Program and articles discussing lectures and length of duck hunting season
Program and articles discussing William Finley's lecture, "Camera hunting on the continental divide", and Irene Finley's lecture, "Birds of the Arizona desert." Newspaper clippings discussing debate over the length of duck hunting season are included.
Audubon Society of Portland
Program and articles discussing Izaak Walton League Oregon State Council Convention
Oregon Journal (Firm)
Program and article listing William Finley lectures
Kiwanis International
Program and article discussing William Finley lectures
J. P. Finley & Son Morticians
Program and advertisement for William Finley lectures
Program and advertisement for William Finley lectures. Newspaper clipping discussing Finley's encounter with a brown bear is included.
Oregonian (Firm)
"Oregon conquers stream pollution"
Article authored by William Finley discussing the construction of sewage disposal plants in eight Oregon cities and a stream cleanup program.
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Oregon Audubon Society publication and program listing William Finley lecture and retirement
Audubon Society of Portland
Oregon Audubon Society program listing "Life history of the California condor" lecture
Audubon Society of Portland
Article authored by William Finley discussing visits to Ladd's Pond before it became Laurelhurst Park.
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Newspaper clipping titled: “Tiller, Half-way House to Crater Lake, Is On Map”
Newspaper clipping titled: “The Feathered Treasures of a Labor of Love”
Newspaper clipping titled: “Splash! Could You Land One of These Rogue River Steelheads?”
Newspaper clipping titled: “In the Gull Bread Line on our Waterfront”
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Newspaper clipping titled: “Birds That Have Passed Away With The Dodo”
Articles authored by Irene Finley: 1. "Making the birds happy"; 2. "Musk-rat, new industry for Oregon"
Finley, Irene
Manuscripts discussing the Braly Museum of Natural History in Depoe Bay, a proposed Portland natural history museum, and birds in Arizona.
Finley, Irene
Manuscript describing a trip to Malheur Lake with Bohlman, including descriptions of the land and its occupants.
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Letter discussing Urban Land Utilization Committee and report, "A master plan for Portland"
Wilson, Sinclair A., 1888-1948
Letter and manuscript of "Bird-life about a pond"
The document begins with a letter to Mr. James Horsburgh Jr. in which William L. Finley submitted a brief manuscript of "Bird-life about a pond."
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Lecture that focuses on the trip mentioned in both "Malheur" and "White heron search."
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Image of Coati and Order of Hoot Owls membership card
Oregonian (Firm)
General - The California condor
Manuscript describing a condor that was found and brought home to be studied. The condor was later moved to the New York Zoological Park.
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Every fall evening one may attend the orchestra of the tree crickets
Manuscript describing the sound that tree crickets produce in the night, comparing it to a symphony. There is a brief physical description as well as the fact that only male tree crickets produce sound.
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Manuscript that features excerpts from "Malheur" and "White heron search."
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Article discussing changes in bird populations due to human development and expansion, including observations of birds on the Finley property.
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Compilation of manuscripts on birds
The handwritten manuscript features a rough draft of "Bird lives" as well as other manuscripts that most likely were broken up into different manuscripts later.
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Manuscript describing the problem of pollutants being dumped into the Willamette River and later traveling to the Columbia River where pollution is killing the fish. The author asserts that individual sportsmen and anglers have to follow the pollution laws but companies are not being held to the same standard. The author also states that citizens of Portland were initially on board to install sewage systems but support vanished once it was realized that the funding would come from property owners and not the government.
Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953
Call for museum of natural history
Article promoting the construction of a natural history museum in Portland.
Averill, Edgar F., 1881-1955