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ephemera (general object genre)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Friends of Henry and Ramona records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1005
Abstract

Records of Friends of Henry and Ramona, an organization in Portland, Oregon, including administrative records, photographs, clippings, and newsletters. Friends of Henry and Ramona raised funds for a sculpture garden in honor of children's author Beverly Cleary (1916-2021), which was dedicated in 1995 in Portland's Grant Park.

Dates: 1991-1997

Phillip M. Gayeski papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 942
Abstract

Papers of Phillip M. Gayeski (1905-1979), including picket cards, union membership books, an indictment against him and others, and photographs. Gayeski worked as a merchant marine, and then was a longshore worker in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1924-1979

Peter Glazer rock and roll collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 499
Abstract

Flyers, concert posters, and radio record surveys relating to rock music performed or played in Portland, Oregon, and Eugene, Oregon, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the autographs of members of The Doors, Fever Tree, Iron Butterfly, Buffalo Springfield, and the Steve Miller Band. The materials were collected by Peter Glazer (1952-) of Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1967-2010; Majority of material found within 1967-1971

Greater Portland Women's Bowling Association scrapbook about the 1965 Women's International Bowling Congress Championship Tournament

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 979
Abstract

Scrapbook documenting the Greater Portland Women's Bowling Association's successful bid for Portland, Oregon, to be the host city for the Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC) Championship Tournament. The scrapbook also documents the tournament itself. The 48th WIBC Championship Tournament was held in Portland in April and May 1965.

Dates: 1962-1965

Edith Green scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Coll843
Abstract

Scrapbook with clippings, photographs, and ephemera relating to U.S. Representative Edith Green's education and pre-congressional career, with an emphasis on her participation in debate teams while in high school and college. Green (1910-1987) was a congresswoman from 1955 to 1974.

Dates: 1923-1952; Majority of material found within 1923-1930

Hockenyos family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 252
Abstract Papers of the Hockenyos family, including legal and financial papers, photographs, greeting cards, and ephemera. The collection reflects the lives of brothers Henry Hockenyos (1861-1935) and George Hockenyos (1864-1917), and George Hockenyos' children George F. Hockenyos (1897-1966) and Marie E. Hockenyos (1905-1999). George Hockenyos and Henry Hockenyos worked in the carpentry business in Portland, Oregon, and George Hockenyos later managed a grocery store there. Henry Hockenyos and George...
Dates: 1891-1968

George Hockenyos papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 797
Abstract

Records, convention programs, photographs, and ephemera relating to the family and business of George Hockenyos, a grocer in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1894-1917

Irish Setter collection of posters and other materials relating to art exhibitions and galleries

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1013
Abstract

Posters, ephemera, and a photography book relating to art exhibitions and galleries. The materials were compiled by Irish Setter, a typesetting business in Portland, Oregon. The bulk of the collection consists of posters for exhibitions in the late 1970s and 1980s at Blue Sky Gallery and Blackfish Gallery in Portland.

Dates: 1977-1989

Edward John Kraenick papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1483
Abstract

Edward John Kraenick was the owner of Portland Electrotype and Stereotype Company, Portland, Oregon. Collection includes personal and business correspondence, 1936-1945; manuscript investment record book, 1926-1930; miscellaneous song lyrics, greeting cards, sketches, and other ephemera.

Dates: 1926-1945

Laura Jenkins Landers and Susie Jenkins Stokes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll867
Abstract

Papers relating to Laura Jenkins Landers (1908-2009) and Susie Jenkins Stokes (1915-2003) and their families. The sisters were born in Sicily Island, Louisiana, and were among the Black workers who moved to the Portland, Oregon, area in the 1940s. They worked in the shipyards during World War II, and as domestic workers after the war.

Dates: circa 1930-1992