The William W. Sage Collection on Laos consists of subject files, photographs, slides, audiotapes, and manuscripts on Sage's work and writings. The collection has been arranged into four identified series: Subject Files, Photographs, Ephemera, Published and Unpublished Manuscripts. The collection also contains audiotapes that are not yet digitized.

The repository collection contains only a part of the Sage Collection. For a complete listing of the materials in the Sage collection go to Arizona Archives Online and input "Sage."

William W. Sage (b. 1946 Denver, CO) has been involved in international humanitarian aid for over forty years. He joined the International Voluntary Services team in Laos in 1969 and later served as a Community Development Area Adviser with the United States Agency for International Development in the southern and later northwestern regions of Laos until 1975. In 1977 he served four years as the Director of the Joint Voluntary Agency (JVA) in Bangkok, Thailand during which time 200,000 refugees from Indochina were processed for resettlement to the U.S.

While in Laos and Thailand, he collected both published and unpublished reports, papers, books and documents related to topics on Laos which in 1986 became the subject matter of his book Laos: A Bibliography published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.

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ContributorsHalpern, Joel (Author) / Barney, George L. (Author) / Kaufman, Howard K. (Author)
Created1963
DescriptionReports on the Nam Ngum Project; geographic, demographic and ethnic background in Laos; the Meo of Xieng Khouang Province; Village Life in Vientiane Province; and Minority Groups in Northern Laos especially the Yao
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ContributorsIwata, Leiji (Author) / Sakomoto, H. (Translator) / Halpern, Joel (Editor)
Created1960
DescriptionA report on the minority groups in Northern Laos, with a focus on the Yao.
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Created1966
DescriptionArticle about the daily life in Vientiane, Lao Buddhist beliefs, and food.
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Created1967
DescriptionReport on Operation Brotherhood’s activities in Laos and their observations on the behavior of the Lao people.
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ContributorsOsborn, G. M. T. (Author)
Created1967
DescriptionArticle about the racial and social isolation of minorities and native groups in Laos, their relationships with each other and the government, and the lack of agricultural development and infrastructure in their areas.
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ContributorsChanthala, Khamtanh (Speaker)
Created1973
DescriptionReport on programs to increase the education opportunities to minorities in rural areas
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ContributorsDaks, Larry (Author)
Created1969
DescriptionA report on educational publications used in USAID programs in Houa Phan province. Observations and Recommendations of the New Publications for Pathet Lao Controlled and Contested Areas
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Contributorsd'Abbs, Peter (Author)
Created1969
Description"That Luang: Proud Keeper of an Old Laotian Secret" is an article about That Luang, a stupa in Vientiane, Laos. "That" means stupa in Lao, and is an edifice sheltering a relic of Buddha and Luang means public in Lao. It was built in 1566 by King Setthatirat.
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ContributorsHafner, James A. (Author)
Created1965
DescriptionArticle describing the economy of the Meo in Laos and the effect the Pathet Lao had on the economy.
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Created1959
DescriptionReport describing the history, economics, and geography of Laos and then the history of its rising communist movement, Lao Issara.