Brian Johnson, Northwest History Network Associate

Professional Credentials

  • MLIS, Emporia State University
  • BA, History / Anthropology, Linfield College

Personal Statement

I am a Certified Archivist with over 20 years of providing access to local history. I am experienced in project management and have provided a wide variety of services to customers needing assistance with archival, records and research projects.

Areas of Specialization

  • Archival and collection project management
  • Collection preservation needs and assessment
  • Copyright issues
  • Local historical resource
  • Local history research
  • Historical photograph research and identification
  • Historical materials assessment, sales and brokering

Professional Associations

  • Academy of Certified Archivists
  • Northwest Archivists
  • Society of American Archivists
  • Northwest History Network

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Director of Archival and Preservation Services, American History Savers, Inc. Clients include:
    • The Baldpate Inn, Colorado
    • University of New Mexico
    • Trails Club of Oregon
    • Numerous local authors, collectors and antiquarian dealers.
  • Portland Fire & Rescue. Arcadia Publishing, 2007

Contact Information:
503-415-0713
brian.johnson@amhist.com
http://americanhistorysavers.com/

 

 

 

James Hillegas Northwest History Associate
Mr. Hillegas, who enjoys history as well as his coffee.

Professional Credentials

  • MA, History, Portland State University
  • BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University

Personal Statement

Historian of the 20th century urban environment in North America, including pollution abatement, the built environment, sustainability, and oral history.

Areas of Specialization

  • Education; Historical Research; Historical Writing; Oral History

Professional Associations

  • American Society for Environmental History
  • Urban History Association
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Northwest History Network
  • Oregon Historical Society

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Working for the “Working River”: Willamette River Pollution, 1926-1975 [working title]. Book in progress, Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.
  • “Working for the ‘Working River’: Willamette River Pollution, 1926-1962.” MA Thesis, Portland State University, 2009.
  • “With the Determination of the Machine Age: Interstate 5 is Built through Bellingham, Washington, 1945-1966,” The Journal of the Whatcom County Historical Society, Centennial Edition (2004), 105-138.
  • Oregon Encyclopedia entries:
    • “Izaak Walton League in Oregon”
    • “Geocaching”
    • “U.S.S. Sederstrom (DE-31)”
    • “U.S.S. Astoria (CA-34)”
    • “U.S.S. Oregon City (CA-122)”
    • “U.S.S. Coos Bay (AVP-25) / U.S.C.G.C. Coos Bay (WHEC-376)”
    • “Mt. Angel Oktoberfest”

Contact Information:
971-506-5998
~jvhillegas@gmail.com
http://wwwhistoricalthreads.blogspot.com/
http://sustainabilityhistory.org/

Professional Credentials

 

Personal Statement

I am a multimedia artist specializing in moving imagery and instructional
technology. I consider myself an amateur historian focusing on the heritage
and history of my community, the Silverton Country, as well as the history
of multimedia technology and its impact on society.Areas of Specialization:
Digital motion picture production, editing and animation. I am skilled in
all aspects of digital and analog graphic art, moving imagery and audio
techniques. I am especially interested in acoustic audio recording
techniques, late 19th century political cartoons and early motion picture
hard and software. I am also well versed in analog to digital conversion of
various media, including but not limited to Optical Character Recognition
(OCR), phonographic audio restoration, photographic scanning, and film
transfer. I am a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics, from antique
phonographics to Martian lava tube caves.

Professional Associations

  • Northwest History Network

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Coordinator – The Davenport Project
  • GeerCrest Farm & Historical Society – Board of Directors
  • CONTACT: Cultures of the Imagination – Board of Directors
  • Silverton Planning Commission – Commissioner
  • Silverton Grange No. 748 – Lecturer
  • “Cartoons by Davenport” – Researcher and editor for this annotated edition of Hearst cartoonist Homer Davenport’s 1898 book
  • “Silverton” – Author/Compiler of Arcadia Publishing’s book on Silverton fortheir “Images of America” series

Contact Information:
503-779-9378
http://gus.2020oregon.net
The Davenport Project