by Staff | Mar 16, 2021 | New Collections
University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections and University Archives recently acquired a 1776 manuscript deed for three slaves in Frederick County, Maryland. The history of Maryland portrays the inextricable tie between slavery, the economy and colonial...
by Staff | Feb 26, 2021 | News
Lawrence Ferlinghetti passed away on Monday, February 22, 2021 at the age of 101. For people who lived the 1960s experience, he was a fundamental force in American poetry and in our personal lives. Not only a renown poet, he was core to the advancement of modern...
by Staff | Feb 22, 2021 | News
The award committee for the Himes & Duniway Society Book Collecting Prize is happy to announce the winners of this year’s prize. Delaney Hetrick, a current UO undergraduate majoring in Architecture, submitted an entry titled, A Curated Collection of Bound Print...
by Staff | Dec 21, 2020 | Collections, Manuscripts
An exciting new acquisition was recently received in Special Collections and University Archives. This addition to the NAACP Portland Branch Records, measuring twenty linear feet of material, expands on the current collection and will enrich the core collection in...
by Staff | Dec 10, 2020 | New Collections
Special Collections is extremely pleased to announce the generous and significant gift of works produced by Clinker Press, a private letterpress studio printing material relating to the art of printing as well as the Arts and Crafts Movement, by Dr. Andre Chaves,...
