Multnomah County Library Gallery
The Gallery features photographs, documents, maps, recorded audio and video of Multnomah County’s rich and vibrant cultural heritage. These items are free and open for you to browse to use for personal and educational purposes.
The Gallery began at Multnomah County Library in 2013 with a collection to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Central Library. Since then it has grown to a collection of over 4,000 materials telling stories of the people and places in Multnomah County. The Gallery’s collection has everything from autographed portraits, ticket stubs from historic events, to photos of shipwrecks and more.
Explore the Gallery and find:
- Our Story: a celebration of Black life in Oregon.
- Photographs, ticket stubs, and event invitations from the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905.
- Signed and inscribed photographs of performers that toured through Portland.
- Library photos over the past 160 years.
Library staff and patrons telling their library stories.
A selection of images:
Our Story
Unique Club of Goodfellows ball, December 4, 1922
Library
Arleta Branch interior, with children