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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 631 Collections and/or Records:

Standard Insurance Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2455
Abstract

Standard Insurance Company records, 1865-1946, include salary records, a cash book, stock portfolio records, agent accounts, and trial balance books. Also included are brochures, calendars, and abstract of title for a parcel of land in Southwest Portland. Standard Insurance was originally founded in Portland as the Oregon Life Insurance Company by a German immigrant, Leo Samuel (1847-1916), in 1906.

Dates: 1865-1946

Steam ferryboat for the Portland Railway Co. drawing

 Collection
Identifier: Mss4049
Abstract

One drawing on 1 sheet of a steam ferryboat for the Portland Railway Co., by Johnston and Phillips, architects.

Dates: circa 1880-1930

Steamship Portland II collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 251
Abstract

Plans, sections, details and elevations on 9 sheets of the steamship Portland II, a 186-foot steel towboat for Northwest Marine Iron Works, 1946; a conceptual mooring plan by B. Bach and L. Fritzie, October 1981; and a color print of a painting of the steamship Portland II passing under the Fremont Bridge on the Willamette River by James M. Longstreth, 1977.

Dates: 1946-1981

James Steel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2922
Abstract

Financial records of an Oregon pioneer and early business leader of Portland, including account books, cash books, financial journals, and a cash journal of the First Congregational Church of Portland.

Dates: 1864-1985; Majority of material found within 1864-1909

Stella Maris House collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1585
Abstract The collection consists of printed material, correspondence, and administrative, financial, and legal records created and collected by the Stella Maris House, a Portland, Oregon-based social justice group, during the course of its work. The collection demonstrates the local evolution of issues key to the history of the United States during the 1960s. Over a third of the collection is dedicated to Oregon's migrant labor rights movement; it also features materials documenting the area's civil...
Dates: 1940-1973; Majority of material found within 1960-1972

Susan Stelljes collection of Portland, Oregon, theater memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1047
Abstract

Materials relating to theaters in Portland, Oregon, collected by Susan Stelljes, including programs and posters. The bulk of the collection's materials concern the Portland Civic Theatre Guild, a volunteer fundraising group to which Stelljes belonged. The Portland Civic Theatre Guild was founded in 1958 to support the Portland Civic Theatre; it later awarded fellowships for theater artists' professional development. The guild dissolved in 2023.

Dates: 1956-2007

Donald J. Sterling collection on the Velde Committee

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2883
Abstract The Velde Committee, or Committee on Un-American Activities, met in Portland, Oregon, in June 1954 to investigate the political affiliations of three Reed College professors, who refused to answer questions put to them by the committee. Collection consists of documents gathered by Donald Sterling Jr., who covered the hearings for the Oregon Journal newspaper. Among the materials in the collection are an open letter by Reed College Professor Stanley Moore; the prepared text of a speech to be...
Dates: 1953-1989; Majority of material found within 1954

Oral history interview with Henry C. C. Stevens

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9400
Abstract

Oral history interview with Henry C. C. Stevens conducted by Charles Digregorio on January 5, 1976. Stevens discusses his early life in the Nob Hill neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, and his education at Portland Academy.

Dates: 1976 January 5

Letters to Hal Stoltz from Terry Schrunk and Tom McCall

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 968
Abstract

Letters from Terry Schrunk, mayor of Portland, Oregon, and Oregon Governor Tom McCall to Hal Stoltz (1943-2023) thanking him for his work with People for Portland. People for Portland was a volunteer organization formed in the summer of 1970 with the goal of preventing violent confrontation during demonstrations against the American Legion convention in Portland that August.

Dates: 1970 September 8-29

Alfred L. Stone papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2431
Abstract

Collection includes personal articles and memorabilia regarding Alfred L. Stone's military appointments and jewelry store in Portland, Oregon, 1881-1943.

Dates: 1881-1943