Portland Metro and Oregon Research: History

Over 3000 historical photos of life in Oregon

Tumblr blog from the Oregonian showing what locations in Portland looked like historically and now.

The Digital Gallery features images from the University Archives photograph collection documenting Portland State's rich history. The image collections, highlighting campus buildings and events, student life, and portraits of faculty and staff, can be searched and browsed by dates and keywords.

Digital photos from the City of Portland Archives and Records Management

The Oregon History Project is an online resource for learning about Oregon's past. In these pages, the work of historians and writers will help you explore the history of Oregon through the perspectives of people who helped shape the state.

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). This full-text searchable database contains almost 2,400,000 pages from Oregon newspapers dated 1846 - 2023.

The digital collections of the Oregon Historical Society.

Location-based guide to the history of various communities in Portland. PDX Social History Guide brings their stories to the surface through interviews, mapping, art and photos. Each story features a summary, audio clip, and an image or map.

The Oregon History Project is an online resource for learning about Oregon's past. In these pages, the work of historians and writers will help you explore the history of Oregon through the perspectives of people who helped shape the state.

Digital collections from University of Oregon and Oregon State.

Provides information about historic landmarks in Portland as well as historic Portland maps.

Complete collection of Multnomah County's digitized archival work.

Century of Action celebrates 100 years of Oregon women's right to vote and advances the understanding of women's citizenship in Oregon's history.

Maps, documents, reports, newspapers, and more focusing on immigrant populations, including people identified as having African, Asian, European, or Latin American heritage, in the Columbia River Basin. This collection does not include Native American resources.

From the University of Washington, with scanned photographs, treaties, and reports.

View historic places on a map view.