Presentation delivered at the panel, "Voices of the Northwest: Novel Approaches to Oral History Across the Region," at the joint meeting of the Conference of Intermountain Archivists and Northwest Archivists, Boise, Idaho.
Presentation provides an overview of the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project and discusses the ways in...
Ranching and lumbering were two of the primary economic practices in a
small rural study area south of Philomath Oregon (in Benton County), from
first Euro-American settlement through 1930. Ranching was common but
lumbering was restricted by geographical and market transportation
problems until after 1900. Catalysts for change came in...
One of the greatest technological breakthroughs of humanity was the ability to
construct a device and eventually a system which would provide a more efficient, safe,
clean, convenient and relatively inexpensive form of illumination than ever used previously
electric light. The introduction of this new technology into Oregon
communities in...
This thesis examines forest history of a portion of the Douglas-fir Region: Soap Creek Valley, a 15,000 acre sub-basin of the Luckiamute River in northern Benton County, Oregon. The primary reasons for the research were to test oral history methodology, document sub-basin scale forest cover pattern changes, and determine basic...
Presentation delivered at the Online Northwest conference.
A technical overview of the creation of the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project web portal. This web resource was created using multiple xml standards as transformed by two different types of xsl stylesheets. The presentation focuses specifically on the use of...