The Psychological Warfare Branch of the United States Armed Forces was a military unit that created and distributed propaganda during the Second World War. The scrapbook contains approximately 200 pieces of their propaganda, mostly in Japanese, that were intended for distribution in the Philippines, Japan, and other nearby areas. Each item is accompanied by a typed translation into English. Pacific University Archives MS.70
Items in this collection represent several collections curated and donated by Dr. Timothy Choy in honor of personal friends and family. This includes the Stella O.H. Library and Jade Collections and the Phillip & Leigh Creighton Art Collection.
Letters from the Rees Family of Ohio and Oregon. The Rees Family, which was originally from Delaware, had migrated over several generations from the East Coast to Ohio, and then on to Oregon and other western states. This collection centers on the Oregon branch of the family, particularly Willard Hall Rees, who came to Oregon in 1844 in the same party as John Minto and Cornelius Gilliam. Also of note in the collection are letters related to two Rees sons who served on the Union Side in the Civil War. One, David Austin Rees, died at Kennesaw Mountain. The other, Corwin Pottenger Rees, went on to travel around the world with the Navy.
Includes documents digitized from the Pacific University Archives related to the history of Pacific University, Tualatin Academy and surrounding communities in the 1800s.
This collection brings together archival material on the history of "Boxer," Pacific University's mascot. Letters, news clippings, photographs and other items are included, illustrating its history from when the Boxer statue first arrived on campus in the 1890s through its disappearance in 1970. Efforts to find, recreate and commemorate the statue since that time are also covered.
Cyrus Walker was the oldest son of the early Oregon Territory missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. He grew up at Tshimakain in the 1830s-40s, where he learned the native Spokane language. After joining the U.S. army during the Civil War and then attempting to make a living as a farmer, he became a teacher at the Warm Springs Indian Agency. These letters, documents and clippings shed light on his experiences as a missionary, a soldier, a pioneer and a teacher at Warm Springs. This collection was donated to Pacific University by Betty Thorne, a descendant of the Walkers.
Since 1900, Pacific University has issued advertisements, fliers and brochures promoting the school to new students and donors. This collection includes the viewbooks sent to prospective students from 1900-2002, as well as fundraising brochures, information pamphlets and other items that marketed Pacific University. Through these items, we see how the school represented itself to the public.
The Victor Atiyeh Papers contain materials from his business, political, and personal activities, dating from 1923-2012, as well as collected materials and family papers predating the primary body of the collection. The bulk of the materials pertain to his campaigns for and his service in political office, particularly his two terms as Governor of Oregon, 1979-1987, and to the international consulting business he established after leaving office in 1987. Collection materials include appointment books, audio cassettes, awards, budgets, campaign materials, certificates, correspondence, directories, memoranda, memorabilia, notes, photographs, poll results, posters, press clippings, publications, receipts, reports, schedules, scrapbooks, speeches, and video tapes.
A set of travel postcards drawn from various collections in the Pacific University Archives, including the Walker Family Papers, Edith Hansen McGill Collection, and others.
Centro Cultural in Cornelius is an organization that serves the needs of recent immigrants to Washington County. It provides education and empowerment programs such as English as a Second Language, Spanish Literacy, Computer Technology, Cultural Values, Leadership Training and community organizing, Information and Referrals.
Centro Cultural has contributed hundred of photographs of celebrations and gatherings of Washington County's Latino community, as well as pictures of migrant farm workers and others served by the organization.
A photograph album that contains the daily life of Nettie Shipley Haines. Most of the photographs are from the Forest Grove, Oregon area. Some photographs depict the Oregon Coast.
