Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition records

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Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition records

1894-1933

https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv96792

Records of an international exposition held in Portland, Oregon, in 1905. Includes extensive correspondence files covering all aspects of the fair from its inception to its demolition; contracts, financial records, drawings, printed matter, and pictorial works. Also includes correspondence of exposition officers Henry E. Dosch, Frank Vincent DuMond, Henry W. Goode, Henry E. Reed, and John Wakefield, among others.

50 cubic feet, (101 document cases, 1 card file box, 20 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder)

eng, Latn

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677412

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