Parsonage circa 1930
Before the Parsonage was moved to our site, it stood approximately where the William G. Paulus Administrative building for the Salem-Keizer School District stands today [...]
March 2013
February 2013
Silverton High School Junior Class 1947
Silverton High School. Junior Class. 1947. Photo by Bob McEwan. 2006.086.0050.031 Thanks to the quick thinking and connections of one [...]
January 2013
Yew Park School 100 Years Ago
Class at Park School, 1913. WHC Collections 1979.001.0005. As the Willamette Heritage Center prepares to host our third annual Heritage [...]
October 2012
Obed Dickinson's Store
We were going through an old slide collection today and came across this pretty incredible image (X2012.016.0063) of the Reverend Obed Dickinson in front of [...]
Masonic Building
Our volunteer Richard has been cataloging and scanning commercial photos from the Robert McEwan Photo Studio. Today he found this photo of the Masonic Building [...]
August 2012
Kansas and 17th Then and Now, X2012.018.0024
[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?q=17th+and+Kansas+ST+NE+Salem,+Oregon&layer=c&sll=44.945127,-123.015332&cbp=13,290.85,,0,3.72&cbll=44.944946,-123.015422&hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=17th+St+NE+%26+Kansas+Ave+NE,+Salem,+Marion,+Oregon+97301&ll=44.945126,-123.015332&spn=0.005164,0.011362&t=m&z=14&panoid=PgdnVlMteT-S3saX0Iuz5Q&source=embed&output=svembed&w=425&h=350] Our volunteer Doug cataloged this photo today of the William Ruth House, located at 975 17th Street NE in Salem. [...]
Photo of the Day: Mill City Group
2003.001.0040. This photo-postcard has "Mill City" written along bottom of image in blue ballpoint pen. None of the individuals are identified. Anyone look familiar?
Parberry Grocery Company, 2012.032.0012
This photo came to us in a recent donation. Most of the photos were Salem based images, but we have yet to find a Parberry [...]
July 2012
Camp Adair Officers, 1999.012
Colonel Welcome P. Waltz, 1999.012.0012 1999.012.0019 Lt. Col. Robert Eugene Mousseau Des Islets Since our last post on the collection of [...]
Photo of the Day: Summer at Breitenbush
We just cataloged this photo (2011.067.0002) of Salem Photographer Bob McEwan, spending some leisure time at Breitenbush. The donor thinks this photo was taken in [...]