Columbia Gorge News: Discovery Center’s Historic Photo Archive online, open to public. “Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum has restored their Historic Photo Archives online…Thanks to a grant from the City of The Dalles, the public now can view more than 30,600 images from the museum’s vast photo collection.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/07/columbia-gorge-news-discovery-centers-historic-photo-archive-online-open-to-public/#oregonculture — Public Fediverse posts
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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 […]
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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/
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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 […]
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Oregon Public Broadcasting: The Portlander who is archiving his city’s street car history. “Portlander Cameron Booth is mostly known for his blog Transit Maps, which reviews and showcases public transit maps from bygone eras to modern day systems. But for nearly a year now, Booth has been making sure one piece of Portland’s history is not forgotten: street cars. From its beginnings in […]