Marion Memories by Ivan Hadley, 1975
Ivan Lowell Hadley 2 Aug 1897, Marion, Marion, Oregon - 23 April 1986, Yamhill County, Oregon. This typed sheet was found in the WHC [...]
August 2017
Salem Daily Record, 1867-1868
Salem Daily Record Index The Salem Daily Record appears to have been a newspaper published from 1867-1868 in Salem, Oregon. After finding a hand-written [...]
May 2017
Albert Lester Chandler Collection
Albert Lester Chandler, c. 1918. Willamette Heritage Center Collections, WHC 0091.022.0001. Albert Lester Chandler Collection WHC 0091.002 and WHC 0091.022 The Albert [...]
March 2017
Honeymoon By Carriage: 1852 Journal of Esther Bell McMillan Hanna
Read the manuscript edited by David Duniway here. Â An Unpublished Project David Cushing Duniway (1912-1993) Photo Source: WHC [...]
Flax and Linen Collections
Flax Cultivation and Linen Production WHC Collections 1998.010.0027 For at least 36,000 years, humans have been utilizing the flax plant (genus [...]
Salem Mayors Oral History Project
Salem Mayors Sue Harris Miller Addressing Crowd at City hall c. 1983. Al Jones Collection, WHC 2007.001.0270 The history of Salem's [...]
February 2017
James Carlton Nelson Papers
A recently acquired collection of papers belonging to longtime Salem educator James Carlton Nelson have yielded a few unexpected surprises. The papers consisting of [...]
Hop Vine Scratch Newspaper, 1925
Newspaper for Hops Pickers The Hop Vine Scratch was a newspaper produced by the Health and Recreation Service of the Lake Brook Hops Ranch [...]
March 2016
Mill Workers Interviews
In 1976-1977, 53 individuals that had worked at or had a family connection to the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill in Salem, Oregon were interviewed as [...]
Oral History and Film Collections
Oral Histories The Willamette Heritage Center has a large and growing oral history collection, rooted in the collections of stories recorded by its parent [...]