Friendly Farm Restaurant – Jim & Marguerite Sumpter
The Daily Capital Journal newspaper dated November 5, 1938 stated it perfectly. “Some people have a way of always making you feel welcome. That's [...]
June 2016
November 2015
Farley E. Mogan – The Oregon State Policeman and the Sea Lion
Unidentified Oregon State Policeman and Sea Lion. The call came over the radio to state police patrolman Farley [...]
1965 Veterans Day Parade – Salem
The rumble of National Guard tanks mixed with bands and marching feet Thursday as Salem observed Veterans Day with its biggest parade in many [...]
July 2015
Army Blanket Report, 1943
Army Blanket Record, Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, 1943. WHC Collections M3 1966-001-0001 box 58, Folder 3. […]
February 2015
Artifact Research Using the Internet: Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co.
by TeAnna, Exhibit Intern While researching clothing pieces, you find out some pretty cool things such as how far the clothing article potentially traveled or [...]
April 2013
Japanese Girl Tells of Camp, 1942
This article was a front page news story in the Clarion (X2013.011.0022), the newspaper of Salem High School. It provides excerpts of a first [...]
February 2013
VictryPac, 2012.074.0001
This unused label (2012.074.0001) was printed for use on canned pears packed during WWII at the Oregon Fruit Products Company in Salem. The "Victrypac" description [...]
September 2012
A View of Willamette Valley Roads, 1943
Before I-5 was a twinkle in the Federal Government's eye, transportation through the valley looked a little bit different. This map, from the State Farm [...]
A View of Willamette Valley Roads, 1943
Before I-5 was a twinkle in the Federal Government's eye, transportation through the valley looked a little bit different. This map, from the State Farm [...]
August 2005
World War II Salem
World War II in Salem: Largest Population Increase Since 1890s 1942, Enlisting of "Oregon Avengers of Pearl Harbor", Salem, Oregon, June 7, 1942 [...]