University of Puget Sound Digital Collections

Welcome to the University of Puget Sound Digital Collections web site. Here you will find a variety of resources including images, as well as audio and video. These collections are the result of faculty projects and research and are in support of scholarly study.

	The Abby Williams Hill Collection During the peak years of her artistic career (1903-1906), Hill garnered four successive contracts with major railway companies, which provided extensive periods for camping and landscape painting, and she produced dozens of paintings to extol the beauty of the Northwest. Exhibitions of these works at several world's fairs --notably the St. Louis World's Fair, the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition -- established her reputation as a professional landscape artist. By special arrangements Hill was able to keep almost all her commissioned work. Consequently she may be the only railway artist whose professional work is virtually intact, and the Hill Collection, now owned by the University of Puget Sound, may well be the only one of its kind in the nation. If you have questions about the Abby Hill collection, please contact Andrea Moody at amoody@ups.edu.

	Slater Museum of Natural History: Bird Wing Collection The museum's primary goal is to provide a well-curated collection of specimens to be used for research and education by the communities to which it belongs: the University of Puget Sound, the Puget Sound region, and, in a broad sense, the world. Museums have an ever-increasing responsibility for the conservation of specimens as animal and plant populations are threatened by human activities, and the Slater Museum is one of the region's significant repositories for these specimens. Furthermore, museum collections serve as the primary sources of information about both spatial and temporal aspects of biodiversity anywhere in the world. To accomplish this, the museum will continue to enhance its collections, especially of regional animals and plants, and to search for orphaned collections to preserve.

	The Oregon Missions Collection of Collins Memorial Library The University Archives, housed in the Collins Memorial Library and the University of Puget Sound, is home to a collection of missionary letters, and papers, called the Oregon Missions Collection. This collection, dating from the 1820’s to the 1850’s, contains three boxes of letters from missionaries, and those hoping to become missionaries, in the Oregon Territory to each other, and the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City and other letters and documents associated with the Oregon Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It gives great detail and insight into the motivations, daily tasks, and personalities of these early settlers of the territory, and hints at the mindset of those who desired to enter into this Christian mission.

	Theatre History: The Power of Space “Theatre History: The Power of Space” focuses first of all on these “empty” or not so “empty” spaces from the beginning of theatre to the present, usually in Europe or America but also, and hopefully even more so in time, from around the world. Users will also find here images of costumes, of actors, of writers and directors, of those many elements that brought together contribute to the creation of a theatrical experience. Note: This collection is password protected and only for use by the Theatre department.

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	Archaeology Archive Archaeology Archive: This collection contains photos, drawings and logbooks associated with archaeological excavations and surveys at sites in Israel, Greece and the Ukraine. The project was sponsored by the University of Puget Sound and directed by Douglas R. Edwards, Distinguished Professor of Religion.