Some Really Useful Sources for Oregon History

A Short List

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

On-line exhibits: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/xhibits.html
Email reference assistance: http://libweb.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://libweb.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://boundless.uoregon.edu/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

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/

Maintained by: N. Helmer, spcarref@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 10/12/2007