Yew Park School 100 Years Ago
Class at Park School, 1913. WHC Collections 1979.001.0005. As the Willamette Heritage Center prepares to host our third annual Heritage [...]
January 2013
October 2012
Obed Dickinson's Store
We were going through an old slide collection today and came across this pretty incredible image (X2012.016.0063) of the Reverend Obed Dickinson in front of [...]
Masonic Building
Our volunteer Richard has been cataloging and scanning commercial photos from the Robert McEwan Photo Studio. Today he found this photo of the Masonic Building [...]
August 2012
Kansas and 17th Then and Now, X2012.018.0024
[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?q=17th+and+Kansas+ST+NE+Salem,+Oregon&layer=c&sll=44.945127,-123.015332&cbp=13,290.85,,0,3.72&cbll=44.944946,-123.015422&hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=17th+St+NE+%26+Kansas+Ave+NE,+Salem,+Marion,+Oregon+97301&ll=44.945126,-123.015332&spn=0.005164,0.011362&t=m&z=14&panoid=PgdnVlMteT-S3saX0Iuz5Q&source=embed&output=svembed&w=425&h=350] Our volunteer Doug cataloged this photo today of the William Ruth House, located at 975 17th Street NE in Salem. [...]
Photo of the Day: Mill City Group
2003.001.0040. This photo-postcard has "Mill City" written along bottom of image in blue ballpoint pen. None of the individuals are identified. Anyone look familiar?
Parberry Grocery Company, 2012.032.0012
This photo came to us in a recent donation. Most of the photos were Salem based images, but we have yet to find a Parberry [...]
July 2012
Camp Adair Officers, 1999.012
Colonel Welcome P. Waltz, 1999.012.0012 1999.012.0019 Lt. Col. Robert Eugene Mousseau Des Islets Since our last post on the collection of [...]
Photo of the Day: Summer at Breitenbush
We just cataloged this photo (2011.067.0002) of Salem Photographer Bob McEwan, spending some leisure time at Breitenbush. The donor thinks this photo was taken in [...]
William F. Martin, 2012.011.0023
Our thanks to Judy at Geneaology Gals for helping us fill in a little more information and a lot of insight into our photo of [...]
June 2012
Life of First Postmaster Born in Salem
In cataloging slides today in the Al Jones collection I came across an interesting series of images showing a wooden roll top desk with a [...]