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Portland

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 629 Collections and/or Records:

Women's Overseas Service League records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2950
Abstract

The Women's Overseas Service League was a national organization founded in 1921; the Portland chapter was formed in 1923. Collection includes scrapbooks; membership lists; newspaper clippings; officer lists; certificates; organizational histories; programs; minutes; correspondence; obituaries; and financial records.

Dates: 1922-1991

Nanny Wood collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 223
Abstract

Handwritten notebooks of Nanny Wood of Portland, Oregon, including details on her gardening activities and flora of interest to her. Also included is an illustrated manuscript on Wood's life and garden, as well as a typescript history of the Skidmore Fountain by Wood's husband, the artist and lawyer Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Nanny Wood's garden is now a portion of the grounds of the Portland Garden Club.

Dates: 1894-2011; Majority of material found within circa 1925-1933

Oral history interview with Paul S. Wright

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9520
Abstract

Oral history interview with the Reverend Paul S. Wright conducted by Linda S. Dodds on September 23, 1981. Wright discusses his early life in Tebriz, Iran, his experiences during World War I, and his service as a Presbyterian minister in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1981 September 23

Radio interview with Paul S. Wright

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9521
Abstract

Radio interview with the Reverend Paul S. Wright, broadcast on November 4, 1973. Wright discusses his Christian faith and service as a Presbyterian minister in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1973 November 4

Yaw's Top Notch dinner theater poster

 Collection
Identifier: Coll884
Abstract

Hand-lettered poster advertising performances of "The Drunkard" at Yaw's Top Notch Restaurant by the Mark Allen Players. Yaw's Top Notch was a Portland, Oregon restaurant that was popular in the mid-20th century, and closed in 1985. The Mark Allen Players were a theater company that became the Willamette Repertory Theatre, and then the Portland Repertory Theater, before dissolving in 1998.

Dates: circa 1982

Yaw's Topnotch alteration and addition plans

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 248
Abstract

Collection includes plans, sections, and details on 5 sheets for alterations and additions to the restaurant Yaw's Top Notch at 2001 NE 40th Ave. in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: circa 1926-1980

Oral history interview with Ramazan Yiğit

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12334
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ramazan Yiğit conducted by Jessica Pollard on August 30, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Yiğit discusses his experiences as a Kurd in Turkey and in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 2018 August 30

Faye Margaret Young diploma

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1622
Abstract

Diploma issued to Faye Margaret Young from U. S. Grant High School in Portland, Oregon, January 25, 1929, certifying completion of "the College Preparatory Course of Study."

Dates: 1929 January 25

Young Women's Christian Association Williams Avenue Center records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2384
Abstract

Records of a YWCA center located in the Albina neighborhood of northeast, Portland, Oregon, which served the African American community. Includes historical background, minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, surveys, study workbook, and papers on relief for people displaced by the 1948 Vanport flood.

Dates: 1918-1961