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<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; "><b>Shots from the Past: Early Benton County Photographers</b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; "><font size="3">Oregon State University Libraries’ University Archives and the Benton County Museum present an exhibition of historical photographs from the OSU, Horner Museum and BCHS collections at the Benton County Museum
from June 10-July 30, 2011. Many of these rare, original, photographs have never been publicly exhibited. </font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; "><font size="3">Represented are the photos and biographical highlights of over two dozen early Oregon photographers and photo studios that date prior to World War One, including: Albert Abendroth, W. M. Ball, Chester M. Coffey,
Conn and Underwood, Henry De Groot, Lottie Ebbert, William Emery, John Fulton, W.S. Gardner, L. Goldson, S.B. Graham, S.E. Gray & Co, E. Heslop, Robert M. Howells, George Leeper, C. Morris, Mrs. R. Morrison, R. C. Moseley, T.H. Mulkey, Pernot Brothers, E.W.
Phillips, David Stryker, Sydney Emmet Trask, Maggie Weigand, George Weister and the Woodruff Gallery. </font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; "><font size="3">The museum is located six miles west of Corvallis on Hwy 20/34, at 1101 Main Street, Philomath, Oregon, and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 – 4:30. Admission is free. Please call (541) 929-6230 or
(541) 737-0540 for more information or visit <a href="http://www.bentoncountymuseum.org"><font color="#0000FF"><u>www.bentoncountymuseum.org</u></font></a>.</font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; "><font size="2">Larry Landis</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Lawrence A. Landis<font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2">
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</font>University Archivist<font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2">/Interim Head of Special Collections<br>
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541-737-0540<font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"> <br>
</font>541-737-0541 (FAX)<font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"> <br>
</font>Larry.Landis@oregonstate.edu<font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"> <br>
</font><a href="http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives</u></font></a><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"> </font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><a href="http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/</u></font></a></font></div>
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