Portland
Found in 617 Collections and/or Records:
Pacific Northwest Public Service Company records
Originally Portland Railway, Light and Power Company, the company name changed to Portland Electric Power Company in 1924, and then to Pacific Northwest Public Service Company in 1930. Collection includes chart, June 14, 1930, regarding the varying prices of cars from 1900-1930; and chart, January 5, 1932, regarding the company's communication system.
Oral history interview with Henk Pander
Oral history interview with Henk Pander conducted by Charles Digregorio on July 28, 1978. Pander discusses his career as an artist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in Portland, Oregon.
Joseph Paquet papers
Diaries, notebooks, and other papers of Joseph Paquet (1841-1924), an Oregon shipbuilder and construction contractor. Includes notes and specifications on steamboats active on the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Panorama photograph of a parade in downtown Portland, Oregon
Photograph depicting the intersection of SW Broadway and Taylor Street in Portland, with a drill team called the Royal Oaks, from Oakland, California, possibly in a July 4 parade.
Park Block Revels and South Park Blocks Association records
Oral history interview with Margaret Biddle Parker
Oral history interview with Margaret Biddle Parker conducted by Charles Digregorio and Terence O'Donnell on March 28, 1978. Parker discusses the life of her mother, Margaret Burrell Biddle.
Parking structure, Portland, Or., plans
Collection includes 6 plans, elevations, and sections on 6 sheets of a parking structure at 315 SW 11th Ave. in Portland, Oregon, 1986. The building was originally constructed in 1920. The measured drawings were produced as part of an architectural thesis project.
Oral history interviews conducted by Robert H. Peirce about the Portland Art Museum
Audio recordings of oral history interviews and conversations with people associated with the Portland Art Museum. The interviews were conducted over a period of three years, from approximately 1990 to 1993. Most were conducted by Robert Peirce, who was then the librarian at the art museum. Interviewees include Bob Sitton, Bill Foster, Clyde Rice, William Givler, Pietro Belluschi, Marian Kolisch, Francis J. Newton, Robert O. Lee, and members of the Portland Art Museum Women's Council.
Peninsula Industrial District photographs
Collection consists of 39 black and white photographs that were originally bound in a booklet. The photographs primarily depict mills, factories, and other industrial facilities in the Peninsula Industrial District in North Portland, Oregon, and surrounding neighborhoods.
George Perkins papers
Collection includes correspondence and documents regarding legal cases, 1914-1961. Clients include the Nicolai family, Rose City Brewing Co., Shaver Transportation Co., and Peninsula Iron Works.