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 [...]
March 2017
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 [...]
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 [...]