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
Chinese Tea Garden
Chinese Tea Garden restaurant, 162 1/2 Commercial St. Detail from WHC Collections 1998.016.0008 History Tucked above Commercial Street in [...]
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 章 廣 George Lai Sun Family. Oregon Historical Society Org Lot 480. Norma O'Kelley Collection. Given the ages of the [...]
February 2025
The Blue Bird
Blue Bird Cafe at 524 State St. next door to Capitol Theater. WHC Collection 2016.009.0001.002 History Summary Name Origin 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 [...]