Black and white image of a two story building with a hipped roof and a covered front porch. Sign on the second floor reads H. B. Tigard General Store. A man walks across the dirt road in front of the building, and a single-car garage is visible beyond the back porch. A covered porch runs along the front of the building, with benches under the windows on either side of the main doors.
Black and white photograph of the interior of a house. A large, light-colored Oriental rug covers the floor, while a fireplace dominates one end of the room. Windows flank it on either side, and a piano sits in the far corner. An armchair, and two wooden backed chairs sit on front of it. To the right of the piano, a wide staircase leads up four steps to a landing, then turns and disappears up the right side of the photograph. A single small chandelier hands from the ceiling in the space between beams that bracket the staircase. Other than the wooden floor and the stair railing, all the woodwork and walls and brick are painted white. Framed art prints hand on the wall, and the windows all have white sheer curtains hanging over them.
Sepia-toned image of a street with buildings on one side and a railroad on the other, with logged and burned timber on the hillside behind it. At least one three-story building stands at the end of the block, with two other two-story buildings with square front facades. A tent is set up between two of the buildings, and a small booth on the other side of another. Railroad cards sit on the track, and pieces of another building in construction sits directly beside the track.
The Ariss Blacksmith Shop in Tigard, Oregon, circa 1912. The image shows a small, two-story building with a single garage door, which stands open in a square front facade. Three men, two in work clothes and one in a suit, stand in the doorway. A single window opens above the garage door, and a sign hangs perpendicular to the building, which reads: 'W. H. Ariss. General Blacksmithing.' On the wall below the window hangs a second sign advertising 'Winona Wagons'. Wooden fencing surrounds a yard to the building's right, with various wagon wheels and other equipment just visible through and above it, and brush fills a vacant lot to the building's left.
Sepia-toned image of a two men in coveralls standing in front of a gas station and garage. One man wearing a fedora stands next to a single gas pump at the side of a covered awning, while a younger man wearing a newsboy cap stands next to him. Behind them is an antique car. Two sets of garage doors are open, and a brick forge can be seen in the interior of one. Hoses hang at the left corner of the building. A sign on the top of the covered driveway reads 'Garage' while a sign beneath that says, 'Good Year Service Station' next to a tire. Another sign on the building's right corner reads 'Monogram Greases Oils' and another 'Union Coupons.'
A group of men inside the Ariss Blacksmith shop in Tigard, Oregon circa 1912. A note on the back of the photograph identifies some of the men as Bill Ariss, Kuhne, and Hunziker. Most of the men wear overalls or work coveralls, and a great deal of equipment fills the walls behind them. Pliers and forceps hang alongside a forge, and horseshoes, bits, and other tack materials can be seen hanging on the wall. In the center of the image, one man holds what looks like a large hubcap with spokes and lug nuts over a trough of water.
Sepia-toned image of a family standing in front of their home. A man and an older boy stand on either side of a woman; they wear suits, the boy has a newsboy style cap and the older man a straw boater style hat. The woman's hair is up in a loose bun, and she wears an ankle-length dress with elbow-length sleeves and that buttons down the front to her left. A small child with long curls stands in front of her, wearing an outfit made of dark material with white polka-dots. It has long sleeves and short pants, and buttons down the front to the child's right side. A dog sits on the walkway behind them. The house is small, square, with a pyramidal hipped roof and a front covered front porch. Wire fencing surrounds the small yard, and an outhouse can be seen in the back of the yard, just in front of a fence that separates the yard from what appears to be a large barn or garage.
Black and white photograph of a number of women sitting on the front porch steps of a house. Some of the women wear longer skirts with long-sleeved blouses and have their hair up in buns. Several of the younger women wear loose tops over mid-calf length skirts and have short, curly hair parted in the middle. A young girl sits in the middle of the front row; she has short hair and Mary-Jane styled shoes and is hiding her face from the camera.
Black and white image mounted on heavy mat of seven men in a hops yard. The men wear hats and overalls or work clothes. They appear to be assembling frames for the tops and mounting them. The first, second, and fourth men in the back row and the third man in the first row all have identifying numbers written on their chests, matching the legend on the back of the image.
Black and white image mounted on heavy, printed card stock of five men standing in a shop. On the left wall are a number of iron ingots and other implements hanging on the wall around a forge. A machine with belts and a wheel and axle running along the ceiling stands in the middle of the room, and a carriage wheel lies on the ground while a number of other carriage wheels lean against a wagon bed in the background. Four of the men wear work clothes including leather aprons while a fifth wears a suit. Bare light bulbs hang from the ceiling in a coupled of spots, and light comes in through the windows on the right and an open door to the left.
Sepia-toned image of a large gathering of people around a threshing machine. in the left foreground of the image is the engine with a smokestack and a number of wheels. Long bands lead to the threshing equipment, a series of conveyor belts. Half a dozen or so wagons loaded with wheat move about the image, and a pile of grain sacks is visible in the middle of the image just behind one of the workmen. In the foreground are a number of women and children. One woman in a riding habit sits sidesaddle on a horse, while two other ladies are in a carriage. Tow women with aprons stand on either side of a man holding a small boy, while ion the front center of the image another boy stands beside a shock of wheat that has two more small children hiding in its base.
Sepia-toned image on card stock of a large crew of men with a threshing rig. In the foreground is the engine with a smokestack and wheels. A long belt stretches to the threshing equipment to the right and then over to another engine. Wheat stacks and cut stalks fills the ground throughout the image, and several wagons fills with straw and wheat as well as empty wagons are gathered around the threshing crew. One wagon loaded with a full load heads in from the farther reaches of the field. Several barrels stand around the engine in the foreground. Thick stands of pine trees fill the background of the image.
Black and white studio image mounted on heavy mat of three children in suits and warm coats. The two larger boys wear suits with full bow ties and newsboy-style hats, though one boy has long pants and a large, long, plaid overcoat while the second boy wears short pants and his overcoat is also shorter. Both the sleeves hang well down below their hands. The third child stands on a box between and behind the other two with a hand on the back of each boy's neck. This child wears a double-breasted jacket with an attached caplet and a fuzzy white hat that covers the ears and is tied beneath the chin.
Black and white image of a couple standing outside the front door of a snow-covered house. A small covered porch is situated in the middle of the house, and two tall pine trees stand on either side of the yard. Snow covers the all the visible ground except for the road that runs in front of the house and fenced yard.
Black and white photograph of an old, shingle-styled gabled house with a covered front porch in a largely overgrown yard. Just beyond the house sits a large, single-story barn with a false square front. Large double doors sit in the middle of the front facade, with windows and another, smaller door to the left of the garage doors. Still legible though faded are the words 'Blacksmith Shop' along the top of the building.
Black and white photograph of a two-story, flat-roofed building with a single-story addition sitting along a four lane highway. A sign running along the eaves of the porch reads 'Fresh Meats; Reedville Market; Vegetables.' Advertisements for Coca-cola intersperse the other printed advertising, and a neon sign standing atop the porch roof also states 'Reedville Grocery & Meats.' Another sign in front states that there is an apartment for rent, and a Mayflower Ice Cream freezer truck is parked in front of the store.
Black and white image of a booth set up alongside a muddy road. A man in a plaid jacket and baseball cap stands to one side, and trestle-style seats run across the front of the booth. The front is consists of a single door to one side of openings covered with a wooden plank that can be lowered over them. Empty shelves line the back wall. Lettered across the top of the front beneath the roof is 'Washington County Democrats.'
Black and white photograph of a man walking his two-horse team along a road in front of a farm. A small white dog walks with him, and a large house and several barns are in the background of the image. A great many logs are piled in the field just beyond the man, and dust appears to be arising from the horses' feet as they walk.
Black and white image of half a dozen people sitting on a porch in front of a shingled cabin. The porch is simply a deck with no railing or other decoration. Three women sit on the porch around a man with a young child standing in between his knees. Another man sits in a chair to the right of the image, while a third stands to the image left of the porch. Pine trees and a post-and-pole fence are visible in the background.
Black and white photograph of a logging truck parked in a gravel lot with a couple other cars and trucks. There are half a dozen logs on the truck's trailer, one of significant size.
Black and white image of a snow-covered, cross-gabled house. A road runs in front of the house, and a power pole is just visible in the left of the image. The house sits in a fenced yard behind several trees and bushes.
Sepia-toned image of a large stack of hay and a contraption being used to stack more hay on top of it. One man stands on top of the hay, which is easily four times his height. A large loader bucket is being levered up to lift hay to the top of the stack by two horses attached to a wheeled mechanism at the bottom of the equipment. They are controlled by a man seated behind them.
