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Essays and essay outlines written by W. Claude Adams (1873-1961) for an English class, possibly at the University of Oregon. Essay topics are the formation of the Oregon Provisional Government; the lives of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and British monarch Queen Victoria; and manufacturing industries in Clackamas County, Oregon. W. Claude Adams would later become a dentist in Portland, Oregon.

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Manuscript document regarding Pacific Northwest land holdings and other property of Charles M. Carter, who was, per note with the manuscript, a pioneer of 1848.

Abstract Collection includes correspondence, mainly to Morton Insley, 1869-1937; compositions and autograph book of Minnie Biles Brazee, circa 1871-1900; will and estate inventory of John Brazee, 1887; baptism certificate of Fannie Brazee, 1878; and issues of "The Plant Record" from the Willamette Iron & Steel Works, 1919. Morton Insley worked as a salesman for Ames and Harris Co. of Portland and later for Willamette Iron & Steel. He was married to Fannie Brazee, daughter of John W. Brazee...

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Manuscript periodical, "The Compass," Vol. 1, No. 1, by Bill Roe for the members of the South Portland Debating Society, containing an essay on the subject of death.

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Manuscript compositions written for school, 4 pages, circa 1850-1860, on such topics as spiritualism, letter-writing, Silverton, Oregon local politics, and boys.

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Typescript essay, "Deep, dark canyon of the Applegate Trail," by Catherine DeMoss of Eugene, Oregon, circa 1930-1960, discussing the route the Applegates might have taken to Oregon on their overland journey in 1846.

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Papers of a journalist who worked in Oregon and Washington state and specialized in environmental reporting. The collection includes personal information, early student essays, travel essays, poetry, articles published in newspapers and magazines, and material for three books. Included are background sources and notes to support articles and books.

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Papers and family photographs of Lucia S. Fear (1862-1957). Fear was born in 1862 in Kansas, and worked as a lawyer there in the early 1880s. She and her family later moved to Portland, Oregon, where she participated in the Mazamas climb of Mt. Hood in 1894 and was a member of the Portland Woman's Club.

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Research materials by John H. Hall, who studied and wrote on the life of John Minto (1822-1915), an emigrant to Oregon in 1844. Materials include typed transcripts of Minto's autobiography and his other writings, notes on Minto, and typescripts of a paper that Hall wrote about Minto for a class at Reed College in 1964.

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Mimeograph typescript essay, "History of 'Old Number 3,'" by Herbert T. Williams, 10 pages, 1954, an account of the last horse-drawn streetcar and a history of horse-drawn streetcars in Portland, Oregon.