Papers relating to Harry Lane (1855-1917), who was mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1905-1909 and a U.S. senator for Oregon from 1913 until his death. Papers include a small amount of original correspondence from and to Lane; drafts and research materials for a biography by the Federal Writers' Project, circa 1940; news clippings about Lane; and writings and notes by Lane's daughter Nina Lane McBride (later Nina Lane Faubion).

Dorothy McCullough Lee was a lawyer, a state legislator, and the first woman mayor of Portland, Oregon. Collection includes biographical sketches; photocopy of Lee's last will and testament, 1972; inventory of Lee's papers at the Schlesinger Library of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and ephemera.