This post was written by Lauren Goss, MLIS student at San Jose State University and student assistant in SCARC. 

The William H. Galvani Rare Maps collection consists of over 1,000 maps spanning the entire globe.  Equipped with a background in history and geography, I was pleased to take on the challenging and complex task of arranging and describing this collection.  This blog post features a few maps giving a glimpse of the breadth and depth of this fascinating collection.

Map of Africa Showing Railway and Telegraphic Lines, Elevations and Latest Geographical Data
From: The National Geographic Magazine, (Vol. XX, No. 3), March 1909
Editor: Grosvenor, Gilbert H.
Publisher: The Matthews-Northrup Works

Item 11: Croquis de Positions Francaises et Chinoises dans la Region de Chu (Loch-Nan) du 7 au 14 Octobre 1884 (Carte 11)
From: Journal des Sciences Militaires
Geographic Location: Vietnam
Printer: Dufrenoy
Publisher: Baudoin

Carte pour Suivre Les Operations du Siege de Paris avec l’indication des Secteurs , 8a, 1878 From: Panorama de la defense de Paris contre les armes allemandes par Philippoteaux. Explication precedee d’une notice historiique avec carte du departement de la Seine By: DuPont, Paul
Engraver: La Beolle, A.
Geographic Location: Paris (France)
Printer: Dupont Jr., Paul

Adirondack Survey 1873 – Specimen of Preliminary Reconnaissance Sketch Showing the Approximate Positions and Names of Thirty Nine Ponds or Lakes Important and New to the Maps (Pl. 11), circa 1870
From: Report on the topographical survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of New York for the year 1873. By: Verplanck, Colvin; New York (State) State Land Survey
Geographic Location: Adirondack Mountains, New York (United States)
Lithographer: Weed Parsons & Co.
Surveyor: Colvin, Verplanck

Map of Eastern Honduras, showing the gold and silver regions of Olancho & Tegucigalpa; and the Valley of the Guayape, 1857
From: Explorations and adventures in Honduras. By: Wells, William V
Cartographer: Well, E.
Engraver: C. Copley
Geographic Location: Honduras

Sketch Map Showing the Mineral & Silk Districts of the Province of Shan-Tung (China) to accompany the paper by J. Markham, Esqre (Vol XL, Page 207), 1870
From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
Cartographer: Wellen, Edward
Geographic Location: China

Welcome to my 12 year old daughter, Ella. She’s written this lovely post about a trip we took last week – she wrote it all and took all the pictures!

Last Friday, my mother and I visited Agrarian Ales, a small, family-oriented brewery and restaurant located just north of Eugene, Oregon. We were given a farm tour before they opened by a farmer named Maia. She showed us around the hop yards, greenhouse, growing fields, and outdoor seating area.

Read the whole post and see all the lovely pictures on the blog!

Last week I was lucky enough to share the story of the Fred Eckhardt Papers at a History Pub at the McMenamins Kennedy School. Since I heard from lots of people (from all over the country) that they were sad to miss it (you know, because they were all over the country), I thought I’d post my slides and talk notes.

Also included are details about being an archivist, information about the topics represented in the collection, and my thoughts about the importance of saving local history (and keeping it saved locally).

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This is part 2 of 4 of an examination of the final years of Linus Pauling’s life.

In February 1992, Linus Pauling announced publicly that he had cancer. His critics responded with sentiments that were, at times, distinctly unsympathetic. In their view, since Pauling had been advocating vitamin C as a preventative treatment for cancer for years, his diagnosis undermined those decades of work. Pauling retorted that most elderly men develop hyperplasia or cancer in their prostates, often by age 70. Pauling believed it was quite likely, although not provable, that his high intake of vitamin C delayed the inevitable by decades.

Read the whole post on the Pauling blog.

As we surged toward the 3rd anniversary of the founding of the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, I pondered a way to share the amazing work we’ve done over the past three years with all our friends, donors, advocates, and all the others who just think this is a pretty cool thing we came up with.

August 1st running through October 31st, be looking for daily postings on The Brewstorian, but also some reposting on Twitter and Facebook.

And please share – we have all these amazing friends and collections because that’s exactly what’s happened for the past three years. People have gotten excited, shared and saved, and now we have a rocking archive of local beer history.

Pauling posing at lower campus, Oregon Agricultural College, ca. 1917.

In 1917, at sixteen years of age, Linus Pauling wrote in his personal diary that he was beginning a personal history. “My children and grandchildren will without doubt hear of the events in my life with the same relish with which I read the scattered fragments written by my granddad,” he considered.

By the time of his death, some seventy-seven years later, Pauling had more than fulfilled this prophecy. After an extraordinarily full life filled with political activism, scientific research, and persistent controversy, Pauling’s achievements were remembered not only by his children, grandchildren and many friends, but also by an untold legion of people whom Pauling himself never met.

Read the whole post online!

The images below are taken from a 1727 edition of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim’s first two books, translated into French as La Philosophie Occulte de Henr. Corn. Agrippa. With these images, Agrippa hopes to instill in the reader an understanding of the invisible forces that actuate matter in reality as we know it, and the means by which these forces can be predicted and manipulated.

Read the whole post at http://osurarebooks.tumblr.com/post/148005039786/agrippa-and-his-invisible-forces.

Post contributed by Matt McConnell, graduate student in OSU’s History of Science program and SCARC student assistant

Nuestras Voces y Herencia is a grant funded project dedicated to gathering and preserving the life stories of Yamhill County’s Latino/a community. The Yamhill County Cultural Coalition and the Yamhill County Historical Society & Museum are partnering with the OMA and Unidos Bridging Community to share the stories gathered. On July 18, 2016, our project’s granting agency, the Yamhill County Cultural Trust, hosted a “Thank You Party” for all the grantees and the Voces project was delighted to attend!

Read the rest of the post at http://wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu/oregon-multicultural-archives/2016/07/23/voces-project/.