Sepia-toned image of three women in front of a canvas tent in the forest. The two women who are standing wear swimsuits consisting of short-sleeved tops and short skirts over bloomers and dark stockings. They each wear a flat beret style hat and their hair is short. One woman is seated; she wears a dark dress with velvet trim and puffs on her upper sleeves. She, too, wears a beret style hat. Two camp chairs are visible, one inside the tent, and two clotheslines stretch out from the tent with towels hanging from them. A small wood stove sits on a block at the far left of the image. Pine trees fill the background of the image.
Sepia-toned studio portrait of a young girl with her bicycle. She wears a short dress with a sailor's collar, all trimmed in white, black stockings and laced-up boots. On her head she wears a white bonnet. Her hair is curled and long and hangs over her shoulders. The bicycle is a ladies' model with a rear fender only.
Black and white image of three women standing in the forest. All three are wearing overalls and long-sleeved shirts. Two wear wide-brimmed hats, and one wears what looks like a fedora but with a large bow at the back. They stand on a small hillside near a tree, with a great deal of underbrush surrounding them and trees filling the background of the image.
Portrait of convicted murderer Gus Wachline. Wachline was arrested November 20, 1897 and hung on February 4, 1898. A portion of the hanging rope is attached to the photograph.
Black and white photograph of Visitation Church. A baseball diamond takes up the left side of the photograph, and two other buildings are in the foreground. Several large Sequoia trees dominate the background of the image. Between the houses and the trees the church roof and tower are just visible.
Four men dressed as cowboys, identified on the back of the photograph from left-to-right as: Albert Tozier, Henry Sicade, Ben Martin, and James Hopkins. Sicade was a notable member of the Puyallup Tribe. He entered the Forest Grove Indian School in 1880 before enrolling in regular high school classes at Tualatin Academy nearby around 1883. Later in life, he went on to found an integrated public school system in Fife, WA, near the Puyallup Reservation. Albert Tozier was also notable: He later became the editor of several newspapers in Washington County, Oregon. At the time that this photograph was created, the four young men had taken on work as cowboys and traveled together across the country. This studio portrait was made in Geneva, New York, in 1886.
Black and white image mounted on heavy mat. A gabled house build in two sections sits just behind two large maple trees. The first portion appears to be two story, and has a covered porch with an open screen door. The second section is single-storied and appears to have been added onto later. The roof of this covered porch sags, and windows appear to be missing in the very end of the building. A dirt road runs in front of the house, and a boardwalk is visible just beyond the driveway that leads from the road into the lot on which the house sits. Three people stand in front of the house, two men and a woman. The woman wears a dark, ankle-length suit and an elaborate hat with an upturned brim. The man next to her has his hands in the front pockets of his suit jacket; he has a white shirt and wears a hat. Another man in a dark suit leans against a pile of wood further back in the yard.
Portrait of Albert Tozier, early settler in Hillsboro and long-time publisher and editor. He was also an avid local historian, and his collection formed the foundation of the current Washington County Museum.
Black and white image mounted on a heavy mat. An empty auditorium decorated with flowers and greenery at the front. United States flags hang to either side of the main state, and smaller flags and star-spangled, striped bunting decorate the back of the podium. A large sign decorated with flowers and greenery hangs in the middle of the image, bearing the legend 'Step by Step, 99'.
Black and white school photo of a number of children in front of a school. The smaller children sit in the front row on benches; the girls wear shorter dresses and the boys wear overalls or slacks and sweaters. In the back row a number of young women stand, wearing dresses typical of the 1930s. Two women stand with them, and five boys who appear to be in their early to mid-teens. One of the boys is Asian-American. Two boys stand behind the group, apparently on a platform or table.
Sepia-toned image of a group of students standing outside of a white, wooden building. There are eight girls and at least twice that many boys in the group, and most appear to be late grammar or secondary school aged. Two of the taller girls wear long dresses with tight-waisted bodices, one with a white apron pinned to the front. All of the other girls wear short, loose dresses with long sleeves and made of material with patterns from plaid to stripes. The boys wear long pants and most have coats on. In the middle of the back row is a man with a full goatee and wearing a white shirt with a vest. The building has large, paned windows, and two of the panes on windows along the side have holes in them. The ground is bare, and an open meadow area behind the school leads into a forested area.
Sepia-toned image of two women and three girls sitting in a yard behind a building. One women wears a dark dress and sits in a rocking chair; the woman sitting next to her wears a light-colored dress. Both have their hair up in buns, and their sleeves have large puffs on the upper arm. The girl in the middle of the image wears a dark, knee-length dress with a white pinafore skirt and a flat-brimmed hat. She has a doll carriage with a doll sitting in it. The other young woman also wears a knee-length dress and has a flat-brimmed hat. She leans on a board attached to a tree, and her dress has large puffed sleeves and a shoulder ruffle. The building behind them is two-stories with three sections, built in a cross-gabled style.
Black and white photograph of five elderly people, three women and two men. The women wear mid-calf length skirts made of what appears to silk, with open collars. Two hold decorated cloche hats in their laps; one has a floral shawl draped over her shoulders. The two men wear suits and have full beards. They are sitting on chairs on the grass in front of a large covered pavilion, with other people visible in the background of the image.
Sepia-toned image mounted on heavy mat of four men outside a single-story, square-fronted building. The building has a closed door with a transom window to the image left and to the image right a larger, barn-style door which is open. A wooden wall telephone sits on the boardwalk, leaning against the outer wall. One man has begun to climb up the pole standing in front of the boardwalk, trailing a thick wire behind him, while another holds the wire ready to direct it as it comes off of a large roll resting on a nearby wheelbarrow. Another man in the background holds more wire that appears to lead to the telephone. A fourth man stands to the image left, watching the process. The ground around the pole is straw covered, and a ladder leads up to the roof of the building. A two-story building sits next to the first building, and the roof lines of additional buildings are visible in the background of the image.
Sepia-toned image of a family standing in front of an older, gabled home. The house appears to be run down; a single chimney protrudes from the center of it. Two doors open out onto a covered porch, one is open and the other has paned glass in the upper half, most of the panes are broken out. Off to one side is another, smaller section. There is a lot of brush in the yard, and a number of bushes that are in full leaf. The family consists of four older males, one young boy, and two women. The men and the boy all wear suits, and hold their hats in hand; the oldest male has a long, full beard. the women wear long, fitted bodices over skirts that are fuller in the back than the front. Their sleeves are narrow, and the younger woman has a lacy decoration around the neck of her dress. Both wear their hair up tightly.
A table set for a banquet in honor of veterans returning to Oregon from the American war in the Philippines, probably between 1899-1902. It was taken at Courthouse Square in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, near the intersection of Main Street and 2nd Avenue. Central in the picture is a large table set for dinner and with a good deal of food, and with people seated all along each side. Decoratively cut watermelons and vases of flowers stand on the table. A crowd of people, men, women, and children including babies, are gathered in the background of the photograph and to the sides of the table. The seating pattern at the table alternates men and women, no children, and most of the seated men wear uniforms with various cavalry and kepi styled hats. The women's hats vary widely, from straw sailor hats to small bonnets to wide-brimmed hats with large numbers of flowers on them. The trees in the background are lush and full.
Sepia-toned image of five people standing in front of a cross-gabled house in a yard with many flowers and vegetation. Three women stand in a row in the front of the house, with another sitting in a rocking chair. The woman on one end holds either a cat or a puppy in her arm, and on the other end the woman holds a fan at her side. Three of the women's dresses have fitted bodices; the fourth has a loose dress gathered at the waist. A young boy sits on a horse at the right of the image, holding a rifle. He wears short pants and a hat. The house has curtains, and a number of plants are visible in the windows.
Sepia-toned image of a wooden street with plank sections. Two streetlights sit on either side of the street in the foreground; and a number of two-story buildings line the street. A sign reading 'City Drug Store' extends from the second story of one storefront. A few men in suits stand about in front of the businesses.
Sepia-toned image mounted on printed cardstock of a three-story, gabled home with an extension on the back. The house is Georgian Colonial style, with a covered porch with elaborately carved supports. The porch roof provides a balcony for the upper floor. Two men stand in front of the house, both wearing suits and holding hats in one hand. There is a small dog in the yard behind the men. The yard is grassy, and a number of trees and bushes are scattered close to the house and throughout the yard.
Sepia-toned image of a group of students standing outside of a log building with a woman. The gabled building is made of squared off logs with double-hung, paned windows, and sits in an open field on a hilltop surrounded by trees. The children are arranged in two rows, one sitting and one standing. Most are grammar school age; the girls wear dresses and most of the boys are in suits. The teacher stands at the far left of the back row, and wears a dress with puffed sleeves and a high neck, and her hair is worn up towards the front and top of her head.
Black and white image on cardstock of a woman sitting at an easel. She holds a palette and a paintbrush in her hands; the painting on the easel is of Rooster Rock, in the Columbia Gorge. Her hair is loosely curled and pulled back into a low bun, and her long dress has large puffed upper sleeves and a low collar. Flowers are pinned to the front of her dress, and she sits outdoors in a grassy yard, with a picket fence and a large rhododendron in the background.
Sepia-toned image of a group of soldiers on either side of a trench, stringing barbed wire across it. Two officers direct the work in the center back of the image. Two of the men on the image left are smoking pipes.
