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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 617 Collections and/or Records:

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

Oral history interview with Sidney W. Isaacs

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9396
Abstract

Oral history interview with Sidney W. Isaacs conducted by Mary M. Rosenberg on April 18, 1967. Isaacs discusses his work as a theater usher and as manager of the Public Auditorium in early 20th-century Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1967 April 18

Oral history interview with Frank Ivancie

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2980
Abstract

Oral history interview with Frank Ivancie conducted by Clark Hansen on April 17 and April 18, 2001, as part of the Ira and Lauretta Keller Oral History Series. Ivancie discusses serving as a Portland city commissioner from 1966 to 1980 and as Portland mayor from 1980 to 1985, as well as his involvement with the Portland Development Commission.

Dates: 2001 April 17-18

Oral history interview with Manuel Izquierdo

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9528
Abstract

Oral history interview with Manuel Izquierdo conducted by Charles Digregorio on July 21, 1978. Izquierdo discusses his career as a sculptor in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1978 July 21

Jackson Tower sketch

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3051
Abstract

Collection includes 1 rendering on 1 sheet of the Jackson Tower, also known as the Oregon Journal Building, on the southeast corner of SW Broadway Ave. and SW Yamhill St. in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1912

Stephen L. Jacobs photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 758
Abstract

Small collection of six black and white photographs. Images include: the site of the house where Alberta D. Howard was born; an 1897 photograph of Howard's class at the Stephens School in Portland; a 1939 photograph of the Stephens School building; a studio portrait of people identified as the Houghman family of Portland; a studio portrait of a child identified as Florence Inman; and a studio portrait of an unidentified man in a military uniform.

Dates: circa 1880-1939

Jacobs-Wilson house photograph collection, Portland, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1382
Abstract

Six black-and-white photographic prints of and relating to the Jacobs-Wilson house in Portland, Oregon, a historic home built in 1913. The photographs show the exterior, one room inside the house, people on the grounds, and an unidentified family.

Dates: circa 1915-circa 1955