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 [...]
April 2024
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 [...]
Sgt. Major John W. Jackson and Caroline Woodson Jackson
Tombstone of John W. and Caroline Woodson Jackson in Hayesville Cemetery, Salem, Oregon. Photo taken February 2023. Photo by Kylie Pine Salem’s [...]
October 2022
Confluence
Confluence LGBT Chorus Whether doing karaoke with your friends or being in the crowd of a concert, it cannot be argued that when singing [...]
Martin Family Photograph Collection
Background The William and Rose Cleantha [Blood] Martin family originated in Muskegon Michigan. They emigrated to Oregon in 1885 first living in Dayton, [...]
September 2022
Salem Pride
After the riot at New York City’s Stonewall bar in June of 1969 and the gathering that occurred the next year, many LGBTQ+ communities [...]