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Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 194 Collections and/or Records:

60th wedding: Shubael and Mahala Robinson

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 864
Abstract

Shubael and Mahala Robinson were Oregon residents who married in Jerome Prairie, Oregon, in 1900. Collection consists of a ditto booklet written for their 60th wedding anniversary, with history of the family and Jerome Prairie.

Dates: 1960

Abbett family papers

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Identifier: Mss2199
Abstract

Abbett family papers include programs of the Portland Flute Club, 1921-1926; a diary of Mrs. J. T. Abbett, 1911-1915; typescript "History of Women's Foreign Missionary Work in the Pacific Northwest" by Mrs. J. T. Abbett, 1929; and diaries and letters of Myra Leanna (Abbett) Adams, 1890-1963.

Dates: 1865-1963

William P. Abrams collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 6006
Abstract

Collection includes photocopied genealogical information, letters, and diary extracts regarding the discovery of Yosemite in 1849. William Penn Abrams (1820-1873) came to Portland, Oregon, in 1851 on a ship with his family. He started a sawmill and was Oregon's first highway contractor; he also traveled extensively.

Dates: 1893-1950

Oral history interview with Stanton W. Allison

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9403
Abstract

Oral history interview with Stanton W. Allison conducted by Charles Digregorio on August 11, 1976. Allison discusses his family and early life in the Portland Heights neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1976 August 11

Ancestors and education

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2830
Abstract

Photocopy typescript family history regarding the Lewis Rinehart and John Ellis families and their careers in education. Also includes reminiscences of Henry Rinehart's 1854 overland journey to Oregon.

Dates: circa 1930-1986

Anderson, Ericsson and Leufquist family photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 625
Abstract

One album containing cyanotypes of members of the Alfred Anderson family, the Ericsson family, and Charles Leufquist family; residences in Northwest Portland, Oregon; and residences and landscapes in Forest Grove, Oregon, and Seaview, Washington. A small number of images depict other locations in Portland, as well as scenes in Astoria, Dundee, Oregon City, and The Dalles, Oregon.

Dates: circa 1892-circa 1894

Angell family letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2737
Abstract

Susan Pinney Yeomans Angell (1832-1928) and Thomas Angell married in 1846 and came to Oregon from Iowa in a covered wagon in 1852. Collection includes correspondence to Thomas Angell and Susan Angell from family in Iowa, regarding life in Iowa and pleas for the Angells to return.

Dates: 1852-1871

Sam Arback photographic collection on the Mazurovsky family

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 783
Abstract

Small collection of black and white photographs depicting members of Mazurovsky family; their jewelry store, National Jewelry, in Portland, Oregon; and their residence. Also included is a photo of Oscar Korber at the grand opening of his jewelry store, O. Korber Jewelry, in Portland.

Dates: circa 1900-1938

Maida Rossiter Bailey photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1158
Abstract Collection consists of black and white photographs, and a small number of tintypes, most compiled into two photograph albums. One album includes professional portraits of members of the Bailey, Price, Brooks, Hopper, Mellon, Roberts, Westcott, and Stroud families. The other includes snapshots of rural areas, people, and livestock in North Carolina, Florida, Key West and Arizona. Maida Rossiter Bailey (died 1972) was the dean of Women at Reed College and owned a ranch with her husband,...
Dates: circa 1865-1899

Margaret Emily Bates photograph album on the Nichols family

 Collection
Identifier: Album 603
Abstract

Album containing black and white photographs and cyanotypes of members of the Nichols family and others. Subjects also include Capen School in Northampton, Massachusetts, house parties, the Oregon and Washington coasts, hiking, camping, picnics, tennis, Hood River, and other areas in Oregon.

Dates: 1905-1913