Notices

To theEditor: This is inregard to"Painting thePhilippineswith anAmerican Brush:Visions ofRace andNational Mission among theOregon Volunteers in the PhilippineWars of 1898and 1899,"OHQ, Spring 2003, Volume 104, Number 1. Sean McEnroe's article answered a question thatIhave had for many years.As a boy clerking in my uncle's country store inGrant County in the 1940s,we sold ammunition for thehunters. While the majority of saleswere forthepopular Winchester .30-30 carbine, we sold several boxes of .30-40Krag shells during hunting season. I oftenwondered how the .30-40Krag rifles, with theirawkward side-loading magazine, came to be used byGrant County hunters. Thanks toMr. McEnroe, it seems that the Oregon Volunteers in thePhilippineswere issued theKrag rifles in thefield to replace the single shot,black powder .45-70Springfield Model 1889 riflesthat they were using at the time.Then the troopsbrought therifles back toOregon in 1899, where the rifles were stored in some Army or National Guard armory.When theUS Army adopted the Model 1903 Springfield for service use, theKrag rifles were declared surplusand sold toOregon hunters,who continued touse them some 50years aftertheir manufacture and use in thePhilippines. LarryG. Valade Fredericksburg,Virginia Notices Research Library and Museum Announce Reopening The Oregon Historical Society has announced that itsResearch Library andMuseum will re open to thepublic on Saturday, September 20, 2003. New hours for themuseum galleries and libraryare tobe announced. The OHS Museum and Research Library have been closed forcon struction and renovation since fall 2002. The re openingwill be thepublic's firstchance to see the interiorof thenew OHS entrancebuilding and to view a new OHS exhibit, "Oregon History A to Z." The new exhibitwill tell the storyofOregon through artifacts and artwork selected from sixty-four affiliated historical institutions throughout the state. Sterling Research Fellowships OHS announces the recipients of the second an nual Donald J.Sterling. Jr., Memorial Research Fellowships,designed toencourageoriginal,schol arly, interpretiveresearch in Pacific Northwest history.Each recipientreceivesa stipendand four weeks of research time intheOHS collections.Dr. GrayWhaley ofPaw Paw,Michigan, received the Senior Fellowship. JasonBennett, a student at the University ofVictoria, received theGraduate Research Fellowship. Inventory of Alaskan Film, Video, and Audio Recordings The Alaska Moving Image Preservation Asso ciation (AMIPA), a 501(c)(3) organization, is conducting an inventoryofAlaskan film,video, and audio recordings ? a project known as Voices & Images ofAlaska (VIA).Much of the material related toAlaska's history isphysically located outside of the state, so part of the effort includes reaching out to cultural organizations in theLower-48 and beyond. The VIA project is funded in part by amatching grant from Save Americas Treasures,a public-private partnership between theNational Park Service and the National Trust forHistoric Preservation. To contact theVIA project, call (907) 279-8433, e mail via@amipa.org, orwriteVoices and Images of Alaska, c/o AMIPA, 1325 Primrose St., Anchorage, AK 99508. Notices 295 ...