Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Historic Pamphlets, before 1859

From: "Amanda E Strauss" astrauss@willamette.edu

I am a researcher with Mission Mill Museum in Salem, Oregon. We are developing an exhibition celebrating the years before Oregon joined the Union in 1859. Towards this end, we are looking for any memorabilia, such as pamphlets, flyers, newspaper advertisements and posters, that were produced to encourage people to emigrate West during the Great Migration. We are interested in materials created by politicians, corporations and private citizens. ...

—Amanda Strauss, Research intern, Mission Mill Museum