Negatives, photographs, slides, and photography assignments that were produced or retained by staff of the Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon, from 1980 to 2013. The collection also contains production prints, unpublished photographs, photographers' notes, and correspondence regarding photography assignments.

Jesse G. Sill was born in 1881 in Illinois and died in 1981 in Portland, Oregon. He was a pioneer newsreel photographer and the first to take aerial photographs of Mt. Hood. Collection includes correspondence, 1911-1919; script synopses and lists of films, 1915-1948; a travel diary, 1915-1916; and a movie poster for the film "Lone Trapper," circa 1911-1948.