Abstract Papers and ephemera of spouses Harry E. Bell and Faye Bell, who both worked in the apparel retail business in the early and mid-20th century. The collection includes advertising materials, publications and ephemera of retail manufacturers whose products the Bells sold; papers and designs documenting Hirsch-Weis's White Stag line of clothes and its work with the Adolph L. Bloch Advertising Agency; and papers and photographs of other individuals whose connection with the Bells, if any, is...

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Charles F. Berg (1871-1931) owned Charles F. Berg Company, a major women's apparel store in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes biographical information, programs, advertising samples, newsletters, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks, ephemera and programs for KGW's "Hoot Owls" radio program club.

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Collection primarily consists of documents outlining investment opportunities in various firms and sectors, including irrigation and drainage, industry, lumber, and real estate. Also included are materials specifically related to Blyth & Co. (also named Blyth, Witter & Co.), including advertising materials and correspondence, lists of recommended investments, and informational brochures with handwritten revisions.

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Records include log analysis, administrative and financial records, advertisements, mill architectural plans, memoranda, reports, correspondence, and brochures.

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Papers of inventor and artist Eli Sheldon Glover include diaries describing travels across the United States, correspondence with his son, and patents and advertisements for his inventions.

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Records compiled by the Lutheran Schools Committee of Portland, Oregon, largely as part of a 1922 political campaign to defeat the Compulsory Education Bill, which sought to make public school attendance mandatory in Oregon for children ages eight to sixteen. Materials include clippings, campaign literature, posters, correspondence, ephemera, and voter registration lists.

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Two advertising posters describing Meier and Frank's outlets and celebrating its history, growth, and development.

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Collection of printed material from Oregon's territorial period and early statehood, including legislation, advertisements, notices, proclamations, and ephemera. George N. Belknap (1905-1996) listed most of the items in this collection in his 1968 work, "Oregon Imprints, 1845-1870," or in addendums to that work.

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Advertisement for Willamette Week column "Pillars of Portland," and two copies of a poster for the pilot episode of a television series based on the column. "Pillars of Portland" was a weekly column by Larry Colton that satirized stereotypes of neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon. The television pilot for a proposed weekly series aired on KOIN 6 in December 1983, but the series was never made.

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Records include catalogs, receipt book, and advertising posters.