Abigail Scott Duniway, acclaimed as “Oregon’s Mother of Suffrage,” was born on October 22, 1834. That makes today a most opportune time to announce that the suffragist newspaper that Duniway published and edited, The New Northwest of Portland, has been…
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Microfilming the Astorian
Those who follow our project may recall Karen Estlund’s trip to Astoria last February. In a previous Blog post, it was reported that she had returned to Eugene with a carload of historic Astorian newspapers on loan from the Astoria…
Ready For Football?
Another exciting season of college football is set to kick off this weekend, so it’s an ideal time to revisit the sports pages of yesteryear on Chronicling America. With the University of Oregon Ducks preparing to defend their Pac-10 Conference…
Learning From Old Media
This week I am choosing to highlight and article by Brian Veseling originally published on the IFRA website. “Learning from old media” explores news website design strategies that have been drawn from the page layout techniques of newspapers of yesteryear.…
1912 Fireworks Show
Hope everyone had a fun and festive July Fourth. Oregonians have long been accustomed to celebrating the holiday with fireworks… as the front page of the July 4, 1912 Klamath Falls Evening Herald will attest. Note the article occupying the…
So, What’s The Big Noise???
While collating a microfilm reel of the Coos Bay Times from 1912, our student assistant, Sommer, came across a mysterious item billed as The Big Noise. It looked a lot like an issue of the Times, but the title was…
Thank you, Professor William James
As with any historical project, the Digital Newspaper Program sometimes takes on the character of detective work. Here’s an example from the past week in the office. While performing verification on the latest batch of digital scans we received from…
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First Look At Digitized Pages
I’ve been busy performing quality control on the first batch of page scans and OCR files I’ve received from our vendor. So far, I’d have to say that they really do impressive work! Here’s an example to illustrate the digital…
An Oregon Bestiary
As regular readers will already know, the first digitized content from historic Oregon newspapers should be coming online by the fall. In preparation, we’ve been reviewing and collating some great old papers. This intensive process doesn’t always afford us as…
The final resting place of D.L. Grace
You never know what you’ll find on the Internet… In writing the newspaper history essay for the Burns Times-Herald, our essayist, Isolde Raftery, was trying to discover the full name of one D.L. Grace. Along with his wife, Nellie, D.L.…
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