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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 631 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Brooks Van Duzer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1787
Abstract Henry Brooks Van Duzer was born in New York in 1874 and came to Oregon in 1898. He was the president of Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company and the Portland Chamber of Commerce, and served on the Oregon State Highway Commission from 1923 to 1931. Collection includes personal, family, and business correspondence; scrapbooks and memorabilia regarding Duzer's activities with the U.S. Fir Production Board, the Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic Party, and the highway commission; and minutes, financial...
Dates: 1847-1960; Majority of material found within 1905-1951

Oral history interview with Kimberlee Van Patten

 Collection
Identifier: SR 11291
Abstract

Oral history interview with Kimberlee Van Patten conducted by Katie Horton and Amy Sherwood on February 12, 2009, for the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. Van Patten discusses her management of Peacock Productions Inc., a non-profit organization in Portland that produces drag shows to raise money for the Audria M. Edwards Scholarship fund.

Dates: 2009 February 12

Vanport collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1413
Abstract

Collection includes "Vanport City Rules and Regulations," 1943, with map of Vanport and index; photocopy of "Vanport City Flood 1948," an American Red Cross report; "Vanport: Emergency Relief Operations," a Salvation Army publication; and four watercolors depicting life in Vanport, 1942-1946.

Dates: 1942-1948

Photographs of the Vanport (Or.) flood

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1363
Abstract

Collection consists of 10 black-and-white photographs of the Vanport flood in 1948, taken by an unidentified photographer. Most of the photographs are aerial views showing the floodwaters, damaged and floating buildings, and other debris. Several photographs show people standing amid the wreckage.

Dates: 1948

Materials relating to Vanport, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 314
Abstract

Collection includes an autograph book with several pages of handwritten names and hometowns of seventh- and eighth-grade students at Vanport School, 1945; five photocopied photographs of students, staff, and school grounds at Vanport School, 1944-1945; and one photocopied journal article titled "The Vanport Flood: Clark v. United States."

Dates: 1944-1999; Majority of material found within 1944-1945

Photographs of Vanport, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1364
Abstract

Small collection of black and white photographs of Vanport, Oregon, before and after the flood of 1948. The photographs belonged to Dale Skovgaard and include images of Skovgaard and his family, who lived in Vanport at the time of the flood.

Dates: circa 1948

Carl Vermilya photograph of the Vanport Flood

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 257
Abstract

Black and white photograph of people abandoning cars to escape floodwaters in Vanport, Oregon.

Dates: 1948 May 30

The Video Access Project video recordings

 Collection
Identifier: MIC 8
Abstract Collection of video recordings from the Video Access Project, a community television program that aired in Portland, Oregon in the 1980s and early 1990s. Programs were produced by community groups, artists and musicians, and covered various Portland-related topics. Also included are early video recordings from the 1970s, shot on location and focusing on topics including art, sexuality and neighborhoods in transition. These earlier videos were donated at the same time as TVAP but predate the...
Dates: 1971-1990

John S. Volpe photographs collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 274
Abstract

Photographs and printed materials relating to the work of John S. Volpe, an engineer for the Portland Electric Power Company (later named the Portland General Electric Company) in Portland, Oregon, who supervised the laying of underground utility cables. Images date from the mid-1920s to the early 1950s; they document electrical work throughout Portland, and include photographs of John S. Volpe, cable-laying and submerged-cable projects, and employees and company events.

Dates: 1917-1952

Volunteers for Delta Dome Covered Stadium records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2653
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence and reports; newspaper clippings and editorials; campaign materials for the ballot measure for the construction of a covered stadium at Delta Park, Portland, Oregon; and a landscape plan for the proposed park.

Dates: 1963-1966