Papers of Amos Burg (1901-1986), including diaries, travel logs, notes, correspondence, published materials, and ephemera. Burg was born in Portland, Oregon, and lived there until after World War II, when he moved to Alaska. He traveled on multiple rivers in North America, and was a writer, photographer and filmmaker who worked for the National Geographic Society, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Erpi Classroom films, and later the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Webster Jones (born 1904) was a book collector, a graduate of the University of Oregon, and the first aviation editor at the Oregonian newspaper in Portland. This unprocessed collection includes correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and ephemera on subjects including Webster Jones' father, Frank G. Jones, and Charles N. Kessler; diaries of Lillian Gilstrap regarding her trips across North America in the 1920s and 1930s; and scrapbooks relating to aviation history in the Pacific Northwest.