correspondence

The Brooklyn Parent Teacher Association was founded in 1903 as the Brooklyn Mother's Club and sought to promote the welfare of children and youth in the school and in the community. Collection includes minutes, treasurer's reports, newsletters, correspondence, membership directories, publicity materials, historian's reports (1951-1981, incomplete), memorabilia from local, state and national PTA meetings, and a scrapbook.

Records include log analysis, administrative and financial records, advertisements, mill architectural plans, memoranda, reports, correspondence, and brochures.

College paper that Donna Brown (née Kemp) wrote about U.S. Representative Wendell Wyatt (1917-2009), two letters from Wyatt, and a clipping about Wyatt that was sent to Brown. Brown wrote the paper while on the Washington Semester Program as a student at Willamette University. Wendell Wyatt was a Republican U.S. Representative for Oregon from 1965 to 1975.

Materials relating to James M. Brown (1844-1922), who emigrated to Silverton, Oregon, as a child in 1846, and to other members of Brown's family, particularly his son Percy L. Brown (1876-1934). Papers include correspondence, financial records, and ephemera, and much of the material deals with Percy L. Brown's educational, business, and social activities.

Collection includes correspondence, primarily to Owen Brown from various members of the Brown family, regarding family history and a book on the Tabitha Moffat and Clark Brown family by Ella Spooner; and some miscellaneous family documents. Owen Brown was the great-grandson of Tabitha Moffat Brown.

Collection consists largely of photocopies of articles by Robert Brown published in various scientific journals, 1868-1870, on botany, medicinal plants, birds, geology and Native American use of medicinal plants in the Pacific Northwest. Also included is a photocopy of a manuscript letter from Archibald Menzies to Robert Brown.

Collection includes typescript and photocopied manuscript letters to William P. Bryant, travel documents, and papers relating to his appointment as the first chief justice in the Oregon Territory; microfilm of the same materials, with additional correspondence and documents; biographical information; and original documents.

Papers and records relating to the business interests of Philip Buehner (1858-1940), an engineer and lumberman. Buehner developed municipal water-supply projects in Washington state and Oregon, and, in partnership with with Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, supplied pipelines for the Bull Run water system for Portland, Oregon. Buehner also operated multiple Oregon lumber companies.