Abstract Collection consists of miscellaneous letters and papers of and relating to George L. Baker (1868-1941), who served as a city councilman and commissioner for Portland, Oregon, and as mayor from 1917-1933. Materials include a passport and itinerary for a European trip, 1931; a pamphlet by Sidney B. Whipple, "Bon Voyage: the American Mayor's Visit to France 1931," 1936; letters to Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr., regarding a campaign to promote homeownership; a petition for bankruptcy; and a campaign...

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Collection consists of a typescript copy of a diary, March-July 1914, of a trip to Europe and North Africa, with comments on roads and road building in Europe and Oregon; a typescript biography of Orange Marcus Clark, circa 1929; and a typescript copy of an obituary for Clark, 1929. Also included are insurance policies issued to O.M. Clark and Wilson W. Clark, 1917-1931.

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Oral history interview with Julia E. Johnson, conducted by Deborah M. Olson in five sessions, from July 20 to November 11, 1987. Johnson discusses her early life in Jacksonville, Oregon; the operations of the Opp mine, which was owned and operated by her father, John Wesley Opp; teaching at Grant High School in Portland from 1926 to 1944; her involvement with the Girl Scouts of America; and her involvement with the Republican Party of Oregon.

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Oral history interview with Frances D. McGill conducted by Marian W. Kolisch from May 21 to October 31, 1991. McGill was a teacher in Portland, Oregon, from 1925 to 1944, a school counselor for Portland Public Schools from 1944 to 1966, and a school counselor for the Department of Defense on military bases in Europe from 1966 to 1973.

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Reminiscences by Ruth Church Robertson regarding Church family history, family members' lives in Portland and Salem, Oregon, and travel to Europe and Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.