Financial records

Content Description A collection of family papers, books, and other material accompanied by a travel trunk (or chest) from the Butts Family of Forest Grove, Oregon. The trunk was used during the family's travel on the Oregon Trail. It is made of blind-stamped leather over wooden boards with metal hardware and is approximately 3' x 2' x 2.5'. The initials "J. B." are written in faint letters on the top of the trunk. The interior is lined with decorative paper probably dating from the 1840s or...

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Collection consists of hand-written ledgers from J. B. Matthews Post Number 6, Grand Army of the Republic in Forest Grove, Oregon and one copy of Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Encampment held at Pacific University in 1901.

Summary The Malheur Field Station records focuses on Malheur Field Station facility, during the time that Dr. William T. Jordan, a chemistry professor at Pacific University, was the university representative to the Malheur Field Station, 1971-1994. The Malheur Field Station was started in 1971 to be a place for naturalist education and research near Burns, Oregon. The field station is operated by a consortium of universities from Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. Pacific University administered the...

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The Oregon City Drug Store sold pharmacy items in the pioneer town at the end of the Oregon Trail from the 1850s-1860s. Covering the store's accounts from 1854-1863, this handwritten ledger provides customer names, lists of their purchases on credit, and their account balances. It shows what many prominent early Oregon doctors and businesses were buying at the time.

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Pacific University Alumni Association Records include alumni travel and events done throughout the 1980s and 1990s, various reports on those events, correspondence with alumni and the executive council. Included is a report from members of Concerned Black Students, silent auction records and materials as well as photographs of homecoming events for graduating classes of the early 1900s.

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Various documents pertaining to the founding and development of Tualatin Academy and Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.

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Pacific University dates to 1848 in Forest Grove, Oregon. This collection documents its corporate memory and includes materials pertaining to administrative, curricular, and student activities, including minutes, correspondence, brochures, catalogs, reports, newsletters, photographs, and related items.

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The Pacific University Women's Club, also known as the Faculty Women's Club, was a group made up of female faculty members and faculty wives. The collection includes meeting minutes, records related to events, ledgers, President's report, bank statements, handbooks, and dues records, created over several decades.

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Two volumes, plus loose pages, of treasurer's records from the Washington County (Oregon) Bible Society.

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Collection contains the records of the Willamette Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches and also the West Willamette Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches.