Processing Update – January 2024
The SCUA archivists have been hard at work and eighteen more collections were made available for research in January.
The finding aids for these, and all, SCUA collections can be accessed through our archival collections database, Archives West and the UO Libraries catalog.
Collections now available for research:
Visual Materials
A.C. Shelton Photographs, PH 243
Alfred Cooper Shelton was born Feb. 13, 1891 in Santa Rosa, CA, the son of Abram C. and Mary Shelton. He graduated from Santa Rosa High School and studied at the University of California-Berkeley 1912-1913. In the fall of 1915, he began studying at the University of Oregon (UO), where he worked as an assistant in the zoology department and at the UO Natural History Museum. After leaving UO in the fall of 1917 for military service in WWI, Shelton served in the Sanitary Corps, and trained in bacteriology. This collection contains images of wildlife and landscapes in Oregon, Washington, California, and South Africa. Images are in a variety of formats, including nitrate negatives, proof sheets, photographic prints, photographic postcards, and glass plate negatives and positives.
Jacob Gray Kamm Photograph Album, Coll 940
Jacob Gray “Jack” Kamm (1888-1983) was an American real estate developer in Portland, Oregon and grandson of industrialist Jacob Kamm (1823-1912). This collection includes a single photo album containing 688 photographs that depict travel and recreation of members of the Kamm family in Oregon.
Ethel Waite Photograph Album, Coll 941
Ethel Waite was a University of Oregon class of 1919 graduate. The collection contains a single photograph album compiled by Waite that depicts student life and activities at University of Oregon.
Parker of Salem, Oregon Photograph, PH 200_231
Waldo H. Parker was a photographer in Salem, Oregon in the early twentieth century. The collection includes a photograph of old capitol building in Salem, Oregon, with a view across a landscaped park and fountain. The pictured building burned in 1935, replaced the following year by the current structure.
Shobundo Senjafuda Collection, Coll 482
The Shobundo senjafuda collection was compiled by Sato Masao, also known as Shobundo, in his capacity as an active member of the Yokohama nosatsu-kai. Shobundo lived and worked in Yokohama, Japan and collected and printed fuda between 1920 and 1990.
Fuda, also called nosatsu, are Japanese votive slips printed using a woodblock process. Originally created in the 11th century by religious pilgrims as devotional items, these slips have become part of a vibrant collecting and exchange culture in Japan and abroad. The religious senjafuda are generally unadorned, consisting of only the pilgrim’s name, and pasted to the walls of temples and shrines. The more detailed and luxurious kokanfuda, featuring many subjects including kabuki characters and mythological creatures, are collected and traded by members of a nosatsu-kai, or exchange clubs. Individual nosatsu clubs generally commission artists, carvers, and printers to produce new slips for trading at nosatsu-kai meetings and events. The Shobundo senjafuda collection contains material produced and collected by Sato Masao, also known as Shobundo, in his capacity as an active member of the Yokohama nosatsu-kai, as well as a fuda printer and enthusiast. Included in this collection are loose votive slips, votive scrapbooks, sketchbooks and publications, printing and pasting tools, as well as photographs of nosatsu-kai events and members.
Journalism
Frederick Enos Woltman Papers, Ax 768
Frederick Enos Woltman (1905-1970) was born in York, Pennsylvania and educated at the University of Pittsburgh. He began his career in journalism as an investigative reporter for the New York Telegram. In 1932 he and Joseph Lilly collaborated on a series of articles about the real estate mortgage and bond business. This work earned the World-Telegram a Pulitzer Prize.
Woltman spent the bulk of his career writing articles meant to expose Communist infiltration into education, labor unions, church groups, and the government. In 1954 he wrote a five-part series critiquing Senator Joseph McCarthy, citing that he had largely influenced the American public to be more “security conscious” but had since “become a major liability to the cause of anti-Communism.”
Other topics Woltman reported on include police brutality, the Amerasia case, anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, and the Ringling Brothers circus. In addition to his Pulitzer Prize, Woltman was also awarded the Page One Award of the Newspaper Guild of New York (1943), the Heywood Broun Award of the American Newspaper Guild, the Silurian Annual Award (1946), and an AMVETS Special Citation (1950).
His newspaper career ended in 1957 when he suffered a series of paralytic strokes. Woltman spent years learning to read and speak again and spent his retirement years in Sarasota, Florida.
Athletics
Bill McChesney, Jr. (January 8, 1959 – October 29, 1992) was an American long-distance runner and University of Oregon (UO) alumnus from Eugene, Oregon. He attended South Eugene High School, where he participated in track and field and cross country, received multiple athletics awards, and set national high school records. McChesney broke the national junior record for six mile and 10,000 meters.
As a student at UO, McChesney had an exceptional track career, ranking nationally and internationally and setting records that stood for decades. In his junior year he recovered from a heel injury and went on to place third in the 5,000 meters at the PAC-10 championships, NCAA Championships, and US Olympic Trials. He was unable to participate in the Moscow Olympics because of the United States boycott intended to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was also on the 1983 U.S. World Championships team, ranked #1 in the U.S. and #4 in the world for his 5,000 meters record.
McChesney and his wife, Nanci Westerlund, ran a graduation products business, while McChesney also worked in leadership conferences, motivational speaking, and with local high school students. McChesney died on October 29, 1992, in a traffic accident in Newport, Oregon, at age 33, and inducted into the University of Oregon Hall of Fame in 1998 as part of the 1977 Cross Country team, and in 2002 for his individual achievements from 1977-1981.
The Bill McChesney papers contain personal papers and ephemera, newspapers, and bound volumes related to his track and field career and, including photographs, awards, correspondence, and papers related to his personal life, induction to the University of Oregon Hall of Fame, and his memorial and obituary.
Historical Travel
Diary of a Voyage from Japan to England, and Return, A 027
This diary, handwritten by an unidentified, educated young man, details the voyage of the NYK Iyo Maru from Yokohama to Middlesbrough and return, from July through November, 1906. The diarist details weather conditions, locations, and activities on board, including games played and work undertaken, and notes regarding conversations between passengers and the crew. The ship called at the ports of Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, the Suez, Port Said, Marseilles, London, Antwerp, Newcastle, and Middlesbrough. At each port, the diarist went ashore to see the sights and shop, including the chance to tour final preparations on the Mauritania, readying to launch on its maiden voyage in 1907. Included in the diary is a newspaper clipping about the Mauritania as well as a snapshot of three young men on the deck of a ship in port, identified as “my friends,” by the diarist.
University of Oregon Faculty
Leona E. Tyler Faculty Papers, UA 280
Leona Tyler was born in Chetek, Wisconsin on May 10, 1906. She received a BA in English from the University of Minnesota at age nineteen, and in 1940, after years of teaching English and other subjects, completed her PhD in counseling psychology at the University of Minnesota, after which she joined the University of Oregon (UO) as a faculty member. In 1965, Tyler became Dean of the Graduate School, retiring in 1971 but remaining active in the UO research environment until her death in 1993.
Tyler’s research focused on the construct of organized choices. Her concerns about vocational interests led to a longitudinal study of the broader question of the directions of development that interests and personality take. She developed the Choice Pattern Technique, that required people to indicate their construal of occupations and free-time activities. In 1962, she received the Fulbright scholarship to work at the University of Amsterdam, which allowed her to test her ideas and methods cross-culturally. Her research was extended to India and Australia and expanded to take in values, daily activities, and future time-perspectives in adolescents.
The records in this collection relate to psychological and behavioral research on human subjects. The research investigated negative and positive perceptions of occupations, growing up, and the general passage of time with both children and adults. Included in these records are research proposals and contracts, sample questions and surveys, research protocols, research and data summaries, data analysis, and a small amount of correspondence and meeting documents such as minutes. Data is anonymized and/or aggregated.
Franklin Stahl Faculty Papers, UA 423
Franklin William Stahl is an American molecular biologist and geneticist. A professor emeritus of Biology at University of Oregon (UO), Stahl is a founder and member of the Institute of Molecular Biology at UO. Collection materials include Stahl’s manuscripts, articles on UO governance, a personnel file, and clippings on Aaron Novick and the UO Institute of Molecular Biology.
Publishing
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Private Press Collection, Coll 612
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds is one of the foremost hand press printers of the late twentieth century. Rummonds attended the School of Fine Arts at Syracuse University from 1949-1950, originally studying set and costume design. Between 1950-54, Rummonds intermittently attended University of California Berkeley, where he majored in English and Creative Writing. Rummonds was staff of The Occident, the student-run literary arts magazine, during this time and served as the editor for the Spring 1954 edition.
In 1966 in Quito, Ecuador, Rummonds founded his own imprint, the Plain Wrapper Press, using it to publish his own poetic works. In 1968 he met Veronese printer Giovanni Mardersteig’s son Martino, who introduced him to iron hand press printing, which Rummonds would use from 1969 on. In 1970, Rummonds moved to Verona, Italy, where he remained until 1982. During his time in Verona, Rummonds earned acclaim throughout the world of fine press printing, including Siete Poemas Sajones / Seven Saxon Poems by Jorge Luis Borges with impressions and binding designed by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
Rummonds also managed an expansive teaching career. Between 1977-1996, he taught in the Graduate School of Library Service at the University of Alabama and was the founding director of the school’s MFA in the Book Arts Program.
This collection contains material documenting his career, including imprints of his own and others’ works, as well as book arts and technical materials, including unpublished, original samples, and ephemera prints; extensive material documenting the processes, art, and professional components of printing and hand presses; and material from Rummonds’ teaching career.
Mrs. E. Harden Bishop Collection of Publishing Proofs, F813 B541
Mrs. E. Harden Bishop was the wife of public relations executive E. Harden Bishop, who worked for Executive Research, Inc. This collection contains galley and page proofs of popular literature from the 20th century collected by Mrs. E. Harden Bishop, including galley proofs of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Records (digital material), Coll 913
Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Cambridge University Press. It is named after Hypatia of Alexandria, a mathematician and philosopher who was murdered by a mob in 415 CE. The idea for the journal arose from meetings of the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP). Collection materials include published journals (Hypatia issues 1.1-33.4), Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) journals, published monographs, conference materials, and administrative files.
Ernest Haycox letters to Martin Field, Coll 944
Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) was an American writer of Western fiction. This collection contains two letters from Ernest Haycox written to Martin Field, and a single carbon copy of a letter from Field to Haycox, on the topic of Screen Writers’ Guild administration.
Oregon History
Driscoll Mercantile Company Records, Coll 738
The Driscoll Mercantile Co. was a general store in Bonanza, Oregon run by brothers James Henry and Daniel Francis Driscoll. In 1910, the Driscoll General Merchandise Store burnt down, along with the post office and lodge inside the building.
The collection contains one ledger from the Driscoll Mercantile Co. and contains customer account charges from April 1903 to 1905. Each page is dedicated to one customer and lists the month, items purchased, cost per item, and amount paid.
Abbott Levi James Todd was born in 1820 in Indiana, and was raised by his widowed mother alongside seven stepbrothers. A potter by trade and a devout Christian, Todd was widowed twice before marrying his final wife, Angeline Lorane Tate in 1849. The two of them emigrated to Oregon in 1852, and their son Elijah was born during the crossing.
The Todds settled in Lookingglass Valley and had several more children. Todd worked in farming and mining, while also becoming a circuit preacher, establishing churches and working with local native Americans during the Rogue River Indian War. He died in 1886 in Elkhead, Douglas County, Oregon, survived by his wife and many children.
The collection contains “‘A Sketch of the Life of Abbott Levi James Todd’ – Written with the assistance of his wife and children by his son, Aurelius Todd.” The 44-page biography details the genealogy and life of the elder Todd and contains detailed information on his relatives including Mary Todd Lincoln, former First Lady, the family’s emigration on the Oregon Trail in 1852, and Todd’s involvement with local tribes in the Rogue River Indian War.
Elizabeth Freeman Papers, Coll 945
Elizabeth Freeman (1919-2006) was a teacher and teacher and activist. After her retirement in the early 70’s, she continued being an active participant in the lesbian and gay communities, anti-racism work, and the Older Women League. In the 1980s, Freeman moved to Wolf Creek, Oregon and participated in the Oregon Women’s Land Trust. This collection includes correspondence, photographs, and fliers that depict her day-to-day life and activism.
Music
Hubert Berberich Revelers Vocal Arrangements Collection, Coll 498
The Revelers were an American quintet (four close harmony singers and a pianist) popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Their recordings of “Dinah”, “Old Man River”, “Valencia”, “Baby Face”, “Blue Room”, “The Birth of the Blues”, “When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba”, became popular in the United States and then Europe in the late 1920s. They also produced the first known recording of “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” in 1923.
All of the members recorded individually and in various combinations. The quartet first performed under the names The Shannon Four and The Shannon Quartet before changing their name to The Revelers in 1925. The original Revelers were tenors Franklyn Baur and Lewis James, with Charles W. Harrison occasionally substituting, baritone Elliot Shaw, bass Wilfred Glenn and pianist Ed Smalle, replaced by Frank Black in 1926. This collection contains around 500 sheets of music arranged by Ed Smalle and Frank J. Black.
