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Augustus Ripley Burbank diaries

 Collection
Identifier: A 013
Abstract

Augustus Ripley Burbank was a businessman in the West and Midwest. The Augustus Ripley Burbank diaries consist of three volumes of diaries. The diaries discuss overland travel to California, the growth of Portland and Lafayette, Oregon, personal issues and the growth and development of railroads in the Willamette Valley. The frequency of the diary entries varies from nonexistent for many years to almost daily.

Dates: 1849 April 13 - 1898 May 7

Albert Burch papers

 Collection
Identifier: A 171
Abstract

Albert Burch (1867-1943) was a mining engineer during the early 1900s in California. The collection (1897-1942) contains papers related to mine work and photographs, including those of workers of the Mountain Copper company.

Dates: 1897-1942

DeWitt C. Burkes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 106
Abstract

Author was a psychiatrist. Major files deal with the Central Inspection Board, American Psychiatric Association (1954-1957); Morningside Hospital, Portland, Oregon (minutes of staff meetings, 1955-1958); North Pacific Society of Neurology and Psychiatry (1940-1950); Portland Psychiatrists in Private Practice (organization papers, 1955-1957). There is also correspondence about the beginnings of the Portland Chamber Orchestra Association (1947-1949).

Dates: 1940-1957

Josiah A. Burnett papers

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [A 014] 1
Identifier: A 014
Abstract

Josiah Burnett of Eagle Creek, Oregon, worked in mining, survey work, and farming. The collection (1852-1874) contains correspondence regarding family, mining, and politics, and also contains articles of incorporation of Oregon businesses.

Dates: 1852-1874

Tom J. Burns papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 108
Abstract

Thomas J. Burns (1876-1957) was a political and social reformer and radical of Portland, Oregon. The collection consists primarily of broadsides, many published by Burns, as well as some minor correspondence.

Dates: 1919-1945

Burton/Lake/Garton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 301
Abstract John James Burton, the progenitor of the Burton/Lake/Garton families, was an Oregon pioneer, establishing a farm on his donation land claim in Yamhill in 1844. Although the collection contains family papers of the Burton/Lake/Garton families, the collection will be of particular interest to scholars of Asian immigration in the West, and the work of Kate Burton Lake and Margaret Lake Garton to help Chinese and Japanese girls and young women through their work in the Methodist Episcopal...
Dates: 1848-1993

Asahel Bush papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ax 184
Abstract

Asahel Bush (1824-1913) was a prominent early Oregon citizen who worked as a printer, was the founder and editor of the Oregon Statesman newspaper, and was a banker. The collection (1850-1914) contains photostat copies of correspondence.

Dates: 1850-1913

Rufus Butler land patent

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [CA 1866 Aug 8] 1
Identifier: CA 1866 Aug 8
Abstract

Rufus Butler (1812-1884) was an Oregon pioneer who settled in the Umpqua River valley, where he served as a Justice of the Peace. Collection is comprised of a patent of land issued to Rufus Butler of Umpqua County, Oregon on August 8, 1866.

Dates: 1866 August 8

Melvin Byers papers

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [Coll 446] 1
Identifier: Coll 446
Abstract

This collections is comprised of two letters from Senator Wayne Morse to Mel Byers in response to letters to the editor written by Mr. Byers. It also includes a program from the 14th Annual Banquet for the Washington County Democratic Central Committee and an oversize Oregonian clipping about Mr. Byers' many letters to the editor.

Dates: 1966-1967, 1983

William Cadbury faculty papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: UA 228
Abstract

William Cadbury has served at the University of Oregon since 1961 and continues to act as a professor of Emeritus in the English department today (2015). His study focuses on film theory and criticism. The Collection of William Cadbury’s Faculty Papers consists of a loose-leaf copy of his book titled Getting the Point: Film as Literature.

Dates: circa 1971

Calbreath Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 193
Abstract

This collection documents the Calbreath and Smith families, both pioneer families in Oregon. The collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, diaries, account books, day books, and manuscripts of poetry and prose by Irene Smith Calbreath.

Dates: 1839-1930

California State Telegraph Company. Toll House Station (Ashland, Oregon) records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: B 015
Abstract

The California State Telegraph Company began in 1853, and by June 1867, the company was reorganized and subsumed as the Pacific Division of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The collection (1865-1868) contains financial records, telegrams, and other papers of the Ashland, Oregon tollhouse station.

Dates: 1865 March - 1868 November

The diary of John Joseph Callison : Oregon Trail-1852

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [SFM 219] 1
Identifier: SFM 219
Abstract

Diary kept by John Joseph Callison during his journey, Apr. 6-June 25, 1852. Includes reproduction of one page of the original diary and genealogical information on the Callison family. Callison died of cholera during the journey, on August 23, 1852.

Dates: 1852

Camp Waldport records

 Collection
Identifier: Bx 034
Abstract Camp Waldport, or Civilian Public Service (CPS) Camp No. 56, was a conscientious objector camp in Oregon during WWII, and was home to the Fine Arts Group. Among Camp Waldport's interns were several poets and artists who are considered to have contributed to the Beat Movement and the "San Francisco Renaissance" of the 1950s and 60s, including Adrian Wilson, Kermit Sheets, painter Morris Graves, and poets William Everson and Glen Coffield. The camp's press, the Untide Press, published volumes...
Dates: 1943-1945

Madison Canaday account book

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [A 015] 1
Identifier: A 015
Abstract

Madison Canaday was a physician in Eugene, Oregon. The collection contains an account book that lists names, dates, type of service rendered, and records payment in cash or goods.

Dates: 1889-1902

Anthony Litsey Cannon will

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [SFM 045] 1
Identifier: SFM 045
Abstract

Will of Anthony Litsey Cannon of Peoria, Or. Cannon's wife, Virginia Franklin Cannon, was executrix of his will.

Dates: 1898 Feb 4

Colbert Hanchett Cannon day books

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ax 122
Abstract

Cannon was a physician in Eugene, Oregon. The collection consists of property books, a scrapbooks, and day books (1907, 1909, 1910, 1912 - 1915; 7 volumes total), which list patients, diagnosis, treatment, and charge, and contain personal diary entries.

Dates: 1907-1917

Virginia F. Cannon recipe book

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [Coll 603] 1
Identifier: Coll 603
Abstract

Virginia F. Cannon (1838-1918) was a resident of Peoria, Oregon. Collection contains one journal of hand-written recipes, and recipes compiled from newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1880-1889

Capital Lumbering Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Bx 142
Abstract

Consists of daybooks, journals, ledgers, correspondence, sales books, and records of various predecessors.

Dates: 1853-1914

Andrew Carrick papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 240
Abstract

The papers of Andrew Carrick, a Presbyterian minister, is primarily comprised of 850 manuscript sermons dating from 1898 to 1938. There is also a file of funeral sermons, 1916-1942, filed by name of deceased.

Dates: 1898-1938

Luella Clay Carson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 109
Abstract

Luella Clay Carson (1856-1938) was a professor at the University of Oregon and, later, university president at Mills College in Oakland, California. The collection consists of correspondence and documents related to both universities.

Dates: 1889-1916

George E. Carter Jr. papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Ax 572
Abstract

George E. Carter, Jr. ( - 1968) served as a Methodist Episcopal minister of Allen Temple in Portland, Oregon, and was chairman of Albina Citizens War on Poverty from 1965-1968. The collection contains sermons, Methodist Episcopal church material that includes publications, conference and meeting material, reports, minutes, yearbooks, and a church study, Urban League material, photographs of Mississippi Tent City (1966), and reel-to-reel tape recordings, 1960s.

Dates: 1960s

Finis Caruthers deed

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [CA 1854 Nov 13] 1
Identifier: CA 1854 Nov 13
Abstract

Finis Caruthers was a Portland, Oregon Territory, land owner. The collection consists of a photostat copy of a deed transferring ownership of a Portland lot from Caruthers to Clinton Kelly.

Dates: 1854 November 13

Cascadia Alive! Television Programs

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll 331
Abstract

Cascadia Alive! was a weekly cable access television program produced in Eugene, Oregon on anarchy, radical anti-authoritarian and feminist politics, and community resistance to ecological destruction and the technological death spiral. Cascadia Alive! features footage shot and edited by local guerrilla videographers, news reports culled from a wide variety of sources, critiques of civilization and the state, and live in-studio discussion.

Dates: 1996-2005

Case Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 125
Abstract

William M. Case and Isaac W. Case, brothers came to Oregon in the 1840s. Isaac Case was a merchant and banker. He went to the Idaho mines in 1862 and later settled in Astoria, where he founded the Astoria Savings Bank. This collection includes family letters, financial materials, family business papers, and other miscellaneous family papers.

Dates: 1843-1925

Robert Caufield papers

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [A 016] 1
Identifier: A 016
Abstract

Robert Caufield was born in Broughshand county, Ireland and moved to Oregon City in 1847. His papers include his obituary, the story of his wife Jane Burnside Caufield, correspondence, treasurer reports and finance reports.

Dates: 1832-1858

Robert Caufield receipts

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [CA 1853 Oct 10] 1
Identifier: CA 1853 Oct 10
Abstract

Robert Caufield was born in Broughshand County, Ireland and moved to Oregon City in 1847, where he became a county judge and opened a grocery store. His papers include tax receipts and a receipt for a medical bill.

Dates: 1853 October 10-1854 November 5

James D. Cauthorn journal

 Collection — Multiple Collection Box: [A 017] 1
Identifier: A 017
Abstract

James D. Cauthorn traveled overland from Mexico, Missouri, to Fort Bridger in 1865. The diary ranges from March 30 to June 25, 1865 and describes his route, modes of transportation, descriptions of the landscape as well his finances.

Dates: 1865

Cayuse, Yakima, and Rogue River Wars papers

 Collection
Identifier: Bx 047
Abstract The Cayuse War (1847-1855), the Rogue River War (ca. 1855-1857) and the Yakima War (1856-1858) all resulted in losses for the Oregon and Washington Indians. Many tribal members succumbed to either military attack or disease, and most of the remaining population were sent to live on reservations. Additionally, a great deal of tribal land was taken by the U.S. government in the aftermath of these wars. The Cayuse, Yakima and Rogue River Wars Papers include letters, official reports, general...
Dates: 1847-1858