Oregon

Oral history interview with Ruth G. Fletcher, conducted by Patricia Keith on April 24, 1980. Fletcher discusses learning to fly airplanes at the Salem Airport from 1930 to 1931.

Account book, later used as a diary, of Fred Floed, a merchant in Roseburg, Oregon.

Theodore Patrick Flynn (1891-1954) was an equipment development engineer for the U.S. Forest Service, Region 6, and director of the USFS Equipment Laboratory in Portland, Oregon, 1936-1949. Collection includes biographical materials, patents, blueprints, specifications, reports, photographs, clippings, a photo album, and memorabilia regarding design of specialized equipment used in forestry and construction work, particularly for controlling forest fires.

Typescript reminiscences by Virginia B. Holsman (1915-1980) regarding her childhood in Hillsboro, Oregon, during the 1920s. Holsman, an artist, was a lifelong Oregon resident and owned an art gallery in Portland.

Collection consists of two black and white panoramic photographs by a photographer identified as Armstrong, Cottage Grove, Oregon. One panorama depicts two unidentified soldiers on Pier Warrenton in Oregon; the other is a portrait depicting uniformed soldiers of the Oregon Coast Artillery on their first payday.

Album of black and white photographs by J. F. Ford, most of which depict logging activities. Also included are cityscapes of Portland and Astoria, Oregon; sternwheel steamboats; and Northwest landscapes.

One album containing 25 black and white photographs of scenes in Oregon and Washington state, most with the mark of photographer J. F. Ford. A significant number of the photographs depict logging scenes. Others are of places in the Columbia River Gorge; Mount Hood; Mount Rainier; the steamer Bailey Gatzert; a shipwreck on Clatsop Beach; a cottage in Seaside, Oregon; and construction of a log raft in Stella, Washington.

This collection consists of 24 black and white photographic prints depicting Native American students and the grounds at the Indian Training School in Forest Grove, Oregon, circa 1882. The school opened in 1880 and eventually moved to a location near Salem in 1885, and was renamed the Chemawa Indian School.

Oral history interview with J. W. "Bud" Forrester, Jr., conducted by Clark Hansen on June 3, 1999, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Forrester discusses his career as a reporter and editor at the East Oregonian and the Daily Astorian newspapers in Pendleton and Astoria, Oregon, and shares his thoughts about dams in the Columbia River Basin.

Collection includes 35 elevations, plans and details on 13 sheets of Fort Dalles in The Dalles, Oregon, by architect Louis Scholl.