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**NEW HOURS FOR SUMMER**
Our hours are changing, please take note!
Starting June 15th, the OSU Archives Reference Desk will be open from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Our normal hours resume Monday, September 28th — the first day of fall term.
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Craft Cabin: Easy Commons Cards
Are you feeling crafty? Tired of digging in your garden? Spring cleaning your office? Ready to have fun with scissors, glue, and historic photos?
Check out the indicommons post on using Flickr Commons images to make cards!
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Cheers!
OSU account in Flickr Commons passes 100,000 views!
Join us for clapping, pats on the back, and a general hip-hip-hurray — we passed the 100,000 mark for total views on our Flickr Commons account. Thanks to everyone who looked, commented, and shared! The fun doesn’t stop here…
Starting next Wednesday we will be taking a trip, traveling through Oregon and beyond! This summer we will be building up a new Commons collection called “Take a Trip: Traveling and touring with the Visual Instruction Lantern Slides Collection,” releasing images each 1st and 3rd Wednesday from the Visual Instruction Lantern Slides Collection (P217).
The Visual Instruction Department was created around 1932 as a unit of the Oregon State System of Higher Education’s General Extension Division, and was located on the Oregon State College campus in Corvallis. The department made slides and films available to schools, community clubs, churches, and other organizations for educational purposes.
This eclectic collection contains 69 sets of mounted lantern slides covering a variety of topics, including many related to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest (Oregon Birds, Oregon Industries, Northwest Indians, Old Oregon Trail, Oregon State College, and Salmon Industry), as well as sets with biblical themes, U.S. history, and cultures in Europe.
Many slides are hand-tinted — one set is comprised entirely of 2″x2″ glass mounted color slides — and most sets include a typescript lecture (housed here in the Archives) that provides general background information on the topics.
How did they get here? The sets were probably acquired by the University Archives in the 1970s. They were transferred to the Horner Museum in March 1980 and then returned to the Archives in June 1996. Many sets were originally owned by the University of Oregon.
What can you expect? We will launch with a set from the Lewis & Clark Exposition Centennial Celebration (set 49), followed by Early Settlement of Oregon (set 38), Shasta & Sunset Routes (set 23), Trip to Mount Hood (set 25), Crater Lake (set 65), Sorted Oregon Views (set 55), and anything else that catches our “travel Oregon” fancy!