printed ephemera

Jay Bowerman (1876-1957) was a Republican attorney, Oregon state representative for Gilliam County, and acting governor of Oregon, 1910-1911. Papers include correspondence regarding his activities in support of Republican candidates, his law practice and family; correspondence and research notes for a proposed history of eastern Oregon bench and bar; newspaper clippings and political ephemera regarding campaigns; and a scrapbook regarding the 1909 Oregon Legislature.

Breese Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer and builder of the trans-Pacific monoplane, the Aloha. Collection includes promotional literature and stockholder newsletters regarding company operations.

Collection includes correspondence; bills and receipts, including Multnomah County tax receipts; and an account book of the Oregon and California Railroad, for which Walter Bretherton was secretary.

Collection includes correspondence, 1902-1960; World War I correspondence and records, 1917-1919, of Lloyd W. Brooke and Frank P. Brooke; high school commencement papers, 1908-1909; school records; and greeting cards and invitations. Family members include Scott P. Brooke, Henriette Burdick Brooke, Miriam Brooke, and Dr. F. W. Brooke, who ran Brooke Drug Co.

The Brooklyn Parent Teacher Association was founded in 1903 as the Brooklyn Mother's Club and sought to promote the welfare of children and youth in the school and in the community. Collection includes minutes, treasurer's reports, newsletters, correspondence, membership directories, publicity materials, historian's reports (1951-1981, incomplete), memorabilia from local, state and national PTA meetings, and a scrapbook.

Records include log analysis, administrative and financial records, advertisements, mill architectural plans, memoranda, reports, correspondence, and brochures.

Collection includes correspondence, 1892-1952; financial papers, 1909-1952; notes, primers and ephemera, 1902-1947, used by Harry James Burnham's wife, Carrie Wilson Burnham, while a teacher with Gilliam County School District No. 3; correspondence and tax returns of Harry J. Wiseman, 1921-1924.

Mary Evelene Calbreath (1895-1972) was a music teacher and composer in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, musical programs, articles, genealogy, ephemera, daybook, landscape album, diaries, and score.

Collection includes manuscript letters from H. B. Smith to his wife, May 11, 1855, regarding work in the Jacksonville mines; student relief pass-card, circa 1906, issued by Stanford University to students volunteering to provide relief to victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; and an invitation to the Grand Anniversary Ball, July 4, 1856.

Ronald Glenn Callvert (1873-1955) was associate editor of the Oregonian and won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1938 editorial "My Country 'tis of Thee." Collection includes newspaper clippings of Callvert's editorials and features; Pulitzer Prize announcement and congratulatory letters and telegrams; Callvert's post-retirement writings; retirement card with an Art Bimrose cartoon; correspondence of Ronald S. Callvert regarding R. G. Callvert's career.