Portland
Found in 617 Collections and/or Records:
Burnside Community Council records
Unprocessed collection consisting of miscellaneous records of the Burnside Community Council, which provided services to unhoused and low-income people in Portland, Oregon, and operated a shelter called Baloney Joe's. The collection also includes photographs related to the organization's services and activities, and issues of publications including Hobo News, Pipeline, and These Homeless Times.
J. Elliott Busey collection on Marjorie Smith
Marjorie Smith (born 1921) married Oliver Kermit Smith on August 22, 1952, and was later tried and acquitted as an accomplice to his murder. Collection consists of materials regarding Marjorie Smith's trial, collected and maintained by her attorney, J. Elliott Busey. Materials include a scrapbook, correspondence, witness statements, and estate papers.
Oral history interview with Margaret M. Cabell
Oral history interview with Margaret M. Cabell conducted by Marian W. Kolisch on March 4, 1976. Cabell discusses her involvement with the Portland Garden Club, the Pittock Mansion, and the Portland Japanese Garden.
Cake, Jareguy & Tooze letter to Equitable Savings & Loan
Three-page letter from law firm of Cake, Jareguy & Tooze to Equitable Savings and Loan Association, dated March 23, 1942, advising against providing loans or relief to either persons currently in military service or anyone who is a potential draftee, citing the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940.
Mary Evelene Calbreath papers
Mary Evelene Calbreath (1895-1972) was a music teacher and composer in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, musical programs, articles, genealogy, ephemera, daybook, landscape album, diaries, and score.
Calendar for 1978, "The Five Lost Cities of Portland"
Calendar for 1978 with illustrations by Don MacGillivray (1945-) of historic buildings in the East Portland, Albina, Linnton, Sellwood, and St. Johns neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. MacGillivray led historic walking tours of the Buckman neighborhood in southeast Portland in the 1970s.
Ronald Glenn Callvert papers
Ronald Glenn Callvert (1873-1955) was associate editor of the Oregonian and won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1938 editorial "My Country 'tis of Thee." Collection includes newspaper clippings of Callvert's editorials and features; Pulitzer Prize announcement and congratulatory letters and telegrams; Callvert's post-retirement writings; retirement card with an Art Bimrose cartoon; correspondence of Ronald S. Callvert regarding R. G. Callvert's career.
Oral history interview with Emily N. Cameron
Oral history interview with Emily N. Cameron conducted by Charles Digregorio on August 6, 1976. Cameron discusses life in the Portland Heights neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, in the early 20th century.
H. C. Campbell collection on Mount Tabor Villa (Montavilla)
Manuscript financial records of Mt. Tabor Villa, and an account book kept by H. C. Campbell for Mt. Tabor Villa, concerning improvements of land, with plat map. The neighborhood, located in the southeast quadrant of Portland, Oregon, later became known as Montavilla.
Campbell & Norquist Co. photographic collection
Eight black and white photographs of the interior and exterior of the offices of Campbell & Norquist Co. in Portland, Oregon; service vehicles; and oil furnaces installed in homes.