Laurence (Larry) Barretto (1890-1971) was a novelist, magazine editor, and war correspondent.  The collection consists of WWI diary pages and WWII diaries, correspondence, manuscripts, published materials, and scrapbooks.

Coll 017

Guide to the Laurence B. Barretto Papers

Ralph Lowell Hancock was an author, a reporter and foreign correspondent who became an expert on Latin America and served as a senior analyst on the Board of Economic Warfare during WWII. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, project files, research material, photographs, scrapbooks, and publications.

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Guide to the Ralph Lowell Hancock papers

Joseph Young was a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II. While a prisoner, he kept diaries of his experiences, written in the form of a long letter to his wife, Irene. Joseph Young was born in Cottage Grove, Oregon and lived in Eugene, Oregon for many years after the war. The collection comprises thirteen diaries and six miscellaneous items.

Call number: A 305

Guide to the Joseph Young prisoner of war diaries

The National Japanese American Student Relocation Council was created by university administrators as a means of relocating Japanese American college students to other universities and colleges away from the West coast during World War II, and to prevent these students from being interned in government-run internment camps. At the University of Oregon, Karl Onthank, Dean of Personnel Administration, represented the University in relocating UO Japanese American students. The collection includes correspondence, newsletters, speeches, minutes of meetings, and ephemera.

Call number: UA 009

Guide to the University of Oregon Office of the Dean of Personnel Administration. National Japanese American Student Relocation Council Records

Orval Etter is a former professor at the University of Oregon who founded the Pacifica Forum in 1994.  He was a professor of planning, public policy and management, a pacifist who was a conscientious objector during World War II. Papers include information on the Pacifica Forum and the Emerald Chamber Players including articles, newsletters, writings by Etter and more of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and subject files.

Call number: Coll 338

Guide to the Orval Etter Papers

Records of the case of the United States of America, et al., against Sadao Araki, et al., International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Apr. 29, 1946-Nov. 12, 1948. 318 v.

Call number: Bx 084

Guide to the International Military Tribunal for Far East Records of the Sadao Araki military tribunal

Harrison Spangler (1879-1965) was a Spanish-American war veteran who later served as a committee member and National Chairman of the Republican Party during the 1930-1940′s, and after WWII became involved with Oregon politics. The collection consists of five major series: Wayne Morse, Robert Taft, Richard Neuberger, the Republican Party, and Harrison Spangler personal records.

Call number: Ax 399

Guide to the Harrison Spangler Papers

Fred Michael Fuecker (1895-1975) served in the military from 1911-1955, including WWI and WWII. The collection consists of a World War I diary, administrative papers of the provost marshal of Los Angeles and Arizona, and of Service Command Unit 4910, Los Angeles (1942-1944), and seven photograph albums, (1911-1924), scrapbooks and mementos.

Call number: Ax 514

Guide to the Fred M. Fuecker Papers

Brooks Emeny was a prominent international relations scholar who specialized in American foreign policy during the second World War. Letters from the orient and Africa were written to Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Conger while Emeny was on a lecture tour for the United States Information Service.

Call number: A 033

Guide to the Brooks Emeny Correspondence

American architect and city commissioner Ormond R. Bean was active in Portland, Oregon politics and civic life from the 1930s to the 1960s. Collection includes personal and professional papers relating to Bean’s life and work, including correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, and photographs from his service as Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Regional Director of Transportation in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Egypt during World War II. Also included are newsclippings concerning the battleship Oregon, 1935-1945; selected Portland City Commissioner records, 1936-1965; and certificates and items from Bean’s father, Robert S. Bean.

Call number: UA 014

Guide to the Ormond R. Bean Papers