Ellis Lucia Papers

Accession

Identifier: ACC-2013-29

Staff Only

Content Description

Writings, correspondence, photographs and research files of Oregon writer Ellis Lucia. Lucia, a graduate of Pacific University (1944 BA, 1965 Hon. Litt.D.), was a journalist and a writer of popular non-fiction. He wrote or edited 17 books and dozens of articles. Some of the topics that he covered included the Tillamook Burn, the Columbus Day Storm of 1962, the timber industry, the Old West, tourism, railroads and hospitals. The collection includes drafts, research notes and photographs related to many of his writings. The collection also includes some material related to his personal interests, including the Barbershop Quartet / Gay Nineties festival in Forest Grove (which he helped to found) and Pacific University history. See inventory for a box-level description.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

Ellis Lucia arranged to donate his papers to Pacific University in the early 1970s, but he was not ready to give his papers until after his death. His widow held the papers until 2013, when they were donated to the Pacific University Archives. The original letters on this matter between Pacific and Ellis Lucia from 1971-1972 are in the papers. A PDF copy is kept in the Archives' electronic donor files.

Language of Description

English

Restrictions Apply

Dates

Creation: circa 1930-2000
Creation: Majority of material found within 1945 - 1985

Creator

Lucia, Ellis (Person)

Extent

40 Cubic Feet (42 boxes and 3 oversize volumes)

Inventory

Boxes: 1. Alonzo Stagg: research and drafts 2. Ben Holladay: research and drafts 3. Big Woods; misc. articles 4. Big Woods; Rivermen; Forestry Research 5. Big Woods; Big Blow; Flood 6. Don’t Call it Or-e-gawn; Portland Book 7. Klondike Kate: research/drafts 8. Klondike Kate; misc. articles from the 1950s; Ben Holladay 9. Lumbermen: research and drafts 10. Sea Wall; City Club of Portland; miscellaneous research and drafts 11. St. Vincent’s Hospital: research and drafts; Hanley 12. This Land Around Us: correspondence and drafts 13. This Land Around Us: galley proofs, artwork 14. This Land Around Us; Tillamook Burn; Choral-Forest Grove Hospital files 15. Tillamook Burn: correspondence and research 16. Tillamook Burn: photographs, research 17. Tillamook Burn: research, maps, photographs 18. Tough Men: research and drafts; miscellaneous articles from the 1950s 19. Rejection letters, Ben Holladay, Big Woods, miscellaneous 20. Albany-English files 21. Flood-Writers files 22. Anderson-Holbrook files 23. Ideas-Nevada files 24. Osteo-Russians files 25. St. Vincent-WCLA files 26. West-Zoo RR files; Crowell-Letters files 27. Letters-Zoo Railroad files; Alaska-Blazer Mania files 28. Barns-Housing files 29. “Go Devil”-Oregon files 30. Children’s-Hastings files; Lumbermen 31. Western-Zombie files; Monterey-Russian files 32. Safe-Willoughby files 33. Publicity and Royalties correspondence; Magazines featuring Lucia's articles, 1961-1967 34. Miscellaneous personal history and other items, many related to Pacific University 35. Oversize items including Tillamook Burn drafts, bound issues of Pacific's The Index, clippings scrapbooks and other material 36. Audio tapes, negatives 37. Negatives numbered 1-270 38. Negatives numbered 271-388 39. Negatives numbered 289-487 40. Negatives numbered 488-625 41. Negatives and slides - miscellaneous 42. Negatives - Tillamook Burn [Unnumbered] 3 bound volumes: oversize clippings scrapbooks