Meier & Frank’s Fashion Show
Backdrop built on the Salem’s Meier & Frank store rooftop for the 1960 political convention-themed fashion show. Image published in Oregon Statesman Newspaper 17 [...]
November 2024
May 2024
Wool Spells ‘Warmth’ for Soldiers
Unloading wool destined to be manufactured into overcoats or blankets for men in the armed services, at the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill in [...]
April 2024
South Salem Drive-In Theater
Ad for the Salem Drive-in Theater printed in the Capital Journal newspaper on 2 Apr 1952. Image from Newspapers.com This [...]
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 [...]
March 2024
Nutria in the Mid-Willamette Valley
Nutria on the grounds of the Willamette Heritage Center. WHC Collections 2012.020.00179 The Short History of Nutria in the Mid-Willamette Valley I [...]
October 2023
Fairfield
Fairfield, Marion County, Oregon Fairfield refers to a community, post office, steamship landing and voting/census precinct located northwest of St. Louis, Marion, Oregon. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
August 2022
Bob Schwartz and the Blue Note
Bob Schwartz, Blue Note Vocalist. McEwan Photo Studios, Jan 1955. WHC Collections 2006.002.0687. Passion for Jazz Led to Firing of Salem Police Officer [...]
February 2022
Salem’s Emancipation Jubilee Celebrations
By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation…That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one [...]