Historic Hayesville Project
The Historic Hayesville Project is compiling information on historical families, buildings, schools and landmarks that marked this location in NE Salem, Oregon, along what [...]
August 2013
November 2012
Salem Thinking Globally in 1957
While trolling the newspapers (T2011.001.005) on an unrelated project we came across this very interesting story of a global thinking in Salem in 1957. Spurred [...]
October 2012
Fall Cleaning Finds Parrish Periscope
With the help of our marvelous volunteer Sue, we did a little rearranging and cleaning in the archives storage today. We can now open all [...]
Oregon Pulp & Paper Co.
We recently received a donation of a few aerial views of Salem in 1947 (2012.051). This image shows the old Oregon Pulp & Paper processing [...]
August 2012
Salem NAACP Charter, 1970
One of the best parts of cleaning in the collections area is finding materials we didn't know we had, including this framed Charter (X2012.028.0003) granted [...]
July 2012
On this Day in 1899
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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 [...]
May 2012
No Name Title Goes to Salem As Season Ends, 1941
The following is an article that appeared in the Friday, March 14, 1941 edition of the Clarion, the newspaper for what was then Salem’s only [...]
April 2011
Gerlinger Building
The building to the left is known as the Gerlinger building. It was home of Salem's Capital Business College, distinguished for the time future [...]
Subject Files
Looking for some quick information about a topic in Salem or Marion County? Our general subject files are sometimes the best place to start looking. [...]