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Oral history interview with Don G. Berry conducted by Linda S. Dodds on February 11, 1980. Berry was a bronze sculptor and author of historical novels.

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Papers of Amos Burg (1901-1986), including diaries, travel logs, notes, correspondence, published materials, and ephemera. Burg was born in Portland, Oregon, and lived there until after World War II, when he moved to Alaska. He traveled on multiple rivers in North America, and was a writer, photographer and filmmaker who worked for the National Geographic Society, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Erpi Classroom films, and later the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

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Audio recording of a lecture given by Malcolm H. Clark, Jr. on February 4, 1982. Clark discusses the history of the Oregon Territory and a 19th-century legal case regarding the estate of Finice Caruthers.

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Oral history interview with Malcolm H. Clark, Jr., conducted by Linda S. Dodds on February 7, 1980. Clark discusses his career as an author.

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Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) was a novelist and short story writer born in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, 1930-1964, mostly to Arthur B. Epperson, regarding publishing, personal matters, and a proposed series of articles on Haycox and other Oregon western writers. Also included is a typescript list by Jill Marie Haycox, wife of Ernest Haycox, circa 1964, of his writing record.

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Carl Laub (born 1898) came to Oregon at the age of 7, worked as a salesman, newspaperman, publisher, editor, and radio producer, and wrote the newspaper column "I Ain't Mad at Nobody." Collection includes drafts of a biography of Laub; radio show scripts for KUIK and KWJJ; writings, including Oregon histories, human interest, humor, poetry, news commentary, and Laub's column; and correspondence.

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The papers of Oregon author Dorothy Lawson McCall (1888-1982) include typescript drafts for the books "Khaki Pants and a Tall Silk Hat" and "Prineville" and newspaper clippings about her bid for governor of Oregon.

Abstract Hazel Mills worked at the library of the University of Washington, the Oregon State Library and the Washington State Library. She authored and co-authored several books on Pacific Northwest history and was working on a biography of Frances Fuller Victor when she became incapacitated by illness. A nearly complete draft of her book on Victor makes up a significant portion of the collection. Other materials include diaries and appointment books; personal correspondence and greeting cards;...

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Oral history interview with Richard G. Montgomery conducted by Charles Digregorio on May 16, 1976. Montgomery discusses his Montgomery and Gill family background and talks about the history of J. K. Gill Company.

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Audio recordings of oral history interviews and conversations with people associated with the Portland Art Museum. The interviews were conducted over a period of three years, from approximately 1990 to 1993. Most were conducted by Robert Peirce, who was then the librarian at the art museum. Interviewees include Bob Sitton, Bill Foster, Clyde Rice, William Givler, Pietro Belluschi, Marian Kolisch, Francis J. Newton, Robert O. Lee, and members of the Portland Art Museum Women's Council.