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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 631 Collections and/or Records:

Pacific International Exposition records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1610
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, records, account and other books, publications, scrapbooks, awards, souvenirs, and ephemera.

Dates: circa 1910-1952

Pacific International Livestock Exposition catalogs

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 120
Abstract

Catalogs and programs for an annual livestock exhibition that took place in Portland, Oregon, beginning around 1910.

Dates: 1913-1969

Pacific Northwest Public Service Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1457
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1930-1932

Oral history interview with Henk Pander

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9328
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1978 July 28

Joseph Paquet papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 997
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1856-1951; Majority of material found within 1856-1923

Panorama photograph of a parade in downtown Portland, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1072
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1912

Park Block Revels and South Park Blocks Association records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1017
Abstract Records and correspondence primarily relating to the Park Block Revels, but also to the South Park Blocks Association, both of Portland, Oregon. The Park Block Revels was an annual winter festival that ran from 1973 to 1992 and was sponsored by a number of institutions on or near the South Park Blocks in Portland. The South Park Blocks Association was an organization of institutions in the South Park Blocks area that, in the late 1980s, sought to improve the condition of the area through...
Dates: 1974-1994

Oral history interview with Margaret Biddle Parker

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9413
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1978 March 28

Parking structure, Portland, Or., plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3182
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1986

Oral history interviews conducted by Robert H. Peirce about the Portland Art Museum

 Collection
Identifier: SRC 3
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1990-1993