By Natalia Fernández and Daniel Loera
Title: Raul Peña Collection, 1968-2005
ID: MSS Peña
Primary Creator: Peña, Raul Javier (1951-)
Extent: 12.0 gigabytes
Arrangement: The Raul Peña Collection consists of one series that includes two digital files.
Date Acquired: 00/00/2015
Languages of Materials: English [eng], Spanish;Castilian [spa]
The Raul Peña Collection consists of Peña’s personal scrapbook and a compilation of video-recorded news stories depicting the struggles of migrant farm workers in Oregon during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Peña served in the U.S. Army and Oregon Army National Guard in the 1970s and 1980s, and advocated for migrant worker rights through his work for the Bureau of Labor and Industries in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Materials in this collection have been digitized and are available upon patron request.
The Raul Peña Collection consists of Peña’s personal scrapbook and a compilation of video-recorded news stories. The scrapbook (digitized) consists of personal documents and memorabilia belonging to Raul Peña. The documents include military records, unit photos, awards, training certificates, graduation diplomas, newspaper clippings, photographs, and letters spanning the years 1968-2005. The majority of the scrapbook consists of materials pertaining to Peña’s service in the U.S Army and the Oregon National Guard; also included are materials related to Peña’s education, as well as content specific to Peña’s work with and for the Latinx community. The compilation of news stories, originally video recorded by Peña via a VHS tape, consists of twenty-two stories, including various multi-part stories. The news stories depict the struggles of migrant farm workers in Oregon during the late 1980s and early 1990s in locations throughout the Willamette Valley. The stories illustrate the life and work of Raul Peña, who worked for the Bureau of Labor and Industries and was interviewed for several of the news stories, while bringing focus to struggles faced by migrant workers in Oregon. SCARC digitized the VHS tape and created an .mp4 file.
These digitized materials are available for reference use upon patron request
Statement on Access: Collection is open for research. All materials held in this collection are protected by copyright and are not for publication without written permission of Raul Peña.
Physical Access Note: This collection is accessible at the researcher terminal in the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center reading room.
Acquisition Note: During the summer of 2015, Raul Peña loaned a copy of a VHS tape and personal scrapbook to the OMA. Both items were digitized and the physical items were returned to Peña.
Related Materials: This collection is a part of the Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA). Other collections documenting the Latinx experience in Oregon can be found on the OMA Latino/a People and Culture page.
Preferred Citation: Raul Peña Collection (MSS Peña), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Peña, Raul Javier (1951-)
Hispanic Americans.
Migrant agricultural laborers--Oregon.
Oregon. National Guard.
Oregon Multicultural Archives
United States. Army--Military life.
Digital moving image formats.
Scrapbooks.