About Historic Oregon Newspapers
Welcome to Historic Oregon Newspapers. On this site you can search and access complete content for historic Oregon newspapers that have been digitized as part of the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP). Soon you will also be able to read historic essays about each of the featured newspapers and view sample lesson plans to help K-12 Educators integrate historic newspapers into their classroom strategies. We hope to keep adding new titles and more pages, so please check back periodically for content updates.
The ODNP was also created to help facilitate the digitization of Oregon newspapers by outside organizations/individuals and include in this open state-wide resource for Historic Oregon Newspapers online. If you are interested in participating, please see Become a Partner.
ODNP is a program of the University of Oregon Libraries with the help of major grants and external funding.
Selected Newspaper Pages
Titles are selected by the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program Advisory Board.
Titles are digitized primarily from microfilm holdings for reasons of efficiency and cost, encouraging selection of technically-suitable film, bibliographic completeness, diversity and "orphaned" newspapers (newspapers that have ceased publication and lack active ownership) in order to decrease the likelihood of duplicative digitization by other organizations.
These newspaper materials were digitized to technical specifications designed by the Library of Congress. These specifications include the following basic elements (profiles describing the full set of specifications can be found at http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/techspecs.html).
Program Staff
Karen Estlund, Oregon Digital Newspaper Program Director, Digital Collections Coordinator, University of Oregon Libraries, 541-346-1854, kestlund@uoregon.edu
Newspaper History Essays written by: Jonathan Bowers, Sheila Rabun, Isolde Raftery, and Jason Stone
Oregon Digital Newspaper Program Staff:
- ODNP Project Manager
Additional Assistance Provided by:
- Lesli Larson, Image Services Coordinator
- Linda Sato, Reformatting Technician and Microfilm Expert
- Mary Grenci, Serials Team Leader
- Rebecca Fisher, Serials Cataloging Assistant
- Tamara Vidos Glencross, Microforms Coordinator
Former Contributors:
- Microfilm Collation Assistants: Lisa Berenschot, Sommer Fain, Chelsea Jennings, Erik Maurer, Adam Marcus, Stacer McChesney, Sheila Rabun, Heidi Scheidl, and Salome Serron
- ODNP Project Manager: Jason Stone
- Oregon NDNP Quality Control Specialist: John Taylor
Web Application
The public website is built using the LC Newspaper Viewer application developed by the Library of Congress for Chronicling America. For more information, see http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/loc-ndnp/wiki.
Related Resources
- Chronicling America
- University of Oregon Libraries - Oregon Newspapers on Microfilm by County
- Historic Oregon Newspapers Online by County
- University of Oregon Libraries - Oregon Digital collections
Rights and Reproductions
Newspaper content on this site is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Historic Oregon Newsapapers site is requested.
