Resources

Images

This exhibit includes a fraction of the images held by Special Collections and University Archives. Researchers and the general public are welcome to explore our collections more extensively in our Paulson Reading Room or through our Web pages.

Tom Robinson Collection. Robinson is a private collector and noted historian of Oregon photography, author of the landmark Oregon Photographers 1852-1917, and official printer of the Ray Atkeson archive.

General Information

  • Battaile, Connie. The Oregon Book: Information A to Z. Newport, Or: Saddle Mountain Press, 1998.
  • Office of the Secretary of State. Oregon Blue Book and Oregon Blue Book: History—Minorities. Salem, Or: Office of the Secretary of State, 2005.
  • Northwest Digital Archives (Searchable inventories to Pacific Northwest repositories including the University of Oregon.)
  • The Labor Project (searchable database of labor-related holdings in Special Collections.)
  • Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose. Corvallis, Or.: Oregon State University Press, 1993.

African Americans

  • Focus on Oregon History: African American History in Oregon (Oregon Historical Society).
  • Anderson, Martha. Black Pioneers of the Northwest, 1800-1918. [S.l.: Anderson?], 1980.
  • Brame, Herman L. African American Athletes in Oregon: A History from 1804 to 1950. Portland, Or.: H.L. Brame, 2000.
  • History of Portland's African American community (1805-to the present). Portland, Or.: Portland Bureau of Planning, 1993.
  • McLagan, Elizabeth. A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940. Portland, Or: The Georgian Press, 1980.

Asian Americans

  • Cox, Ted W. The Toledo Incident of 1925. Corvallis, Or.: Old World Publications, 2005.
  • Gayne, Mary K. "Japanese Americans at the Portland YWCA.” Journal of Women's History 15.3 (2003): 197-203.
  • Lyon, Cherstin M. “Chinese Immigrants, Cultural Hegemony, and the Politics of Everyday Crime in Portland, Oregon, 1859-1908.” MA Thesis U Oregon, 1998.
  • Sherman, Mark, and George Katagiri, eds. Touching the Stones: Tracing One Hundred Years of Japanese American History. Portland, Or: Oregon Nikkei Endowment, 1994.
  • Kessler, Lauren. Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. New York: Random House, 1993. (About the Yasui family.)
  • Yasui, Robert S. The Yasui family of Hood River, Oregon. [S.l.]: H. Yasui, Desktop Pub., 1987.
  • Family Gathering. [S.l.: New Day Films,] 1988. (Film about the Yasui family.)
  • Williamson, Stephen H. Available: www.asianoregon.org. (Web compendium of aspects of the Asian experience in western Oregon, including Sikhs.)

Hispanic Americans

  • Braceros in Oregon Photograph Collection, Oregon State University
  • Gamboa, Erasmo. Mexican labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
  • Nosotros: The Hispanic People of Oregon: Essays and Recollections. Portland, Or.: Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1995.
  • Stephen, Lynn. The Story of PCUN and the Farmworker Movement in Oregon. Eugene, Or.: Dept. of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 2001.
  • The Oregon Story: agricultural workers. Portland, Or.: Oregon Public Broadcasting, 2001. (Film)

Native Americans

  • Hatiya (wind): Voices of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. [Portland, Or.]: Lawrence Johnson Productions, 2000. (Film)
  • Picturing the Cayuse. Joint project of the University of Oregon Libraries and Tamastlikst Cultural Center, featuring Moorhouse images selected and described by Tamastlikst staff.
  • Tamastlikst Cultural Center of the Confederated Tribe of the Umatillas.

Rodeo

  • American Cowboys. Pendleton, Or: Wildbill Productions, 1998. (Film about the Sundown/Spain/Fletcher contest, includes interviews with a friend of Fletcher's.)
  • Furlong, Charles Wellington. Let 'er buck, a story of the passing of the old West. New York, Putnam, 1921.
  • Kesey, Ken. Last go round. New York: Viking, 1994. (Fictionalized account.)
  • Rupp, Virgil. Let 'er buck! Pendleton, Or.: Pendleton Round-Up Association, 1985.
  • Savage, Candace Sherk. Cowgirls. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1996.
  • National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
  • National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

Women

  • Feminist Voices & Visions: Abigail Scott Duniway (Web exhibit of Duniway materials in Special Collections)
  • Kesselman, Amy. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World War II and Reconversion. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990.
  • National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
  • Savage, Candace Sherk. Cowgirls. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1996.
  • Yours for Liberty: Abigail Scott Duniway. [S.l.: s.n.,] 1995. (Film about Duniway and struggle for suffrage in Oregon.)

Books displayed

  • Anderson, Martha. Black Pioneers of the Northwest, 1800-1918. [S.l.: Anderson?], 1980.
  • Brame, Herman L. African American Athletes in Oregon: A History from 1804 to 1950. Portland, Or.: H.L. Brame, 2000.
  • Cox, Ted W. The Toledo Incident of 1925. Corvallis, Or.: Old World Publications, 2005.
  • Gamboa, Erasmo. Mexican labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest, 1942-1947. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
  • History of Portland's African American community (1805-to the present). Portland, Or.: Portland Bureau of Planning, 1993.
  • Kesey, Ken. Last go round. New York: Viking, 1994.
  • Kessler, Lauren. Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. New York: Random House, 1993.
  • McLagan, Elizabeth. A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940. Portland, Or: The Georgian Press, 1980.
  • Nosotros: The Hispanic People of Oregon: Essays and Recollections. Portland, Or.: Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1995.
  • Oregana (1939 and 1942). Eugene, Or.: University of Oregon (Yearbooks)
  • Savage, Candace Sherk. Cowgirls. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1996.
  • Yasui, Robert S. The Yasui family of Hood River, Oregon. [S.l.]: H. Yasui, Desktop Pub., 1987.

Films shown in conjunction with this exhibit

  • American Cowboys. Pendleton, Or: Wildbill Productions, 1998.
  • Family Gathering. [S.l.: New Day Films,] 1988.
  • Hatiya (wind): Voices of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. [Portland, Or.]: Lawrence Johnson Productions, 2000.
  • The Oregon Story: agricultural workers. Portland, Or.: Oregon Public Broadcasting, 2001.
  • Yours for Liberty: Abigail Scott Duniway. [S.l.: s.n.,] 1995.