Thomas Kay Woolen Mill in Wartime
Survey of documentation of changes in operations due to wartime conditions at the Thomas Kay woolen Mill, Salem, Oregon During World War I, World [...]
February 2019
December 2018
R.W. Hogg & Sons Records
Finding Aide for Willamette Heritage Center Collection 2006.050. Prepared by Meg Flanders, Fall 2017. OverviewThis collection contains materials collected by R.W. Hogg and family over [...]
March 2018
Salem Water Company Records, 1998.003
Salem Water Company Also: Salem Water and Light Company, Salem Water, Light and Power Co. Advertisement, Oregon Magazine, 1921. Willamette Heritage Center Collections: [...]
July 2017
David Duniway Papers, 1999.013
David Cushing Duniway (1912-1993) Photo Source: WHC 2007.001.0501. Click here to access the David Duniway Papers Finding Aide. Click here to access [...]
May 2017
Albert Lester Chandler Collection
Albert Lester Chandler, c. 1918. Willamette Heritage Center Collections, WHC 0091.022.0001. Albert Lester Chandler Collection WHC 0091.002 and WHC 0091.022 The Albert [...]
April 2017
Salem Keizer School District Records
The Willamette Heritage Center houses over 45 cubic feet of records compiled by the Salem Keizer School District (2002.020) and has an extensive Yearbook [...]
March 2017
Flax and Linen Collections
Flax Cultivation and Linen Production WHC Collections 1998.010.0027 For at least 36,000 years, humans have been utilizing the flax plant (genus [...]
Salem Mayors Oral History Project
Salem Mayors Sue Harris Miller Addressing Crowd at City hall c. 1983. Al Jones Collection, WHC 2007.001.0270 The history of Salem's [...]
February 2017
James Carlton Nelson Papers
A recently acquired collection of papers belonging to longtime Salem educator James Carlton Nelson have yielded a few unexpected surprises. The papers consisting of [...]
March 2016
Mill Workers Interviews
In 1976-1977, 53 individuals that had worked at or had a family connection to the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill in Salem, Oregon were interviewed as [...]