reminiscences
Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:
The prairie flower
Photocopy manuscript school paper, 20 pages, including reminiscences and chapter titles such as "Bad habits" and "My dear pupils."
Alexander Phimister Proctor papers
Collection includes drafts of Alexander Phimister Proctor's autobiography; contracts; correspondence; sketches of animals, Native people, and various sculpting projects; magazine articles by Proctor; and scrapbooks.
Colonel James H. Raley collection
Collection consists of a typescript carbon copy document titled "Bannock and Piute War 1878" by James H. Raley, and a photostat copy of a speech given by Raley before a joint meeting of the Oregon Supreme Court and Eastern Oregon Bar, recounting his reminiscences of Eastern Oregon history.
John Watermelon Redington papers
John Watermelon Redington (1851-1935) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved west in 1877. He served as a U.S. scout in the 1870s and 1880s during conflicts with the Nez Perce. Collection includes a typescript, "Scouting in Montana," 16 pages, circa 1870-1879; correspondence; and Elinor Meacham Redington reminiscences.
Nellie Meacham Redington papers
Reveries of an old Oregon trail pioneer
Photocopy typescript lecture, circa 1972-1973, regarding Mildred Miles Main's reminiscences of Ezra Meeker and his attempts to mark and commemorate the route of the overland trail to Oregon.
Ruth Church Robertson reminiscences
Reminiscences by Ruth Church Robertson regarding Church family history, family members' lives in Portland and Salem, Oregon, and travel to Europe and Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
James Harvey Slater papers
James Harvey Slater was elected prosecuting attorney for the 5th Judicial District in 1866, served in the U.S. House from 1871-1873, and was a U.S. senator from Oregon from 1879-1885. Papers include correspondence; estate and family papers; reminiscences; and speeches, 1867-1885, on topics including economics, politics, tariffs, and slavery.
Erastus A. Smith papers
Papers of Erastus A. Smith (1868-1950) relating to his military and religious careers, including certificates, letters of recommendation, and reminiscences. Smith was a Baptist minister from Oregon who preached at churches in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, and who served in the Oregon National Guard in the mid-1890s and in the 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Spanish-American War.
Social life of southern Oregon fifty years ago
Typescript reminiscences of an unknown author, "Social Life of Southern Oregon Fifty Years Ago," circa 1920-1930, recalling youth in Jacksonville, Oregon, in the 1860s, Sargent Dunlap, clubs and societies for young people.