Fine Arts

Collection includes a manuscript letter written from English Camp, Cultus Lake, Idaho, with ink and color pencil sketches entitled "Pend d'Oreille Country"; an ink and watercolor sketch of Weeksville, Montana; a sketchbook with pencil and ink Pacific Northwest scenes; and an autograph book containing pencil and ink sketch of Tillamook Bay, Oregon.

Six ink and pencil sketches by William H. Dierdorff (1849-1903) with notations for hymns to perform at church services, and a brief biography of Dierdorff by his grandson. Dierdorff emigrated to Oregon in 1856, and after working as a civil engineer and draftsman, became a Presbyterian minister.

Collection includes an album, 1873-1879, belonging to Agnes Downing and filled with drawings by Alfred Downing, as well as clippings, photographs, and imprints of leaves and flowers that were once in the album. Also in the collection are a pen and ink sketch, "The filbert harvest at Bearfield Farm," 1866; and crayon over lithograph depicting Hawthorne Terrace, Portland Heights, Portland, Oregon.

Pencil portrait of Elisha Kent Kane by Joseph Holt Templeton.

Two lithographs depicting Sir Francis Drake, one engraved by Nicolas de Larmessin, 1682, and one engraved by J. June, circa 1740-1770.

Collection includes two engravings from "Atlas du Voyage de la Pérouse," part of "Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde," a compilation of findings of the Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse expedition. Titles are in French. The engravings are Plate No. 53, "Tombeaux de la baie de Castries," and Plate No. 54, "Costumes des habitans de la baie de Castries."

Research files of Robin J. Dunitz concerning Black muralists from Portland, Oregon, and their work, including photographs of murals; information about artists Henry Frison, Charlotte Lewis, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Arvie Smith, and Thelma Johnson Streat; information concerning the Albina Mural Project; and records of the traveling exhibit "Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride." Dunitz has studied and written about murals since the 1980s.

Collection includes 5 engravings depicting scenes of North American Native peoples and buffalo.

Collection includes lithographed views of the Columbia River and The Dalles.

Lithograph of a work by American painter William de la Montagne Cary (1840-1922), depicting a wagon train of pioneers camping and preparing a meal.