Oregon--Social life and customs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Maud Miller Buxton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2011.187
Scope and Contents
Letters, legal and business documents, photographs and news clippings of Maud Miller Buxton and associated families of Miller, Buxton and Ditterick. Maud Miller was born in North Dakota and eventually moved to McMinnville, Oregon via Minnesota. Correspondence spans her early childhood through her marriage to Henry Thurston Buxton and Frank Ditterick. Most letters concern family news. Includes commencement invitations, marriage invitations and clippings of marriage announcements and...
Dates:
1891-1962; Majority of material found in 1891-1947
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Gilkison Family Diaries
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.240
Scope and Contents
Diaries, 1929, 1931-1934, of the Gilkison family who lived on a farm in Broadbent, Oregon. The mother, Rena Gilkison (1894-1984) wrote most of the entries, others were done by one or several of the children, Donald, Clemmet and Kathleen. The name in the front of the diaries is given as "Ralph E." or "Ralph Eugene Wilkison and family."
The diary labeled "1928" was kept for the year 1929 and corrections to the year and sometimes weekday were made inside the diary.
The following description...
Dates:
1929, 1931-1934
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center