Daily Archives: March 31, 2009

What’s on the way?

Oregon Is Indian Country Exhibit: April 2, 2009 through April 26, 2009

Learn about Oregon’s Native American heritage with Oregon Is Indian Country, a traveling exhibit produced by the Oregon Historical Society in partnership with Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes.

Oregon Is Indian Country represents a groundbreaking project bringing all nine Oregon tribes together to present information never-before-assembled in one exhibit on contemporary indigenous cultures. Oregon’s Indian traditions will be illuminated by many art forms including native voices, historical artifacts, photographs and more, producing a powerful exhibition. Oregon Is Indian Country is currently scheduled for showing in several museums throughout the northwest, including The Valley Library!

To read more about the exhibit, visit the Oregon Is Indian Country website.

To inquire about hosting the exhibit at your museum or library, call 503.222.1741.

What happened last month?

More new finding aids means more information online!

The following 3 finding aids for OSU Archives collections were prepared in March 2009. They have been loaded to the NWDA finding aids database and have a PDF on the OSU archives’ website and a catalog record in the OSU Libraries’ catalog, Summit, and Worldcat. One of these is for a collection acquired in 2008; the other two (2) are for collections for which there was previously no information available online. We now have 384 finding aids in NWDA.

Frodsham, Harold, Photographs, 1922 (P 271)

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv24340
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREp271.pdf
These photographs (21 prints) of the interiors and exteriors of lumber mills in Oregon were taken by Frodsham during a tour of mills in Oregon and northern California. Frodsham was employed by the Red River Lumber Company in Westwood, California in the 1920s and 1930s. This collection was donated to the Archives in 2008.

**Note: All of the images are available online in the Oregon Explorer Digital Collection of historic photographs.

Hatfield Marine Science Center Photographs, 1965-1997

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv09170
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREp254.pdf
This collection of 40 photographs includes images of the Center’s facilities in Newport, Oregon; Yaquina Bay and the Oregon coast at Newport; and Oregon State University’s research vessels.

Rose Bowl Football Game Scrapbooks, 1940-1942

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv88986
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/ORErosebowl.pdf
These scrapbooks document the 1942 Rose Bowl football game between Oregon State College and Duke University and consist predominantly of newspaper clippings.

Celebrating the Women of OSU

Over the last 3 weeks, we’ve written blog posts on the 15 women featured in the “OSU Archives Celebrates International Women’s Day” set in our Flickr Commons account (+ 2 bonus posts about Ida Kerr and Harriet Moore).

You can learn more about IWD on the “International Women’s day 2009” page.

You can see the images we chose on our osu.commons IWD set page. You can also view all the IWD images in the Commons on this page.
You can learn more about the Women’s Center at OSU by visiting them online or in person (they are in the Benton Annex, adjacent to the Valley Library). They have a great “Women in Herstory and Education” section on their Resources page.

You can learn more about sources of U.S. and global women’s history on “Women’s History,” a site developed and maintained by the Women’s Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Also check out their “Archival Sites for Women’s Studies” page.