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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 653 Collections and/or Records:

Materials relating to Music Box Theater burlesque controversy

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1002
Abstract Three letters, a summons, a typescript of a telegram, and an essay relating to opposition to a burlesque act at the Music Box Theater in Portland, Oregon, in 1933. Protests and the subsequent threat of legal action compelled the theater's manager to cancel the act, and Portland city government passed an ordinance to prohibit theatrical performances deemed inappropriate. The letters, summons, and typescript telegram were gathered by the essay's author, radio and television broadcaster Vere...
Dates: 1933 April-May; circa 1973

N. Crosby Ave., Portland, Oregon photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 668
Abstract

Photocopies of black and white photographs showing businesses and houses on N. Crosby Ave., in the Eliot neighborhood area of Portland, Oregon, before it was razed for the extension of N. Interstate Ave. between the Broadway and Steel bridges and, later, the Memorial Coliseum.

Dates: 1942

NAACP of Portland, Oregon records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2004
Abstract Founded in 1914, the Portland, Oregon, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) works to empower and engage people of color in the Portland area. The collection demonstrates organizational activities related to important topics in the Portland area, such as housing, education and labor. A majority of the collection consists of publications from 1959 through 1989, with a smaller quantity of topical administrative materials, correspondence, meeting...
Dates: 1942-1989; Majority of material found within 1959-1989

Marie Namba letter to June Clark about incarceration at Portland Assembly Center

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1072
Abstract Handwritten letter from Marie Namba (later Marie Asai, 1923-2012) to a former teacher, June Clark (later June Burke, 1917-2018). Namba wrote the letter while incarcerated at the Portland Assembly Center, a detention camp that was established by the U.S. government at the site of the Portland International Livestock Exposition in Portland, Oregon, in the spring of 1942. The government detained Japanese American residents of Oregon at the center before transferring them to long-term...
Dates: 1942 May 13

Robert Nash papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2806
Abstract

Robert Nash was active in various liberal and radical groups in Portland dealing with housing, crime prevention, and socialism. Collection includes programs, ephemera, minutes, and other papers relating to Alcoholics Anonymous, the Central Area Crime Prevention Committee, the Democratic Party, the Downtown Community Association, the Portland Tenants Union, the Rainbow Coalition, I.W.W., and the Socialist Party.

Dates: 1962-1988

National Guarantee and Trust Co. minutes

 Collection
Identifier: Mss275
Abstract

Minutes of meetings of the board of directors, September 15, 1892-January 5, 1894.

Dates: 1892-1894

Roscoe Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2848
Abstract

Roscoe Nelson (1879-1937) was a lawyer and businessman. He graduated from Virginia Law School and moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1911. He was a member of Congregation Beth Israel and was active in Jewish societies and civic organizations. Collection includes correspondence; legal papers; Anti-Semitism speeches and articles; Jewish community material; Tualatin Country Club correspondence, rosters, etc.; financial papers; documents relating to Kelly Process, Inc.; and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1897-1956

V. L. Nelson illustrations of Hill Military Academy

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2943
Abstract

Pen and ink drawings of Hill Military Academy, including buildings, interiors, and scenes of cadet life.

Dates: circa 1920-1950

Marjorie Newhouse collection of materials relating to A. E. Doyle

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 362
Abstract

Papers and photographs of and relating to Albert E. Doyle (1877-1928), an architect from Portland, Oregon, and his family. Materials include photographs of buildings that Doyle designed, correspondence, a combination diary and sketchbook that Doyle kept while traveling in Europe, and biographical and genealogical materials. The collection was compiled by Doyle's granddaughter Marjorie Newhouse (1933-2015).

Dates: 1864-2000

Mercedes Niiranen photographic collection on the United States National Bank of Portland, Citizens Branch

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 488
Abstract

Seven black and white photographs, including one duplicate, of the employees of the United States National Bank of Portland, Citizens Branch, in Portland, Oregon, at Christmas parties and other events. Includes one portrait of a person identified on the back of the print as "Mr. Young."

Dates: 1938-1952