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Oregon

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 1681 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Earl T. Newbry

 Collection
Identifier: SR1124
Abstract

Oral history interview with Earl T. Newbry conducted by Clark Hansen from July 23-25, 1990, as part of the Oregon Legislature Oral History Series. Newbry was an Oregon state representative, state senator, and secretary of state.

Dates: 1990 July 23-25

Oral history interview with Lynn W. Newbry

 Collection
Identifier: SR1123
Abstract

Oral history interview with Lynn W. Newbry conducted by Clark Hansen from May 6-7, 1993, as part of the Oregon Legislature Oral History Series. Newbry was an Oregon state senator from 1961 to 1974.

Dates: 1993 May 6-7

Robert Newell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1197
Abstract

Papers of Robert Newell (1807-1869), a trapper, emigrant to Oregon, and Indian agent. Includes a typescript copy of Newell's diary of an 1868 voyage from Portland, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., with Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) leaders; handwritten copies of letters regarding William Gray's "History of Oregon"; and Newell's account of the 1843 meeting at Champoeg, which formed the provisional government of the Oregon Territory. Only a small number of the items are original documents.

Dates: 1829-1868

Oral history interview with Dominic Vu Nguyen

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12266
Abstract

Oral history interview with Dominic Vu Nguyen conducted by Rachel Ramirez on July 9, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Nguyen's family fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and later immigrated to the United States. He studied chemical and electrical engineering and became a fitness coach in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 2017 July 9

Nightfires: a story of the Oregon Country

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2616
Abstract

Typescript series of historical sketches of Oregon, 194 pages.

Dates: circa 1970-1980

Oral history interview with Belise Nishimwe

 Collection
Identifier: SR12296
Abstract

Oral history interview with Belise Nishimwe conducted by Elanya Yussen on June 10, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Belise discusses her life in the Mutabira refugee camp in Tanzania, her life after immigrating to the United States in the mid-2000s, and her participation in the Poetry Out Loud contest.

Dates: 2019 June 10

John F. Noble papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1000
Abstract

Papers of an Indian agent, stock rancher, and Army officer of Oregon and Washington State. Includes an incomplete overland diary of 1849; an 1860 diary of a hunting trip on the Deschutes River; a diary of a trip of 1864-1865 through Indian country; survey notes; Chinook vocabulary; papers of Noble & Scholl relating to stock raising near The Dalles, Oregon; military papers; and papers regarding an Indian depredation claim by Brooke, Bomford and Company.

Dates: 1849-1950; Majority of material found within 1849-1900

Oral history interview with Sherma J. Norris

 Collection
Identifier: SR169
Abstract

Oral history interview with Sherma J. Norris conducted by Robert J. Gassner on August 26, 1988, as part of the Portland's Syrian/Lebanese-American Community series. Norris was a Lebanese-American living in Oregon.

Dates: 1988 August 26

North Bank Road photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 275
Abstract

Photograph album, possibly compiled by the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway, containing black and white photographs, most taken by Fred H. Kiser, of landscape scenes along the Oregon Trunk Railway. Among the subjects depicted are the Celilo Bridge, the Deschutes River, the Tygh Valley, Mount Jefferson, Crooked River Canyon, and Benham Falls.

Dates: 1911-1912

Notebook of an Oregon timber cruiser or land speculator

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 358
Abstract

Pocket notebook with handwritten entries relating to land and goods. Includes entries and lists with names and property descriptions; accounts; and lists of goods, with prices. Entries may have been made by more than one person.

Dates: circa 1902-1904