Drawings by and photographs of or relating to Gordon Gilkey (1912-2000) from his childhood and early adulthood. Gilkey was an artist, a professor at Oregon State University, and an art collector. Most of the drawings in the collection are practice cartoon drawings Gilkey did through a correspondence course.

Oral history interview with Gordon W. Gilkey by Jim Strassmaier, conducted from January 19 to April 1, 1998. Gilkey was an artist and a curator at the Portland Art Museum, as well as an art professor at Stephens College in Missouri, Oregon State University, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Oral history interview with William H. Givler conducted by Charles Digregorio on May 17, 1978. Givler taught at the Museum Art School, now known as the Pacific Northwest College of Art, in Portland, Oregon.

Oral history interview with Sabina Haque conducted by Sankar Raman on November 11, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Haque was born in Ohio and raised in Pakistan. She returned to the United States in the 1990s to attend Smith College and also studied art at Boston University. She became an artist and art professor at Portland State University.

Oral history interview with Farooq Hassan conducted by Sankar Raman on August 10, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Hassan was born in Iraq and became an artist and art instructor. He immigrated to the United States in 2010.

Papers of Norman D. Johnson consist of correspondence; bills and receipts; a birth certificate; papers, publications, and ephemera related to the YMCA and the LTL Societies, as well as miscellaneous ephemera; and materials related to animation and to Walt Disney Productions.

The Paul Keller collection includes 11 of the 22 "Old Oregon Vignettes" lithographs produced by Meier and Frank in 1959 after originals drawn by Keller in the 1930s; an ink and crayon sketch of the Patton house in Portland, Oregon; a pen and ink sketch of Portland Mayor Robert Earl Riley; and pen and ink sketches for use in the publication Stars of Oregon, 1943, primarily depicting ships.

Oral history interview with Thayne J. Logan conducted by Linda S. Dodds on January 3, 1990. Logan was an artist and architect in Oregon.

Oral history interview with Marjorie McDonald conducted by Edna Kovacs on October 21, 1989. McDonald was the first Russian language high school teacher in the United States and became an artist after her retirement in 1963.