Christmas Flood Evacuation of Salem Memorial Hospital
Salem Memorial Hospital surrounded by flood water after Pringle Creek breached its banks. WHC 2012.49.124 Monday December 21, [...]
December 2015
August 2014
August 13, 1914
by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent The headlines: One Great Battle Rages Over Front of Fully 300 Miles “The Germans still strove today to force [...]
February 2014
Centennial of "City of Salem" celebrated in 1986
The 100th anniversary of the sternwheeler "City of Salem" was celebrated by the Salem Stamp Society in 1986 with this commemorative card (X2014.003.0001). The envelope [...]
August 2013
Just Released: Willamette Valley Voices Waterways Edition
Volume II, No. 2 of the Willamette Heritage Center’s historical journal Willamette Valley Voices has just come back from the printers. This issue offers articles [...]
Finding the Civil War Close to Home
This list of ways to experience the Civil War close to home was compiled for the Statesman Journal and published in the Sunday, July 6, [...]
July 2013
Bridging the Willamette River in Salem
“Had all of the talking and writing about a third Salem bridge been stored up, traffic could probably be floated across the river for the [...]
October 2012
Oregon Pulp & Paper Co.
We recently received a donation of a few aerial views of Salem in 1947 (2012.051). This image shows the old Oregon Pulp & Paper processing [...]
August 2005
John Minto and Early Salem
Reminiscences of Earliest Salem by John Minto John Minto (1822-1915) John Minto relaxing in library of Saginaw street home, as noted in Beverly [...]