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Happy birthday Weatherford Hall!

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OSU celebrated the 80th birthday of Weatherford Hall on Saturday night, also giving a nod to the innovative new program housed inside its walls. Austin Entrepreneurship Program, which is a “unique living-learning environment for undergraduates offering entrepreneurship courses, hands-on experience, and the opportunity to explore business ideas.”

Click any of the images below to view the 1928 OAC Alumnus story about Weatherford Hall, the “new” men’s dormitory.

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Fun fact: Weatherford Hall, part of OSU’s new historic district, is the only residential facility at OSU to be named a LEED “green” building!

Read more about the banquet in the Gazette Times article “OSU celebrates history, future of Weatherford Hall.”

Change of Reference Room hours 4/6/09

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Tribal Council members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and leaders of Oregon State University will sign a new memorandum of understanding on Monday April 6th. The day-long meeting will happen in the Valley Library, with a portion tomorrow morning in the Archives & Maps Reference Room. We will open at 10:00 am, so please delay your visit if you were planning an early one! The signing of a new MOU is an important act, one that deepens the 50-year relationship between the tribes and the university that began after of the 1957 flooding of Celilo Falls.

Want to know more?

Lots of logs … and a lone sheep?

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Watch for it Wednesday, April Fools’ Release? No joke, it’s true, there is a new set in OSU’s Flickr Commons account!

John Fletcher Ford, NW photographer and lifelong evangelist, began his life in Minnesota (1862). He became an evangelist early in life, living in Kansas and Iowa, and settled into the life of a pastor in the Pacific Northwest (1893) after conducting a revival in Ilwaco, Washington. Ford was an ardent opponent of liquor, and a vigorous proponent of the temperance movement.

Want a few more personal details? He married in 1882 and had 6 children. Unfortunately, he was stricken with pleurisy during the last year of his life, dying at nearly 53 on February 16, 1914 in Ilwaco. Upon his death, local newspapers praised Ford as “a genial gentleman” and “one of the best known citizens of Pacific County.” As a tribute to his geniality, newspapers also reported upon the impressive numbers of visitors who had come to pay tribute.

However, that’s not why you are here … Of course, in addition to his marriage and ministry, Ford also spent time in the forests, capturing images that document logging practices that will make you gasp—or at least make those viewers who aren’t dare-devils gasp. In his obituary, the Columbia River Sun noted that his “collection of logging and fishing views of the lower Columbia river embraced nearly every camp and fishing ground in the district. These pictures are extremely interesting and valuable and a veritamine of picturesque illustration.” As a side note, he also operated a photography studio called “Foto Studio,” in Portland (1900-1908) with John, Charles, and Richard Ford.

Want to know more about the forest history in the Pacific Northwest? Get ready for a link list!

Know more? Please let us know!

What’s on the way?

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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)

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

Hatfield Marine Science Center Photographs, 1965-1997

Rose Bowl Football Game Scrapbooks, 1940-1942

Celebrating the Women of OSU

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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.

We’re back on track and ready for researchers!

arch-map-sign.jpgWelcome to spring, that glorious time when grass is green, birds are singing, and flowers bloom — though the first day of spring term is starting off on a cloudy note …

This is a reminder that the University Archives is open Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm during the academic year. You’ll find Maps & Microforms reference service at our desk Monday through Thursday from 9am to 9p, Friday 9am to 5p, Saturday 1pm to 5pm, and Sunday 1pm to 9pm.

For those times when our desk is closed, please visit the 2nd floor reference desk for assistance. If you are online and wanting to know more about how to find items or work the machines on the 3rd floor, please check out our “Instructions & Tours” page on Flickr.