Abstract Collection includes binders with first day of issue covers, circa 1958-1981, including series commemorating Captain James Cook by artist Charles Lundgren and the Bicentennial in 1976. Also included are binders of first day covers with commemorative medals, 1971, from series "Great Historic Sites of America" and "United Nations Association of America" from the Franklin Mint; a binder describing commemorative medals, circa 1976, for the series "The Fifty-State Bicentennial Medal Collection";...

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Scripts for Northwest Neighbors, a radio show that aired on KOIN, Portland, Oregon. Scripts feature guests Martha Ferguson McKeown and Hervey S. Robinson and a story on Joseph Lane.

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Records of the Oregon State Broadcasters Association from the 1940s and 1950s, primarily meeting minutes. The Oregon State Broadcasters Association (later the Oregon Association of Broadcasters) is a trade organization of radio and television broadcasters in Oregon that was founded in 1940.

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Business records of the Oregonian Publishing Company. Includes financial, legal, and organizational documents; subject files covering Oregonian financial interests; reports, studies, and surveys; photographs; in-house publications; and limited correspondence and other documents from Henry Pittock's time as owner and publisher.

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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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Papers compiled by Patricia L. Swenson (née Green, 1916-2010) of Portland, Oregon, about the high school radio station KBPS, including broadcast guides. KBPS is a radio station produced by Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland; Swenson was the station's manager from 1948 to 1994.

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Sixty-nine scripts, 1946-1949, for the radio program "Oregon Album," a Sunday afternoon show that aired on station KGW in Portland, Oregon, and dealt with events and personalities in Oregon history.

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Plans and drawings created for The Timberman magazine, mostly of lumbering equipment. The magazine was founded in 1899 by George M. Cornwall of Portland, Oregon.

Abstract Collection of video recordings from the Video Access Project, a community television program that aired in Portland, Oregon in the 1980s and early 1990s. Programs were produced by community groups, artists and musicians, and covered various Portland-related topics. Also included are early video recordings from the 1970s, shot on location and focusing on topics including art, sexuality and neighborhoods in transition. These earlier videos were donated at the same time as TVAP but predate the...

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Papers of an editor, publisher, and insurance agent of Portland, Oregon. Includes autobiographical materials relating to William Bittle Wells's life and work with the Southern Pacific Railroad's Bureau of Community Publicity and his work with the New York Life Insurance Company; letters; photographs; poems; and diaries from his high school and college years.