Related Record Group Guides and Inventories

Photo of Edgar Bergen shaking hands with a worker. In front of them a ventriloquist's dummy stands on salvaged tires. — Hollywood ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (center) shakes hands with a salvage worker while dapper puppet Charlie McCarthy and his country yokel cousin, Mortimer Snerd, ride a salvage truck during a World War II scrap drive. (Folder 16, Box 28, Defense Council Records, OSA)

These records guides and inventories offer agency histories, scope and content notes, records series descriptions, and information to aid research at the Oregon State Archives. The record groups are listed in descending order of connection to the information in this exhibit.

Oregon State Defense Council

Defense Council records guide

Defense Council records were used in every section of this exhibit. The guide includes an administrative history, scope and content note, container list and record series descriptions.

Governor Sprague's Office

Biographical note and 1939 inaugural message

Record series descriptions and container list

Information for the Threats Real and Perceived section and other sections including documentation of the experiences of Japanese Americans during the war.

Governor Snell's Office

Biographical note and 1943 inaugural message

Record series descriptions and container list

Information in the After the War section as well as chapters covering issues during the last years of the war.

Military Department

Military records guide

Information about the activities of the Oregon National Guard before, during, and after the war and the formation and activities of the Oregon State Guard during the war.

Education Department

Education agency history

Education Record series descriptions

A contributing source of information for the Youth Strategies chapter. Includes records documenting vocational education programs related to the G.I. Bill.

Oregon Department of Transportation

Drawing of ship at sea. Headline reads "Apprentice Seaman Training." Below reads "Prepares young men 18 to 23 for a career in thecareer in the American Merchant Marine" — The merchant marine fleet played an essential role in the war. (Image courtesy Northwestern University Library) Enlarge image

Transportation records guide

The source of images from the Highway Department tourism photographs dating from the 1930s to the 1950s. Also documents transportation issues during the war.