Abstract Ira C. Keller (1899-1978) was a business and civic leader of Portland, Oregon. He chaired the Portland Development Commission (1958-1972), was president of the Oregon Graduate Center for Study and Research (1972-1978), and founded the Western Kraft Corporation (1954-1972). Collection includes a scrapbook detailing projects of the Portland Development Commission, including the Portland Center, Lovejoy Fountain, Forecourt Fountain, Albina Neighborhood Improvement Program, and proposed Emanuel...

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Charles W. Love was an amateur photographer and street railway employee in Portland, Oregon. This collection, consisting of photographic prints and glass-plate negatives, features images of the employees and cars of the Portland Railway Company, the City and Suburban Railway Company, and the Portland Railway, Light, and Power Company during the period from 1898-1910. Other photographs in this collection document Brownsville, Oregon, circa 1912.

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Oral history interview with Ida Mae Shepherd conducted by Greta Smith Wisnewski from August 14 to October 26, 2020. Shepherd discusses her life in the Albina area of Portland, Oregon, particularly the Eliot neighborhood, as well as her involvement with Albina Fair Share.

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Records of a YWCA center located in the Albina neighborhood of northeast, Portland, Oregon, which served the African American community. Includes historical background, minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, surveys, study workbook, and papers on relief for people displaced by the 1948 Vanport flood.