Collection List A-Z


 
Asian Studies Collection

This collection include the Hugh Dean Collection of East Asian pamphlets, most relating to China during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Each pamphlet is downloadable as a PDF file, and full text searchable. The collection also includes a series of postcard views of historic sites in Japan.

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Karl Bodmer American Indian Images

Karl Bodmer was a Swiss painter who accompanied Prince Maximilian on an expedition across the American West in 1832. During this expedition, the party encountered many of the same Indians described by Lewis and Clark. Bodmer's detailed sketches and watercolors are an important visual record of these cultures. The images in this collection are hand-colored engravings based on Bodmer's watercolors that appeared in a fifty-copy limited edition set of Lewis and Clark's journals edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites in 1904.

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Corbett Estate Architectural Drawings

This collection includes seven hand drawn sketches of the Hamilton Corbet estate in the Riverdale neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. The sketches were made by the Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects in 1928. The estate now houses the Lewis & Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling Psychology.

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Fir Acres Estate Architectural Drawings

The Fir Acres Estate, which is now the home of Lewis & Clark College, was designed by Herman Brookman in 1924 for Lloyd Frank. This collection includes many of Brookman's sketches for the gardens and manor house.

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Gordon Gilkey Print Collection

Gordon Gilkey (1912-2000) was a gifted etcher and printmaker, who taught at Lewis & Clark College during the 1930s. He also served as the Dean of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University, and curator at the Portland Art Museum. Gilkey's prints are represtented in art collection all over the world.

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Lewis & Clark College Campus Maps

This collection includes maps showing the development of the Fir Acres campus of Lewis and Clark College (1940-2000).

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Lewis & Clark College Photograph Collection

This collection includes over 400 images dating back to the founding of the college as Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867, and continuing into the modern era as Lewis & Clark College in 1940. It includes some faculty portraits from 1940 to present.

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Lewis & Clark College Yearbook Collection

This collection includes yearbooks dating back to 1904, the year of the college's first annual. The books are posted as full text searchable PDFs. Yearbooks are being added on a monthly basis; please check back if the yearbook you are seeking is not posted.

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Maps of North American Exploration

This collection includes maps from the Special Collections documenting the exploration of North America. The collection includes maps by Arrowsmith, Carver, Vancouver, Cook, Mackenzie, Lewis and Clark, as well as many others.

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Edwin Markham Papers

Edwin Markham was one of the most celebrated American poets of the nineteenth century, and the first Oregon poet laureate. This collection includes one of Markham's first draft books, as well some correspondence, and miscellaneous items.

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Oregon Images

This collection includes postcards, engravings, and other artwork showing scenes around the state of Oregon.

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Poetry Broadsides

This collection includes 31 images of poetry broadsides. Most of the broadsides are of poems by William Stafford. Other poets represented include Robert Bly, Charles Simic, and Primus St. John.

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Special Collections Publications & The Berberis Press

This collection includes exhibit catalogs, bibliographies, exhibit posters, and poetry broadsides that have been produced by the Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and its publishing department, the Berberis Press.

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Wood Family Collection

This collection includes over 300 images from the family papers of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and his son Erskine Wood. The collection includes family photographs, scrapbooks, original CES Wood watercolors and sketches, and selected manuscript materials.

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WWII Civilian Public Service Camp Collections

During World War II, conscientous objectors were placed in work camps across the United States. Most of the camps published newsletters, and some engaged in art programs. These collections include photographs of the camps (primarily at Cascade Locks and Waldport, Oregon), original artwork created in the camps, and a sampling of camp newsletters from across the United States.

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WPA Costumes of the World

This collection is a set of images created by the Museum Extension Project of the WPA Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Unit depicting various world costumes from ancient Egypt to the gay nineties.

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