Oregon -- Description and travel -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
William Roberts letter to William Kibbs
Collection
Identifier: Coll 928
Abstract
Letter from William Roberts (1812-1888) to William Kibbs, which includes Roberts' impressions of the Oregon Territory. Roberts was a Methodist missionary who was the superintendent of the Oregon Methodist Mission from 1847 to 1853, and was a trustee of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
Dates:
1850 October 15
Mary F. Slavin notebooks containing diary entries
Collection
Identifier: Coll 1099
Abstract
Two notebooks that belonged to Mary F. Slavin (later Mary F. Prince, 1853-1936) when she was a teenager and then a young woman. Both books include diary entries, though the bulk of the first book consists of clippings of poems and illustrations. Both books include entries describing camping trips Slavin took to the Oregon coast in September 1870 and August 1875. Slavin was the first teacher at Hillsdale School in Hillsdale, Oregon; she married Richard Clarence Prince in 1879, and later lived...
Dates:
1867-1876
William P. Wright papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss1174
Abstract
Collection includes correspondence with: E. T. Gunn, 1865; Charles E. Williams, 1873; D. L. Phillips, 1870; Joseph H. Slater, 1866; and others, some letters describing Oregon.
Dates:
1865-1873