This year the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) uploaded 80,013 pages of Oregon newspapers to the website! These 80,000 pages came from currently-publishing and historic newspapers all around Oregon. Some of the new historic newspapers include:
- Forest Grove Independent
- Washington County Hatchet
- Washington County News
- Forest Grove Press
- Forest Grove Express
- Mosier Bulletin
- East Oregonian
- Beaverton Review
- Beaverton Enterprise
- Eugene Weekly Guard and Twice a Week Guard
- Nyssa Gate City Journal
- Coquille Valley Sentinel
- The Grantonian
- Hood River Glacier
- Bandon Recorder
- The Clackamas Print / the Cougar Print / The Print
We also added over 189,000 pages to our website from our newspapers.com project, which is now open access!
- The Evening journal
- The Oregon daily journal
- Portland evening journal
- Oregon statesman
- The Oregon statesman
- Weekly Oregon statesman
- United purity news
The ODNP website brought in 121,825 unique users, nearly a third of whom returned to the site another time. Users of the site spent an average of 6 minutes 40 seconds browsing and visited 10 different pages!
Two of the titles we uploaded last year were early editions of school newspapers: the Grantonian and the Print. These papers give us a glimpse into the lives of students of the past. The Grantonian, published by Ulysses S. Grant High School students in southeast Portland, includes stories about everything from high school sports, the school board and integration. One story from March 1967 chronicles the arrival of the miniskirt trend in the pacific northwest and wonders “who shall be the first brave soul to try and slip a mini through the hallowed halls of Grant?” The next October, an op ed ran lambasting girls who dared wear “minis” to school, or even worse, culottes!
The Print, published by Clackamas Community College (CCC) students, tackled issues like faculty strikes, school clubs and student protests. But its April first issue usually had a little something extra. Most years the Print staff published “the Misprint” for April fools day, writing pages of fake stories and inside jokes. The 1987 issue included an article written entirely in German, a multi-story joke about a CIA plot involving CCC students and plutonium and a recruitment ad for CCC’s own flying army.
Thank you to our donors and newspaper digitization enthusiasts who make ODNP possible!