[Hist_Pres] Fwd: hp: Portland Daily Abstract index is now online

[Joy Sears]

>From the U of O:

An Index and Summary of Oregon Building Information in the Portland Daily
Abstract (1906-1910)
In 1992, Michael Shellenbarger published an index to building information in
The Portland Daily Abstract  as an initial phase of a larger vision to
capture architectural information in several early newspapers of Portland,
Oregon.  According to Shellenbarger,  these early newspapers were primary
sources of early 20th century building activity in Oregon.  They thrived at
a time when "the building industry was the dynamic center of economic and
cultural life to an extent that is difficult to imagine today, and this
building activity was the major emphasis of these papers' six daily issues
per week." The  Portland Daily Abstract and its kindred newspapers
flourished when "Architects were the celebrities of the front page."

Shellenbarger's index was created as a database with numerous fields that
enabled generating information in a variety of useful ways.  Thus he used
'summary' in the title of this work to emphasize how the Index reveals the
history of individual works, architects, neighborhoods, materials, and
cities. The original database has disappeared, but reproduced here is the
printed version which provides a unique window into Oregon's early building
history.

https://libweb.uoregon.edu/aaa/shellenbarger.html 
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> Ed Teague
> Head, Architecture & Allied Arts Library
> University of Oregon