Home and Family
Found in 188 Collections and/or Records:
60th wedding: Shubael and Mahala Robinson
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.
Abbett family papers
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.
William P. Abrams collection
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.
Oral history interview with Stanton W. Allison
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.
Ancestors and education
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.
Anderson, Ericsson and Leufquist family photograph album
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.
Angell family letters
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.
Sam Arback photographic collection on the Mazurovsky family
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.
Maida Rossiter Bailey photographic collection
Margaret Emily Bates photograph album on the Nichols family
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.