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Museum of Natural and Cultural History 1680 East 15th Avenue Eugene, OR 97403 541-346-3024 mnh@uoregon.edu					Tools of the artist, traditionally, are the brush and canvas, chisel, musical instrument, dance, pen, etc. Now science and technology have added the still and motion picture camera, sound recorder, and electronic synthesizer. Don Hunter
		Don Hunter has been interested in sound recording for seven decades, always innovating and improving upon existing technology. In 1932, while still in high school, he built his first microphone out of a cigar box. He reverse-engineered a record player for his first recorder, equipping it with a blunt recording needle to emboss sound into blank pre-grooved RCA disks. In 1946 Hunter became the first director of the UO audio/visual department, one of the first programs of its kind in the United States. He served in this position until his retirement in 1977, dedicating almost every spare moment to his passion for collecting "dying" sights and sounds. He became seriously interested in photography soon after natural color Kodachrome slide film became available; beginning his vast slide collection in 1938. Click here for more information about Don Hunter.

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Description: Preserving Sights and Sounds of Oregon the Don Hunter Legacy: Don Hunter, photographer and founder of the University of Oregon Audio and Visual Center, has been recording the sounds and images of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon, and Eugene since the 1930s. Mr. Hunter owns a vast collection of Oregon audio recordings and Oregon slide photography that encompasses Oregon's natural and cultural history of the 20th century.

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