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essays

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Asa D. Holaday papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 846
Abstract

Collection includes manuscript essays: "Aids and Suggestions to the State Horticultural Society" and "Notes from Scappoose."

Dates: circa 1895
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Richard Ward Montague papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2953
Abstract

Papers of Richard Ward Montague of Portland, Oregon, including materials relating to Richard Ward Montague's wife, Ellen Barton Montague, and to other members of the Montague and Barton families. Materials include correspondence; articles, essays, and speeches; documents and certificates; and scrapbook items. The correspondence in the collection includes letters from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise to Richard Ward Montague.

Dates: 1820-1985; Majority of material found within 1820-1953
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Materials relating to Music Box Theater burlesque controversy

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1002
Abstract Three letters, a summons, a typescript of a telegram, and an essay relating to opposition to a burlesque act at the Music Box Theater in Portland, Oregon, in 1933. Protests and the subsequent threat of legal action compelled the theater's manager to cancel the act, and Portland city government passed an ordinance to prohibit theatrical performances deemed inappropriate. The letters, summons, and typescript telegram were gathered by the essay's author, radio and television broadcaster Vere...
Dates: 1933 April-May; circa 1973
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

May E. Shogren and Anne H. Shogren papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2701
Abstract

Two ledgers for M & A Shogren, a dressmaking business in Portland, Oregon, and personal papers of May E. Shogren (1861-1928), who operated the business with her younger sister, Anne H. Shogren (1868-1934). The personal papers consist of a microfilm copy of a diary kept by May Shogren and an exercise notebook containing essays about literature. The Shogren sisters operated their business from the 1890s through the 1910s, specializing in high-fashion custom dresses.

Dates: 1899; 1914-1920
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Situation resources and capabilities of the Oregon Territory, for commercial and agricultural uses

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2962
Abstract

Manuscript essay regarding J. F. Warner's assessment of the economic potential and role in world trade of the Oregon Territory and other areas along the Pacific Coast. The assessment anticipates increased trade from Asia through the Oregon Territory to the Atlantic coast.

Dates: circa 1843
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Slavery in the United States

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2335
Abstract

Manuscript essay making a constitutional argument in favor of slavery, circa 1857-1861.

Dates: circa 1857-1861
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Stella Maris House collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1585
Abstract The collection consists of printed material, correspondence, and administrative, financial, and legal records created and collected by the Stella Maris House, a Portland, Oregon-based social justice group, during the course of its work. The collection demonstrates the local evolution of issues key to the history of the United States during the 1960s. Over a third of the collection is dedicated to Oregon's migrant labor rights movement; it also features materials documenting the area's civil...
Dates: 1940-1973; Majority of material found within 1960-1972
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

J. Quinn Thornton papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 371
Abstract Papers of and relating to Jessy Quinn Thornton (also written as Jesse Quinn Thornton, 1810-1888), a lawyer who served as a judge for the Oregon Provisional Supreme Court and who lobbied for the establishment of the Oregon Territory. The bulk of the collection consists of speeches and essays by Thornton on a variety of topics, including matters relating to Oregon, as well as an autobiographical sketch and a bound volume of typescripts of these writings. The collection also includes a...
Dates: 1837-1929; Majority of material found within 1860-1874
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Doctor Marcus Whitman: missionary murdered by the Cayuse Indians in Oregon, November 29, 1847

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 202
Abstract

Manuscript essay regarding James Clark Stroup's personal acquaintance with Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman, and arguments in favor of the "Whitman saves Oregon" theory.

Dates: circa 1906-1920
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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