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
June 2022
Effie Reed
Effie Reed Job Title(s) Finisher Dates of Employment c. 1905, 1911 Last Name Reed [Wright, Unruh, Dunlap] First [...]
May 2017
Disco Inferno at the Mill
There is something slightly ironic at the thought of a disco, called Disco Inferno, operating on the second floor of the Thomas Kay Woolen [...]
April 2017
Exhibit: Through Gerry Lewin’s Lens
Images of Salem Photojournalist Gerry Lewin featured in photo exhibit at the Willamette Heritage Center. Monday, May 1 - Saturday, June 24, 2017 [...]
January 2017
January 1943 Flood: Mellow Moon Tragedy
Mellow Moon Pavilion was built the summer of 1925 by owners Mills and Albright at the west end of the Marion-Polk county bridge in [...]
September 2016
Ringling Brothers Circus 1907
Circus program 1907. WHC 2014.082.0318 On Wednesday, August 28, 1907 the “greatest show on earth” came to town. [...]
July 2016
Cartoon Clue to Proposed Woodburn Air Force Base
Cartoon by Monte Leo Jones for the Capital Journal. Research indicates that this cartoon may have been depicting the proposed Woodburn Air Force Base [...]
February 2016
Martin Sisters: Sack of Photos Leads to Family Tale
Sisters Amy and Jessie Martin enjoying a class picnic at Lily Pond on Sept. 3, 1934. Photo Credit: WHC 2012.011.0002 Our story [...]
October 2015
A Salem Witch – Miss Bruce Putnam
Miss Bruce Putnam WHC 2008.038.0020 written by Perry Reigelman article reprinted from the Oregon Magazine, April 1922 Dreamers, poets, and musicians have all [...]
August 2014
August 17, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent In the chaos of war, rumor spread faster than fact. Karl Von Wiegand, Berlin correspondent for the United Press [...]