Collection consists of photographs, slides, and negatives depicting Oregon and Washington restaurants and their gas cooking equipment from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

Oral history interview with Van Tran conducted by Sankar Raman and Shea Seery in 2019 for The Immigrant Story. Tran discusses her experiences as a young woman during and after the Vietnam War, and talks about operating Phở Lê, a Vietnamese restaurant now located in Vancouver, Washington.

Oral memoir by Ruth L. Van Beber recorded from October 12, 1992 to May 7, 1993. Van Beber recounts her life story, including her childhood; experience in a Salvation Army Home for Wayward Girls; hitchhiking across the country during the Depression; homesteading in Oregon; running cafes; and the 1964 earthquake in Alaska.