speeches (documents)
Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:
Charles B. Moores speeches
Manuscript copies of addresses delivered by Charles B. Moores on a variety of topics and occasions, 1879-1927; and correspondence, 1895-1929.
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.
Bethenia Owens-Adair papers
Papers of Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840-1926), including letters from Jesse Applegate, a speech by Owens-Adair in support of women's suffrage, a pro-eugenics booklet by Owens-Adair, and a letter from Owens-Adair to Fred Lockley. Owens-Adair was one of the first women working as doctors in Oregon to hold a medical degree, and was active in the temperance, women's suffrage, and eugenics movements.
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.