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speeches (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

James Harvey Slater papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2347
Abstract

James Harvey Slater was elected prosecuting attorney for the 5th Judicial District in 1866, served in the U.S. House from 1871-1873, and was a U.S. senator from Oregon from 1879-1885. Papers include correspondence; estate and family papers; reminiscences; and speeches, 1867-1885, on topics including economics, politics, tariffs, and slavery.

Dates: 1851-1977

Speech to the Pacific Northwest History Conference

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1237
Abstract

Typescript photocopy of a speech given by Ernest E. Baker to the Pacific Northwest History Conference, Portland, Oregon, May 3, 1974, on the history of the International Longshoremen's Association and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.

Dates: 1974 May 3

Stella Maris House collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1585
Abstract The collection consists of printed material, correspondence, and administrative, financial, and legal records created and collected by the Stella Maris House, a Portland, Oregon-based social justice group, during the course of its work. The collection demonstrates the local evolution of issues key to the history of the United States during the 1960s. Over a third of the collection is dedicated to Oregon's migrant labor rights movement; it also features materials documenting the area's civil...
Dates: 1940-1973; Majority of material found within 1960-1972

Donald J. Sterling collection on the Velde Committee

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2883
Abstract The Velde Committee, or Committee on Un-American Activities, met in Portland, Oregon, in June 1954 to investigate the political affiliations of three Reed College professors, who refused to answer questions put to them by the committee. Collection consists of documents gathered by Donald Sterling Jr., who covered the hearings for the Oregon Journal newspaper. Among the materials in the collection are an open letter by Reed College Professor Stanley Moore; the prepared text of a speech to be...
Dates: 1953-1989; Majority of material found within 1954

Frank A. Stewart papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2810
Abstract

Photocopies of original documents, consisting of love poems, political essays and speeches written by Frank A. Stewart; certificates; compositions by others; and records of the Ellensburg Mite Society. Stewart (born 1843) emigrated to Oregon with his family in 1854. He became a farmer and served in the state Legislature.

Dates: 1862-1895

Robert W. Straub speech

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2321
Abstract

Typescript speech, July 4, 1975, delivered by Oregon Governor Robert W. Straub at a picnic at the Oregon Historical Society's Bybee Howell House, about the history of the house and the American Revolution.

Dates: 1975 July 4

Thomas Nelson Strong papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2382
Abstract

Collection consists of addresses to civic groups, 1888-1911, including the Central Municipal League, Associated Charities, the Civic Federation Committee, the Committee of One Hundred, and the Taxpayers League. Also included are letters to editors, 1888-1911.

Dates: 1888-1911

Samuel R. Thurston and Elizabeth Thurston papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 379
Abstract Papers of Samuel R. Thurston (1816-1851) and his wife, Elizabeth Thurston (1816-1890, later Elizabeth Odell), and a property deed relating to their children, George Henry Thurston (1846-1927) and Elizabeth Blandina Thurston (1849-1904, later Elizabeth Blandina Stowell). Papers include correspondence, Samuel R. Thurston's diary, and speeches by Samuel R. Thurston. Thurston was a delegate from the Oregon Territory to U.S. Congress, and helped pass the Oregon Donation Land Law in 1850; he died...
Dates: 1838-1887; Majority of material found within 1849-1851

Extracts from U.S. Senate speeches regarding a Chinese exclusion bill

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 921
Abstract

Printed extracts of speeches regarding an 1882 bill to prohibit Chinese immigration to the United States for 20 years, as well as vote tallies and U.S. President Chester A. Arthur's veto message. The bill referred to in this item failed to override presidential veto, but a modified version, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States for 10 years, passed as the Chinese Exclusion Act later that year, was renewed in 1892, made permanent in 1902, and repealed in 1943.

Dates: 1882

Leona Weatherford papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2674
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, speeches, reports, and pamphlets regarding Leona Weatherford's involvement in the conservation movement and women's clubs in Oregon. Weatherford was president of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs and chair of the Conservation of Natural Resources Department of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

Dates: circa 1949-1968