Take a look at interesting materials from our collections.
Photos Found
We here at the Willamette Heritage Center, like most historical organizations, have been in the collecting business for a long time. Unfortunately, also like most [...]
December 2011
Jacquard Loom, Paris Woolen Mills
Get a peek our large object storage facility with Executive Director Peter Booth and Millwright David Birch.
November 2011
Campaign Buttons, X2011.009
X2011.009.0009, Campaign Button, Cub Houck It is interesting how many times reading the newspaper portends new discoveries in the Willamette Heritage Center [...]
September 2011
Hubbard Women's Club
Recently one of our volunteers finished processing a series of records from the Hubbard Women's Club in Hubbard Oregon. The records include minutes, club constitution, [...]
Tour WHC's New Shelving
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July 2011
New Jory Family Photo Found
This new acquisition is the first we've seen of the storied Jory Brothers who settled about six miles south of Salem. While the Willamette Heritage Center [...]
How Does Oregon Photographic Art Rank?
The following article was published in the Oregon Magazine, in February, 1932 (Vol. XXVI, No. X).  The Oregon Magazine was a monthly Salem-based [...]
June 2011
New Book features History of the Latter-Day Saints in Salem Area
New to the Willamette Heritage Center research library is a book by Dale Kirby. History of the Salem Oregon Stake, 1857-2010, covers over 150 years [...]
May 2011
Camp Adair Officers 1999.012
Lieutenant Colonel. C. T. Senay, Camp Adair Officer 1942-1945 In organizing some photo files this past week I came across [...]