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Text: Map of Victorian London with colored stickers indicating elements from the soundscape map.

The Lyon Archive

Map of Victorian London with points of interest from the Soundscape Map of The Lyon Archive. The Lyon Archive is a collaborative project between UO Professor Heidi Kaufman, her students, and members of the Anglo-Jewish Lyon family, which has members living in Jamaica, England, Australia and the U.S. As avid fiction writers, editors, diarists, scholars, philanthropists, and scholars, they have created and gathered a multitude of documents, which are now showcased in the Lyon Archive. These ...
Color photo of the title page of the 1767 first edition; this copy is signed "S. Mean" in 18th-century handwriting.

The Female American Digital Edition

The Female American; or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Compiled by Herself. London, 1767. Reproduced courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library. This project originated in Professor Mattie Burkert’s UO graduate seminar “Science, Colonialism, and Empire.” In collaboration, the class first created a digital edition of the text – a process that involved transcriptions, corrections, markups and the addition of editorial comments. In a second step, a smaller group used the free ...
"Martin Luther King Jr. Park Needs Your Help to Plant Bulbs and Build a Climbing Wall"

Environmental Justice Research Repository

An advertisement from a 1984 West Eugene neighborhood newsletter held in the Lane County History Museum Archives. Click here to visit the student-curated repository that houses this and over 100 other digitized archival materials. Students in Professor Burkert’s English 250 and English 470 classes created a collection of digitized archival materials in collaboration with the nonprofit organization Beyond Toxics. With guidance from Digital Scholarship Librarian Kate Thornhill, ...