Abstract

Records compiled by the Lutheran Schools Committee of Portland, Oregon, largely as part of a 1922 political campaign to defeat the Compulsory Education Bill, which sought to make public school attendance mandatory in Oregon for children ages eight to sixteen. Materials include clippings, campaign literature, posters, correspondence, ephemera, and voter registration lists.

Abstract Small collection of papers of Gordon G. Macnab (1906-2006), an Associated Press editor in Portland, Oregon. The collection includes notes, articles, and press releases related to John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign visits in Oregon, 1959-1960; AP planning documents for the 1960 primary and general elections in Oregon; teletype printouts of wire service news reports from December 8, 1941, about Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor and other news items; Margaret Raz Graf's reminiscences of her...