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Collection includes minute and record books of Beaverton Band of Hope, No. 6, December 15, 1882-May 8, 1887; and a minute and record book of the Beaverton Women's Christian Temperance Union, October 18, 1885-March 5, 1887.

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Collection of records related to a committee formed to change Portland city government from a commission to mayor-council form. The collection is unprocessed; it includes minutes, member notices, mailing lists, press releases, correspondence, financial records, campaign materials and scrapbooks, 1964-1966.

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Reports and other records created by the City Club of Portland concerning social, legal, taxation, and development issues in Portland, Oregon and the state of Oregon during the 20th century.

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Memorabilia of Berta Delman (1933-2006), including newsletters, brochures, programs, clippings, and ephemera. Much of the material concerns North and Northeast Portland, Oregon, including the advocacy work of Black residents. The collection also contains stationery and photographs of the Knight Shoe Company, which Delman's father owned. Delman was a public administrator and civic planner.

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Papers and images relating to the Devers and Plagemann families. Henry d'Evers emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1858. His son, Arthur H. Devers (1858-1944), was a businessman in Portland, Oregon, and president of Closset & Devers. Arthur H. Devers' granddaughter Jean Elizabeth Plagemann (1909-1978) was the 1932 Oregon Women's Golf Association champion.

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Oral history interview with Dick K. Harmon conducted by Jim Strassmaier on December 29, 1995, as part of the Legacy of Hope: Catholics and Social Justice Project. Harmon discusses his career as a social justice organizer in Chicago, Illinois; Brooklyn, New York; and Portland, Oregon.

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Oral history interview with Dick K. Harmon conducted by Kay Reid in two sessions, on December 15 and December 22, 1998, as part of the Legacy of Hope: Catholics and Social Justice Project. Harmon discusses his involvement with the Portland Organizing Project, a church-based group in Portland, Oregon, advocating for social and economic justice.

Abstract Hideo Hashimoto (born 1911) was a Methodist minister and peace activist. During World War II, he was incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Jerome Relocation Center in Denson, Arkansas. After the war, he became a professor of religious studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, lectures, speeches, information leaflets, newsletters, articles and testimonies, primarily regarding Hashimoto's work for peace and human rights. Also included are...

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Papers of Bob Kouns and Dee Dee Kouns, primarily relating to their organization Crime Victims United and their activism in the anti-crime movement. Bob Kouns and Dee Dee Kouns were Portland, Oregon, residents who, following the murder of their daughter, became active in lobbying for crime victims' rights and mandatory sentencing laws during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Records of Lesbians in Coalition Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, including research materials, handouts, and workshop documents.