The Gorman Family
The Gorman family lived in Salem at various times during their lives. The family included matriarch Hannah, her two children Eliza and Hiram, her [...]
June 2025
Lucy Fulgham Hendrick Haynes
Mrs. Lucy Haynes, popular women's activism speaker, image from San Bernardino County Sun, 18 May 1963, p. 8. Newspapers.com 1920-2003 [...]
April 2025
George Lai Sun Family
黎 ç« å»£ George Lai Sun Family. Oregon Historical Society Org Lot 480. Norma O'Kelley Collection. Given the ages of the [...]
May 2024
The Many Cartoons of Monte Leo Jones
Monte Leo Jones served as a foreman of the composing room for both the Capital Journal and Statesman Journal, but was more well known [...]
March 2024
Mamie Varble
Mamie Burch Varble, shared with permission from Ancestry tree. Original photo includes the Burch stepsisters. Mamie Varble was an occupant [...]
Williams Twins
Leslie Junior High School, 1936-37 schoolyear, student body photo. WHC Collections 2023.033.0005 Taken in the 1936-37 school year, this portrait of [...]
February 2024
Finding Mabel
Childhood portrait of Mabel Skiff, Willamette Heritage Center collections, 2019.013.0081 This story begins with an estrangement between sisters, Carrie and [...]
January 2024
Atilana Nayares Phillips
From Chihuahua to Dallas, Oregon in 1907 It sure seems like Atilana Nayares Phillips[1] had an unfair amount of sorrow in her life. Yet [...]
September 2023
Dr. S.A. Davis Comes to Salem, 1890
It was likely a warm summer day when the steam locomotive huffed and hissed into the Salem railroad depot in 1890, and the travel [...]
August 2023
Women Working on the Railroad in Salem
The Women of Salem's Wartime Roundhouse Donna Beall at the Salem Roundhouse. Photo by Ben Maxwell. Published in the Capital Journal Friday, May 24, 1946. [...]