Oregon
Found in 1717 Collections and/or Records:
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.
J. Enos Wait photographic negatives
Collection consists of nitrate negatives of Oregon and Washington scenes from approximately 1905-1910, including images of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon. The photographs were taken by J. Enos Wait (1870-1947), a dentist from Superior, Nebraska.
Oral history interview with Mamaro Wakasugi
Oral history interview with Mamaro Wakasugi conducted by George I. Azumano on October 29, 1994, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Wakasugi discusses his family background and early life as a second-generation Japanese American on farms on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and in Banks, Oregon, as well as his experiences farming in Ontario, Oregon, during World War II.
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.
Oral history interview with Evelyn E. Waldren
Oral history interview with Evelyn E. Waldren, conducted by Patricia Keith on June 5, 1980. Waldren discusses her career as a flight instructor and airport operator, and describes the flight she made from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Tijuana, Mexico, in 1941, which set the women's records for speed and distance.
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.