Prose and poetry collection [manuscript], 1832-2009 (bulk 1880-1986)

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Prose and poetry collection [manuscript], 1832-2009 (bulk 1880-1986)

Collection created by the Oregon Historical Society containing essays, stories, poems, and other writings, mostly in manuscript and typescript form, and largely by Oregon authors. Also includes some published pamphlets, chapbooks, broadsides, commonplace books, and a scrapbook documenting the travels of Mr. and Mrs. Hebert Qualman in the Pacific Northwest (1935-1938). Among the authors represented are: Ben Hur Lampman, Martha Fergusen McKeown, Harvey W. Scott, and Averta Terney.

3 cubic feet (7 document cases, 2 flat boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7440805

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Lampman, Ben Hur, 1886-1954

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Ben Hur Lampman was born in Wisconsin in 1886 and died in 1954. From the guide to the Ben Hur Lampman papers, 1936-1952, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Ben Hur Lampman was born to a Barron, Wisconsin newspaper family in 1886. Leaving home at the age of fifteen, he found work as a tramp printer at a variety of North Dakota newspapers. As a young man, he founded a newspaper called The Michigan Arena in Michigan City. During this time, he married Lena McEwen Sheld...

Scott, Harvey W. (Harvey Whitefield), 1838-1910

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McKeown, Martha Fergusen, 1903-

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Qualman, Herbert.

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Terney, Averta.

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