Moonshine Down the Drain
This article was found in today by Volunteer Darrel in the personal papers of Elmer Daue he is indexing. We thought it was interesting the [...]
May 2014
Old Photograph Tells a Tale: Adolph & May Farrow
Adolph and May Farrow, WHC X2011.003.0231 Occasionally here in the archives a single photograph with a simple inscription can yield a fascinating [...]
March 2014
The Wise Sow, 1890
The following article was found by our volunteer George in a newspaper clipping saved by Al Jones. We all got a laugh out of it. [...]
February 2014
Phez Advertisement, 2011.027.0205
Phez brand Loganberry juice was produced in Salem, Oregon and marketed as an alcohol substitute after prohibition laws were put into place in Salem (1913) [...]
January 2014
A Happy New Year to You, 2006.047.0012
This postcard was written to Marlin O. Muellhaupt who lived at 1066 Chemeketa Street in Salem by his mother, Maggie May Ramp Muellhaupt. In the [...]
December 2013
Mele Kalikimaka, 1942
This menu found in the Willamette Heritage Center's collection s(X2013.021.0002) shows what was for dinner at Pearl Harbor's Naval Air Station 71 years ago today.   [...]
Plain Talk, 1892
This ticket (WHC 63.1.1.8) made us giggle a little bit today. Aside from the wonderful irony that boys are not admitted to a program at [...]
Hayesville Women's Club, 2013.070.0001
These programs from the Hayesville Women's Club (Salem, Oregon) are a few of the new things received by the Willamette Heritage Center this past month. [...]
November 2013
Willkie-McNary for President? WHC 2004.026.0030
WHC Collections 2004.026.0030 This poster, depicting the presidential campaign by Wendell Willkie and Oregon politician and Salem native Charles Linza McNary in 1940, [...]
October 2013
Rescuing Europe, 1947
This snippet came out of a Marion and Polk County directory, called Heart of the Valley, published November, 1947. (X2013.021.0003, front cover) Years after peace [...]