Salem’s Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations
By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation…That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one [...]
February 2022
July 2020
Obed Dickinson
Letterhead for Obed Dickinson's Seed Business. WHC collections 2015.018.0042. I have found there is an almost eerie phenomenon that happens working in [...]
May 2015
Tokio Sukiyaki House and Frank Tanaka
This article was written for the Statesman Journal and published Sunday May 3rd. It is reproduced here with citations and additional images for reference purposes. [...]
July 2014
July 30, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Capital Journal Headlines: Italian Feeling Against Austria Becoming Intense Compact Which Binds Germany, Austria and Italy an Unnatural One [...]
July 29, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent Once the dominos began to fall readers had difficulty keeping up with the news. The Capital Journal reported “The [...]
July 5, 1914
By Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The Oregon Statesman reported a disturbance in Boise: Austrians Riot Two Killed, Three Other in a Hospital Trouble Caused [...]
July 4, 1914
By Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent News from Europe dropped out of the paper for a period of days. Â Local issues and news predominated, of [...]