, 1977. Hollister describes life in the Northwest neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1977 February 22