Hillman Lueddemann papers [manuscript], 1903-1995

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Hillman Lueddemann papers [manuscript], 1903-1995

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Papers of a businessman and civic leader of Portland, Oregon, who served as the first head of the state's Department of Commerce, including correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, and photographs. Materials date primarily from the mid-20th century and include files on: Consolidated Freightways, the Delta Park Commission, the McCormick Steamship Company, Navajo Forest Products Industries, the Oregon Department of Commerce, the Oregon Portland Cement Company, Pope & Talbot (a shipping and forest products company), the Port Development Commission of Portland, Portland General Electric Company, and the Portland Rose Festival. Correspondents include Lueddemann's sister Elizabeth Lueddemann Fenton, U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield, Oregon Governor Tom McCall, and Lueddemann's father Frederick Lueddemann. Among the photographs are images related to World War I and images of the 1934 dock strike in Portland. Also included is a World War I diary of Hillman Lueddemann, information on Port Gamble, Washington, and files relating to an Oregon study of commuter airlines in the mid-1970s.

17.5 cubic feet (27 document cases, 11 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7111107

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