The Oregon Arts Commission conducted a survey of folk artists and folk arts in Oregon in 1979. This collection contains documentation of Oregon folk arts and artists in the form of 7,000 slides and accompanying fieldwork logs containing fieldwork notes, artist profiles, and collected documentation.
Author Janet Marshall Stevenson (1913- ) has made contributions as a writer of civil rights, the women's movement and the arts. This collection contains manuscripts, holographs and photographs of her many short stories, articles and books; within this collection are research items and family papers associated with her biography of Robert W. Kenny, an influential liberal that championed the rights of several of the "Hollywood 10" before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC).
