Photographs from the Southern Oregon University Archives reflect the evolution of SOU from its humble beginning as a normal school into a robust contemporary liberal arts university.
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This collection consists of manuscripts, documents, miscellanea, and sound recordings relating primarily to the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon, and secondarily to the Confederated Tribes of the Yakama Nation of Toppenish, Washington. This collection contains one box of manuscript materials relating mostly to the Yakama Indians of Washington state. Eleven boxes in the collection deal with Warm Springs, and make this collection extremely useful for research on the Confederated...
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Douglas D. Martin was a long-time member of the Western History Association and a recognized scholar of Native American/white relations. Dr. Martin published widely. Dr. Martin’s areas of specialty included the socio-cultural history of the United States, the history and literature of the American frontier, American environmental history, and Indian-White relations in American history.
This special collection contains 16 boxes of manuscript materials relating mostly to Native...
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The collection contains approximately 2,067 prints. Nearly half the portraits are unidentified. Most of the prints are portraits taken by Peter Britt. Emil Britt began making photos professionally in 1883 after training for a year in San Francisco. Peter Britt took photographs outside the studio infrequently. However, Emil carried the camera out on many picnic excursions in the earlier part of the twentieth century. The earliest prints come from the 1860s, with the most recent taken in...
The collection consists of interviews of past and present professors of the Southern Oregon State College. Dates of interviews ranged from 10/19/1978 to 2/21/1980. The interviews covered the professors’ education, post-graduate experience, background and personal life, and their views on Southern Oregon State College.
Jeffrey LaLande gathered or was given the items in this collection largely over the course of the past fifteen years. He collected the items because of his personal and academic interest in the subjects, especially far right, political and religious extremist movements, as well as other miscellaneous aspects of southwestern Oregon’s very recent/current political and cultural history.
