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Collection
Identifier: MS-151
Collection
Identifier: MS-104
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the writings, correspondence, photographs and research files of Oregon writer Ellis Lucia. It also includes some material related to his personal interests, including the Barbershop Quartet and Gay Nineties festival (which he helped to found) in Forest Grove and Pacific University history. The material in the collection has been kept in the same order in which Lucia filed it. During his decades-long career, he appears to have followed the same filing scheme: He would...
Dates:
circa 1930-2000; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1985
Collection
Identifier: MS-31
Summary
The Lymans were a family of early Oregon settlers who were active in missionary, educational and literary activities. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence between member of the Lyman family and their friends between the years of 1846 to 1883.
Dates:
1846-1883
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-2
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...
Dates:
1971-1994
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-17
Summary
Manuscript compiled by a parish priest of Bulacan Province, the Philippines, regarding events of June-July 1898 during the Spanish-American War. Bulacan Province, located north of Manila on the island of Luzon, was a center of the Philippine revolution against Spain in the 1890s.
Dates:
1898-1899
Collection
Identifier: MS-159
Content Description
This collection consists of material from Margaret Morgan Hawkins and Samuel Glenn Morgan's time at Pacific University between the mid-1910s to early 1920s, plus additional material from the 1930s. It includes dozens of photographs, programs for plays, May Day, Wassail, and other events at Pacific, dance cards, a green freshman beanie, and other material. One item of note within this collection is a photograph album with pictures of students activities in the 1910s such as...
Dates:
1913-1939
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-1
Summary
This collection documents the activities of Sidney H. Marsh while at
Tualatin Academy and later as President of Pacific University in Forest
Grove, Oregon from 1853 until his death in 1879. The majority of
the correspondence and documents record his efforts in obtaining
monies for the college through subscriptions, the financial records for
the school, writings promoting and defending education in Oregon,
relationships between business partners, early founders, students, and
faculty...
Dates:
1817-1943
Summary
Mary Abigail Reasoner Cole was a Tualatin Academy student in the late 1850s. Her memory book contains poems and notes written by other students at the Academy, probably on the occasion of her leaving school to get married.
Dates:
1858-1859
Collection
Identifier: MS-84
Summary
Mary Frances Farnham was an important member of the Pacific University faculty, who taught English Literature and served as the Dean of Women in the early twentieth century. This collection contains correspondence, papers and letters relating to her death in 1942, and personal receipts.
Dates:
1895-1943
Collection
Identifier: MS-155
Content Description
A collection assembled by feminist activist Mary Whitmore through her work on women's rights between 1977-2020. The earliest material relates to her fight for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the 1970s-1980s; the latest material relates to her participation in the Women's Marches of January 21, 2017 and to the celebration of the centennial of women's suffrage in 2020. The collection includes photographs, programs, political literature, political buttons, feminist t-shirts and memorabilia,...
Dates:
1977-2020
