correspondence
Found in 807 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Lyle Veazie papers
Collection includes correspondence concerning the compilation of a history of the University of Oregon; correspondence and newspaper clippings about Crook County and Prineville, Oregon; and typescript articles on the First Baptist Church, Portland, and La Creole Academic Institute.
Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A. Ladies Auxiliary records
Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A. Ladies Auxiliary to the Portland Barracks was organized in 1955 and offered a variety of social and charitable services to World War I veterans and to its members. Records date from 1925 to 1987 and include newsletters, correspondence; membership rosters and certificates, minutes, scrapbooks, and a guest book.
Thomas R. Vickers NAACP papers
Papers, newspaper issues and clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks concerning the Portland, Oregon branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Thomas R. Vickers, who served as the branch president from 1967-1971.
Frances Fuller Victor papers
A small collection of papers of the Oregon historian and author Frances Fuller Victor, including: correspondence with early emigrants to Oregon Jesse Applegate and Jessy Q. Thornton; typescript of a poem; a copy of her work "The Women's War with Whisky"; and a scrapbook of reviews of Victor's works.
Volunteers for Delta Dome Covered Stadium records
Collection includes correspondence and reports; newspaper clippings and editorials; campaign materials for the ballot measure for the construction of a covered stadium at Delta Park, Portland, Oregon; and a landscape plan for the proposed park.
F. O. Vondergreen papers
Collection includes physician's account books, 1879-1883; and a manuscript letter from "Sarah Jane" to "Dear Mrs. Chapman," 1866, regarding a trip from Oregon to San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Orrington, Maine, and seeing actor Edwin Forest perform in New York City.
Robert M. Wade collection
William Wadhams letters
William Wadhams (1831-1905) was a pioneer grocer and founder of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, Sellwood Presbyterian Church, and the Portland YMCA. Collection includes correspondence regarding Reverend W. H. Landon and his move to Portland to become pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, William Wadhams' business, Wadhams and Kerr Brothers, and church work.
Donald Waggoner papers
Donald Waggoner was president of the Oregon Environmental Council and was active in researching and lobbying for the Oregon Minimum Deposit Act (Bottle Bill), which went into effect in October 1972. Collection includes correspondence, articles, reports and testimony regarding state and national minimum deposit container legislation.
Rev. Paul E. Waldschmidt papers
Reverend Paul E. Waldschmidt of the C.S.C. (Congregation of the Holy Cross) was president of the University of Portland, 1962-1977. Collection includes correspondence and program materials, 1966, regarding a Jewish-Catholic conference held at the University of Portland; minutes, correspondence, memoranda, and reports of the Portland School District's Committee on Race and Education, 1963-1964; sermon texts and notes.