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Watercolor sketch depicting soldiers and Native people firing on one another at the Wyoming camp of the F & K Companies of the 9th Infantry during the Indian Wars.

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Watercolor sketch by Grace Ketchan, depicting the house of Captain George E. Pickett at 910 Bancroft St. in Bellingham, Washington.

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Commonplace book of paintings and writings by George Davidson (1768-1801) of Massachusetts, along with other materials relating to Davidson and his works, including a handwritten genealogical document by his son, who was also named George Davidson (born 1798, died 1837 or 1845). A number of the paintings depict sailing ships. Davidson was a crew member on the Columbia Rediviva when it traveled to the Pacific Northwest in the 1790s; he died while captain of the ship Rover.

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Pencil and watercolor sketch of the first Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon. Note in collection states that the church was erected by James H. Wilbur in 1849-1850 and suggests that the artist may have been A. R. Stringer.

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Watercolor sketch of the bark Tenedos in San Francisco Bay.

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Lithographic and watercolor illustrations depicting buildings in Portland, Oregon, designed by architect Isaac Hodgson, Jr., who worked in Portland during the early 1890s. The watercolors and one of the lithographs depict the Chamber of Commerce building; the other lithograph depicts the entrance to a proposed United Bank building.

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Watercolor sketch by George A. Dowling, depicting Arthur Champlin Spencer sitting at a desk reading I.C.C. Proceedings while a vision of himself as a young attorney speaking before a jury appears in the smoke of his cigar.

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Watercolor sketch of Mt. Tacoma (Mt. Rainier) as seen from American Lake in Washington, by J. H. Houghton.

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Watercolor reproductions of Newman Myrah's "Portland Scenes" series. Scenes include the Pioneer Courthouse, the Skidmore Fountain, the U.S.S. Oregon, the Portland Hotel, streetcars, and the Morrison Bridge.

Abstract Small collection consisting primarily of pencil and watercolor drawings and sketches made by Cleveland Rockwell (1837-1907), a cartographer and Oregon artist. The bulk of the sketches depict landscape scenes in Oregon, Washington, California, and Alaska, as well as British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The collection also includes a significant number of watercolor drawings of Pacific Northwest and California wildflowers, some of them made by Cornelia F. Rockwell (née Russell, 1856-1922),...