Are you gaining at least a 1/2 lb per month?
Public Health Campaign Nine-year-old Siviter Ward Horn (1914-2004) wore this public health campaign tag home from Highland School in 1923, encouraging him and his family [...]
May 2016
April 2016
Etienne Lucier
Readers should feel free to use information from this article, however credit must be given to the Willamette Heritage Center and to the author. [...]
March 2016
A Sense of Place: Halls Ferry
Rail station at Hall's Ferry in 1915. It provided a connection between the Oregon Electric Railway and the ferry. [...]
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 [...]
Caralyn B. Shelton, Oregon’s First Woman Governor (for a weekend)
Caralyn B. Shelton - image enlarged from WHC 1998.009.0017 “Oregon Has Today a Woman Governor” the headlines of [...]
March 2015
Star Bottling Works, Salem, Oregon
by Kylie Pine The Star Bottling Works appears to have started operations in about 1917 under the leadership of R.A. Pfeil. [1] At [...]
November 2014
Prest. C.C. Poling, 2009.058.0141
Willamette Heritage Center Collections, 2009.058.0141 Dallas College was a school affiliated with the United Evangelical Church that operated in […]
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 [...]
August 2013
Rickey School Souvenir, 1996.006.0001
This school souvenir for the old Rickey School was cute to look at, but became much more interesting after reading the note at the very [...]
May 2013
Oregon's View of Events at Fort Sumpter
By Richard Van Pelt Civil War Correspondent The opening salvos of the Civil War fell on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861. Whether you call it [...]