It's that time of year again! Archives Month is the time when archives institutions and archives collections and the people that care for them and make them available are celebrated across the Uni...
Despite the increase in digital records, the volume of paper that many of us accumulate in our daily lives can certainly become overwhelming. Various reasons exist for the persistence of personal p...
The County Archives received the County Sheriff's Office history files a couple years ago. While they...
"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both." James Madison, 1822When James Madison wrote...
Our earlier Dive into the Archives blog post took a light-hearted look at a poster claiming you could stop crime by attanding meetings. In this case,...
Despite the snarky comment by James Tiberius Kirk (or Milton Berle; depending on attribution) -- "A meeting is an event where...
This week's Dive Into the Archives asked who these clowns were. There's a clue in the picture. Behind the legs of several of the clowns you'll see some letters....
Once again, the archives yields up summer fun. What could this jaunty crew be up to? Whatever it is, they seem to be enjoying it. Let us know who these folks are and what they're up to. Comment wi...
This week's Dive into the Archives offering details the events surrounding the sale of a boar pig from The Multnomah County Poor Farm to a Mr. Ed Tapley...
One area of our website that's been getting considerable activity is Locating Records. Likely due to the nature of the name of our program and our ranking in web search...
In this weeks Dive into the Archives, we are confronted with a common issue in records. They can be awfully cryptic. The people at either end of this communication know what's going on -- but to a...
The photograph in the last post is from the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office archives and shows a deputy showing two young fellows how to shoot at the Sheriff's...