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Oregon

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 1675 Collections and/or Records:

History of the west boundary district and adjacent forest communities

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2555
Abstract

Typescript photocopy compilation of brief accounts of Lane County history, geography, and place names. Includes interviews with Lane County residents and extracts from A. G. Walling's "Illustrated History of Lane County."

Dates: 1937

History of the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2913
Abstract

Photocopy typescript book and typescript carbon rough draft, with footnotes and appendix, regarding the history of the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road and the company that formed it, from approximately 1825 to 1940.

Dates: circa 1971

History of Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, Verboort, Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2164
Abstract

Photocopy typescript essay by an unknown author, 31 pages, regarding the history of the Catholic community of Verboort, Oregon.

Dates: 1950

Thomas J. Hobbs papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 977
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence and business papers, as well as a bound invoice book, which contains financial records. Several pages of the book were used to write a partial history of the Yakima War.

Dates: 1850-1855

Dorothy Anne Hobson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1441
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings and ephemera regarding Dorothy Anne Hobson's time editing the Valsetz Star, 1936-1941. She became editor at age nine.

Dates: 1936-1941

Oral history interview with Howard Hobson

 Collection
Identifier: SR9354
Abstract

Oral history interview with Howard Hobson conducted by Linda S. Dodds from June 28 to July 2, 1982. Hobson was a basketball player and a coach of college football, basketball, and baseball.

Dates: 1982 June 28-July 2

William Hobson letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2232
Abstract

Collection includes manuscript letters, 1848-1875, from William Hobson to relatives in England regarding life in Clatsop County, Oregon; and an incomplete manuscript biographical sketch, September 8, 1896, of John Hobson, son of William.

Dates: 1848-1896

Lee Hawley Hoffman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1654
Abstract

Lee Hawley Hoffman (1914-1998) was a prominent general contractor in the Pacific Northwest and a former executive director of the Oregon Historical Society. Collection includes records of Lee Hoffman, Inc., 1960-1962, with references to Oak Lodge Sanitary District, No. 1, Clackamas County; suit of Lee Hoffman v. U. S. regarding the construction of railroad bridge across the Deschutes River, 1962; personal and legal documents; financial records of Videoregon Corp., 1961-1962.

Dates: 1960-1963

Asa D. Holaday papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 846
Abstract

Collection includes manuscript essays: "Aids and Suggestions to the State Horticultural Society" and "Notes from Scappoose."

Dates: circa 1895

Holland family letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2233
Abstract

Collection consists of photocopy manuscript letters from Isabel Holland, Canyonville, Oregon, to her mother, Nebraska City, Kansas, 1856 and 1863; and a photocopy manuscript letter from John St. John, West Point, Iowa, to Lydia Holland, his aunt, 1866, regarding family in Oregon.

Dates: 1856-1866