French Gratitude Train Collection
In 1949, the French people sent out 49 WWI vintage boxcars to each state in the United States (there were 48 then and one was [...]
March 2016
Prospect School Souvenir
Cover of the Prospect School Souvenir Book. WHC 2015.066.0431. “Tis only a little remembrance…” the title page reads of the [...]
Blending Poetry and Cloth: SAQA Regional Exhibit
September 23, 2016 - December 23, 2016 Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art [...]
A Sense of Place: Halls Ferry
Rail station at Hall's Ferry in 1915. It provided a connection between the Oregon Electric Railway and the ferry. [...]
Revolutionary Connection – Maybe
Gen. Nathaneal Greene, 1783. Artist: Charles Wilson Peale. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Along with a beautiful piece of hand spun/woven linen [...]
Leslie Junior High Broadcasters now online
Students at Leslie Junior High School, 1939. WHC 2015.023.0001 Newspaper Now Online Online access to archival materials have revolutionized the way we do [...]
February 2016
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 [...]
Intimate view of the 363rd Field Hospital Company in WWI
View of the manuscript found in Dr. W. Carlton Smith’s papers. WHC 0087.035. The following is an excerpt from a manuscript [...]
Ovid Pickard and Vive La France the Wonder Cow
Vive La France. Published in Trip Around Salem publication, WHC 1997.027.0001. In 1952, the Oregon Statesman, reported on the death of Ovid [...]
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 [...]