Martin Sisters: Sack of Photos Leads to Family Tale
Sisters Amy and Jessie Martin enjoying a class picnic at Lily Pond on Sept. 3, 1934. Photo Credit: WHC 2012.011.0002 Our story [...]
February 2016
Caralyn B. Shelton, Oregon’s First Woman Governor (for a weekend)
Caralyn B. Shelton - image enlarged from WHC 1998.009.0017 “Oregon Has Today a Woman Governor” the headlines of [...]
November 2015
Farley E. Mogan – The Oregon State Policeman and the Sea Lion
Unidentified Oregon State Policeman and Sea Lion. The call came over the radio to state police patrolman Farley [...]
February 2015
New affiliation means homecoming of sorts for OHSU
By Kylie Pine Originally published in the Statesman Journal newspaper, January 2, 2016. Reproduced here with source citations for reference purposes. On November 16, 2015, [...]
November 2014
November 19, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Of absolutely no connection with war is the following story of a “properly robed lady in black” floating down [...]
September 2014
September 7, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent One of the remaining Marne taxis is in Portland. “German Women of Most Heroic Mold” read the [...]
June 2014
Salem Senators’ Triple Threat: the Girod Brothers
Salem Senators Baseball Team, circa 1920s. WHC Collections, 2011.030.0401 At one point in every child’s life a stick becomes a [...]
April 2014
Casebere Standard Kindergarten
1916 Casebere Standard Kindergarten - WHC image 2014.011.0001 At the 1916 Oregon State Fair, under the sponsorship of the Oregon Congress [...]
August 2013
Just Released: Willamette Valley Voices Waterways Edition
Volume II, No. 2 of the Willamette Heritage Center’s historical journal Willamette Valley Voices has just come back from the printers. This issue offers articles [...]
Reed’s Opera House
Reed Opera House, David Duniway Collection. Willamette Heritage Center, 1999.013.0200. Note that this is a Cronise print (see mark in lower right corner). [...]