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Newly Available Collection: Asahel (Ted) Bush papers

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Asahel Bush (1824-1913) was a prominent early Oregon citizen who worked as a printer, was the founder and editor of the Oregon Statesman newspaper, and was a banker. The collection (1850-1914) contains photostat copies of correspondence.

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Guide to the Asahel Bush Papers

Newly Available Collection: Annette Baldwin letters

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Annette Baldwin lived on the Oregon coast during the late 1800s. The collection (1881-1908) contains correspondence.

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Guide to the Annette Baldwin Letters

Newly Available Collection: Lillian Caldwell Blackwood letters and photographs

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Lillian Caldwell Blackwood was an Oregon pioneer who lived in Jacksonville, Oregon. The collection (1877-1928) contains correspondence regarding family and Oregon society and family photographs.

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Guide to the Lillian Caldwell Blackwood Letters and Photographs

Newly Available Collection: James R. Harvey papers

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

James R. Harvey was secretary of the Grants Pass, Oregon, Chamber of Commerce. The collection consists of business correspondence and files containing correspondence and other documents regarding projects important to Grants Pass and Josephine County such as the California and Oregon Coast Railroad, Crescent City Harbor Development, and Old Channel Mine.

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Guide to the James R. Harvey Papers

Newly Available Collection: Marion County School District records

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

The collection consists of a single volume of school records for Marion County School District 47, as well as two pieces of correspondence from 1947 relating to the acquisition of the volume.

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Guide to the Marion County School District Records

Newly Available Collection: Museum of Natural History records

Friday, March 1st, 2013

In 1936, the State Board of Higher Education combined the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, the Condon Museum of Geology, the University Herbarium, and the Museum of Zoology into the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History. The collection contains correspondence, reports, meeting notes and minutes, Herbarium historical documents,  glass negatives, photographs, a Museum of Anthropology accessions/inventory journal, and a negative of Fort Rock sandals.

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Guide to the Museum of Natural and Cultural History Records

Newly Available Collection: Villard Hall Centennial records

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Villard Hall was the second building opened on the University of Oregon campus in 1886. The records document the history of the building as well as planning around the centennial celebration.

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Guide to the Villard Hall Centennial Records

Newly Available Collection: Basic Rights Oregon records

Friday, February 1st, 2013

During the 1990s, a group of activists formed a political action committee called Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) to fight against legislative measures in Oregon aimed at limiting gay and lesbian civil rights. The collection contains records from several state and local community organizations and is composed primarily of general administrative, campaign, and financial records, correspondence, newsletters and pamphlets, volunteer lists, audio and video tapes and reels, and artifacts.

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Guide to the Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) Records

Newly Available Collection: Jefferson Myers papers

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Jefferson Myers (c.1860-1943) was a native Oregonian born of pioneer parents, who served as Oregon State Senator, on state commissions, and as a Board of Regent for Oregon Agricultural College. The collection contains material from the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and the Jamestown Tri-Centennial Exposition, as well as personal correspondence, some Oregon state documents, and photographs.

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Guide to the Jefferson Myers Papers

Newly Available Collection: Howard Vincent Morgan papers

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

A native of Tillamook and the son of a fisherman, Howard Vincent Morgan (1914-2012) served in the Oregon state legislature, as Oregon’s Public Utilities Commissioner, as Federal Power Commissioner, and also chaired the Democratic Party of Oregon from 1952-1956. The collection contains Federal Power Commission files including correspondence, memoranda, and subject files, Oregon files that include Oregon Public Utilities Commissioner files, correspondence relating to Oregon matters, Morgan’s senatorial campaign files, biographical material, and printed matter.

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Guide to the Howard Vincent Morgan papers