Historic Photos
View Related Episode: Ocean Circulation, Historic Photos, Hobie Cats
Travel to the past through the massive historic photo collection at the University of Oregon's Knight Library. There are about 500,000 images in the collection, 40,000 of which are glass-plate negatives. Thanks to today's computer processors, the crisply clear glass plates can be scanned and blown up 400-500 percent, revealing astonishing details.
We'll have a look at Pioneer Square circa 1910, inside a schoolroom in 1905, and more.
First Broadcast: 2005
Producer: Jim Newman
Appeared in episode: Ocean Circulation, Historic Photos, Hobie Cats
For more information:
Project Intersect
- See the diary and photographs of Opal Whiteley, a girl growing up at the turn of the 20th century, at Project Intersect, a program of the University of Oregon.
- Online: intersect.uoregon.edu/opal/
University of Oregon Special Collections
- Explore an archive of historical photographs.
- Online: libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/photo/index.html
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