Name/Title
Barbara Grimala CollectionEntry/Object ID
2011.11.161Scope and Content
Barbara Grimala Collection
This collection includes research papers, photographs, event planning materials.
Box 1
Includes community newspapers, notes, pamphlets, and maps of the Sunnyside Neighborhood.
Materials from the Sunnyside Parent Teacher Association - Including meeting notes and by-laws,
Includes meeting notes, roll call, letters, treasurers reports, budgets, executive board roll calls,
Materials from the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association - including Oregon Community Grant applications and grantwriting notes. Includes unindentified color and black and white photographs of the Sunnyside Neighborhood. Includes teacher and student lists (1925- 1960), class photographs (1897, 1904, 1953, 1955) of the Sunnyside School. Sunnyside Centenial - Includes event planning materials, newsletters, graphic materials, Sunnyside Centenial parade participant list, newspaper articles, reunion lists, meeting notes, Sunnyside Neighborhood directory, negatives for graphic materials, meeting notes, volunteer list, and planning notes, graphic materials, neighborhood histories, letters, survey forms, newsletters, and a reunion list. Also includes unidentified photographs, letters, newspapers, and neighborhood history source material for Hawthorne, St. Johns, Ladd's Addition, Irvington, Montavilla,
Alameda, Laurelhurst, Brooklyn, Downtown, and N.W. Portland. Also includes research materials for Westover Terrace, Sandy Boulevard, Clevland High School, Mt. Tabor Reservoirs, Oaks Park, and Lone Fir Cemetery. Additional research files on diverse topics such as bridges, and the Hawthorne Fred Meyer Mural. Includes the contents of an album from the Al Holmgren family, a collection of ephemera and unidentified photographs.
Box 2
Includes a range of research papers including copies of City of Portland inspection cards, obituaries, City of Portland Historic Resource Inventory. Includes original materials such as "History of Your House Presentations", and "Walking Tours". Includes the contents of an album on the subject of the Belmont Library. Research files on topics such as Honeyman Hardware, the Kennedy School, Holman Mortuary - Walter F. Burrell Residence. Also included are research files on methods and informational materials on public history research and house histories for various addresses. Includes a "History of Portland Pharmacies" written by Barbara Grimala. Documentation regarding the organization of the Neighborhood History Project. Information regarding the Mt. Tabor Reservoirs, including pamphlets,
planning materials regarding preservation activies, correspondence, questionares, and histories.
Includes specific house and apartment building histories and research documents.
Box 3
Includes research files and original presentation materials on mail order houes: Lea Funck Co. Prize Plan Book, unidentified photographs, slides, correspondence, newspaper articles, newsletters, inspection cards, National Registar Nominations, notes, Aladdin Mail Order Houses, and Ready Built House Company. Includes partial lists and notes about specific mail order houses in Portland. Also includes research documents on the "Renovize Portland Project"regarding efforts to "renovize" old Portland residences and an assortment of home tour pamphlets such as : Irvington, The Craftsman Style Homes of Emil Schacht, Terra Cotta Buildings, Laurelhurst, Mt. Tabor, Alameda, Skidmore, Old Town, Belmont and Montavilla.
Box 4
28 Folders of photographs, B/W, color and slide, unidentified subjects. Additional boxes inside;1 of unidentified photographs, postcards and stereoscope images of Portland and North West; 2 boxes containing unidentified slide collection, sorted by date, and type. Portland houses and neighborhoods.
Box 5
Misc. Archival Materials, see container list. Bound Abstracts of title for Portland Homes
Box 6
Misc. Archival Materials, see container list.
Box 7
Misc Archival Materials, see container list.
Folder: oversized aerial photographs of Portland,Lexicon
Search Terms
Sunnyside Neighborhood, Sunnyside Parent Teacher Association, Sunnyside Neighborhood Association, Sunnyside Centenial, Hawthorne, St. Johns, Ladd's Addition, Irvington, Montavilla,, Alameda, Laurelhurst, Brooklyn, Downtown, N.W. Portland., Westover Terrace, Sandy Boulevard, Clevland High School, Mt. Tabor Reservoirs, Oaks Park, Lone Fir Cemetery., Hawthorne Fred Meyer Mural., City of Portland inspection cards, obituaries, City of Portland Historic Resource Inventory, Belmont Library, Honeyman Hardware, the Kennedy School, Holman Mortuary - Walter F. Burrell Residence, Mail order houes, National Registar Nominations, Aladdin Mail Order Houses, Ready Built House Company, Terra Cotta Buildings, Mt. Tabor, Skidmore, Old Town, Belmont, Montavilla.