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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 811 Collections and/or Records:

Bethenia Owens-Adair papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 503
Abstract

Papers of Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840-1926), including letters from Jesse Applegate, a speech by Owens-Adair in support of women's suffrage, a pro-eugenics booklet by Owens-Adair, and a letter from Owens-Adair to Fred Lockley. Owens-Adair was one of the first women working as doctors in Oregon to hold a medical degree, and was active in the temperance, women's suffrage, and eugenics movements.

Dates: 1869-1921
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

John W. Owens papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2319
Abstract John W. Owens was a lecturer on phrenology. During the years of 1880-1882, he was on a lecture tour of Oregon and Washington. Collection includes manuscript correspondence, 1880-1882, from family members in Melrose, Kansas, and from friends and several female suitors. Correspondents include Hazel Wylde and W. E. Showers. Also included are photocopy newspaper articles, circa 1880, mostly printing letters from Hazel Wylde; and a bound notebook, circa 1880, containing accounts, addresses, and...
Dates: 1880-1882
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Pacific International Exposition records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1610
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, records, account and other books, publications, scrapbooks, awards, souvenirs, and ephemera.

Dates: circa 1910-1952
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Pacific Northwest Labor College records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1809
Abstract

The Pacific Northwest Labor College was originally sponsored by the Portland Labor Temple and offered night courses and continuing education for labor union members until its closure in 1984. Records include correspondence, reports, minutes, lists of officers, by-laws, surveys, proposals, news releases, bibliographies, memoranda, curriculum materials, and financial grant materials.

Dates: 1974-1984
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Pacific Stoneware Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1713
Abstract

Pacific Stoneware Inc. was a pottery business which originated in 1873 as Pacific Pottery Co. It went bankrupt in 1960 and was bought by Tektronix Ceramics. Records include correspondence, cash books, journals, ledgers, order books, and trial balance books.

Dates: 1900-1955
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Joel Palmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 114
Abstract Papers of Joel Palmer (1810-1881) of Dayton, Oregon, and his family, including correspondence, diaries, government documents, and property records. The majority of papers relate to Palmer's roles as commissary general during the Cayuse War, as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory in the 1850s, and as an Indian agent at the Siletz Reservation in the early 1870s. Family papers include correspondence of Palmer's wife, Sarah Ann Palmer (1815-1891), and of Palmer's...
Dates: 1783-2001; Majority of material found within 1848-1880
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Pambrun family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1193
Abstract

Collection includes typescript biographical and autobiographical documents about Pierre Chrysologue Pambrun, Thomas Pambrun, Jr., Alexandre (Alexander) Pambrun and Andre (Andrew) Dominique Pambrun; letters and documents relating to an error in several histories regarding Pierre Pambrun and Captain Bonneville; and photostat newspaper clippings regarding the Pambrun family.

Dates: circa 1800-1970
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Park Block Revels and South Park Blocks Association records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1017
Abstract Records and correspondence primarily relating to the Park Block Revels, but also to the South Park Blocks Association, both of Portland, Oregon. The Park Block Revels was an annual winter festival that ran from 1973 to 1992 and was sponsored by a number of institutions on or near the South Park Blocks in Portland. The South Park Blocks Association was an organization of institutions in the South Park Blocks area that, in the late 1980s, sought to improve the condition of the area through...
Dates: 1974-1994
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

George H. Parker collection on Josephine County

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1395
Abstract

Collection consists of letters to Parker from pioneers in Josephine County, 1908-1909, regarding the naming of the county.

Dates: 1908-1920
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Horatio H. Parker papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2564
Abstract

Horatio H. Parker was the brother of Jamieson Parker, an architect of Portland, Oregon, best known for his residential and church designs in the 1920s and 1930s. Papers consist of correspondence and miscellanea primarily concerning Parker family genealogical research, 1891-1922.

Dates: 1891-1922
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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