Oregon
Found in 1657 Collections and/or Records:
Robert M. Wade collection
Donald Waggoner papers
Donald Waggoner was president of the Oregon Environmental Council and was active in researching and lobbying for the Oregon Minimum Deposit Act (Bottle Bill), which went into effect in October 1972. Collection includes correspondence, articles, reports and testimony regarding state and national minimum deposit container legislation.
George Andrew Waggoner collection
Collection includes typescript and manuscript literary manuscripts of "Buckskin Fight with the Wolves," "A Test of Courage," "Oregon Pioneering," "A Race with the Wind," and "Was it Luck or Providence?"
Charles Wagner Willamette Valley flax industry photographs
Photographic prints produced by Charles Wagner, manager of the Oregon Insurance Rating Bureau (later the Pacific Fire Insurance Rating Bureau) to document the value of crops, facilities, and equipment associated with the flax industry in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The images include facilities in Canby, Corvallis, Dayton, Harrisburg, Irving, Monroe, Mount Angel, Santiam, Silverton, Springfield, St. Paul, and Washington County.
Twin screw motor vessel Wakena plans
Three negative photocopy plans on 1 sheet of the motor vessel Wakena for the Clatskanie Transportation Co., by marine architect J. H. Johnston.
George W. Waldron papers
Collection consists of a manuscript certificate, Princeton, Illinois, January 25, 1864, verifying George W. Waldron's clerical abilities; and a manuscript receipt for property, estate of Waldron & Co., The Dalles, Oregon, December 18, 1880.
Walker Farms records
Records of an eastern Oregon farm, near Athena in Umatilla County, engaged in large-scale growing of wheat, oats, and peas from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Neville E. Walker papers
Collection includes design drawings, patents, and miscellanea regarding inventions by Neville E. Walker, mostly model airplanes.
Wallowa County (Or.) photographic collection
Twenty black and white photographic postcards, including duplicates, of places in Wallowa County, Oregon. A substantial number of the images depict scenes at Wallowa Lake; other places depicted in the collection include Wallowa Falls, Imnaha Canyon, Horseshoe Lake, Aneroid Lake, and the Wallowa Mountains.
Origin of Wallowa County place names
Typescript monograph "Origin of Wallowa County Place Names" by Ranger Tucker, 158 pp, circa 1940-1950, based on material given to Grace Butterfield Bartlett by J. H. Horner in the 1940s, with letter of transmittal.