Clubs and Societies

Collection includes scrapbooks and miscellaneous volumes of clippings, ephemera, and historical records of the Multnomah Athletic Club and Pacific Northwest athletic activities, 1895-1962.

The Oregon branch of the National Federation of Music Clubs sponsored National Music Week, Junior Music Festivals and scholarships for students and special programs. Collection includes minutes; correspondence; documents regarding festivals and conventions; administrative records; and scrapbooks.

Records include manuscript letters to the Native Daughters of Oregon Elizabeth Thurston Odell Cabin No. 8, 5 pages, 1901; a manuscript journal of Elizabeth Thurston Odell Cabin No. 8; printed ephemera; and receipts.

The Oregon Camera Club was founded in 1895 with the purpose of encouraging photographic enhancement and to display the work of its members. Records include meeting minutes; membership rosters; treasurer's reports; correspondence; constitution and by-laws; and miscellaneous ephemera relating to special events and exhibitions.

Records of an Oregon child welfare organization, including incorporation and related papers, board of managers and annual meeting minute books, reports of admissions to the Home (1888-1899), account books, legal documents, papers relating to the Salem Hospital and Home Scholarship Fund, and correspondence and documents relating to children in the society's care.

Partially processed collection of records including correspondence; minutes; membership lists; financial records, receipts, and treasurer's reports; tax records; scrapbooks; and ephemera.

Collection consists of scrapbooks, 1952-1967.

Collection of printed material from Oregon's territorial period and early statehood, including legislation, advertisements, notices, proclamations, and ephemera. George N. Belknap (1905-1996) listed most of the items in this collection in his 1968 work, "Oregon Imprints, 1845-1870," or in addendums to that work.

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.

Collection includes articles of incorporation, minutes, stockholder lists and other administrative documents regarding the Oregon Society of Landscape Architects' activities in connection with the promotion of the profession of landscape architecture.