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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 631 Collections and/or Records:

Sophia Jarvis Holman estate account book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2775
Abstract

Collection consists of a manuscript account book containing an account of the distribution of Sophia Holman's estate, 1867-1870, kept by her son, Charles Holman. Volume also includes account records of James A. Malarkey and Fannie E. Malarkey, 1934. Sophia Jarvis Holman (1812-1867) was born in London, England, and emigrated to the United States in 1849. She lived in Brooklyn, New York, until her husband's death in 1865, when the family came to Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1867-1934

Holtz Building construction photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 338
Abstract

Album containing 31 black and white photographs showing construction of the Holtz Building (now the Mead Building) at 421 SW 5th Ave. in Portland, Oregon, in 1911 and 1912. The building was designed by the architecture firm of Doyle, Patterson, & Beach, and was constructed by the Brayton Engineering Company.

Dates: 1911-1912

Homicide Squad radio plays

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2175
Abstract

Typescript collection of scripts for "Homicide Squad," 1939, radio plays based on data from the case files of the Portland Police Department, presented by radio station KGW with the participation of the chief of police, Harry M. Niles.

Dates: 1939

Honeyman Hardware Company catalogs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1671
Abstract

Collection consists of Honeyman Hardware Company catalogs, 21 volumes, 1893-1942.

Dates: 1893-1942

Honorary Sir Knights and Dames of the Royal Rosarians, 1920-2011

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 243
Abstract

Collection consists of a document listing people who have been named as honorary knights and dames by the Royal Rosarians, an organization in Portland, Oregon, whose members serve as ambassadors and boosters of the city and of the annual Portland Rose Festival. The document lists the honorees' names, their city or town of residence, the variety of rose they selected, and the Rosarians' leader, or prime minister, for each year.

Dates: 2011

Robert M. Hood duplex plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3193
Abstract

Six plans and sections on 1 blueprint sheet for alterations to turn a house into a duplex for owner Robert M. Hood at 8415 SE 11th Ave. in Portland, Oregon. Drawn by architect B. W. Arnold.

Dates: 1952

John Hotchkiss papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2731
Abstract

John T. Hotchkiss was a bookstore manager and salesman for J.K. Gill & Co., a bookstore and stationer in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes scrapbook items, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and leaflets regarding Oregon authors and poets, J. K. Gill's "Poet's Corner," the Oregon Writer's League and poet Mary Carol Davies. Also included are newspaper clippings regarding J. K. Gill and various Oregon writers.

Dates: circa 1889-1940

Captain Henry L. Hoyt autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: Mss282
Abstract

Henry Hoyt was a pioneer and maritime figure of early Portland, Oregon. Collection includes manuscript autobiographical sketch with typescript transcript.

Dates: 1878

Jack Huisman photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1075
Abstract

Snapshots of naval activities in Portland, Oregon, taken by naval officer Jack Huisman. Includes images of the Portland recruiting barracks and ship commissioning.

Dates: circa 1943

Malcolm P. Hutchinson artist renderings and photographs of parade floats

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1026
Abstract

Artist's renderings and photographs depicting parade floats designed from the 1930s to the 1950s by floral designer Malcolm P. Hutchinson (1899-1978) of Portland, Oregon. Most of the floats represented were designed for the Portland Rose Festival. Hutchinson worked for florist Tommy Luke until 1951, when he left to focus on the Hutchinson School of Floral Design, which he had founded in the 1940s.

Dates: circa 1931-1955