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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 665 Collections and/or Records:

Board with photographs and text relating to new Multnomah Engine Company No. 2 engine house

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1130
Abstract

Collection consists of a board or piece of cardstock with photographs and reprints of articles about Multnomah Engine Company No. 2 and the opening of the company's new engine house in May 1975.

Dates: 1875 May

Poster for first football game at Multnomah Field Civic Stadium

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 967
Abstract

Poster advertising an October 9, 1926 football game between the University of Oregon and the University of Washington at the Multnomah Field Civic Stadium (later Providence Park) in Portland, Oregon. The game, which the University of Washington won, was the first game played in the recently-constructed stadium, and was preceded by a dedication ceremony.

Dates: 1926

Multnomah Fuel Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2596
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, minutes, contracts, deeds and mortgages, stock certificate books, ledgers, photographs, and photo albums.

Dates: 1911-1972

Multnomah Hotel blueprints

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1098
Abstract

The collection consists of a set of blueprints of the Multnomah Hotel, located in downtown Portland, Oregon. The architect Hans Hanselmann was responsible for the drawings, which were completed in 1911.

Dates: 1911

Multnomah Hotel record and stock books

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2484
Abstract

Record book, 1916-1952, with articles of incorporation, minutes and by-laws; and stock book, 1916-1929.

Dates: 1916-1952

Oral history interview with Helen Y. Murao

 Collection
Identifier: SR 972
Abstract

Oral history interview with Helen Y. Murao conducted by Linda Doami on August 11, 1995, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Murao discusses her early life as a second-generation Japanese American living with white foster families in Portland, Oregon, and her experiences while incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Minidoka Relocation Center during World War II.

Dates: 1995 August 11

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