essays
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 16 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
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
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
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
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
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