A postcard depicting Willamette Falls on the Willamette River. It includes a brief note to Charles Walker from "Eva Kirkpatrick" and is postmarked September 27, 1907. This postcard is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
A postcard depicting the Washington Street entrance to a city park in Portland, Oregon. It includes a note addressed to "Mr. Chas. Walker". It is postmarked August 13, 1908. This postcard is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
A postcard depicting The Bath house at "The Oaks" in Portland, Oregon. It includes a note from "Pearl", Charles Walker's sister, to Charles Walker. It is postmarked February 13, 1909. This postcard is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
A postcard depicting a birds-eye view of Clatskanie, Oregon. It includes a note from "Frank" to "Miss Winnette Sears". This postcard is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
A photograph of the Lebanon Peerless Band on Main Street in Lebanon, Oregon. This photograph is printed on postcard stock and includes a note from "Earle" to "Mr. James K Sears". Earle is likely Watler Earle Sears, James K. Sears' son. This photograph is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
A postcard depicting the State Penetentiary is Salem, Oregon. It includes a brief note to "Mr. Chas. Walker" and is postmarked December 24, 1907. This postcard is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
A postcard depicting "Residence Street, 'Yewpark', Salem, Oregon". It includes a brief note from Winnette Sears to Bernice Sears (Winnette's sister). It is postmarked March 14, 1910. This postcard is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
A postcard depicting a marching band on the streets of McMinnville, Oregon. It is entitled "Busy Day in McMinnville, Ore.". The postcard is postmarked for July 18, 1910 and includes a note to Winnette Sears. This postcard is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
A portrait of Bernadine Long. The photograph is printed on postcard stock and includes a short note: "From your loving cousin Bernadine Long". This photograph is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Portrait of Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding. An active missionary, he lived for a time in Forest Grove and served as a trustee to Tualatin Academy. His wife Eliza also served as the Academy's first teacher.
Portrait of Alvin Thompson (A. T.) Smith, early settler in Forest Grove. He was among the first to travel the Oregon Trail, was a board member of Tualatin Academy, and participated in the meeting at Champoeg that helped Oregon get on the road to statehood.
Sepia-toned image of a large group of young boys and adolescents gathered on the steps of a large wooden buildings. A priest stands to the image left at the bottom of the stairs, and several nuns can be seen standing with the boys up the stairs and along the porch. Most of the boys wear loose white smocks with large collars over dark knickers, stockings, and boots. The older boys standing on the porch are dressed in suits and ties, and some have fashionable hats. The building is wooden, with a brick foundation. St. Mary's Orphanage was founded about 1890 in Beaverton. This photo was likely taken after 1902, after girls and infants had been sent to other religious orders in the area for care.
Black and white image of the interior of a grocery store. Cans fill the shelves, but the focus of the picture is a woman dressed as 'Aunt Jemima' to promote her ready-made pancake and buckwheat corn and wheat flour mixes. Jars of coffee grounds and pet milk fill in the end of the display. Museum records identify the location as the Fairway Grocery Store in Hillsboro.
Black and white image of a group of students gathered in front of Gaston school. These students all lived in Yamhill County according to school district records, but their school was in Washington County. Of the forty-four students listed on the school record, twenty have Japanese names.
Sepia-toned image of a man and a woman wetly clinging to the rocks beside a rushing river. Bonneville Dam and the resulting Lake Bonneville submerged this location in 1937. Beaverton, Oregon, was home to at least one movie company in the 1920s, Premium Picture Productions also known as J. J. Fleming Productions.
Sepia-toned image of a building from the side. there is a large, round, two-story verandah on the end, and a number of trees. On the back is a 1 cent U.S. postage stamp. The addressee, Mrs. L.A. [Daisy] Markee, was a local woman who had relocated to California with her husband and family. She died in the 1918 influenza epidemic and was buried in Oregon by her husband.
Sepia-toned image of a four-story building with a large, covered front porch and verandah. Four women in nurse's uniforms stand on the main porch. On the back is a 1 cent U.S. postage stamp. The addressee, Mrs. Lowell [Daisy] Markee, was a local woman who had relocated to California with her husband and family. She died in the 1918 influenza epidemic and was buried in Oregon by her husband.
Black and white image of the Hasuike family on the front porch of their farm in Tigard. Back row (left to right) the four Hasuike brothers: Ryoto, Shinzo, Torazo and Isamu. Front row: Ao (wife of Torazo), grandfather Mankichi Hasuike, Omibu (wife of Shinzo). Related oral histories from the Hasuike family describe life as Japanese American farmers and the experience of being removed from their homes and forced into internment camps during WWII (WCM_OH_392a, WCM_OH_392b, WCM_OH_392c).
A portrait of early Oregon settler Henry Harmon Spalding (1803–1874). This carte-de-visite photograph probable dates from the 1860s or early 1870s. Spalding was a missionary who came to the Oregon Territory in 1835, where he attempted to convert the Nez Perce and other tribes to Christianity. A handwritten note from Spalding to T. R. Cornelius appears on the back.
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.
Image of three men, identified on the photograph from left-to-right as Chief Mox Mox, Bill [Deewater?], and "Matthew's Interpreter." The photograph was taken in Lewiston, Idaho, near the Nez Perce reservation. Regarding "Chief Mox Mox": There were several prominent Native leaders from the Walla Walla and Nez Perce tribes whose names included the words "moxmox," which means "yellow." The identity of this man is unclear, but he may have been from the Nez Perce tribe or from another tribe on the Columbia Plateau. Regarding "Bill", the white man in the center of the image: This was probably a government employee, possibly an Indian Agent or other staff member. The photograph likely dates from circa 1900-1915.
Photographs like these were sometimes sold as souvenirs. This particular copy appears to have been acquired some time after it was originally created, by a resident of Hillsboro, Oregon, named Tennessee (“Tenny”) Weatherred, who donated it to the Washington County Museum.
