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 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
Governor Snell's Office
Information in the
After the War section as well as chapters covering issues during the last years of the war.
Military Department
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
A contributing source of information for the
Youth Strategies chapter. Also includes records documenting vocational education programs related to the G.I. Bill.
Oregon Department of Transportation
The merchant marine fleet played an essential role in the war. (Image courtesy Northwestern University Library) Enlarge image
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.
Oregon State Library
Audits Division
Oregon Postwar Readjustment and Development Commission
A major source of documents and information for the
After the War section.
Contact us for more information about this commission.
Forestry Department
Board of Control
Documents the operation of state institutions during the war.