Equitable Savings & Loan Association photographs collection 1891-1980 1940-1980

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Equitable Savings & Loan Association photographs collection 1891-1980 1940-1980

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The photographs document one of the most important and longest-lived financial institutions in Oregon and its expansion into branch banking throughout the state and into Idaho, Utah, and Washington. The collection covers personnel, activities, and buildings, most notably three buildings for the Portland home office, all designed by noted architect Pietro Belluschi.

3.87 cubic feet; 1852 photographs, 170 film negatives, and 400 slides in 5 document boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders, and 6 photograph albums

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6381360

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Equitable Savings & Loan Association

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In 1890, prominent Portland businessmen incorporated the Oregon Building & Loan Association, which was renamed the Equitable Savings & Loan Association in 1899. The association occupied space in a number of downtown Portland buildings before constructing its first home at the corner of Southwest Sixth Avenue and Stark Street in 1932. Another new building replaced that one on the site in 1948. In 1965, the Association built the Equitable Center at 1300 Southwest Sixth Avenue....

Delano, Leonard Hatsill, 1908-1989,

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Photo Art Studios

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Delano Aerial Surveys (Portland, Or.).

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Portland Rose Festival

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Cake, Ralph H. (Ralph Harlan), 1891-

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Banker. From the description of Reminiscences of Ralph Harlan Cake : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122480916 ...

Equitable Savings & Loan Association (Portland, Or.)

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Belluschi, Pietro, 1899-1994

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Architect; Portland, Or. Died Feb. 1994. From the description of Pietro Belluschi interviews, 1983 Aug. 22 - Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184885 From the description of Pietro Belluschi interviews, 1983 Aug. 22 - Sept. 4 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007028 Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) was an architect from Portland, Or. From the description of Oral history interview with Pietro Belluschi, 1983 Aug. 22-Sept. 4. (Unkno...

Boychuk, Walter, 1886-1967

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Walter Boychuk (1886-1967) worked as a photographer in Oregon for half a century, making portraits of everyone from ordinary citizens to nationally known figures, including Sen. Wayne Morse, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, and Norman Thomas. Boychuk was born Oct. 25, 1886, at Galatia, Austria. He immigrated to Canada in 1903 and came to Portland in 1906, where he began working as a photographer around 1912. For a few years during the late 1920s, ...