3.2.1 E-mail Transcripts The Reference Librarian
Gmail - Customs House images
6/1/11 5:27 PM
The Archivist
Gmail - RE: US Customs House Portland, Oregon
Stephen Salazar <stephenasalazar@gmail.com>
Customs House images
Stephen Salazar <stephenasalazar@gmail.com>
RE: US Customs House Portland, Oregon
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Scott Daniels <Scott.Daniels@ohs.org> To: "stephenasalazar@gmail.com" <stephenasalazar@gmail.com>
6/1/11 5:29 PM
1 message Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Eugene Morris <eugene.morris@nara.gov> To: "<Stephen Salazar" <stephenasalazar@gmail.com>
Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM
Stephen
Mr. Salazar:
Here are the images, hope they will work for your needs. The darkest one came out a bit funky but I think you can still see the building details.
This is in response to your request for information about the construction, renovation, and operations of the United States Customs House in Portland, Oregon built in 1901.
Scott Daniels Reference Librarian Oregon Historical Society 1200 SW Park Ave Portland, OR 97205 scott.daniels@ohs.org 503-306-5240
We found a great deal of information in Record Group (RG) 121, Records of the Public Buildings Service regarding the Customs House in Portland, Oregon. In Letters Received, 1843-1910 (PI 110 Entry 26), we found 16 boxes (roughly 16,000 pages) of material. We did not check the Letters Sent for the same time period as those records are on microfilm, but presumably there should be something there as well. In the General Correspondence, 1910 1939 (PI 110 Entry 110 A and B), we found 14 boxes (about 14,000 pages) worth of material dating between 1910 and 1933. We also found a file of roughly 300 pages in the Title Papers (A1 Entry 80A). We can make these records available to you should you choose to visit our College Park, Maryland, facility. For more about College Park, see: http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park/index.html If you cannot travel to College Park, you may wish to consider hiring a professional researcher. You can find a list of researchers on our webpage at http://www.archives.gov/research/hire-help/
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We did not find any drawings or photographs in our holdings but there may be such images in either our cartographic and still picture units. You can contact them by e-mailing carto@nara.gov and stillpix@nara.gov respectively.
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Our records end in 1939. The Public Buildings Service is now a part of the General Services Administration (GSA) and they would have retained any documentation about later renovations and alterations. Given that you say that GSA only parted with ownership of the building in the last year, we would not have received any of the later records. You will want to contact the GSA Records Officer, Marc Wolfe, at General Services Administration, IT Policy Division (IEP), Room 2022, 1800 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20405. His e-mail is marc.wolfe@gsa.gov and his phone number is (202) 501-8970. Operational records for customs houses are in RG 36, Records of the United States Customs Service. Records for the Portland, Oregon Customs House are kept at our regional facility in Seattle, Washington. You can contact them by e-mailing seattle.archives@nara.gov
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We hope that this information is of assistance to you. If you have any further questions, please feel free to respond by return e-mail or by calling (301) 837-1993.
Gene Morris Civil Reference NWCT2R
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The Reference Librarian at the Oregon Historical Society became a strong resource in locating historical documents and texts referencing the US Custom House. The Oregon Historical Society was able to produce large format copies of the original drawings for the Custom House, signed by chief architect James Know Taylor.
As the US Custom House is a federal building the National Archives in DC was contacted to see whether or not there was any pertinent data in their collection. The query turned up sixteen boxes, roughly 16,000 pages of material as well as a separate 1,000 page document. All of which were only accessible through their facility in Maryland. The research with the National Archives was not furthered.
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