Some Really Useful Sources for Oregon History

A Short List

At your library, historical society, museum, genealogical society

• Your reference librarian and your library's research guides and reference collection
• Local history collections: newspaper clipping, pamphlets, railroad promotional brochures, postcards, telephone books & city directories, town & school newspapers, college & high school yearbooks, autobiographies of local people, newsletters of local historical societies, museums and genealogical societies

Resources from UO

• UO Libraries' Special Collections:http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll
• On-line exhibits: http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/xhibits.html
• Email reference assistance: http://library.uoregon.edu/speccoll/email.html
• Northwest Digital Archives (not yet digital collections; descriptions of primary source stuff at local repositories): http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/nwda-search/
• Oregon Documentary Project (short student documentaries, often using Special Collections materials, some streamed): http://odp.uoregon.edu/
• Oregon Humanity Center's films A history of the University of Oregon The founding, 1857-1883; Growing pains, 1884-1925 (UO Library has a VHS copy)
• Western Waters (Rivers and their importance in the West, pictures, books, reports, etc. Includes contributions from UO): westernwaters.org
• UO Libraries' Documents Center (maps, aerial photos, government info, lots online): http://library.uoregon.edu/govdocs/
• UO Scholar's Bank (research papers, documents, some streaming media, UO Channel, events, lectures): scholarsbank.uoregon.edu. Content increases daily; some highlights: Roll On, Columbia (Woody Guthrie writing songs for Bonneville in 1941) and Ed's Co-ed (1919 UO student film).
• UO Libraries' Digital Library: http://oregondigital.org/digcol/index.html. Content increases daily; some highlights: UO Office of the President Papers; Leadership and Legacy: Athletics at UO; Picturing the Cayuse ( Lee Moorhouse project with Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla).

• Other Online Resources

• Library of Congress's American Memory (has Oregon content): http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
• Online Archive of California (has Oregon content): http://oac.cdlib.org
• Oregon Historical Society (Oregon History Project, themes, digital collections): http://www.ohs.org
• Oregon State University
• Digital Library: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/digitalcollections
• Multicultural Archive: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/oma/index.html
• Salem Public Library's Salem Online History: http://www.salemhistory.net/
• Southern Oregon University's Digital Library: http://soda.sou.edu/index.html
• University of Washington's Digital Library: content.lib.washington.edu, especially their American Indians of the Pacific Northwest at content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/