Category: Manuscripts

New Finding Aid | Occupy Eugene collection

Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce a new finding aid published for the Occupy Eugene collection (Coll 484). The finding aid is now available on Archives West.

Buttons, pins, name badges related to Occupy Eugene
[Artifacts, Occupy Eugene collection, Box 3, Coll 484, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.]
The Occupy Eugene collection contains notes, agendas, contact lists, speeches, campaign plans, drafted proposals, reports, event lists, correspondence, photographs, DVDs, posters, handmade signs, fliers, handouts, clippings, newsletters, guides for protesting, chants, and documentation relating to other Occupy movements throughout the United States.

The Occupy Eugene movement began in 2011 with the aim to invoke “accountability and responsibility in government.” In line with Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Eugene protested global banks and corporations arguing that these entities “embody the process that causes untold misery among 99% of the people for the benefit of top tenth of one percent with incomprehensible wealth.” The Eugene movement also supported a campaign to decriminalize homelessness. Protesters occupied local parks, including Millrace and Alton Baker.

Source: Occupy Eugene General Assembly. (2011). Vision statement. Retrieved from https://occupyeugenemedia.org/vision-statement/

New Finding Aid | George Wickes modern literature research collection

Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce a new finding aid published for the George Wickes modern literature research collection (Coll 485). The finding aid is available on Archives West.

George Wickes taught at the University of Oregon for almost fifty years, during which time he wrote several books about and with Henry Miller, Americans in Paris, and a biography of Natalie Barney. This collection holds all materials pertaining to his work on those individuals.

[George Wickes modern Literature research collection , Coll 485 , Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon]
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New Finding Aid | George Alan Connor Esperanto Collection

Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce a newly updated finding aid published for the George Alan Connor Esperanto collection (Bx 178). The finding aid is available on Archives West.

Esperanto flag, green with white square in top left with green star.
Flag, George Alan Connor Esperanto collection, Bx 178, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.

The George Alan Connor Esperanto collection was compiled by American Esperantist George Alan Connor and includes his collection of books, serials and periodicals, personal papers, and artifacts related to Esperanto. The collection includes publications in English on the topic of Esperanto, as well as pamphlets, advertisements, and artifacts published in Esperanto and braille Esperanto.

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New Acquisition: The Revelers Vocal Arrangement Collection

Special Collections and University Archives has recently acquired a collection of handwritten musical scores for The Revelers, an American quintet composed of four male vocalists and a pianist popular on record and radio between 1925-1940.

This collection includes approximately 500 original vocal arrangements from The Revelers’ catalog of works performed in 1921-1939, including individual charts for each vocalist and master vocal scores. The arrangements are the work of two pianist-arrangers that worked with The Revelers: Ed Smalle (1887-1968) and Frank Black (1898-1969), with the latter forming the bulk of the collection. The scores include hand-written lyrics added by each vocalist for their part, as well as additional notes and annotations made by the arranger. Continue reading →

Collection Highlight | Oregon Women’s Political History Collection

 

Political poster that reads "Win with Women"
Political poster, Oregon Women’s Political Caucus Records, Coll 369, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon

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. These collections constitute over 200 linear feet of manuscript material and represent women’s political and activist work in Oregon in the latter half of the twentieth century.  The collection was started in the 1990s as a collaborative collection development effort among UO Libraries, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), and the Friends of the Oregon Women’s Political History Collection.

The collections include:

  •  Anderson, Jean Fuller Papers (Coll 312) 1978-1990, Finding aid
  • Davis, Eleanor Papers (Coll 351) 1963-1989  Finding aid
  • Dost, Jeanne Papers (Coll 366) 1972-1988  Finding aid
  • Dunn, Nancy Papers (Coll 362) 1986-1990  Finding aid
  • Eugene Women’s Crisis Center Records (Coll 313) 1977-1991  Finding aid
  • Fadeley, Nancy Papers (Coll 349) 1971-1989  Finding aid
  • Frye, Helen Papers (Coll 348) 1971-2011  Finding aid
  • Hendriksen, Margie Papers (Coll 365) 1971-1992  Finding aid
  • Kafoury, Gretchen Papers (Coll 353) 1971-1983  Finding aid
  • Milligan, Marian Papers (Coll 370) 1974-1983  Finding aid
  • Novick, Jane Papers (Coll 368) 1968-1990  Finding aid
  • Oregon Now Records (Coll 371) 1971-2006  Finding aid
  • Oregon Women’s Political Caucus Records (Coll 369) 1971-1999  Finding aid
  • Ryles, Nancy Papers (Coll 364) 1972-1990  Finding aid

Political pamphlet that says "We have a lot to win"Pol,tical button that says "I'm pro-choice and I vote"The activist women represented in these collections worked to increase women’s political engagement in Oregon and empower women to fully participate in elective politics and government agencies at the local, county, and state levels. The story of women’s political work in Oregon in the mid-to-late twentieth century has not been fully told; these primary documents–the sources necessary for the writing of history–are essential to that process. Through support by LSTA funding administered by the Oregon State Library, grant project staff were able to process, catalog, and publish finding aids for these collections and provide access to these collections.

Researchers can find out more about related SCUA collections documenting Women, Gender, and Sexuality in our research guides.