Oregon
Found in 1679 Collections and/or Records:
Isaac E. Staples scrapbook
Collection consists of a scrapbook, circa 1914-1940, with clippings, correspondence and ephemera regarding Isaac Staples' career as an Oregon state senator and businessman.
Starr family photograph album
Album of black and white photographs and postcards depicting members of the Silas Starr family and others. Images include portraits, residences, outdoor recreation, and locations, particularly in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon, and on the Oregon Coast.
Hettie V. Starr photograph album
Album that belonged to Hettie V. Starr, containing black and white photographs, primarily card photographs and tintypes, as well as several loose photographs. The images are studio portraits of adults and children, most unidentified. Identified people include several members of the Starr family.
State Capitol Reconstruction Commission records
The Capitol Reconstruction Commission was established in 1935 for the purpose of planning the construction of a new Capitol building in Salem, Oregon, to replace the one that burned in 1935. Collection includes records of the commission, including minutes, lists of architects, programs, and other documents.
Collection on the status of title of lands required for proposed boat railway from foot of The Dalles Rapids to head of Celilo Falls
Collection includes typescript correspondence and reports, 1899; a typescript release of mortgage by George H. Williams, 1899; and a manuscript report by J. S. Polhemus, 1898, on improving the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and the mouth of the Willamette River.
D. H. Stearns letter
Manuscript letter from D. H. Stearns, publisher of the Daily Bee, Portland, Oregon, to his mother, February 6, 1882, regarding his newspaper career and dairy farms and products in Oregon.
Oral history interview with Howard C. Stearns
Oral history interview with Howard C. Stearns conducted by Leon Speroff from January 21-23, 1980. Stearns was an obstetrician and gynecologist in Portland, Oregon.
Orson Avery Stearns papers
Collection consists of a manuscript monograph, "Fort Klamath and the 'Bread Riot.' A Near Tragedy of Early Days," and manuscript letters to George H. Himes regarding Fort Klamath and James Brown (also known as "One-armed Brown" or "O. A. Brown").
Steel family photographs
The bulk of this collection features portraits of William Gladstone Steel and several photographs of family members. Steel successfully advocated to make Crater Lake a national park.
Oral history interview with John H. Steelquist
Oral history interview with John H. Steelquist conducted by Deborah M. Frosaker on December 8, 1977. Steelquist discusses the medical work of his maternal great-grandmother, Catherine Davis, and the pharmaceutical career of his maternal grandfather, Melancthon Marshall Davis, in 19th- and 20th-century Oregon.