Prospect School Souvenir
Cover of the Prospect School Souvenir Book. WHC 2015.066.0431. “Tis only a little remembrance…” the title page reads of the [...]
March 2016
Revolutionary Connection – Maybe
Gen. Nathaneal Greene, 1783. Artist: Charles Wilson Peale. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Along with a beautiful piece of hand spun/woven linen [...]
February 2016
Intimate view of the 363rd Field Hospital Company in WWI
View of the manuscript found in Dr. W. Carlton Smith’s papers. WHC 0087.035. The following is an excerpt from a manuscript [...]
Ovid Pickard and Vive La France the Wonder Cow
Vive La France. Published in Trip Around Salem publication, WHC 1997.027.0001. In 1952, the Oregon Statesman, reported on the death of Ovid [...]
January 2016
Salem Commercial Club Annual Report glimpse into Salem 100 years ago
This article was written for the Statesman Journal and appeared in publication on January 1, 2017. It is reproduced here with full citations for [...]
November 2015
Sedwick Post GAR Records, 2015.028.0001
Charter Member Gideon Stoltz from Memoirs of the Sedgwick Post No. 10 by Gideon Stolz. WHC 0064.001.0001. Earlier this year [...]
July 2015
Army Blanket Report, 1943
Army Blanket Record, Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, 1943. WHC Collections M3 1966-001-0001 box 58, Folder 3. […]
May 2015
Pliny F. Rumrill's Death
While cataloging a new donation of Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) materials to the WHC today, we came across this document (2015.028) which includes [...]
December 2014
Keep Your Money in the Circle, 1920
Logo from Marion County Facts Book, 1920. WHC X2013.001.0004.002. We got a kick out of this logo that came out of a Marion [...]
October 2014
Children's Book, 2014.060.0001
This page is from a children's alphabet book published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (2014.060.0001). It belonged to a Thelma MacDonald. There is a [...]