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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 653 Collections and/or Records:

Cartoon for the Orpheum Theatre

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5359
Abstract

Pen and ink cartoon of a bird announcing "They're coming" to a fan in a grandstand. Note on back indicates it was published in the Daily News (Portland, Or.).

Dates: circa 1920-1929

Overlook Woman's Improvement Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 6010
Abstract The Overlook Woman's Improvement Club was founded in 1913. It worked for the improvement of the Overlook District in Portland, Oregon, and cooperated in civic and philanthropic movements until 1964, when it was dissolved. Records include committee reports, the club's constitution and bylaws, agendas, correspondence, minutes, and resolutions. Materials also include yearbooks, directories and documentation of other women's clubs, and information relating to the club's involvement in and...
Dates: 1905-1964

Pacific Coast Biscuit Company photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 212
Abstract

Small collection of black and white photographs of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company in Portland, Oregon, its employees (primarily women) and a prize-winning float in 1914.

Dates: circa 1900-1929

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