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Colleges and Universities

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Myron Eells Papers

 Collection — Folder MS File Box 2
Identifier: MS-76
Summary

Myron Eells, born in Oregon in 1843, was a missionary at the Skokomish Reservation in Washington, and a trustee of both Pacific University and Whitman College. This collection includes 7 letters by Eells, mostly related to Pacific University, and 3 anti-slavery pamphlets that may have belonged to him.

Dates: 1850-1897

Forest Grove Indian Training School Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-27
Summary

An artificial collection of materials about the Indian Training School at Forest Grove, Oregon.

Dates: 1884-2011

Collection on Cecilie Froelich

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-12
Summary

Collection consists of a scrapbook and audio cassette tape pertaining to Dr. Cecilie Froelich who served as chair of Pacific University's Department of Mathematics.

Dates: 1908-1983

Greta McIntyre Sheeley Photograph Album and Pacific University Memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-28
Summary

Greta McIntyre Sheeley was a 1920 graduate of Pacific University, attending college during the World War I years. This collection includes hundreds of photographs and other memorabilia of Pacific dating from 1916-1920, with some later material.

Dates: 1916-1993

Humanitarian Center (Pacific University) photographs and videorecordings

 Collection
Identifier: RG-5-14
Summary

The Humanitarian Center at Pacific University organized community service and engagement projects at the university. The collection includes photographs and videorecordings related to the events and activities sponsored by center, mostly between the late 1990s-2005.

Dates: 1994-2005

Jackson Family Postcards of Pacific University

 Collection
Identifier: MS-128
Abstract

Pacific University created postcards depicting buildings on campus to gain the attention of prospective students in the early 1900s. This collection contains three of these postcards that belonged to the Jackson family of Gaston, Oregon. Two of the postcards contain handwritten messages that were sent to Mrs. Susie Hatfield Jackson of Silver Bell, Arizona.

Dates: 1905-1909

Lyman Family Papers

 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

Malheur Field Station Records

 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

Sidney H. Marsh Papers

 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

Mary Frances Farnham Collection

 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