Portland
Found in 629 Collections and/or Records:
Women's Overseas Service League records
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.
Nanny Wood collection
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.
Oral history interview with Paul S. Wright
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.
Radio interview with Paul S. Wright
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.
Yaw's Top Notch dinner theater poster
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.
Yaw's Topnotch alteration and addition plans
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.
Oral history interview with Ramazan Yiğit
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.
Faye Margaret Young diploma
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."
Young Women's Christian Association Williams Avenue Center records
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.