The History page of Historic Oregon Newspapers online provides essays for each title in the collection describing the unique history, content and context in which each newspaper was produced. Several new essays, written by our ODNP Essayist and graduate student…
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Morrow County now represented in Historic Oregon Newspapers online!
In partnership with the Morrow County Museum in Heppner, Oregon, several early newspapers from Heppner are now available for keyword searching and browsing online at Historic Oregon Newspapers! Heppner Weekly Gazette: June 22, 1883-July 31, 1890 The Weekly Heppner Gazette:…
Highlights from the IFLA Newspaper Conference: Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 4-5, 2014
The International Federation of Library Associations’ (IFLA) Newspaper group recently convened in Salt Lake City for a two-day conference focused on “Spreading the News.” Representatives from across the United States, as well as from other countries such as Finland, the…
Tagged with: genealogy, history, newspapers, Salt Lake City
Posted in Announcements, Project Highlights
Posted in Announcements, Project Highlights
New content from Astoria, Grants Pass, and Pendleton now online!
The last portion of historic Oregon newspaper content from our 2011 National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant has just been added to Historic Oregon Newspapers online as well as the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website! The following additions can…
New Search Strategies and Genealogy Webinar
Our colleagues at the National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio have just released two new resources with tips on searching historic newspapers online via the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website: 1) Search Strategies – “Proximity Searching in Chronicling America”…
St. Helens Mist: New Content Just Added!
New content from Columbia County’s first newspaper, St. Helens’ Oregon Mist, later titled the St. Helens Mist, has just been added to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website! Working backwards through time in our digitization efforts, the Oregon Mist is now…
Dear Santa…A Christmas Tradition in Historic Newspapers
‘Tis the season! Oregon’s historic newspapers are full of holiday cheer from years past! As the Christmas holiday approaches, so too do thoughts of Christmas traditions, such as selecting and/or decorating a Christmas tree, hanging Christmas lights, sending Christmas cards…
Finding Cartoons and Comics in Historic Oregon Newspapers
Some of the richest content in our historic newspapers are the political cartoons and comic strips embedded within the pages of text. Newspapers digitized through the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program and made available online at Historic Oregon Newspapers (http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu) are…
Tagged with: comics, historic Oregon newspapers, images, political cartoons
Posted in Project Highlights, Research Tips and Tricks
Posted in Project Highlights, Research Tips and Tricks
Oregonian Now Available Through Dec. 1922!
The time we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! Historic Oregon Newspapers online now contains the full 20th century public domain run of the Portland Morning Oregonian and The Sunday Oregonian! All newspapers published on or before December 31,…
Newspaper Image Quality and Oregon City History
The latest additions to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website come once again from Oregon City, but there is more to this story than just an announcement of new content! As you browse through Historic Oregon Newspapers online, you might wonder…