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Date: | Wed, 10 Aug 1994 10:09:03 PST |
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The Oregon State Archives and the Oregon State University
Archives are pleased to announce the availability of a new
historical photographic exhibit on the Internet. The
exhibit, "Fighters on the Farm Front," commemorates the 50th
anniversary of Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service,
1943-1947. The exhibit focuses on the diverse population
that contributed to the war effort by harvesting food and
fiber for home and the fighting forces overseas during the
most desperate days of World War II and the unstable years
immediately following allied victory. The exhibit is
dedicated to the soldiers, prisoners of war, foreign born
migrant farm workers, senior citizens, women, and youth
who labored in Oregon's fields and orchards for victory.
The electronic version was developed by the Oregon State
University Archives and the Oregon State Archives. This
exhibit is a somewhat expanded version of an exhibit
currently touring Oregon. The original traveling exhibit
was designed and fabricated in the spring of 1993 by the
University Archives with assistance and support from the
University's Office of Agricultural Communications and the
Oregon Council for the Humanities. The electronic version
contains over 70 images. The exhibit images are from the
University Archives collections, but are resident on the
World Wide Web (WWW) host server maintained by the Oregon
State Archives in Salem, Oregon.
The exhibit may be viewed if you have Mosaic client software
installed on your Internet connected computer. It is
available through the homepage of the Oregon State Archives
WWW host server or can be accessed bb utilizing the
sensitized map of the continental United States found under
the WWW server homepage maintained by the National Center
for Super-Computing Applications. The exhibit can also be
reached by using the Mosaic Browse and opening
"http://159.121.28.251" (do not type the quotation marks).
The staff of the University Archives welcomes your
observations, suggestions, criticisms, and recommendations.
Please send comments privately to either Michael Holland,
[log in to unmask] or Larry Landis,
[log in to unmask]
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