speeches (documents)
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Roscoe Nelson papers
Roscoe Nelson (1879-1937) was a lawyer and businessman. He graduated from Virginia Law School and moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1911. He was a member of Congregation Beth Israel and was active in Jewish societies and civic organizations. Collection includes correspondence; legal papers; Anti-Semitism speeches and articles; Jewish community material; Tualatin Country Club correspondence, rosters, etc.; financial papers; documents relating to Kelly Process, Inc.; and a scrapbook.
A. R. Panissidi papers
Collection consists of speeches and manuscripts for publication, circa 1974-1976, regarding railroads in Oregon, tidelands, and legislation regarding public lands used for railroads.
Plutarch Stewart Knight collection
Small collection of papers relating to Reverend P. S. Knight, who emigrated to the Northwest in 1853. Papers include meeting minutes related to Knight's ordination and relationship with the First Congregational Church in Oregon City, as well as an address he delivered before the Oregon Pioneer Association in 1898.
Professional Engineers of Oregon records
Collection includes correspondence, speeches, press book, program schedules, and registration lists regarding the Northwest Engineers Centennial; reel to reel recording of a presentation of a gold medal to Herbert Hoover.
The Protestant Ladder; a history and description of the Ladder as given before the National Society of the Colonial Dames in Oregon
Typescript, June 26, 1951, with corrections, regarding the Protestant Ladder as a method of teaching religion to Native Americans by early Protestant missionaries.
John M. Purdum speech
Typescript speech, 5 pages, regarding a trip to Mt. Hood made on July 21, 1913.
Colonel James H. Raley collection
Collection consists of a typescript carbon copy document titled "Bannock and Piute War 1878" by James H. Raley, and a photostat copy of a speech given by Raley before a joint meeting of the Oregon Supreme Court and Eastern Oregon Bar, recounting his reminiscences of Eastern Oregon history.
Reveries of an old Oregon trail pioneer
Photocopy typescript lecture, circa 1972-1973, regarding Mildred Miles Main's reminiscences of Ezra Meeker and his attempts to mark and commemorate the route of the overland trail to Oregon.
Heinrich Rüppel papers
The Santiago
Typescript carbon copy of "The Santiago," an address by Edmund Hayes at the Oregon Historical Society on September 3, 1975, upon the unveiling of a model of the ship. The address discusses the expeditions of the ship and its captains Juan Joseph Pérez Hernandes and Bruno de Hezeta in the 18th century.