Sports and Recreation
Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:
Trails Club of Oregon photographs collection
Nine black and white photographs and one picture postcard depicting log cabins, landscapes, Saddle Mountain, and members of the Trails Club of Oregon. The postcard, featuring an image taken at Eagle Eyrie on June 2, 1918, includes a roster on the verso.
Unidentified family fishing photograph album
Album containing eight black and white photographs of an unidentified boy with his parents at about age 8, and posing with trophy fish during adolescence.
United Service Organizations, Portland, Or. photographs collection
Collection of photographs depicting the activities of the United Service Organizations in Portland, Oregon, from 1951-1974, including USO social gatherings, personnel, and business affairs.
United States Golf Association 1970 National Amateur Golf Tournament collection
Correspondence, ad promotions, program materials, and Program Committee materials for the 1970 USGA Amateur Golf Tournament at Waverley Country Club, Portland, Oregon, collected by committee member Don Dawson.
Volunteers for Delta Dome Covered Stadium records
Collection includes correspondence and reports; newspaper clippings and editorials; campaign materials for the ballot measure for the construction of a covered stadium at Delta Park, Portland, Oregon; and a landscape plan for the proposed park.
Oral history interview with Evelyn E. Waldren
Oral history interview with Evelyn E. Waldren, conducted by Patricia Keith on June 5, 1980. Waldren discusses her career as a flight instructor and airport operator, and describes the flight she made from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Tijuana, Mexico, in 1941, which set the women's records for speed and distance.
Waverley Country Club records
Collection includes manuscript for C. Edwin Francis' book "Waverley Country Club, 1896-1987" and correspondence of C. E. Francis. Also included are a history of club golf courses and golf championships; information on individual golfers; and scrapbooks with yearbooks, programs, and clippings.
World of Speed collection
Materials collected by World of Speed, a museum in Wilsonville, Oregon. Materials consist of records of automobile racing associations, a tourist brochure map of automobile loop routes in Washington, photographs, and VHS and DVD copies of a 1997 documentary, "From Hellgate to Portland." World of Speed opened in 2015, and permanently closed in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.