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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Quirinus Breen faculty papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 224
Abstract Quirinus Breen served as a professor at the University of Oregon form 1938 to 1964. Breen taught in the history department, focusing his studies on Greek, Roman and French history during the Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation eras. The majority of the collection consists of lecture notes and course descriptions from the history courses he taught at the University of Oregon as well as the course notes for a class in this History of Education at Grand Valley State College. Additional...
Dates: c. 1900-1965

Bunting and Trulove papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Bx 180
Abstract

David Bunting (1940-) and William Thomas Trulove (1943- ) researched the economic effects of the termination of the Klamath Indian Reservation. The collection contains research files, surveys and interviews, original manuscripts, and published material.

Dates: 1947-1973

Ralph Works Chaney papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 482
Abstract Ralph W. Chaney was an paleobotanist, an author, and a long-time member of the U.S. Park Service Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments, and of the Save the Redwoods League. The collection contains professional correspondence, paleobotany research, mounted botany specimens, manuscripts and published material, Carnegie Institution research work material, Berkeley faculty material including lectures, correspondence, and committee work, Save the Redwoods...
Dates: 1917-1966

Thomas Condon papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 210
Abstract

Thomas Condon (1822-1907) was an Irish Congregational minister, a geologist and paleontologist who was appointed University of Oregon's first professor of geology in 1876 and continued as professor and chair of Natural Sciences until 1907. The collection (1897-1906) contains lecture notes, writings by Condon on a new fossil Pinniped, and books on skeletons and Pinnipeds owned by Condon.

Dates: 1897-1906

Harold Hanne Elarth papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 286
Abstract

Harold Hanne Elarth (b. 1885) was a U. S. Army officer who served in the Philippine Constabulary and rose to the rank of Lt. Col. The collection contains research for Elarth's book on the Philippine Constabulary, Philippine Constabulary Officers Association history, a diary, letterpress copybooks, a Philippine Constabulary manual, photographs, and correspondence.

Dates: 1902-1951

Allan Elston papers

 Collection — Box 1 : [Barcode: 35025041716057]
Identifier: Ax 280
Abstract

Allan V. Elston (1887-1976) was educated as a civil engineer, and he worked on railroads, as a mining engineer in Chile, as a cattle rancher, and from 1924 on he wrote western fiction. The collection contains research notes, published pieces, royalty statements, and correspondence with agents, other writers, and from readers, 1930-1960.

Dates: 1930-1960

A.C. Heyman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll 208
Abstract

A.C. (Arnold C.) Heyman (1878-1975) was an Oregon farmer and advocate of public power. Collection consists of correspondence, speeches and radio talks, letters to the editor, materials on the Linn County PUD, research materials on public power, and personal material.

Dates: 1935-1953

Walter Meacham papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 065
Abstract

Walter E. Meacham (1879-1951) was a historian and Oregon Trail enthusiast. The Walter Meacham papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, and a variety of materials associated with the Old Oregon Trail Association and Meacham's promotional activities.

Dates: 1840-1943

Pacific Northwest Development Association (PNDA) records

 Collection
Identifier: Bx 143
Abstract

Collection is primarily comprised of research files created by the Pacific Northwest Development Association.

Dates: 1943-1961

Peter Steele papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ax 829
Abstract

Peter Steele (1918 - ) was a political and industrial writer who supported conservative causes and wrote against socialism and left-wing politics. The collection contains correspondence, writings, speeches, Associated Industries of Missouri (A.I.M.) files, General Electric reports, Group Research Reports, Inc. files, Communications Research Reports, research lists, and cassette tape recordings by Steele.

Dates: 1946-1975

Dorothy Sterling (The Luce Empire) papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ax 532
Abstract

Dorothy Sterling (1913-2008) is a writer, particularly of fiction and non-fiction books for children and young adults. The collection consists of a typed manuscript for "The Luce Empire", as well as supporting research materials for the book dating from 1923-1950.

Dates: 1923-1950

Paul and Henriette Van de Velde papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ax 587
Abstract

Paul and Henriette Van De Velde researched and wrote about culture, art, and life in Mexico in the 1920s-1930s, and about Oregon, specifically Waldport. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, research files concerning Mexico and Oregon, notebooks, diaries, interviews regarding Waldport, Oregon, books, and clippings.

Dates: 1921-1966

Harry B. Yocom faculty papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35025042832572]
Identifier: UA 225
Abstract Harry B. Yocom was a University of Oregon Professor who served in the department of biology from 1920 until his death in 1958. He taught classes in zoology and served as the head of the biology department until 1945. The collection consists of course and lecture notes from his time at the University of Oregon as well as research notes that center around the biological make-up of the Coos Bay Region of Oregon. The material also includes Yocom’s personal correspondence as well as four folders...
Dates: circa 1906-1956