Oregon Emergency Farm Labor Service OralHistory Collection 1992

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Oregon Emergency Farm Labor Service OralHistory Collection 1992

The Oregon Emergency Farm Labor ServiceOral History Collection consists of interviews conducted in 1992 by OregonState University students of five individuals familiar with farm labor inOregon during World War II.

0.15 cubic foot, including 8audiocassettes; 2 boxes

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SNAC Resource ID: 6381098

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Oregon State University. University Archives.

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The University Archives was established at Oregon State University in 1961 as a department of the Library. From the early 1970s until 2000, the Archives was part of the OSU central administration. In 2000, the Archives became a department of the University Libraries and moved into the Valley Library in 2003. The Archives had a short-lived oral history program in 1980 and acquired recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Oregon State students and faculty beginning in the...

Adolf, Leonard Allen, 1921-

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Oregon State College. Federal Cooperative Extension Service

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On July 24, 1911, Oregon Agricultural College's Board of Regents organized the Oregon Extension Service in response to requests from citizens of Oregon for assistance (particularly in agriculture) from the college. In May of 1914, nearly three years after Oregon had established its Extension Service, President Woodrow Wilson signed the federal Smith-Lever law, which provided federal money for the establishment of extension services in all states for developing off-campus programs, primarily in a...

United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration

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Johnston, Candace G.

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Pike, Daniel.

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Bevens, Eldon Earl.

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Oregon Emergency Farm Labor Program.

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Anthropology.

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The Emergency Farm Labor Service in Oregon was sponsored by the Oregon State College Extension Service to ensure an adequate farm labor supply during World War II and the years immediately after. Between 1943 and 1947, Oregon's Emergency Farm Labor Service assisted with over 900,000 placements on the state's farms, trained thousands of workers of all ages, and managed nine farm labor camps. Farm laborers included urban youth and women, soldiers, white collar professionals, displaced Japanese- Am...

Kalb, June

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Kalb, George.

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Burien, Lena.

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Oregon State university

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Herrera, Tere Lynn.

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Stetler, Dawn A.

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Mikesell, O. E. (Oscar Edwin)

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