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Oregon

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 1680 Collections and/or Records:

Sherwood Music Club of Oregon scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2782
Abstract

Scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and administrative records. The Sherwood Music Club of Oregon was a branch of a nationwide organization teaching music according to the Sherwood method founded in 1954.

Dates: 1954-1987

Gail Shibley collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 285
Abstract

Collection of photographs, clippings, ephemera, and related materials documenting the career of Gail Shibley, who worked in local, state, and federal government, and was the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in the Oregon State Legislature.

Dates: 1990-2007

Roy Franklin Shields papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1408
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, documents, and ephemera regarding Roy Franklin Shields' career as an attorney and his involvement with education, politics, medicine, and railroads, 1924-1966.

Dates: 1924-1966

John M. Shively papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1127
Abstract

Papers of John M. Shively (1804-1893), an emigrant to Oregon and first postmaster of Astoria. Papers include correspondence, legal documents related to land sales, an 1853 diary, historical essays and other writings, genealogical materials, information on the U.S-British controversy over the Oregon Territory, and papers of Shively's son, Charles W. Shively.

Dates: 1841-1959; Majority of material found within 1841-1906

Robert Valentine Short papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2639
Abstract

Robert Valentine Short (1823-1908) was a pioneer of 1847. He was a member of the 1851 Constitutional Convention and in 1888 was elected to the Oregon Legislature from Clackamas County. He also studied surveying and was responsible for surveying the town of Portland in 1850. Collection includes diaries, correspondence, scrapbook, survey and field notes; and papers relating to donation land claims and property in Yamhill, Clackamas, and Multnomah counties.

Dates: 1852-1906

Lebbus Smith Shumaker papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1418
Abstract

Collection includes diaries, 1893-1954, and miscellaneous letters, ephemera, and clippings. Lebbus Smith Shumaker (1871-1954) was a Baptist minister and teacher in New York, the Midwest and at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, where he was a professor of psychology and philosophy.

Dates: circa 1890-1954

David Shurtliff photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: Album 482
Abstract

Photograph album containing 60 black and white photographs taken from 1927-1930, nearly all by David Shurtliff of Vale, Oregon, who assembled the album. The photographs predominantly depict buildings, landscapes, activities, and events in and near Vale. The album also includes scenes in Owyhee, Oregon, and of the construction of the Owyhee Dam.

Dates: 1927-1930

Oral history interview with Lois D. Siegmund

 Collection
Identifier: SR1344
Abstract

Oral history interview with Lois D. Siegmund conducted by Clark Hansen on June 23, 1988, as part of the Senator Mark O. Hatfield Oral History Project. Siegmund served on Hatfield's staff during his time as an Oregon state legislator, Oregon secretary of state, and Oregon governor.

Dates: 1988 June 23

Merta Marguerite Siegmund papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2527
Abstract

Collection includes holiday and birthday greeting cards; announcements for weddings, births, and graduations; school merit cards; autograph books; and miscellaneous memorabilia. Also included are two undated issues of "Picket," a handwritten newspaper published near Mehama, Oregon; and "The College Dial," December 1871, the newspaper of Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.

Dates: 1871-1921

The Siletz; a historical narrative of the Siletz River region

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1064
Abstract

Typescript carbon copy of "The Siletz; A Historical Narrative of the Siletz River Region" by Joan L. Giesler, March 3, 1964, for a class on the history of the Pacific Northwest.

Dates: 1964 March 3