Records of the César E. Chávez Boulevard Committee, and press coverage of their activities, primarily from newspapers. The committee campaigned from 2007 to 2009 to name a street in Portland, Oregon, after Latino labor activist César E. Chávez (1927-1993). After a series of contentious hearings and adoption of a resolution to clarify the process of renaming strees, the Portland City Council voted to rename 39th Avenue as César E. Chávez Boulevard in July 2009.

Manuscript petition of the citizens of the Oregon Territory asking Congress to amend the land laws.

Manuscript petitions to Governor Addison C. Gibbs for executive pardon of William Hess, 1863, who was convicted of larceny in Yamhill County, Oregon, April 1863, and sentenced to 3 years in state prison.

Correspondence, petitions, statements, and other materials produced or compiled by Gordon L. Kilgour (1929-2016) in relation to his role as the chair of People Against Nerve Gas (P.A.N.G.). Kilgour was a chemistry professor at Portland State College (later Portland State University) in Portland, Oregon. People Against Nerve Gas was a group founded in 1970 to protest a proposed shipment of nerve gas from Okinawa, Japan, to the Umatilla Army Depot near Hermiston, Oregon.

Typescript petition from pioneers of the state of Oregon to Congress, circa 1850-1900, requesting that a monument to Lewis and Clark be erected at Fort Clatsop in honor of their encampment there in 1805-1806.

Petition from members of the Multnomah County Bar to Frank S. Fields, county clerk elect, for the appointment of Lansing Stout as deputy in charge of the records of the circuit court. Includes a reply to Stout from Fields. Stout (1828-1871) was the second person elected to the United States House of Representatives from the state of Oregon, and later served in Oregon's legislature.