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Oral history interview with Gretchen Brown conducted by Charles Digregorio on April 12, 1977. Brown discusses the overland journey from Ontario, Canada, to Salem, Oregon, of her father, James Charles Brown, and the life and career of her husband, McDannell Brown.

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Collection includes 4 blueline drawings on 4 sheets of the First Presbyterian Church in Salem, Oregon, by the Portland architecture firm Stanton, Boles, Maguire & Church.

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Oral history interview with Marie A. Gary conducted by Sue Seyl and George Champlin on January 20, 1981. Gary worked for photographer Thomas J. Cronise at the Cronise Studio in Salem, Oregon.

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Papers of an emigrant to Oregon who lived in Oregon City and Salem. Includes extensive diaries, 1874-1897; account books, 1866-1893; and correspondence, genealogies, and ephemera. Also includes Peter Holt Hatch's letter proposing marriage to Sarah Cornelia Locey, his second wife; and a scrapbook of Edwin Thompson Hatch, son of Peter Hatch.

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Sixteen black and white photographs of the exterior and interior of the Oregon State Capitol building in Salem during its construction, and of the State Library in Salem.

Abstract The collection consists of two reports and supporting materials, produced in 2012, that relate to landscape design and rehabilitation at Gaiety Hollow and the Deepwood Estate in Salem, Oregon. Both sites are associated with Salem landscape architects Elizabeth Lord (1887-1976) and Edith Schryver (1901-1984). The reports are titled "Gaiety Hollow Cultural Landscape Report" and Historic Deepwood Estate: Preservation Project." Lord and Schryver founded the first landscape architecture firm in...

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Collection consists of a revision of the east elevation of a house for Charles Linza McNary in Salem, Oregon.

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One black and white tintype of the Minto family residence in Salem, Oregon.

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Black and white panoramic photograph by The Parker Studio, depicting delegates to the Oregon and California Land Grant Conference in Salem, Oregon, in September 1915.

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Records of an Oregon child welfare organization, including incorporation and related papers, board of managers and annual meeting minute books, reports of admissions to the Home (1888-1899), account books, legal documents, papers relating to the Salem Hospital and Home Scholarship Fund, and correspondence and documents relating to children in the society's care.