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Pamphlets and memorabilia issued by the Book Club of California relating to the history of the Pacific Coast and California.

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Collection includes receipts, tickets, programs and ephemera from the Annual Exhibit, September 18-24, 1899, held in Baker City, Oregon; "Around the World for an Arkansaw Girl," 8 pages, 1897; "Torch of Reason Song Book," 30 pages, 1899; and "Wolfard & Mount's Improved Hop Dryer and Curer," 1901.

Abstract Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1873-1966) was a spiritualist and founder of the Spectro-Chrome Institute, Malaga, New Jersey. While giving lectures on spectro-chrome therapy in Portland, Oregon, he was arrested on allegations that he had violated the Mann Act. Collection consists of a typescript letter to the editor of the Morning Oregonian, June 16, 1926, regarding his innocence of violation of the Mann Act; a pamphlet, "Railroading a Citizen," 1926; and a newspaper clipping, June 3, 1927, regarding...

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Collection includes photostat of "The Laws and Resolutions Passed at the Annual Council of the Hawaiian Nobles …," 1843, and newspaper clippings from the Oahu Spectator, 1824, regarding excessive alcohol use.

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The collection consists of scrapbooks, personal and political correspondence, clippings, invitations and announcements, pamphlets, and ephemera of Nan Wood Honeyman, the first woman from Oregon to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat, 1937-1938).

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Collection includes poclamation by Idaho Governor Silas D. Cochran, 1864; publication listing farms for sale in Idaho, circa 1900-1950; blank form from the King, Webb & Company assay office, Owyhee, Idaho, circa 1860; publication of the Northern Pacific Railroad, circa 1920-1950, extolling the virtues of settling in Washington and Idaho.

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Pamphlets that had belonged to an Oregon member of the Ku Klux Klan and which contain Klan bylaws and ritual instructions. The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic organization that had a large number of members and considerable political influence in Oregon in the early 1920s.

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Records compiled by the Lutheran Schools Committee of Portland, Oregon, largely as part of a 1922 political campaign to defeat the Compulsory Education Bill, which sought to make public school attendance mandatory in Oregon for children ages eight to sixteen. Materials include clippings, campaign literature, posters, correspondence, ephemera, and voter registration lists.

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Promotional pamphlet from the Great Northern Railway about the state of Montana, 1913.

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Typescript pamphlet for the Mount Hood Children's Farm, 1937, with photographs and testimonials. The Mount Hood Children's Farm was a summer camp located off the Mt. Hood Loop Highway, founded in 1933 and run by Elizabeth Rogers of Portland, Oregon.