Sepia-toned image of a group of children in Colonial costume. A boy and girl stand on a box, surrounded by ten other small boys. The smaller boys all wear tri-corn hats and colonial-era jackets, vests, pants and shoes. One boy holds a sword; two appear to hold books or papers. The boy on the box wears a fancier version of the same, and holds a sword. The girl wears a colonial-era dress with shawl and mob-cap. The photo is mounted on a board and names are written around the image.
Color image of an unpainted, wooden, two-story cross-gabled house in a field. There is a covered porch around the longer section of the house, and double-hung, single-paned windows in the facades. A television antennae extends up from the front faade to several feet above the roofline, and a white sign in stands in the front yard.
Black and white photograph of Grove Furniture. The brick building has two stories, the lower one with double recessed doors set between large, plate glass windows. The upper floor features three sets of double-hung paned windows in protruding bays. A metal power pole stands across a paved street, and a pick-up truck is parked in front of the building.
A tiller-steering car with spoked wheels has been decorated for a parade, with three children in patriotic outfits. The car sports bunting and a large frame holding a bald eagle on the front. Flowers and stars and stripes are all visible on the bunting, and several United States flags are displayed. A young boy dressed as Uncle Sam sits on the drivers' seat, and two girls with crowns and bunting draped about them sit and stand in the bed of the car. In the background are staircases appearing to lead to two houses, side-by-side, and the trees are in full leaf. A boardwalk runs between the car and the stairs, and the street is dirt.
One of a pair of humorous images dating from the 1888 Presidential election between Harrison and Cleveland. A crowd of men and boys watches as a man carrying an American flag is carried in a wheelbarrow down the street. A caption below the wheelbarrow reads, “Hurrah for Harrison.” Harrison, like the majority of Forest Grove at the time, was a Republican; he lost the election. A related image captioned “Hurrah for Cleveland” shows the same man being dumped out of the wheelbarrow into the muddy street. The Oregonian printed a description of this scene on November 15, 1888, noting that two local men had made a bet about the outcome of the election and that the loser had to carry the other one in a wheelbarrow procession through town, but that the loser dumped out the winner as a joke. The man holding the wheelbarrow was Charles Fritz, who ran a local photography studio; the man riding in the wheelbarrow was Joseph Vaughn. This photograph was taken in downtown Forest Grove, standing just south of the present-day intersection of Main Street and 21st Avenue, looking towards the north-northwest. It is one of very few images showing downtown Forest Grove’s original wooden buildings. The sign for the shoe shop which served as a workshop for children at the Forest Grove Indian School in the early 1880s is barely visible behind the crowd on the left. None of the buildings pictured survive today.
Sepia toned image of a girls' drill team marching in a parade. Two ranks of older girls in long white dresses with dark ribbons on the bottom march alongside a two-horse buggy where another girl in a robe sits. Two boys in robes and short pants walk beside the four-wheeled carriage. The girls' dresses are long, with full skirts and sleeves. They wear dark vests and white, pilot-style hats. Each girl carries a white spear with a sharp point. They are preceded by two men bearing illegible signs. The street is plank, and people in dark clothing line the boardwalks to watch. Two women in the audience wear dark, long full skirts with full sleeved blouses and pompadour hairstyles. Bunting is draped across the street and tied off on power poles on either side. Buildings in the background are brick and two-storied, and a tree in full leaf fills the upper right of the image.
Image mounted on matting of a number of people standing around a brickyard. All look at the camera. In the middle of the image a horse-drawn pugmill set just behind a large hold in the ground mixes clay for bricks; a man in overalls stands next to it. To the left of the image a man wearing a derby, overalls and a suit jacket holds a horse by its bridle, while the horse harnessed to the pugmill looks at them. Next to the mill, two men in overalls stand with empty wheelbarrows, two boys, also wearing overalls and holding shovels stand between them. Arrayed behind them are five men, also in overalls; in front of these men are two small wagons loaded with bricks in molds. A bald man holding a baby upright on his shoulder stands behind them, and to their right a woman in a light-colored blouse with full sleeves tucked into a long skirt stands with her hands behind her back. She wears a hat and there is a dog standing in front of her. Rows of drying bricks cover the yard behind the people. In the back of the yard is a 'scove' or 'clamp' kiln set beneath a makeshift simple plank roof. Steam rises from the top of the kiln. Behind the kiln, a large stack of wood stretches across the picture, and pine trees are just visible in the background, along with a number of bare trees in an empty lot to the left of the image. A bicycle leans up against the woodpile. A large trench runs through the foreground of the image, and a plank inclines down into it.
Photograph of a wooden church with a steep, gabled roof and a square bell tower at the front. The church is mid-toned with white moldings and other decorative accents. Arched windows with double panes bracket the front porch, which has a gabled roof with a white cross on its pediment. Stairs with railings lead up on either side of the porch. Windows down the side of the church alternate double paned arched with triple panes, and the bell tower has a slightly smaller arched window with the double-paned construction. The bell tower extends from the porch to just above the roofline of the main building, and is topped with an octagonal belfry built of dormer windows and topped with a tall, sloping steeple of alternating dark and light bands of shingles. On the very top is a heavily carved square cross. A smaller gabled section giving the building a t-shape projects from the rear, and has a chimney and a single, double-paned arched window on the visible end. The minimal lot around the church has some grass, while the street appears to be muddy dirt. Sidewalks run past the church on both visible sides, and a power pole rises up about twenty feet in front of the church. There is a small cross-bar and a single power line extending from the top of the pole. The cross-bar of another pole protrudes into the left side of the image and another two-story building juts into the image on that same side.
A bandstand in a field with girls standing in front of it. An octagonal bandstand occupies the back of the image, and several people stand inside it. The man visible wears a dark suit, several others appear to be women in white, long-sleeved outfits with dark vests and white boater style hats, and a number hold white poles with decorative heads erect. The bandstand is two stories in height, and the lower portions are wooden plank construction with darker support planks nailed around each panel and over each in an 'x' shape. The roof is octagonal and extends up to a point. Plain bunting cover the railings around the gazebo floor and also hangs from the eaves, and the support poles are wrapped in the same material. Several girls are lined up before the grandstand; on the right are four girls wearing white or light-colored dresses; their hair is long and one girl wears a bow on top of her head. The first girl's jacket has a sailor collar, and a white, high-necked collar. The third girl in the row wears a white dress with ruffles about the shoulders and neck and elbow-length sleeves with ruffles at the end. Across from them on the left of the image, and older girl stands. Her hair is up and she wears a loose, white, long-sleeved shirt and a long white skirt. A sash of darker material crosses over her bodice up to her left shoulder. Behind the bandstand a shed, a fence, and a row of short trees is visible.
Sepia-toned image of a group of students standing outside of a small wooden building. Two of the smaller boys near the middle of the image wear suits with wide lace collars; the rest of the smaller boys wear short pants and shirts with hats. Most of the girls wear plain dresses with narrow sleeves. A woman in the back of the group wears a small hat, and most of the girls are bareheaded or holding their hats in hand. Three or four very tall boys stand at the back of the group. The yard is dirt, littered with small branches and other debris, and a number of pine trees and bare deciduous trees can be seen in the background.
Black and white photograph of a hip-roofed home built in an L-shape. The eaves feature braces and covered porches reminiscent of the Queen Anne revival style architecture cover both the front entrance and the side leg of the house. This bushes surround the house, and three chimneys are visible.
Sepia-toned image of a split falls in a creek. The creek falls over rocks and into a large pool; one side of the falls is lower and fuller than the other, which is split by more rocks. There are large, smooth-cut logs laying near the top of the creek, and thick foliage on the hillside beyond.
Black and white image of Forest Grove Hotel. Bare trees and two power poles stand around the two-story, cross-gabled building. Trolley tracks run on the dirt road in front of the hotel.
A photograph of the Forest Grove Hotel covered in snow, probably taken around 1900. The hotel was also known as "Mrs. Sloan's Hotel" or "The Sloan." It stood in downtown Forest Grove on the south side of Pacific Avenue between A and Main streets, approximately where the Community School stands today. It was a stagecoach stop on the route between Tillamook and Portland. The hotel was a cross-gabled, Carpenter Gothic building with gingerbread trim around the front porch posts and the eaves. Built in 1862, it appears to have been destroyed by the 1930s.
Sepia-toned image of a group of people gathered in a street looking at an electric trolley car. A large banner across the road reads 'Hillsboro Washington County,' and power poles with several cross-ties line the road as well. The streetcar sits across the plank road, while a horse and wagon wait behind the crowd. The women wear full shirts tucked into long skirts and wide-brimmed hats. What looks like a firehouse is thrown on the street, and one of the visible buildings behind the electric rail car is a church.
Sepia-toned image mounted on heavy mat of a horse and wagon and several people in front of a cross-gabled, two-story house. A man and a woman stand in front of the house; she wears a light-colored, long dress with slightly puffed sleeves. The man wears a suit and hat. The man in the wagon wears overalls, and the wagon appears to be one meant to carry either freight or passengers, with low sides and a flat cover over all. The house has a covered porch along one section, with stick-style detailing. The front of the house has a bay window next to a covered porch, both of which are incorporated into a balcony for the second floor. Two chimneys are visible, and a boardwalk runs in front of the picket fence that surrounds the house.
Sepia-toned image of a group of children gathered on the front steps of a building. The children range in age from very young to older teens. The girls wear knee-length skirts and dresses of varying styles; the boys wear everything from overalls to suits with short pants. Some boys wear hats, while others wear newsboy style caps. Most of the older students are girls, and there is a man in a suit at the rear of the group.
Sepia-toned image of a gabled building in some disrepair. The building is single-storied, with three visible windows. Boards are broken off of the lower outside portion, leaving the framing inside visible. The roof is in disrepair, and the building sits in a bare field. Trees in full leaf are visible in a row along the right side of the image.
Black and white image of a crowd of people in a park, all facing a gazebo. Bunting and United States flags hang above the crowd, and many of the women wear long white dresses and large hats with feathers. One girl wears a knee-length white dress and a bonnet. A group of schoolboys at the back of the crowd wear white shirts and knickerbockers. A car is parked in the foreground of the image, and a man is putting down the top. Houses are just visible behind the trees on the edge of the park.
Black and white image of a group of mostly women gathered on a boardwalk and on the lawn in front of the Washington County Courthouse. The lawn is grassy and the trees in leaf. The women mostly wear their hair up in pompadour hairstyles, some augmented with fashionable frames. Most wear dark skirts and light or white shirts; a few are in dark dresses or wear jackets. The two or three men in the crowd all wear suits.
Sepia-toned image on cardstock of a group of a two dozen people picnicking in a field. Most are seated around a long white table cloth on the ground. Two women hold parasols, and some wear flat boater hats. Their dresses have cap sleeves and small bustles on the skirts. The men wear suits, and one young man wears suspenders and arm garters. Several children are in the group, and they wear suits and hats.
Black and white image of a group of children in front of a building. Most are younger, though a few older girls stand at the back of the group. Most of the girls wear dresses with a yoke or collar. Some of the boys wear longer pants, jackets, and newsboy caps, while others have suspenders on. One boy in the front of the group holds a snare drum and two drumsticks. the children stand on a boardwalk in front of a building with two doors visible behind them in an opening.
Black and white photograph of a cross gable church in a modified Carpenter Gothic style. The church is white and sits on a foundation with a bell tower nestled in the corner created by the two sections. The faade of each visible gable features a row of triangular arched windows topped by three diamond-shaped windows which frame the entire window feature into a triangular arch. The main entrance is set in the bell tower's front facade, reached by a series of concrete steps, and the tower features a shingled second story beneath an open belfry with railings and decorative roof supports. A bell can just be seen inside, and the belfry has a tall, square pyramidal roof with nothing on the top. Basement windows are visible in the image left side of the church, and a bush in full leaf partially obscures the front facade. Pine and deciduous trees fill the hill slope in the background, and the church sits in a partially visible grassy field. Power lines run along the very top of the image foreground, with one connecting visibly to the church, running down the front corner of the bell tower and into the wall just above the basement.
