Little Ripple in a Big Pond – Gustave & Sophie Girod Family
Sometimes it’s about the little ripple you make in a big pond. When we begin research on an exhibit or project here at the [...]
August 2014
June 2014
Salem Senators’ Triple Threat: the Girod Brothers
Salem Senators Baseball Team, circa 1920s. WHC Collections, 2011.030.0401 At one point in every child’s life a stick becomes a [...]
May 2014
Old Photograph Tells a Tale: Adolph & May Farrow
Adolph and May Farrow, WHC X2011.003.0231 Occasionally here in the archives a single photograph with a simple inscription can yield a fascinating [...]
March 2014
Bush College or Brush College?
Original Brush College Schoolhouse built in 1860.Photo courtesy of Salem-Keizer School District. In the past few weeks this question has [...]
December 2013
Geo. C. Will Piano and Sewing Machine Merchant
George C. Will, Elks Portrait. WHC 1992.005.0175 The following information appeared in the Statesman Journal Newspaper, Sunday November 24, 2013. It [...]
July 2013
Muellhaupt Family
Thanks to the hard work of volunteers Kaylyn and Sandy, the Willamette Heritage Center has finished processing a large donation of materials that document the [...]
November 2012
Pauline Looney
Ruth Sather Collection, 1986.015.0055 In a collection of materials from Jefferson, comes this photo and an unsourced typewritten description of Pauline Looney: Pauline Looney--was an excellent [...]
February 2012
Three of the Mid-Valley’s Finest: Evelyn Lampman, Mary Ramp and Cassie StumpÂ
Mary Ramp (1829-1916) was active in the early suffrage movement and an ardent prohibitionist. Image courtesy of the Brooks Historical Society. Polk County [...]