Land Acknowledgement
Harmful Content Warning
Texts of field work from government agencies and scientists predominate in this IMLS-funded Southern Oregon Digital Archives collection about the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion (Southern Oregon and Northern California).
Images of artifacts collected from the Britt homestead and gardens in Jacksonville (OR), recovered archeologically from the site of the previously burned home in 2010. It also includes images of photographs taken by the famous historic photographer Peter Britt and his son, Emil, including portraits, landscapes, homes, and socio-cultural life of Southern Oregon spanning the 1880’s-1930’s.
Images and collection data for bumblebee specimens (Bombus sp.) collected within the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion of Southern Oregon and Northern California and other sites in North America.
Images and collection data for butterfly specimens (Lepidoptera sp.) collected mostly in Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and the surrounding Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion of Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Images of archaeologically recovered and comparative specimens of material culture that document the Chinese presence in the American West from the late 19th Century through the early 20th Century.
Images of material culture, art and craft objects collected by Dean and Mary Collins from travels in the American Southwest from their larger collection donated to SOU.
Ethnographic and government document texts predominate in this IMLS-funded Southern Oregon Digital Archives collection about the indigenous peoples, cultures and languages of Southwest Oregon and Northern California.
Images of symmetry in nature and in human-made objects from what was originally a teaching slide collection by SOU Mathematics Professor Emeritus John Englehart.
Faculty engage in short-term Innovation Communities to advance institutional core themes through innovative curriculum or pedagogy. These communities of practice are sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at SOU.
Images of historic "tin" cans assembled by U.S. Forest Service archaeologist Jim Rock (1942-2010) with documentation for using them to type and date cans in historical archaeology.
Images of natural areas and their use by people from retired United States Forest Service ranger Rene Casteran’s pictorial book Kalmiopsis Wilderness --Taking Away Only Memories (2010).
Images of theaters, production stills, sets, and backstage teams for Shakespearean and other plays from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 1935 origin through 2009 from their Archives (LSTA-funded).
Images and poetry about Southern Oregon women who provided the seasonal labor for pear packing, from Susan J. Reid’s 1988 SOU graduate thesis of the same title.
Images selected from the Historical Records Collection of Rogue River National Forest trace 100 years of forestry, landscapes, and recreation since its origins as Crater National Forest in 1908.
Images of wind, string, and percussion instruments from many countries collected and donated to SOU by Jack and Dorinda Schuman.
Images from the Southern Oregon Historical Society’s Research Library document towns, farms, forests, travel, commerce and family life in the Rogue Valley, since the late 1800’s (LSTA funded).
Texts including oral histories, booster brochures, correspondence, government documents and maps from Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, and Josephine Counties. (LSTA funded).
Southern Oregon’s agricultural and timber heritage, working on the land and a region in transition.
The repository for University records including publications, minutes, memoranda, photographs, letters, public relations materials, documents, maps and blueprints, yearbooks, student publications, catalogs, and bulletins.
A variety of materials documenting the Southern Oregon AVA wine industry including photos, interviews, labels, video, historic local wine industry documents, miscellanea. Funded by the Erath Family Foundation and the Rogue Valley Winegrowers Association.
Several of these projects were supported in whole (or in part) by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), administered by the Oregon State Library.
Other support also provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
