Religion

Minutes, directories, correspondence, and other records relating to an annual Quaker gathering, the North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, from 1972 to 2005, and related materials.

Letters, consecration information, and portrait clippings of Episcopal bishops of Oregon, collected by the John Gordon Wright Library of the Episcopal Theological School (later the Episcopal Divinity School) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Includes three letters from Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris (1819-1906), one of which complains about cuts to funding for missionary work in Oregon.

Records and memorabilia of the Oregon Girls Conference, an interdenominational Christian gathering for high school and college-age women sponsored by the United Church Women of Oregon. Collection materials include conference planning records, programs, president's records, a record book, songbooks, and photographs. The conference, which began in 1913 and was held annually through the 1980s, was also known as the Oregon Older Girls' Conference and the Older Girls' Conference.

Collection of printed material from Oregon's territorial period and early statehood, including legislation, advertisements, notices, proclamations, and ephemera. George N. Belknap (1905-1996) listed most of the items in this collection in his 1968 work, "Oregon Imprints, 1845-1870," or in addendums to that work.

The Oregon Older Girls' Conference was an annual conference for high school girls sponsored by United Church Women of Oregon and Oregon Council of Churches, first convened in 1913. Collection includes scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and administrative records.

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.

Small collection of papers relating to Reverend P. S. Knight, who emigrated to the Northwest in 1853. Papers include meeting minutes related to Knight's ordination and relationship with the First Congregational Church in Oregon City, as well as an address he delivered before the Oregon Pioneer Association in 1898.

The Portland Methodist Preacher's Meeting was an association of Methodist ministers in the Portland, Oregon area. Collection includes constitution and bylaws, 1883 and 1944-1945; minutes, 1883-1892, 1917-1931 and 1944-1950; financial records, 1924-1950; programs; and list of members.

Collection includes 14 elevations and plans on 12 sheets for the Unitarian Church at SW Yamhill St. and SW Broadway Ave. in Portland, Oregon, by architecture firm Peabody & Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection includes minutes, programs, and reports; a directory, 1975; and flyers and committee reports, 1989.