Black and white image of Main Street, lined with brick buildings and other businesses. The street is paved, and two of the businesses on the street are Real Estate, offering loans, while two others are grocery stores. There is also a hotel, offering home cooking. Note the two men standing in the wood-paneled wagon in front of the Beaver Inn.
Sepia-toned image of a city main street. There are boardwalks on either side of the dirt road, and at least two power poles in the image. A horse and buggy stand in front of the mercantile, and a number of people stand on the porches of at least one of the buildings.
Sepia-toned image of a cross- farmhouse, with trees in bloom in the yard. Two couples are in the yard, one standing and one seated on the porch; the woman seated on the porch holds a baby in her arms. Photo was in a lot accessioned as McCormick family photos, though no other identification is available on the people in the photo.
Sepia-toned image a large barn-style building. Advertising decorates both of the large barn doors, and a large pile of wood can be seen stacked next to the outer wall inside a covered porch area.
Black and white print of the Walker family standing outside a cross-gabled, two -story home. Note the rain barrel by the eaves of the back porch, and the hammock hanging between posts on the front porch.
Sepia-toned image of a dirt street in Beaverton. Railroad cars are visible in the distance, and a boardwalk runs along either side of the street. Though hitching posts are still available, only automobiles appear to be using the street.
Black and white print of a two-story, gabled building with a covered driveway and two gas pumps at the front. The name 'William Fuegy' is lettered across the building above the second story windows. It sits to the side of a wet and muddy dirt road, and what appears to be a rainbow arches across the sky in front of it. Note the asphalt shingles on the roof.
One of the Bernards family's homes in Verboort, Oregon. The Bernards were a large Dutch-American Catholic family who settled in the small village of Verboort, a few miles north of Forest Grove. The community had many other Dutch-American families. Three Bernards brothers -- Hubert, Theodore and John Bernards -- came to Verboort in 1875, where they were later joined by more family members. It is unclear which of the Bernards homes this photograph depicts, but it was probably taken between 1900-1920.
Black and white image of several men putting what appear to be the finishing touches on a large, two-story gabled house. One man stands on a porch with a child at his knee, two others are on the roof and a third standing on scaffolding at the roofline. The railing on the porch, staircase, and second floor is an alternating square pattern, and there is minimal scrollwork at the top of the porch supports. The house sits in a large, vacant field with a thick grove of pine trees in the background.
Black and white image of a Queen Anne style, two- story, cross-gabled house. A covered porch runs in front of one section, providing a balcony for the second story above. A bay window juts from the center of the other facade, and a decorative patterns adorns the house below the scrollwork on the eaves. The house sits up on a foundation, on a hill, with what appears to be woods covering the hills behind it.
Sepia-toned image mounted on heavy card stock. Several boys in suits and hats stand on a boardwalk in front of a dirt road. An African American man stands with them, and other men stand about the street or sit in front of the Tualatin Hotel, located on the other side of the dirt road. A horse and buggy stand in the middle of the road, and a large wagon with three rows of seating stands a little further down the road. The sign on the building to the image left reads 'Farmers Exchange' and just behind that a sign reads 'Jackson's Billiard Hall.' There appears to only be two buildings on the right side of the street, and possibly four or five on the left side, before trees and fields take over the landscape.
Black and white photograph of a street with a railroad on one side and a few, two-story buildings on the other. Signs advertise meats, ladies, men's, and children's wear, as well as Coca-cola and sandwiches. A grain elevator is visible in the background, and a number of cars are parked along the road. A fire hydrant sits in front of the building on the corner.
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.
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.'
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.
A photograph of downtown Hillsboro, Oregon taken looking north from the intersection of Second and Washington Streets circa 1880. In the foreground, three girls hold hands while standing on a wooden sidewalk. The Commercial Hotel, built around 1866, is on the left, with a gas streetlamp nearby. The Feed & Livery shop, which had an opera house above it, is on the right. A group of four boys and two men are standing in front of the Feed & Livery shop. A gas lamp stands just behind the group. This photograph was donated to the museum by Verne McKinney, a local businessman whose family had lived in the area since at least the early 1900s.
Sepia-toned image of a plank street, lined by square-fronted buildings. Most are two-story, though single-story buildings have facades that approximate a second story. The building at the corner right of the street has 'Druggist' lettered in one window. Three men in suits and hats stand on the boardwalk outside this building. A bu8ilding just down from the drugstore advertises 'Furniture. Wall Paper [sic], Picture Framed Glass. Across the street, the first building bears a sign reading 'Post Office,' and just down from that is a striped barber pole, a boot shop, and a meat market. A single gaslight is visible on the far left of the street, and two power poles stand beside buildings on the image right of the street. The planked area is in the middle of the road, with boardwalks running in front of the buildings, and large ditches crossed by wooden ramps between the two. Rows of trees in full leaf line the street beyond the block of businesses.
Black and white image of a street lined with cars. Trolley tracks run parallel to each other in the middle of the street, and a number of people stand on the sidewalks. Buildings are mostly brick, and large power poles dominate both sides of the street. A neon sign for Palm Confectionary is visible on the right edge of 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.
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 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.
