Flour Sack Quilt
Flour sack quilt, WHC Collections 2025.014.0001 Quilt Description Maker: Ida (Fowler) Dowd Thomas Overall Size: 72" width; 86" length Block [...]
June 2025
Home Amusement Club Band
H.A.C. Band on the Steamboat City of Salem. Photograph by T.J. Cronise, Cronise Studio. Image taken about 1885 in Salem. WHC Collections 2015.025.0045. [...]
August 2024
Breyman Boise House
Breyman-Boise House, Salem, Oregon. Likely before 1931 move. Al Jones Collection. Willamette Heritage Center 2004.010.0149. Built: 1884-1889 Demolished: 1972 Built as the [...]
July 2024
Richmond School: Celebrating 75 Years
Booklet prepared for the 75th Anniversary celebration of Richmond School in Salem, OR. Written and edited by: Alfred C. Jones, Laura Koenig Hildebrandt, Judy [...]
April 2024
WPA Sewing Room
Salem WPA Sewing Room in the old high school building. Photo from Oregon Statesman,19 May 1940 p. 13. Image from Newspapers.com [...]
October 2023
2014.083 WEPACO Newsletters 1949-1960
WEPACO Notebook Volume 1 No. 2, 1949. WHC Collections 2014.083 WEPACO Notebook, 1949-1960 The WEPACO Notebook was a newsletter [...]
September 2023
Dr. S.A. Davis Comes to Salem, 1890
It was likely a warm summer day when the steam locomotive huffed and hissed into the Salem railroad depot in 1890, and the travel [...]
August 2023
Women Working on the Railroad in Salem
The Women of Salem's Wartime Roundhouse Donna Beall at the Salem Roundhouse. Photo by Ben Maxwell. Published in the Capital Journal Friday, May 24, 1946. [...]
April 2023
In Freedom’s Footsteps: Juneteenth Community History Walk
Believed to be Albert and Mary Ann Bayless. From St. Paul's AME Church Photo, State Library of Oregon 2006.001.0705 In partnership with Oregon [...]
March 2023
Lunar New Year Celebrations in Salem
Lunar New Year in Salem, 1897. Dr. Kum on the left and George Sun on the right. WHC Collections. 2015.025.0021 Historical newspapers and [...]