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Oral history interview with Salsabel Al Masri, conducted by Dora Totoian and Sankar Raman on January 5, 2020. Al Masri discusses her early life and education in Daraa, Syria; her experiences living in Irbid, Jordan, from 2012 to 2016; and her experiences adjusting to life in Portland, Oregon, after immigrating to the United States in 2016.

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Oral history interview with Soulayvanh Beisel, conducted by Sankar Raman and Samuel Chapman on February 2, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Beisel discusses her early life in Tha Ngon, Laos; her life in the Nongkai refugee camp in Thailand in the 1970s; and her experiences as a Laotian American in Wichita, Kansas, in the 1980s, and in Waikiki, Hawaii, in the 1990s.

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Manuscript diary of Anna Birchman (nee Anna Björkman, later Anna Birchman Mills), written in Swedish, with entries dating from December 18, 1890-January 14, 1891. Birchman wrote the diary in the form of a letter home to her family during her emigration from the Dalarna province in Sweden to Portland, Oregon. Also included are a typescript English translation and an edited version of that translation in the form of a pamphlet published in 2006.

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Oral history interview with Gabriel V. Krivoshein and Vera P. Krivoshein conducted by Charles Digregorio on April 30, 1976. The Krivosheins discuss their experiences as Russian refugees in Portland, Oregon, in the early 20th century.

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Oral history interview with Calliope T. Phoutrides conducted by Deborah Newman on October 10, 1991, as part of the Portland Matriarchs oral history project. Phoutrides discusses her early life in Athens, Greece, and her marriage to the Reverend Stephanos E. Phoutrides.

Abstract Records of the Portland Americanization Council of Portland, Oregon. The council was formed in 1921 with the purpose of integrating recent immigrants to the United States into American society through afternoon and evening classes that taught the English language and U.S. civics. Each February 22 from 1922 until 1996, the organization hosted a reception for recently naturalized citizens. Records include minutes, correspondence, and programs for naturalization receptions. The collection also...

Abstract Audio recordings of oral history interviews with 11 first-generation Japanese Americans in Hood River, Oregon, conducted by Linda Tamura from October 8, 1985, to May 31, 1986. The interviews were the basis for a book by Tamura, titled "The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley." Interviewees discuss their early lives in Japan; their experiences as immigrants to the United States; their lives in the Hood River Valley of Oregon; and their...

Abstract This collection consists of papers of and relating to members of a Japanese American family. The materials date from the early 20th century to 2022, and particularly highlight the experiences of Mitsuye (Jyoko) Yabe (1897-1985), who immigrated to California from Japan around 1917, and her youngest daughter, Miyuki (Yabe) Yasui (1926-2018). Included are Mitsuye Yabe's correspondence (in Japanese), original documents and materials of Yabe family members, Miyuki Yasui's research files and...

Abstract This collection includes correspondence, personal papers, and photographs of three generations of the Yasui family. Major topics represented in the collection include the first (Issei) generation’s immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s; the family's business and community activities in Hood River, Oregon, through 1942; the forced removal and incarceration of Yasui family members during World War II; and advocacy for redress and on behalf of Japanese American history by members of the...