New Deal-era western construction and industrial expansion across California, Oregon, and Washington, recorded in an extensive family photo album with inscribed dates, locations and details. The album records the surge of dam, bridge, road, harbor, and flood-control work that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal public works programs. The photographs record.....
Merrill, Samuel L. Antique motorcycle collecting archive. 1970s–mid 1990s. This archive documents the organized preservation of early American motorcycles through the activities of the Antique Motorcycle Club of America and related regional groups, showing how collectors identified, restored, and circulated pre-1916 machines as historical objects. The material establishes the development.....
[Chinese American] Chinese American family photo album, mid-20th century, recording the Chinese American diaspora in California and Oragon during the decades following the repeal of Chinese exclusion laws and the expansion of immigration policy in the United States. The album captures a period of social mobility among Chinese Americans in.....
Willamette University, Oregon student photo album, 1913–1915, documenting coeducational student life and women’s education in early twentieth century Oregon through a sustained visual record of academic, social, and recreational activity. Many of the photos include brief captions, identifying the location or event. Compiled by a woman student, the album captures.....
Portland flood photographs recording inundated streets, industrial buildings, freight trackage, and emergency response in the Vanport Flood of 1948, marking the reshaping of Oregon's then second largest city. The group centers Portland rather than Vanport itself, showing the working city under water at a moment when warehouses, bridges, rail sidings.....
[Logging] Pacific Northwest logging industry photo archive documenting systems of timber extraction in, Oregon, Washington and Northern California during the early twentieth century, illustrating how camps moved logs through cutover ground, snowbound slopes, skid roads, and mechanized loading sites. The prints show the sequence of logging work: clearing, hauling, lifting.....
Archive of Prince Hall Freemasonry souvenir programs documenting African American fraternal organization networks and civic leadership in Portland, Oregon during the mid- to late twentieth century. The material consists of official annual communication programs issued by the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Oregon, documenting Black fraternal governance, mutual.....
Science Fiction Review, Portland, Oregon: Richard E. Geis. Issue No. 25 (Bonus Issue), May 1978. One of the most important independent critical journals of the 1970s science-fiction renaissance, here featuring a substantial, multi-page interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, at the time already recognized as “the first lady of science.....
