Category: Historical Writing

Category: Historical Writing

Professional Credentials

  • GED

Personal Statement

I’m a photo-historian, project manager, editor and writer working independently for museums, publishers and government agencies.

Areas of Specialization

  • Photo reproduction for maximum quality including drum scanning and color correction.
  • Photo editing for publication, including searching and research, acquisition, metadata and digital image management.

Professional Associations

  • Northwest History Network
  • Oregon Historical Society

Selected Positions, Projects, and Publications

  • Oregon Then & Now (author)
  • Oregon Photographers 1852-1917 (author)
  • Portland Confidential (photo editor)
  • Oregon My Oregon (photo editor)
  • Wild Beauty (assistant photo editor)
  • Handbook of Western Photographers (section editor)
  • Products & Services
    • Subject and location photo research
    • Drum scanning & copy work
    • Archival darkroom printing
    • Digitization management consulting
    • In-house photo archive
  • Recent clients
    • CBS television
    • City of Portland
    • Field & Stream
    • National Park Service
    • Portland State University
    • McCormick & Schmick’s
    • McMenamins
    • Oregon Historical Society
    • Ralph Lauren, Madison Ave.
    • University of Oregon
    • Warner Brothers

Contact Information:
503-460-0415 (9am – 5pm Pacific time)
8250 N. Lombard, Portland OR 97203 USA
negativephoto@yahoo.com
historicphotoarchive.net

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/