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Oregon

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 1731 Collections and/or Records:

John Hotchkiss papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2731
Abstract

John T. Hotchkiss was a bookstore manager and salesman for J.K. Gill & Co., a bookstore and stationer in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes scrapbook items, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and leaflets regarding Oregon authors and poets, J. K. Gill's "Poet's Corner," the Oregon Writer's League and poet Mary Carol Davies. Also included are newspaper clippings regarding J. K. Gill and various Oregon writers.

Dates: circa 1889-1940

Oral history interview with Steven M. Houston

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2886
Abstract

Oral history with Steven M. Houston conducted by Clark Hansen on June 17, 2002, as part of the Oregon Wine Archives Oral History Project. Houston found the Houston Vineyards winery near Eugene, Oregon, in 1980, and discusses the wine industry in Oregon.

Dates: 2002 June 17

How high is Mount Hood? A long sought after question

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2470
Abstract

Photocopy manuscript reminiscences giving a history of the ascents and surveys made on Mt. Hood from 1790 and discussing the establishment of the official elevation of the mountain in 1938 by Roy M. Sylar and others.

Dates: 1975 June 24

How we came to Oregon

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 880
Abstract

Typescript poem by John Hamilton McClure about his journey to Oregon with his family in 1853 when he was a child.

Dates: circa 1915

William Howe letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1481
Abstract

Manuscript letters from William Howe of Monmouth, Oregon, to his children and siblings, October 1871-June 1872, regarding the death of his daughter, Kate, news of crops and sheep, elections and smallpox.

Dates: 1871-1872

David S. Hoyt journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2865
Abstract Entries in a journal begun by David S. Hoyt to record "observations on an expedition through Oregon and Washington territories and the Rocky Mountains for the exploration of the Northern Route for the Pacific Rail Road in the Summer and Autumn of 1853." The journal consists only of several pages of entries dated from June 22, 1853, to June 27, 1853. The entries describe Hoyt's journey by ship from San Francisco, California, up the Pacific Coast and the Columbia River to Vancouver,...
Dates: 1853

Oliver Greeley Hughson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1712
Abstract Oliver Greeley Hughson, a retired building materials salesman, developed a successful program to teach young men construction skills. His Boy Builders clubs and "Minimalic Construction" method became a model for schools and colleges throughout the United States and British Columbia. The bulk of Hughson’s papers chronicle the development of this training program from its inception in 1933 until his death in 1959. His personal papers include correspondence, his 1882 diary, day books, and...
Dates: 1882-1959; Majority of material found within 1933-1959

Human Relations Council of Yamhill County records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2542
Abstract

Records include correspondence and minutes, as well as reports, surveys, and other materials regarding the Council's involvement in housing, education, health and child care programs for migrant workers, promotion of low-income housing, services for the elderly and other activities related to civil rights in Yamhill County, Oregon.

Dates: 1964-1973

Humiston, Wilson and Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 862
Abstract

Business papers of a wholesale liquor company in Portland, Oregon, including saloon orders (1862-1864) from mining camps and towns in eastern Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, which include news of the mines and business conditions in those areas. Also included are records and correspondence of the company's predecessor, Humiston and Ma'Dan (1859-1862).

Dates: 1859-1864

Alfred B. Humphrey letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2734
Abstract

Alfred B. Humphrey was a carpenter who came to Oregon from Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1870. Collection includes correspondence, 1871-1879, to relatives in Connecticut regarding life on a small farm near Oregon City, Oregon.

Dates: 1871-1879