Love Under Electric Lights
“A Woman Just Divorced, Weds Her First Love Beneath the Glare of an Electric Light,” read the headline. If they had had clickbait back [...]
March 2019
January 2017
January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy
Mellow Moon Pavilion was built the summer of 1925 by owners Mills and Albright at the west end of the Marion-Polk county bridge in [...]
November 2016
Why is Salem Oregon’s Capital?
Why is the city of Salem Oregon’s Capital? By Kylie Pine Why is Salem Oregon’s Capital? I was asked this question twice this week [...]
July 2016
Cartoon Clue to Proposed Woodburn Air Force Base
Cartoon by Monte Leo Jones for the Capital Journal. Research indicates that this cartoon may have been depicting the proposed Woodburn Air Force Base [...]
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 [...]
September 2014
September 6, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Headlines in the Sunday edition of the Daily Oregon Statesman for 6 September, 1914 reported what would be a [...]
August 2014
August 15, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The Capital Journal, concerned that reporting the news was secondary to interests of the belligerents notified their readers: Even [...]
March 2014
Bush College or Brush College?
Original Brush College Schoolhouse built in 1860.Photo courtesy of Salem-Keizer School District. In the past few weeks this question has [...]
December 2013
Rev. Plutarch S. Knight, 2006.013.0066
2006.013.0067 Plutarch S. Knight 2006.013.0067. Rev. Plutarch S. Knight. Boston-born, he came to Oregon in 1853 and was pretty much a Renaissance man. [...]
July 2013
Doty-Stone
Card Catalog at the WHC This is an example of one of the cards found in the old Marion County [...]