Oregon -- History
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Charles McNary speech accepting vice presidential nomination
Audio recording of a speech given by U.S. Senator Charles McNary in Salem, Oregon, on August 27, 1940. In the speech, he accepts the Republican nomination for vice president.
Nightfires: a story of the Oregon Country
Typescript series of historical sketches of Oregon, 194 pages.
Notes regarding Oregon materials on file at the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Collection includes manuscript and typescript correspondence relating to materials at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., on which Joseph Rogers Wilson took notes in 1900 and have since gone missing; and manuscript notes, 1900, by Wilson, on same Oregon materials (1841-1850).
Alfred Powers papers
Collection of historical materials relating to Oregon and Pacific Northwest history, including business records, scrapbooks, catalogs, and ephemera.
Hervey S. Robinson collection
Unprocessed collection of miscellaneous writings of Hervey S. Robinson, an Oregon author and historian, on topics including the history of Beaverton, Portland, Troutdale, Oregon politics, and Oregon newspapers.
Thomas Smith letters
Collection includes a manuscript letter from Thomas Smith to George H. Himes, 1908, naming the first settlers in the Umpqua River Valley; and a manuscript letter to Harry L. Wells, a historian, 1884, providing a detailed description, including dates and places, of his journey to Oregon in 1847 from Fort Hall to Eugene Skinner's cabin by way of the Southern Route to Oregon (now known as the Applegate Trail).
Some reminiscences of an early forester
Typescript photocopy of Henry Haefner's reminiscences about his service in the Siskiyou National Forest from 1909-1925 and in 1930.
These things I remembered and poured out my soul in me
Typescript photocopy reminiscences by John R. Laidlaw of his career as a priest, with chapters on Oregon history.
J. Quinn Thornton papers
Kenneth Tillson radio scripts
Sixty-nine scripts, 1946-1949, for the radio program "Oregon Album," a Sunday afternoon show that aired on station KGW in Portland, Oregon, and dealt with events and personalities in Oregon history.