correspondence
Found in 814 Collections and/or Records:
Oregon Lewis and Clark Heritage Foundation records
The Oregon Lewis and Clark Heritage Foundation was formed in 1969 and succeeded the work of the Lewis and Clark Trail Commission. It was a volunteer organization with the purpose of stimulating public interest in matters relating to Lewis and Clark. Collection includes correspondence; symposium records and materials; Fort Clatsop and Amax Resolution, 1975; and posters and maps.
Notes regarding Oregon materials on file at the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Collection includes manuscript and typescript correspondence relating to materials at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., on which Joseph Rogers Wilson took notes in 1900 and have since gone missing; and manuscript notes, 1900, by Wilson, on same Oregon materials (1841-1850).
Oregon Nursery Company records
The Oregon Nursery Company was organized in Salem in 1867 and moved to a location 10 miles west of Portland in 1906. The company farmed 1200 acres at this location until its collapse in 1927. The town of Orenco, founded in 1908, derived its name from the company's. Collection includes correspondence; demonstration planting records, especially regarding the Perfection Apricot; financial records; and an Orenco Mercantile Co. ledger.
Oregon Pioneer Association records
Collection includes pioneer death register, arranged alphabetically, circa 1915; Benton County pioneer register, 1875; manuscript correspondence, 1874-1882, between officers and members; and financial records, 1874-1882.
Oregon Press Women records
Correspondence, minutes, constitution, bylaws, membership rosters, and other records.
Oregon Social Hygiene Society records
Records of an Oregon social service organization that was founded in 1911, at the urging of the Young Men's Christian Association, to limit the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and to combat "social vices" such as prostitution, gambling, and childhood immorality. Most files were created by Fred B. Messing, who served as executive secretary from 1929 to 1941. Includes correspondence, subject files, minutes of meetings, financial records, and educational literature.
Letters to the editor of the Oregon Spectator
Collection includes two manuscript letters from Samuel R. Thurston, dated December 9, 1850, and January 16, 1851, the latter also containing a manuscript copy of a letter from William P. Bryant to William J. Brown, concerning the hand bill of John McLoughlin. Also included is a manuscript copy of a March 14, 1851, letter from Jesse Applegate.
Oregon State Pharmaceutical Association records
Collection consists of correspondence, 1935-1937, regarding business matters, mostly from OSPA president Roy A. Perry; miscellaneous documents regarding the OSPA convention in Gearhart, Oregon, 1934-1935, including membership lists and a speech by Perry.
Oregon Timber Transport Operators records
Records of a short-lived organization that was formed in 1951 to address concerns about logging truck safety on the Oregon's highways.
Submissions for Oregon Trail Section of the Oregonian
Letters and enclosed materials submitted to the Oregonian newspaper of Portland, Oregon, for potential inclusion in a special Oregon Trail Section, including family histories and genealogies. The Oregonian included the special section in its March 14, 1993, edition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Oregon Trail.