Our mission is provide heritage high quality cannabis varietals, flowers, seeds, and extracts directly to the customer. Good luck, and thanks again for your question! - Emily-Jane D.First and foremost, we are cannabis growers with over 35 years of collective cultivation experience. I would definitely suggest visiting the Oregon Historical Society as well - as I mention in the blog post above, they have an incredibly deep collection. It is possible that the Multnomah County Archives ( /records/county-archives ) may have some other early records, beyond the 1990s photos Kris mentioned, that could be useful. It's outside city limits, and there aren't many sources for early photos of houses in unincorporated Multnomah County. For everyone else who's curious about how one might find a photo of the 1940s-era house at 9741 NW Kaiser Rd., well, that's tricky. I've gone ahead and sent your question on to our team of librarians, and they should be in touch with you by email within the next few days. Thanks for your comment, Kris - we appreciate your confidence that the library will always reply! In fact, the best way to get your research questions to us is to call/email/text/chat us at - or of course to chat with the librarian on duty when you're at the library in person. Some of the library's photographs have been digitized and are available through OHS's Digital Collections website, but many, many images are available only by visiting in person (1200 SW Park Ave. Their collection includes more than 2.5 million photographs and negatives of people, communities, commerce, and life in the Pacific Northwest - the photograph collection doesn't have a section devoted to house portraits, but you may find photographs of your street, or photographs indexed under the name of a former owner of the house. The Oregon Historical Society library is another treasure trove for house history researchers. Contact them to see what services they can offer remotely. NOTE: As of March 2021, the Portland City Archives is closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic. To look at original photographs in person, you'll need to visit the Archives reading room downtown (1800 SW 6th Ave., Suite 550 503.865.4100). You can search for records (including photographs) using the Archives' catalog, Efiles, and some have been published on the archives's Vintage Portland blog - see below for more about that! But, most photographs in the collection aren't available online. These images usually show city workers doing something in the neighborhood (such as repairing the sewer like in the photo at left) or were taken in connection with city planning work, like a street scene before the installation of a new traffic light. Many of these images are carefully preserved in the Portland City Archives collection. The city of Portland has a lot of photographs of infrastructure and maintenance work they've done over the years. Houses sometimes appear in the background of photographs taken to record activity on the street. And a bonus - when you find that long-time resident and photo-saver, they may share stories about past residents of your house or other interesting neighborhood lore! People who live on your street may have their own old photographs of family events, parties, or other occasions which include your house in the background. You might wonder, if there's no big archive of house pictures, where should you start? There are a few possibilities:įirst, ask your neighbors or the people in your neighborhood association. The challenge is that there has never been a comprehensive house-portrait project in Portland - or any other city or town in our area - so there is no treasure trove of photos of local homes that you can dig through. Who wouldn't, right? Unfortunately for Portland-area house history buffs, this can be one of the hardest bits of house history ephemera to track down! But don't despair there are surviving photographs of some houses and it is possible (sometimes) to find them. Nearly every house history researcher wants to see old photographs or drawings of their house.
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