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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 617 Collections and/or Records:

Portland Symphony Society records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1149
Abstract

Records of the parent organization of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, later the Oregon Symphony. Records include by-laws and minutes of board meetings, reports, contracts, financial records, and ephemera.

Dates: 1913-1969

Portland: the Rose City

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5389
Abstract

Color poster featuring a photograph by A. M. Prentiss of Portland, Oregon, with Mount Hood in the distance.

Dates: circa 1917-1925

History: Portland Transportation Club, 1929-1964

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 936
Abstract

Typescript copy of a history of the Portland Transportation Club, detailing the origins and activities of the club, based in Portland, Oregon. Also included is a booklet containing the constitution and bylaws of a separate, earlier club by the same name, which is discussed in a brief addendum to the history.

Dates: circa 1967

Portland Trust and Savings Bank records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1474
Abstract

Typescript notes on the historical background of the company, 1953; articles of agreement, October 15, 1914.

Dates: 1914-1953

Portland Union Stock Yards Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2776
Abstract

Portland Union Stock Yards opened in 1890, and was organized into a company in 1902 by W. H. H. Morgan. It moved to North Portland in 1909 and was purchased by the United Stockyards Corporation in 1936. Collection includes correspondence, 1931-1936, regarding company purchases and maintenance of trailers, tractors, and dump wagons; receipts and miscellaneous ephemera, 1909-1936, including newspaper articles about the company.

Dates: 1909-1936

Portland Unitarian Church plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3014
Abstract

Collection includes 14 elevations and plans on 12 sheets for the Unitarian Church at SW Yamhill St. and SW Broadway Ave. in Portland, Oregon, by architecture firm Peabody & Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1878-1879

Portland Women's Union photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 814
Abstract

Collection consists of 42 color negatives of members of the Portland Women's Union; of the Martha Washington Hotel and the Alexandra Court Hotel in Portland, Oregon; and of the 100th anniversary tea. The Portland Women's Union was founded in 1887 and operated in the Martha Washington Hotel to provide safe housing for single working women.

Dates: 1986

Portland Women's Union records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1443
Abstract

Collection includes articles of incorporation, constitution and by-laws, reports, minutes, and other materials regarding the Portland's Women's Union. The organization was founded in 1887 and operated in the Martha Washington Hotel to provide respectable housing for single working women.

Dates: 1887-1970

Portland Woolen Mills picnic photograph

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 616
Abstract

Black and white panoramic photograph of attendees at a company picnic for employees of Portland Woolen Mills on July 28, 1923. The photograph belonged to Ray DeLashmutt, and the collection also includes a photocopy with handwritten notes identifying family members in the image.

Dates: 1923 July 28

Portsmouth School Old Timer's Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2847
Abstract

The Portsmouth School Old Timer's Club held a picnic every year for alumni of Portsmouth School in the Portsmouth area of Portland to socialize. Collection includes administrative records; member lists and member list books; a scrapbook; an account book; a minute book; correspondence; receipts; and promotional mailings and flyers.

Dates: circa 1953-1975