WUAPC. Personal Collections

The collection contains correspondence, music books, Glee memorabilia, photographs, and other items connected with Willamette University and the Waltz family.

The Sybil Westenhouse collection covers the years 1810 to 2009 and documents her research on the history of Salem and Oregon.

Janette Stowell’s diary details the everyday life of a wife and mother at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth in Portland, Oregon and Sitka, Alaska.

The Salem and Eastern Oregon photographs cover the late 1800s and early 1900s in Oregon. Photographs included Marion County Court House, Oregon State Hospital and other buildings and areas of interest.

This collection contains memorabilia of Alfred French’s time as an undergraduate at Willamette University, 1928-1932. Materials include items from the Alpha Phi Delta fraternity, Track and Field memorabilia, and items for class reunions.

The Charles E. Larsen Chemawa Indian School collection is a compilation of Chemawa Indian School and Northwest Native American history dating from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.

The Paul Wynne Journal collection contains master and composite video tapes of Paul Wynne's Journal a video diary concerning Wynne's struggle with AIDS originally broadcast by KGO-TV, San Francisco. Also included are letters to Wynne, personal memorabilia, and professional work produced during his time as a newscaster. The journal has been digitized and can be viewed on the Willamette University Archives website.

Virginia Furtwangler is an author, writing under the pen name Ann Copeland. Her papers comprise her manuscripts and published works, promotional material and publicity about her writing, her teaching material, and material gathered while she was Hallie Brown Ford Chair of English at Willamette University.

This collection contains artwork by Edith Price Walford and Don Cook, both relatives of artist C. S. Price.

This collection of glass plate negatives features the Willamette University campus and student life in the early 1920s. They were probably taken by Vernor Martin Sackett, who graduated from Willamette University in 1922.