"Prescriptions to Stop Nuclear Testing" activism project in support of Senate Bill 220: Prescriptions from album 3, 1986

This collection includes a range of publications, reports, research, and promotional materials, as well as audiovisual materials including 35mm slideshows and digitized audio and video. There are administrative documents, historical papers, advocacy materials, and photos from the work of the Oregon chapter of the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). There are also 6 boxes of 35mm slides from slideshow presentations.

This collection is organized into five main series: I. Organizational records, II. Subject files, III. Publications, IV. Events and activism, V. Audiovisual and presentation materials.

The first series, “Organizational records”, which dates from 1977 to 2012, includes administrative materials, founding documents, memorabilia, and accolades.

The second series, “Subject files”, which dates from 1983 to 2017, consists of research materials and data collected on many of the issues that PSR worked on over the decades.

The third series, “Publications”, which dates from 1980 to 2019, includes books, research papers, educational materials, and issues of Portland PSR’s newsletter “The Folded Crane,” spanning from 1981-2019.

The fourth series, “Events and activism”, which dates from 1962 to 2019, is largely made up of promotional and administrative materials for Oregon PSR’s yearly Hiroshima and Nagasaki memorial event. Additionally, it holds posters and programs from other activism events, awards dinners, conferences, and collaborations.

The fifth series, “Audiovisual and presentation materials”, which dates from 1977 to 2018, contains 35mm slideshow presentations and scripts. There are also videocassettes, DVDs and CD-ROMs some of which have been digitized.