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Memorabilia relating to the Portland, Oregon, soccer team the Portland Timbers, collected by the Lesowske family. Materials include season programs, a history of the team, a newspaper section about the team's Major League Soccer championship win, and ephemera. As of 2021, the Lesowske family had been attending Portland Timbers games for over 15 seasons.

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Documents and campaign ephemera relating to Charles G. North of Portland, Oregon. North was Multnomah County constable from 1933 until his death in 1952. The collection also includes an account of how, as a young man, North was abducted in San Francisco and forced into service on a whaling ship for over three years.

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Records and ephemera of the Oregon Democracy Project, a coalition of nonprofit groups in the early 1990s that sought to educate the public and train activists in participatory democracy and combating homophobia.

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Letters and other materials written by and to members of the Robertson and Corbett families in the 19th century, plus transcripts of some letters, along with other materials.

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Materials relating to U.S. Senators for Oregon Richard L. Neuberger (1912-1960) and Maurine B. Neuberger (1906-2000) collected by Mary Jane Sills (née Christgau, 1922-2010), including correspondence from Maurine Neuberger, ephemera, a list of former staffers, and photographs. Sills worked as an aide to both senators from 1954 to 1967.

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A Society of Native Oregon Born (S.N.O.B.) membership certificate and membership card for Jean C. Fukuda, an informational flyer about the society, and two clippings from Old Oregon magazine about the society. The Society of Native Oregon Born was founded in 1979 by artist and humorist James Cloutier; Fukuda became a member in June 1980.

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Materials relating to theaters in Portland, Oregon, collected by Susan Stelljes, including programs and posters. The bulk of the collection's materials concern the Portland Civic Theatre Guild, a volunteer fundraising group to which Stelljes belonged. The Portland Civic Theatre Guild was founded in 1958 to support the Portland Civic Theatre; it later awarded fellowships for theater artists' professional development. The guild dissolved in 2023.

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Materials relating to Scandinavian Americans, and particularly Swedish Americans in Oregon, collected by Ross Fogelquist, founder of the research organization Swedish Roots in Oregon. These materials include records and memorabilia of and relating to Scandinavian American organizations and cultural events, papers of individuals and families from Scandinavian backgrounds, and historical data.

Abstract Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, a souvenir program, invitations, and other ephemera about the 1937 Fleet Week in Portland, Oregon. The scrapbook was presented to Vice Admiral W. T. Tarrant (1878-1972) by C. T. Haas (1888-1975), chair of the Fleet Week Committee. The scrapbook also includes multiple handwritten inscriptions from Haas to Tarrant. Tarrant commanded the scouting force aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis during that year's Fleet Week in Portland, which lasted from July 16 to July...

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Bound scrapbook and loose scrapbook pages with clippings, documents, photographs, badges, and ribbons relating to the Terwilliger Tillers. The Terwilliger Tillers was a women's gardening club based in southern Portland, Oregon, that was active from the 1950s to the 1970s.