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Oral history interview with Isabelle K. Ashcraft conducted by Charles Digregorio on June 14, 1977. Ashcraft discusses her experience serving on the board of the Portland Civic Theatre, beginning in 1945.

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Oral history interview with Mary C. Emory conducted by Roberta Watts on January 6, 1978. Emory discusses her early life in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.

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Oral history interview with Mildred B. Engdahl and Marion F. Kingery conducted by Charles Digregorio on June 9, 1977. Engdahl and Kingery discuss their involvement with the Portland Civic Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

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Oral history interview with Edith F. Essex conducted by Charles Digregorio on January 25, 1977. Essex discusses her involvement with the Portland Civic Theatre.

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Collection includes manuscripts of musical compositions, sketches, notebooks, and clippings of Portland Civic Opera Association and Theater Arts Opera Association, 1947-1966. Eugene Fuerst was conductor and director of the Portland Civic Opera Association and Theater Arts Opera Association.

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Oral history interview with Harvey S. Giffin conducted by Charles Digregorio on June 22, 1977. Giffin discusses performing as an actor with the Portland Civic Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

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Oral history interview with Edris Morrison conducted by Roberta Watts on January 18, 1978. Morrison discusses the history of live theater in Portland, Oregon, and her involvement with the Portland Civic Theatre.

Abstract Records of the Portland Civic Theatre Guild, a volunteer fundraising organization in Portland, Oregon. The collection's contents include administrative records, programs, bylaws, directories, information about the Leslie G. Fulton endowment and the guild's fellowship awards, and clippings. The Portland Civic Theatre Guild was founded in 1958, and dissolved in 2023. The records in this collection reflect the period in the 1990s when the Portland Civic Theatre closed and the guild shifted its...

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Materials relating to theaters in Portland, Oregon, collected by Susan Stelljes, including programs and posters. The bulk of the collection's materials concern the Portland Civic Theatre Guild, a volunteer fundraising group to which Stelljes belonged. The Portland Civic Theatre Guild was founded in 1958 to support the Portland Civic Theatre; it later awarded fellowships for theater artists' professional development. The guild dissolved in 2023.