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 . Selected Newspaper Pages 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 : Additional Assistance Provided by: Former Contributors: 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 . Rights and Reproductions Newspaper content on this site is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Historic Oregon Newsapapers site is requested.