#oregonculture — Public Fediverse posts

New-to-me, from High Country News: How community organizers are amplifying Oregon’s Black music history. “The online repository contains over 13,000 items from 180 sources. There’s music, of course — live recordings, out-of-circulation albums, unreleased demos — plus film, newsprint, posters, handbills and oral histories. This massive collection is the backbone of the archive, but it […]

KOIN: Rare 360-degree photos of Oregon life in 1900s now online. “Long before the creation of iPhones and the panorama feature, photographers like June D. Drake used cameras like the Cirkut to record 360 degree images of life in Oregon in the 1900s.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/koin-rare-360-degree-photos-of-oregon-life-in-1900s-now-online/

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Thousands of newly digitized images show Oregon life in the 1900s. “The team at the Oregon Historical Society’s Digital Collections recently released thousands of historic images from local photographer June D. Drake. Drake operated a commercial studio in Silverton, Oregon, in the early 1900s. Before his retirement in 1960, Drake took tens of thousands of images […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/oregon-public-broadcasting-thousands-of-newly-digitized-images-show-oregon-life-in-the-1900s/