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April 17, 2024 3:46 pm
Dr. Robert Oaks Geological reports, 2023
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives DivisionEight geological reports centered on the eastern part of Millville City, Utah, and the adjacent Bear River Range.
April 17, 2024 1:27 pm
Harmon Percy Marble photograph collection, 1911-1924
University of Utah Libraries, Special CollectionsHarmon Percy Marble (1870-1945) was a journalist and politician who worked as an Indian Agent for the United States government from 1911 to 1926. This collection contains 11 sepia-toned prints taken by Marble and depicting Navajo and Pueblo people and Ancestral Puebloan structures.
April 15, 2024 3:16 pm
Claude and Marguerite Killion photographs, 1953-1954
Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryCollection consists of 67 color slides of Oregon locations taken by Claude and Marguerite Killion of California during travels in the 1950s.
April 15, 2024 2:51 pm
Morris Halperin photographs for the Pelton Water Wheel Company, 1954
Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryCollection consists of photographs taken by Morris Halperin on behalf of the Pelton Water Wheel Company. Most photographs depict the manufacturing of equipment for Portland General Electric and the Lookout Point dam.
April 15, 2024 2:30 pm
David G. LeSourd typescript of "An Itinerant's Career", 1917
University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special CollectionsThis collection consists of one 347-page typescript copy of Rev. David G. LeSourd's autobiography, An Itinerant's Career . Rev. David G. Lesourd (1841-1925) was one of the first Superintendents of the Olympia District of the Puget Sound Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1888 he became one one of the original incorporators of Puget Sound University in Tacoma, Washington.
April 15, 2024 2:19 pm
Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryCollection consists of materials that belonged to Arnold P. Hansen, a special agent at Union Station in Portland, Oregon. Materials include a photo album of suspects apprehended for crimes committed against or in relation to the Union Pacific Railroad, as well as a photocopy of a signed confession by Roy DeAutremont to the robbery of a Southern Pacific train near Jackson County, Oregon, in 1923.
April 15, 2024 1:16 pm
Maurice A. Price scrapbooks on C. S. Price, circa 1900-1952
Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryThree scrapbooks compiled by Maurice A. Price (1891-1966) of Portland, Oregon, containing clippings, photographs, correspondence, catalogs, and ephemera relating to Price's brother, artist C. S. Price (1874-1950). C. S. Price achieved fame later in his life, when he was living in Portland.
April 15, 2024 1:07 pm
E. J. Humbert photographs, 1912-1914
Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryCollection consists of 10 mounted black and white photographs taken between 1912 and 1914 by E. J. Humbert, an electrician for the Portland Railway Light and Power Company. The photographs depict interior and exterior views of power plants, as well as street scenes in Portland and Oregon City, Oregon.
April 12, 2024 4:29 pm
Yasui family papers, 1873-2023
Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryThis collection includes correspondence, personal papers, and photographs of three generations of the Yasui family. Major topics represented in the collection include the first (Issei) generation's immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s; the family's business and community activities in Hood River, Oregon, through 1942; the forced removal and incarceration of Yasui family members during World War II; and advocacy for redress and on behalf of Japanese American history by members of the second (Nisei) generation. A substantial portion of the collection consists of extensive research materials and writings by Homer Yasui, a second-generation member of the family, about the Yasui family history and the larger context of Japanese Americans' experiences before, during, and after World War II. While most of the collection is in English, approximately one-fifth of the materials were written in a pre-World War II Japanese script that is distinct from modern Japanese. Selected documents and excerpts are being translated into English and modern Japanese and will be viewable online in OHS Digital Collections after August 2024.
April 12, 2024 2:08 pm
William Seward Webb Yellowstone Expedition journal and photographs, 1896
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives DivisionA photo album with the narrated itinerary and 42 photos of a hunting expedition to Jackson Lake, Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park in 1896.