The Many Cartoons of Monte Leo Jones
Monte Leo Jones served as a foreman of the composing room for both the Capital Journal and Statesman Journal, but was more well known [...]
May 2024
March 2024
Mamie Varble
Mamie Burch Varble, shared with permission from Ancestry tree. Original photo includes the Burch stepsisters. Mamie Varble was an occupant [...]
Williams Twins
Leslie Junior High School, 1936-37 schoolyear, student body photo. WHC Collections 2023.033.0005 Taken in the 1936-37 school year, this portrait of [...]
February 2024
Finding Mabel
Childhood portrait of Mabel Skiff, Willamette Heritage Center collections, 2019.013.0081 This story begins with an estrangement between sisters, Carrie and [...]
January 2024
Atilana Nayares Phillips
From Chihuahua to Dallas, Oregon in 1907 It sure seems like Atilana Nayares Phillips[1] had an unfair amount of sorrow in her life. Yet [...]
September 2023
Dr. S.A. Davis Comes to Salem, 1890
It was likely a warm summer day when the steam locomotive huffed and hissed into the Salem railroad depot in 1890, and the travel [...]
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
Sgt. Major John W. Jackson and Caroline Woodson Jackson
Tombstone of John W. and Caroline Woodson Jackson in Hayesville Cemetery, Salem, Oregon. Photo taken February 2023. Photo by Kylie Pine Salem’s [...]
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 [...]
May 2022
Nora Anderson
Portrait of Nora L. Anderson. WHC Collections 1997.012 A major honor accorded to Nora Anderson during her lifetime was the dedication of the [...]