Pacific Northwest History: Primary Sources: Oregon

A full-image searchable database of Oregon newspapers published between 1860 and 1922.

A small collection of late 19th and early 20th century Oregon Newspapers including the Evening Herald (1908-1922) and the Daily Astorian (1876-1890).

Although there are just a few years available online (1854, 1857-1859), this is an important primary source for early Oregon history.

Collections on Oregon history as well as other topics from the unique digital collections from OSU and UO Libraries.

Historic photographs, reports, and more that document the natural resources of Oregon.

Thousands of photographs of Oregon with an emphasis on the Salem region and Willamette Valley.

Narrative, timeline, and more than 400 digitized images and other artifacts illustrating Oregon history.

Microfilmed Portland newspaper from 1937 to present.

Index to Portland Oregonian 1852-1987 & two additional Oregon papers.

This book, apart of the Federal Writer's Project, was created in 1939 and includes information about history of the state of Oregon.

History of southern Oregon, First Nations, and the bioregion.

Digital collections of photographs, journal articles, sheet music, manuscripts, ephemera, etc. on the history of Oregon and UO.

Small collection of papers from the late 19th century and early 10th. Includes the Tacoma Times, 1903-1918.

Washington Digital Newspapers brings together over 600,000 pages from Washington’s earliest Territorial newspapers to the present day. Freely accessible to the public, this growing collection complements the Washington State Library’s physical collection of more than 6,500 newspaper titles.

1889 to current
Also available on microfilm A3953 held in the microforms & newspapers collection.

Newspaper page images for Dec 1901-1985 and text only for 1986-present.
April 1882-1900 included in Chronicling America.
For 1876 to 1882 use microfilm A329 held in the microforms & newspapers collection.