by Elizabeth | Jul 6, 2018 | Collection Highlight, Collections
Ever since the annual Oregon Country Fair commenced in 1969, it has remained a communal space for self-expression, environmentalism, food, music, art and all other forms of creativity imaginable. SCUA’s KEZI-TV/Chambers Communication collection is home to outtakes,...
by Alexa Goff | Jun 13, 2018 | Collection Highlight, Digital Collections
Special Collections and University Archives and Oregon Digital have recently published the John Yeon architectural drawing digital collection featuring the work of Oregon architect John Yeon (1910-1994). Yeon was an Oregon architect, landscape architect, and...
by | Apr 9, 2018 | Collection Highlight, Photographs
Vanport, Oregon was a wartime public housing project built to shelter Kaiser Shipyard employees working in Portland and Vancouver, Washington. The city was destroyed in May 1948 when a 200-foot section of the dike holding back the Columbia River collapsed during a...
by Meghan Kerr | Mar 2, 2018 | Collection Highlight, Documenting UO History Project, University Archives, University History
Campus societies are a large portion of any university history, older universities such as Harvard or Yale pride themselves on their societies. The men and women who have participated in literary societies historically have found lucrative jobs and connections due to...
by | Mar 1, 2018 | Collection Highlight, Collections, Finding Aids, Manuscripts, National Celebrations
In honor of Women’s History Month, Special Collections and University Archives is highlighting the Oregon Women’s Political History Collection. The Oregon Women’s Political History Collection comprises over a dozen individual manuscript collections....
by Jennifer O'Neal | Nov 22, 2017 | Collection Highlight, Exhibitions, National Celebrations, Photographs
“Salmon are the icon of this place. They are valued as food, as resources, and as a representation of the wildness and wilderness for which the Pacific Northwest is known. Whether they realize it or not, every single person in the Northwest is Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum. We...
