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Summer 2022 Exhibit: Medieval Portland Explores the Nuremberg Chronicle

June 9, 2022 Exhibits, News, Special Collections and University Archives

The Liber chronicarum or Weltchronik of 1493, more commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, is a world history that is one of the most famous early printed books or incunabula. This summer, the PSU Library exhibit presents interpretations of leaves … Continue reading →

The Copper Beech Tree

April 12, 2022 Special Collections and University Archives

Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica v. purpurea) Resources and information about Portland State University Library’s historic tree Portland State University Library’s curved façade encircles a towering copper beech tree planted in approximately 1890. The tree was designated as a City of … Continue reading →

How Portland State Became the “Vikings”

February 8, 2022 Special Collections and University Archives

Why are Portland State teams called the Vikings? First, we were the Vanport Vikings! Vanport Extension Center, the college that became Portland State University, opened its first classes in summer term 1946. By November of that year, Vanport students were … Continue reading →

Winter 2022 Exhibit: The Art and Social Practice Archive

January 5, 2022 Exhibits, Special Collections and University Archives

Loose Body: A Survey of Ephemera from the Art and Social Practice Archive Part of PSU Library Special Collections & University Archives, the Art and Social Practice Archive was founded in 2018 in collaboration with the PSU Art and … Continue reading →

Portraits of PSU Veterans

November 9, 2021 PDXScholar (Campus Repository), Special Collections and University Archives

As we honor and remember those who have served in the military this Veteran’s Day, Portland State Magazine presents interviews with six veterans who have also been students, faculty, or administrators at Portland State. Veterans were Portland State’s first students … Continue reading →

October is Archives Month!

October 1, 2021 Special Collections and University Archives

Join Portland Area Archives in celebrating American Archives Month in October 2021! While the pandemic continues to keep us apart physically, we are bringing you online or socially distanced activities to take you behind the scenes, introducing you to archival … Continue reading →

Art + Social Practice Archive

August 6, 2021 News, PDXScholar (Campus Repository), Special Collections and University Archives

Since 2018 we have been working with archivists, students, community members, artists, researchers and web developers and PDXScholar to establish the Art and Social Practice Archive at the Portland State University Library Special Collections. The digital component of this archive … Continue reading →

Athanasius Kircher and Other Curiosities from Special Collections

April 9, 2019 Exhibits, Special Collections and University Archives

Welcome to Special Collections’ Spring 2019 exhibit: especially for bibliophiles! “Master of a Hundred Arts” Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) was regarded as a great intellectual during his lifetime. With insatiable curiosity, access to the expansive knowledge networks of the Jesuit order, … Continue reading →

Senior Capstone Students Present Research on 16th-Century Book of Hours

November 21, 2018 News, Special Collections and University Archives

Thielman Kerver came to Paris in the late fifteenth century and operated a bookshop and printing press at the “Sign of the Unicorn.” Kerver’s large collection of engravings distinguished his printed works with rich detail in religious iconography, teeming Gothic … Continue reading →

Autumn Exhibits: Special Collections and University Archives

November 7, 2018 Exhibits, News, Special Collections and University Archives

What do a rare devotional text, published writing by Portland State students, and arguments aimed at convincing Oregonian voters have in common? The simple answer is that these are all examples of unique artifacts and collections held by Portland State … Continue reading →

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