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Children and Youth

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Juvenile delinquents in Multnomah County in 1870 and 1970: attitudes toward and treatment of the problem

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2403
Abstract

Typescript term paper, 17 pages, June 1970, in the form of a film proposal, regarding the history of the juvenile justice system in Multnomah County, Oregon. With bibliography and appendix of related materials from Multnomah County and Oregon State Archives.

Dates: 1970

A kid outing, or innocents abroad

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1093
Abstract

One black and white photograph of four children in a goat-drawn carriage.

Dates: circa 1887

Josie Langmaid portrait

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1138
Abstract

Tintype portrait of a child, Josie Langmaid. It is mounted on a card and has a gold-colored metal frame with a floral motif.

Dates: circa 1850-1899

Mount Hood Children's Farm records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2208
Abstract

Typescript pamphlet for the Mount Hood Children's Farm, 1937, with photographs and testimonials. The Mount Hood Children's Farm was a summer camp located off the Mt. Hood Loop Highway, founded in 1933 and run by Elizabeth Rogers of Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1937

Oregon Children's Aid Society records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1016
Abstract

Records of an Oregon child welfare organization, including incorporation and related papers, board of managers and annual meeting minute books, reports of admissions to the Home (1888-1899), account books, legal documents, papers relating to the Salem Hospital and Home Scholarship Fund, and correspondence and documents relating to children in the society's care.

Dates: 1866-1960

Portland Children's Museum records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll882
Abstract

Administrative records, design documents, promotional materials, and memorabilia of the Portland Children's Museum in Portland, Oregon. The museum was founded as the Junior Museum in 1946 by Dorothea Lensch. After being located in the Jacob Kamm House and then on SW 2nd Avenue, it moved to Washington Park in 2001. The museum closed at the end of June 2021.

Dates: 1946-2019; Majority of material found within 1997-2019

Dorothy Scales photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1131
Abstract

Collection consists of two photographs: a hand colored group portrait of the Mary V. Dodge Irvington School Orchestra, and a black and white group portrait of the Portland Junior Symphony on a stage. Dorothy Scales (then Dorothy Edlefsen) is among the people in the photographs but is not identified.

Dates: circa 1910-1929

Social life of southern Oregon fifty years ago

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2153
Abstract

Typescript reminiscences of an unknown author, "Social Life of Southern Oregon Fifty Years Ago," circa 1920-1930, recalling youth in Jacksonville, Oregon, in the 1860s, Sargent Dunlap, clubs and societies for young people.

Dates: circa 1920-1930

Angie Owen Trueblood papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll807
Abstract

Papers and photograph albums relating to Angie Owen Trueblood (1894-1994), primarily letters she sent to her friend Margaret Gallagher. Trueblood was born in Saginaw, Michigan; she came to Oswego, Oregon (later Lake Oswego), as a child and attended Portland Academy.

Dates: 1907-1919

Unidentified family fishing photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 541
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1945-1955