Oral history interview with Lowell C. Ashbaugh, conducted by Thomas Rand-Luby in three sessions from February 11 to March 1, 1993, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Ashbaugh discusses his experiences and accomplishments as president of Retail Workers Local 1257 in Portland, Oregon, and talks about why Local 1257 merged with other local unions to form United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555.

Collection consists of 100 black and white photographs, documents, and pages of clippings from two disassembled albums. Materials relate to news and events from the Oregon chapter of the CIO during November 1948, and to state and national CIO conventions in the mid- to late 1940s.

Ola Delight Cook (1880-1958) was a railroad telegrapher, charter member of Commercial Telegraphers Union, worker for the American Federation of Labor, and an honorary trustee of Portland Central Labor Council. Collection includes correspondence, constitutions, financial reports and minutes relating to railroad unions, the AFL, the Portland Labor Temple and the YWCA, 1953-1958, Oregon political campaigns, 1948-1958, and Central Labor Council; diaries, 1914-1955; and ledger.

Papers of Maurice E. Crumpacker (1886-1927), primarily relating to the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, which Crumpacker oversaw while serving as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I. Crumpacker was an attorney in Portland, Oregon, and later was a U.S. congressman.

Oral history interview with Alice Dale, conducted by Carolyn K. Matthews in five sessions, from March 5 to May 21, 2018, for the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Dale discuses her career as a lawyer for Oregon Public Employees Union (OPEU, later SEIU Local 503) from 1978 to 1982; her work as executive of Local 503 from 1985 to 2001; and her work as a trustee and then president for SEIU Local 49 from 2001 to 2009.

Oral history interview with Keith Edwards, conducted by Noah Thomas in eight sessions, from November 4, 2013, to May 29, 2014, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Edwards discusses his career as an electrician with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 48, from his apprenticeship in the 1970s to his work as international business representative for the union.

Oral history interview with Jean A. Eilers conducted by Carolyn Matthews from August 10 to December 4, 2011, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Eilers discusses her involvement with union organizing in California and in Portland, Oregon.

Papers of Irving H. "Irv" Fletcher, an Oregon labor union leader who served as president of the Oregon AFL-CIO for 18 years. Included are Fletcher's personal and political correspondence, AFL-CIO convention materials and booklets, information about affiliated political and labor union leaders, materials for Fletcher's own campaign, and both personal- and AFL-CIO-related photographs.

Nellie Fox was an Oregon labor leader, a Democrat, and political director of the Oregon AFL-CIO. Collection includes correspondence, 1965-1986; minutes, 1967-1975; AFL-CIO reports, pamphlets, programs, constitution, by-laws, and convention material; campaign material for Labor Commissioner, 1978; speeches; and documents relating to women's rights and labor rights.