Oregon
Found in 1776 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Wolverton papers
Charles Wolverton was a lawyer in Albany, Oregon, a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, and a judge on U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, 1894-1926, regarding state and national politics, Wolverton's judicial career, personal and business matters with John H. Mitchell, Reuben P. Boise, and Benjamin F. Mulkey; speeches regarding initiative and referendum; and ephemera.
Oral history interview with Nora B. Womack
Oral history interview with Nora B. Womack conducted by Robert J. Gassner on September 6, 1988, as part of the Portland's Syrian/Lebanese-American Community series. Womack was a Lebanese-American living in Portland, Oregon.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Oregon, Clatskanie auxiliary records
Bound manuscript minute book of the Clatskanie auxiliary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Oregon, 1908-1913, with constitution and list of members.
Women collection
Collection assembled by the Oregon Historical Society relating to women in Oregon. Included are postcards with pro- and anti-suffrage images; correspondence; a scrapbook of the League of Women Voters; papers of various women's political groups; and newspaper clippings.
Oral history interview with Erskine B. Wood
Oral history interview with Erskine B. Wood conducted by David Jacobson on May 6, 1999, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Wood was an attorney in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Erskine Wood
Oral history interview with Erskine Wood conducted by William Renwick on August 21, 1954. In the interview, Wood discusses the summer he spent with the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) people during his childhood.
William Maxwell Wood portrait
One black and white photograph, 1887, of William Maxwell Wood, son of C.E.S. Wood, at age 3.
Elsie Corbit Woods diary
Diary of a woman from southern Illinois who came to Oregon to join her husband, William Patrick Woods, in 1937. Brief entries include details of everyday life, housework, cooking, work at the telephone company in Illinois, family, friends, travel, and the author's emotional life.
Ivan M. Woolley papers
Papers of a Portland physician and author, including correspondence; newspaper clippings regarding the Mt. Hood Road (formerly the Barlow Road); and a typescript book draft, "The Old Road," circa 1959, with hand-drawn maps, regarding Woolley's experiences on the Mt. Hood Road.
John Work papers
Typescript copies of journals and correspondence of John Work, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company who explored the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s and 1830s. The materials were collected by Isaac Burpee in the 1940s for use in a publication. Also included are Burpee's research notes and microfilm containing copies of John Work's original journals of 1823-1835 and a transcription made in 1945.