Photo of the Day, 1995.010.0029
WHC Collections 1995.010.0029. By Corey Rosenberg A man sits at a desk, tinkering. To his left, a large Hall’s Safe [...]
June 2014
Bureau of Fire Prevention, 1933
Volunteer Darrel today finished indexing the Daue Collection (1983.043), which contains a wide variety of ephemera from the Salem area in the early 20th century. [...]
German Speaking Salem
This article appeared in the Statesman Journal newspaper June 1, 2014. It is reproduced here with citations for reference purposes. The First Wednesday celebration [...]
April 2014
Casebere Standard Kindergarten
1916 Casebere Standard Kindergarten -Â WHC image 2014.011.0001 Â At the 1916 Oregon State Fair, under the sponsorship of the Oregon Congress [...]
January 2014
Hops History in Salem
[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=209778005414381082444.0004f0fb82107f4a0c258&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Join us at First Wednesday February 5, 2014 to learn more about how the hops industry shaped downtown Salem or check out the [...]
First Donation of the New Year, 2014.001
This photo-postcard is the first donation to the WHC of the new year. It features a photograph of Rufus Boatwright in what he writes is [...]
A Happy New Year to You, 2006.047.0012
This postcard was written to Marlin O. Muellhaupt who lived at 1066 Chemeketa Street in Salem by his mother, Maggie May Ramp Muellhaupt. In the [...]
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 [...]
Salem Snapshot, 2009.052.0003
This great little snapshot (WHC 2009.052.0003) of downtown Salem focuses on the rooftops lining State Street from High Street (at bottom of image) to about [...]
November 2013
What was Lost…
…is now found. This money envelope (0083.043.0032) was not found in our 2010 inventory of collections because it wasn’t where it was supposed to be. [...]