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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 686 Collections and/or Records:

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

Jamie G. Partridge papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1059
Abstract

Papers of Jamie G. Patridge, an activist from Portland, Oregon. The papers reflect Partridge's involvement with labor, social jusice, and socialist causes and organizations, including the Democratic Socialists of America, Communities and Postal Workers United, the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 82, Portland Jobs with Justice, and the International Socialist Organization. The collection also includes personal papers, including writings by Partridge about gay liberation.

Dates: 1949-2023; Majority of material found within 1966-2023

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

Peninsula Industrial District photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1341
Abstract

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.

Dates: approximately 1915-1920

Portland, Oregon, Council of P.E.O. Sisterhood tea and luncheon event records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1114
Abstract Reports, correspondence, ephemera, and clippings relating to Education Day teas and a Founders' Luncheon that were organized by the Portland, Oregon, Council of the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Sisterhood in the late 1960s and the 1970s. The records for the 1977 Education Day Tea include correspondence with that year's guest speaker, former U.S. Representative Edith Green (1910-1987). P.E.O. Sisterhood is a non-profit organization that supports women's education; its first...
Dates: 1969-1979

George Perkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1703
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1914-1961

Oral history interview with Fred L. Peterson

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9600
Abstract

Oral history interview with Fred L. Peterson conducted by Linda S. Dodds from February 11 to April 28, 1982. Peterson discusses serving on the Portland City Council from 1940 to 1952, and as Portland mayor from 1953 to 1956.

Dates: 1982 February 11-April 28