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Archival Collections

The following records are located at the City of Portland, Stanley Parr Archives and Record Center .

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "North Bank Brookside Restoration Project," 1998.

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "Johnson Creek Flooding," February 16, 1986.

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "Johnson Creek and Crystal Springs Culvert/Bridge Inspection Photographs," August 1986.

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "Johnson Creek Floodplain" (SE 110th - SE 117th, North of Foster), October 1987.

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "WPA Rockwork Photos on Johnson Creek."

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "Leach Gardens Photos."

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "Beggar's Tick Marsh Photos."

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "Johnson Creek Park Restoration," 1995.

Environmental Services, Photographic Records, 37, "SE 108th Enhancement Project," Courtesy of Margaret Mitchell.

Environmental Services, Policy and Historical Records, 3, "Johnson Creek 'Wanted' Fish Poster."

Environmental Services, Policy and Historical Records, 1, "Why Nothing Has Happened: A case study of Johnson Creek."

Environmental Services, Watershed Management Records, 3, "General Watershed Files (Projects, Public Involvement, Management, Brochures/Pamphlets) Johnson Creek."

Environmental Services, Watershed Management Records, 3, "Youth Environmental Action Team (YEAT) - Program Development, Progress Reporting, Projects, Youth Programs of Others" (CREW, YCC).

Environmental Services, Watershed Management Records, 2, "Old Slides of Johnson Creek, Before RMP."

Environmental Services, Watershed Management Records, 29, "112th Brookside Enhancement Project (EP)."

Environmental Services, Watershed Management Records, 29, "108th Philpott Property."

Environmental Services, Watershed Management Records, 29, "Johnson Creek Historical."

Environmental Services, Watershed Maps, 41, "Johnson Creek Maps and Plans."

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 3, "Bellrose Line," 1990.

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 3, "7030-B Phase I Springwater Corridor."

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 3, "7030-A Repairs to Timber Trestles," 1992.

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 6, "Bellrose - Rail Issues," 1989-90.

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 6, "Bellrose - Inn for Boys - Youth Conservation," 1992.

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 6, "Bellrose - Public Meeting," 1992.

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 6, "Bellrose - National Parks Service."

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 6, "Bellrose - Park Bureau."

Parks, Parks and Facilities Project Records, 6, "Bellrose - Historical."

Parks, Policy and Historical Records, 3, "Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden."

Parks, Policy and Historical Records, 3, "Johnson Creek Bridge."

Parks, Policy and Historical Records, 3, "Bellrose Line/ Springwater Corridor."

Oregon Historical Society Library and Archives Vertical Files: "Johnson Creek Neighborhoods," McKeever/Morris: "Prehistoric Cultural Resources Report," May 14, 1992, and Freidenburg and Burtchard's "Reconnaissance Report," 1990, "Lents," "Eastmoreland," "Westmoreland, " "Railroads," "Inter-Urban lines," "Leach Botanical Gardens," and the "Johnson Creek" area.

Oral History Interviews

Augur, Ruth. Interview by Tom Arnold and Kurt Evans, 11 May 1998. Gresham, Oregon.

Bradfield, Bill. Interview by Lesa Folger. 4 June 1998. Gresham, Oregon.

Erickson, ReeveHannons, Ralph and Betsy Hughes, Bill Bradfield. Interview by Lesa Folger. 6/4/98. Gresham, Oregon.

Gravon, Sandra. Interview by Lou McCollum and Aaron Bartel. May 16, 1998. Portland, Oregon.

Hannons, Ralph and Betsey. Interview by Richard Cowen and Neil Ekberg. May 10, 1998.

Hughes, Bill. Interview by Richard Cowen, Jill Bingham and Aaron Bartel. 13 May 1998. Portland, Oregon.

Kerns, Ed. Interview by Jimmy Blanchard and Nicole Stanley. May 3, 2000. Portland, Oregon.

Simpson, Bob. Interview by Neil Ekberg, Jill Bingham and Aaron Bartel. May 20, 1998. Portland, Oregon.

Welch, Judy. Interviewed by Nicole Stanley. April 17, 2000. Portland, Oregon.

The following interviews are archived at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon.

Aubin, Miles. Interviewed by James Hausen. May 1, 1999. Portland, Oregon.

Birch, Ruth. Interviewed by Michael Turner. April 23, 1999. Portland, Oregon.

Birch, Tony. Interviewed by Michael Turner. May 13, 1999. Vancouver, Washington.

Brost, Pat. Interviewed by Wanda Berry. April 26, 1999. Portland, Oregon.

Johnson, Jean. Interviewed by Ivard Everts. May 18, 1999. Portland, Oregon.

Johnson, Steve. Interview by Ivard Everts. May 6, 1998. Portland, Oregon.

Marks, Jason Leo. Interviewed by Brian Parks. May 4, 1999. Portland, Oregon.

Rosenbloom, Mary. Interviewed by Jake Lancaster. May 14, 1999. Portland, Oregon.

Scwitzer, David. Interviewed by Jake Lancaster. May 14, 1999. Portland, Oregon.

Books and Dissertations

Archer, Howard. Gresham. The Friendly City. Gresham: Outlook Publishing, 1967.

Beckham, Stephen Dow. The Indians of Western Oregon: This Land Was Theirs. Portland: Glass-Dahlstrom Printers, 1977.

Buan, Carolyn M. and Richard Lewis, eds. The First Oregonians: An Illustrated Collection of Essays on Traditional Lifeways, Federal Indian Relations, and the State's Native People Today. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1991.

Carey, Charles Henry. History of Oregon. Vol. I. Chicago and Portland: Pioneer Historical Pub. Co., 1922.

Chehak, Gail and Jan Halliday. Native Peoples of the Northwest: A Traveler's Guide to Land, Art and Culture. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1996.

Chilton, W.R. Gresham, Stories of Our Past, volume 1. Gresham: Davis and Fox Printing, 1993.

Chilton, W.R. Gresham, Stories of Our Past, volume 2. Gresham: Davis and Fox Printing, 1996.

Clark, Robert Carlton, Robert Horace Down and Blue, George Verne. A History of Oregon. Chicago and NY: Row, Peterson and Company.

Clarke, S.A. Pioneer Days of Oregon History. Vol. 1. Portland: J.K. Gill Co. 1905.

Cochran, George C. Indian Portraits of the Pacific Northwest. Portland: Binford and Mort, 1959.

Coe, Michael. Atlas of Ancient America. New York: Facts on File, 1986.

Culp, Edwin D. Oregon: The Way it Was. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1983.

Culp, Edwin D. Yesterday in Oregon. Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1990

David Douglas Historical Society. History and Folklore of the David Douglas Community. 1989.

Dimick, Roland Eugene. "The Fishes of the Willamette River System in Relation to Pollution." Corvallis, Engineering Experiment Station, Oregon State System of Higher Education, Oregon State College, 1945.

Dodds, Gordon B. Oregon: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977.

Dodds, Gordon B. The American Northwest: A History of Oregon and Washington. Arlington Heights: Forum Press, 1986.

Drucker, Philip. Indians of the Northwest Coast. Garden City: Natural History Press, 1963.

Gaston, Joseph. Portland, its History and Builders. Chicago and Portland: S.J.Clarke Pub. Company. 1911.

Gaston, Joseph. The Centennial History of Oregon. Vol. I. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Company., 1912.

Greisser, Arthur H.. PGE History of Portland General Electric Company 1889-1981. 1982.

Gude, Andrew Greiff. "An Assessment of the Riparian-Influenced Salmonid Habitat Features of Johnson Creek." Masters of Science thesis, Portland State University, Portland Oregon, 1994.

Harding, T. Gleen. Oregon historical calendar and chronology of events, 1542-1988. Lake Oswego, Or: Oregon Family Pub. 1988.

Hodge, Fredrick W., ed. Handbook of American Indians: North of Mexico. 2 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906.

Horr, David Agee, ed. American Indian Ethnohistory: Indians of the Northwest. 2 vols. New York: Garland Publishing, 1974.

Jacobs, Melville. The People Are Coming Soon: Analyses of Clackamas Chinook Myths and Tales. Seattle: University of Washington, 1960.

Johnson Creek Corridor Committee. "Johnson Creek Resource Management Plan." Portland: Woodward-Clyde, 1995.

Langton, Clair Van Norman. "Preliminary Report on the Control of Stream Pollution in Oregon." Corvallis, Or. 1929.

Lynch, Vera. Free Land for Free Men. Portland: Artline Printing, 1973.

Maben, Manly. Vanport. Portland, OR: OHS Press, 1987.

MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon, 1915 to 1950. Portland, OR: Georgian Press, 1979.

MacColl, E. Kimbark. The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon, 1885-1915. Portland: Georgian Press, 1976.

Mackey, Harold. The Kalapuyans: A Sourcebook on the Indians of the Willamette Valley. Salem: Mission Mill Museum Association, 1974

McDonald, F. William. Federal Relief Administration and the Arts. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969.

McKinley, H. Corning. Dictionary of Oregon History. Portland, OR: Binford and Mort, 1989.

Netboy, Anthony, ed. Wappato Indians: Of the Lower Columbia River Valley. Washington: Library of Congress, 1972.

Olson, Charles Oluf. "History of Milwaukie, Oregon." Manuscript prepared for the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, undated. Issued by Milwaukie (Oregon) Historical Society, 1965.

Paulson, Rod. Portland Neighborhood Histories. Portland: The Community Press, 1965.

Rathbone, Gregory Charles. " The French Connection in Early Oregon." MA Thesis. Portland State University, 1981.

Ritz, Richard. History of Reed College Campus. U.S.: Graphic Arts Center, 1990. River. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.

Ruby, Robert H. and John A. Brown. Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

Saleeby, Becky M. "Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Portland Basin of the Lower Columbia River: Ethnohistoric, Archaeological, and Biogeographic Perspectives." Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, Seattle; Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1983

Schwantes, Carlos A. The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. (p. 26-33)

Seltzer, Ethan Paul. "Citizen Participation in Environmental Planning: Context and Consequence." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1983.

Snyder, Eugene E. Early Portland: Stumptown Triumphant, Rival Townsites on the Willamette 1831-1854. 2nd ed. Portland, OR: Binford & Mort, 1984.

Sturtevant, William C., ed. Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996. Vols. 4, 7, & 11.

Trafzer, Clifford E. The Chinook. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990.

Whitehill, Karen. Portland Parks Guide. Seattle: Mountaineers, 1989.

Wollner, Craig. Electrifying Eden. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1990

Woodward-Clyde Consultants. "Johnson Creek Resource Management Plan." Prepared for the Johnson Creek Corridor Committee. May 1995.

Articles

Criteser, Vera F. "Letter to the Editor: Oregon City." Oregon Historical Quarterly 57 (Spring 1956): 68-70.

Mackey, Harold. "New Light on the Molala Indians." Oregon Historical Quarterly 73 (Spring 1972): 62-65.

Rockwood, Ruth E. "Pastor's Book #3." Oregon Historical Quarterly 41 (January 1856): 297-301.

Schaeffer, Claude E. "William Brooks: Chinook Publicist." Oregon Historical Quarterly 64 (Spring 1963): 41-54.

Video

"Indians of North America: Chinook." Dir. InVision Communications, Inc. Schlessinger Video Productions, 1995.

Government Publications

Bureau of Planning, City of Portland. "Johnson Creek Basin Protection Plan." Adopted by City Council July 17, 1991, Effective August 16, 1991.

Bureau of Planning, Portland Oregon. "Boring Lava Domes. Supplement to the Johnson Creek Basin Protection Plan." November 1997.

City of Gresham, Gresham City Planning Commission, Bureau of Governmental Research and Seizure. "Planning For Parks and Open Space." May 1968.

City of Gresham, Gresham City Planning Commission, Bureau of Municipal Research and Service University of Oregon. "Population Growth and Characteristics." March 1965.

City of Gresham, Gresham City Planning Commission. "The Gresham Plan." 1969.

Fish Commission of Oregon & The Oregon State Game Commission. "Fish and Wildlife Problems Arising From the Willamette Valley Project." Processed reports CRFDP 1946-1948.

Fish Commission of Oregon. "Lower Columbia River Fisheries Development Program Surveys." Processed report for watershed development and rehabilitation. August 1951.

Gregory, Stanley V. Oregon Dept. Of Environmental Quality. "Willamette River Basin Study: periphyton algal dynamics." Portland, Or. 1993.

Migration into Oregon, 1930-1937. Volume I, Net Migration and Population Estimates.

Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. "Annual Report-Wildlife Division." Portland, OR, 1973-1974.

Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. Technical Reports. "Oregon, Non-Game Wildlife Program, Portland Or. Holdings 1982-1987."

Oregon. "Works Progress Administration in Oregon, January 1938." Congressional District No. 3. Special Collections. Oregon State Library. Salem.

Oregon-Anadromous Fish Section. "Fish Passage at Willamette Falls Annual Report." National Marine Fisheries Service. Salem, Or. 1979-1988.

United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. "Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in Western Oregon." 1987.

United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. "Statistical Summaries of Streamflow Data In Oregon." 1984.

United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. "Rainfall - Runoff Data for Selected Basins, Portland Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, 1973-1977." 1978.

United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. "Estimation of Ground - Water Recharge from Precipitation, Runoff into Drywells, and On-Site Waste-Disposal Systems in the Portland Basin, Oregon and Washington." 1994.

United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. "Statistical Summaries of Streamflow Data in Oregon: vol. 1. 1990."

United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. "Statistical Summaries of Streamflow Data in Oregon: vol. 2. 1993."

United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. "Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in Western Oregon." 1987.

Woodward-Clyde Consultants. "Johnson Creek Resources Management Plan." Prepared for the Johnson Creek Corridor committee. May 1995.