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.
Black and white image of a large, two-story wooden building with a number of people and goods in front of it. A number of men stand in a loosely arranged row across the image, holding various tools and wooden goods. Various shelves, boxes, bed-frames, doors, window frames, and decorative trim and newels are arranged alongside, in between and in front of them. A dresser with a mirror frame stands at the end of the row. In the back right, three young girls in short skirts stand, one with her hand on a baby carriage where a toddler can be seen. A wagon that seems to be mostly a frame is hitched to a two-horse team at the far right of the image. Stacks of wood, doors, and a dresser with a mirror frame are scattered about in front of the shop in the open door. A large water tower stands just to the side of the building, with a ladder leading up to it from the base and another from the roof of the building.
Black and white image of an electric streetcar. The car attaches to an elevated electrical line and runs on a track in a dirt street. Two men stand, one at each end, and a number of men and women with various styles of hats can be seen sitting inside the streetcar.
Black and white photograph of a three-story, gabled house in an overgrown yard. House has a double porch that wraps around the two visible sides, with a railing around both upper and lower levels. The yard is overgrown and the trees are in full leaf. A swing is just visible on the far image left of the porch, and a bench sits beside the front door.
Sepia-toned image mounted on mat of a two-story, gabled home with the family standing in front of it. The house has a covered porch with Stick-style posts. Two women stand inside a wire fence; both wear shirtwaists and their hair up in full buns. A boy wearing long pants and a long-sleeved jacket sits on the fence, facing forward. A man stands on the boardwalk leading from the house to a gate in the wire fence; he wears a suit and has a mustache. A bush in full bloom covers the front entrance to the house, and a similar bush stands to the side of the porch. A boardwalk runs in front of the fence, and a salt-box style extension can be seen in the rear of the house.
The Smith-Buxton-Caples House at 1938 16th Ave in Forest Grove, Oregon. According to a description in Oregon’s State Historic Sites Database: “The house is said to have been built by Irwin Smith around 1876. Smith was a partner with Mr. Buxton who later lived in the house with his family c. 1900. Buxton’s daughter, Rena Buxton, married a Mr. Caples and continued to live in the house.” This photograph was taken later, possibly in the 1900s-1920s. The house is square, with bay windows and a hipped roofline. Dark trim with light accents set the upper portions of the bay windows apart. Everything is snow-covered, with snow piled at the base of the picket fence that surrounds the yard, and sitting on top of the fence posts and the house.
Black and white image of crowds watching one-horse carriages being pulled down Main Street in Hillsboro. The street is plank, and there are power lines crossing the street and running alongside them. Most of the buildings visible are brick and the trees are in full leaf.
Black and white image of a group of men in suits and hats standing around a grassy yard in front of a two-story, gabled house. The men wear suits and derbies, and one man has a notepad sticking out of his pocket.
Sepia-toned image of a farmhouse with several people standing in front of it. House is a white, cross-gabled home with three sections in a dog-leg floor plan. Covered porches with gingerbread and carved posts front the two smallest sections. Paned, doubled-hung windows appear in all visible facades, and doors lead out of the front of each section. A woman with white hair pulled severely back wearing a long black dress with a small bustle stands in front of one door on a small porch. A man sits on the step of a covered porch, two shelves with potted plants sit on the porch behind him. A woman in a light-colored gown, also with a bustle, and a dropped waist and S-figure stands in the front yard; Her hair is up in a loose bun, and a chicken is at her feet. A girl in a dark, ankle-length dress and a light-colored artist's tie stands in the yard; she has bangs and a dark hat with a brim. To her left is a man in work clothes, standing with his arms crossed. He has a chin curtain beard and a light-colored hat with a brim worn pushed back on his head.
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 who was carrying an American flag is dumped out of a wheelbarrow into the muddy street. A caption below the wheelbarrow reads, “Hurrah for Cleveland.” Cleveland, unlike the majority of Forest Grove at the time, was a Democrat; he won the election. A related image captioned “Hurrah for Harrison” shows the same man being carried down the street on the other end of the same block. 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, just north of the present-day intersection of Pacific Avenue and Main Street, looking south. It is one of very few images showing downtown Forest Grove’s original wooden buildings. The building farthest to the right was a general merchandise store. The white building behind it housed a drugstore and meeting hall for the Odd Fellows; the Forest Grove National Bank building would later be built on that site. Neither of the buildings in the foreground survive today.
Main Street, Forest Grove, Oregon. A trolley car sits in the front of the image, with a conductor at either end. The street beyond is dirt, and lined on one side with two-story buildings, mostly brick, with square facades. Power poles line the street, and trees in full leaf are visible in the background and on the left edge.
Black and white image of a large, cross-gabled wooden house with two extensions. A number of people stand in the yard before the house, three men, four women, and two boys. The men stand along the left side of the house and wear dark suits and are bareheaded. An elderly woman sits on a chair in front of the leftmost man; she wears a light colored skirt and a dark jacket and her hair is up. The other three women stand in a group with the boys in the right of the image. They wear dark blouses with full sleeves tucked into full skirts. Two have lace at the front neck, and all wear their hair up, one in a pompadour style. the two boys wear pants and jackets, buttoned up. The ground appears bare, and the two trees in front of the building have only a few leaves. The building is two-storied, with double-hung windows spaced along each section. The front door opens out onto a covered porch beneath the central cross gable. Two doors, each with an accompanying window, open out onto a recessed porch on the leftmost side of the building. A bicycle leans up against one of the two trees in front of the building.
East entrance of Washington County courthouse showing heavy snow. Building is three stories tall, traditional classic style, with a protruding central arm ending in a pediment supported by four Doric columns. Three double doors open out between the columns, topped by large, paned glass windows. To either side four large, single-paned windows line each floor. Bare trees covered in snow frame the image from the front.
Photographic postcard of the Washington County Courthouse beneath a cloudy sky. Building is later, more elaborate version, dark stone with light colored supports and decorations. Porch has columns leading up to roof that provides balcony for the second floor. Sequoias are about even with the middle of the second floor, and a number of other large trees are placed about the yard surrounding it. A sidewalk leads up to it, and beaten dirt paths lead away from the front porch to the left. A number of houses are visible behind the building, and roads run parallel to the building in the background. Thick trees fill in behind the houses.
Photo of a large, two-story stone building with a clock tower with a group of men standing in front of it. The building is Romanesque in style, with a t-shaped construction featuring dark brick walls and lighter brick corners and ornamentation. Windows are arched with decorative cornices of lighter stone. The front features a covered porch with a second story balcony in place of the roof. The third floor has four small clerestory windows, and the clock tower is square, with a clock face on each visible sight. Its roof is peaked and four-sided. Several chimneys jut from the edges of the roof, and the ridge line features an ornamental fence. The men in front of the building are all wearing dark suits. The building is surrounded by grass, and a paved path leads from the front. Two small pine trees bracket either side of the porch, and a small white building with a door and single paned window is visible at the rear of the building.
Downtown Cornelius, Oregon around the 1880s. This photograph was taken looking west at what is now the intersection of Alpine Street and 12th Avenue, on the south side of the railroad tracks. On the right side of the photograph is a large grain warehouse belonging to the town’s namesake, T.R. Cornelius. According to notes on the back of the photograph, the buildings from foreground to background on the left side of the photograph are: St. Joseph Hotel; Dr. Clark Smiths’ Drugstore; a store owned by T.R. Cornelius; a warehouse; a saloon; and Keim’s store. None of the buildings pictured appear to have survived today. Notes identify several of the people standing in the photograph: “T.R. Cornelius, black hat, in front of door; Scott Cornelius in doorway; Dr. Smith, tall man near corner of hotel; Alec Couture sitting on platform, first in picture.” Several horse-drawn wagons appear in the background. The grain warehouse was the place where farmers from surrounding communities brought their wheat so that it could be moved to market via the railroad nearby. The photograph was taken by the I.G. Davidson Studio of Portland. This appears to be a black-and-white copy print of an earlier albumen card print. It was donated to the museum by Lester Mooberry, a prominent area resident who wrote a book on the history of Forest Grove and Cornelius.
Sepia-toned image of a group of men on the Hillsboro Courthouse steps. A boardwalk leads up to graduated steps that culminate in a wide porch. Strung across the porch and down the steps on either side are ten men in suits, arranged so that they appear to be of the same height. Two men stand at least one step down so that they do not tower over everyone else . All the men wear three piece suits, some in the sack suit style and others in a three piece vested style. All hold their hats, which are bowlers, fedoras, and other stiff-brimmed hats. About half have full, bushy mustaches; the rest have full beards, some in the Van Dyke style. One man leans on a cane. The building behind them is solid brick, all of one tone, and the courthouse doors are open.
Portrait of a light-colored, t-shaped, gabled roof house. The main leg of the house has a pitched roof and a porch that runs along the entirety of the side. Two doors open directly out to the porch, with a single, double-hung window between them. A bench sits near the second door, and hanging plants decorate the eaves. What looks the striped portion of a United States flag hangs against the wall beside the window. A chimney sits atop the roof, and another peaked roof is visible behind the first roofline. To the right of the image, a large, open barn like structure sits. the cross-bar portion of the house is two-storied, with a higher peaked roof than the other portion. Single double-hung windows appear in the side, next to each other in the front, and in the upper story. What appears to be a door leads into this part of the house from the roof. A leafy vine trails up the side of the house and spreads out over the first floor windows and beneath the second floor window, which is open. A chimney sits atop this roof, and a second, matching portion protrudes from this section of the house to the left of the image. A large, leafy bush and a picket fence fill the left side of the image, and large, leafy trees fill the skyline on the right. The yard in front of the house is grassy, with a bare section extending to the right from the very end of the main leg in front of and then along underneath the open structure next to it.
Four people stand in a grassy yard before a small white house. Two women, one on either end of the group, wear long dark skirts. One woman has a light colored shirt with mutton-leg sleeves tucked into her skirt, and wears her hair in a pompadour bun. The other woman's blouse matches her skirt, and buttons to her left with a shield tab. She wears her hair back. Two men stand between them, one wearing baggy pants, a suit jacket, and a dark shirt buttoned to the neck. The second man wears dark pants and suspenders over a white long-sleeved shirt. There is a porch on the front of the hous4e, and two rail back chairs sit on the porch. Double-hung, paned windows sit on either side of the door. The house is plank, painted white, with carved porch supports. the porch roof sits below the house roof, and there are no visible windows on the sides of the house. Pine trees are visible behind the house, and a rail fence runs along the left background of the image.
Colorized photo card print of Banks, Oregon. Photo shows a packed dirt road and a clear sky. On the right of the image is a vacant lot and a single pole with a power line running to and from it. Across a dirt street, a series of two-story wooden buildings with tall, square fronts and small windows. People stand on the covered porch of the first building. On the left of the image, another building with a pitched roof and square front has '[?] Mercantile' lettered over a covered porch, where a man leans against the railing. On the street in front of him waits a wagon with a two horse hitch. Visible just beyond the building and before the next is a power pole with a single cross-bar and glass power line insulators. Boardwalks link the buildings, with steps leading up to the porches. Visible in the background is a low hill and a number of leafy trees, pine and deciduous.
Three men stand in front of an elongated gable-roofed barn. An awning-style roof extends over an open barn door with a wooden ramp leading into the building. To the left is a set of closed doors, and a dead sapling. Posters and printed material adorn the open doors of the middle section. A glass double pained window is above the awning, with a sign suspended perpendicular to the building. The right section of the building has a window-sized opening and then an empty doorway. The men stand on a boardwalk or planked road. The man on the left stands akimbo and wears a dark shirt with white stripes, long-sleeved, with a leather apron over dark pants, and a cap. The man in the middle has a mustache, and a dark shirt with a leather apron over dark pants and a cap. The third man stands with his hands behind him and wears a buttoned coat over dark pants and a fedora. Signs on the building advertise 'Sloan's Liniment' and 'Sensation [illegible].'
Five Brass Era cars are parked in front of two buildings. The building to the left bears a sign reading 'G.A. Corl/Forest Grove Garage/Bicycles.' Beneath the sign is an open garage door, an open door, and a glass window. The building next door is white clapboard, with glass windows and an illegible sign hanging over a recessed entry. Several men in suits and hat observe from behind the row of cars; drivers sit in each car, and are identified on the back of the picture. Three wear bowler hats and suits, while the remaining two and the passenger wear newsboy style hats and overalls or jackets. Cars pictured are identified as a Buick, a Ford, an Olds, and a Rambler.
Handmade quilt square which depicts a home and environs near Cedar Mill Falls as part of the 15-panel Heritage Quilt of Cedar Mill. Description from accompanying pamphlet: BLOCK 9 THE YOUNG HOUSE by Mary Packer. This home is next to the falls and was built in 1863. In 1874 it housed the first Cedar Mill Post Office with John Quincy Adams Young as postmaster. Hand hewn 2 by 12s have helped the structure to stand over 100 years. The Valley Heritage Society also marked this site in 1974. The property has been owned by the Russell family since 1914.
During the 20th anniversary year of the founding of the library, the Cedar Mill Heritage Quilt (created in 1976) was on display during an ice cream social event in October. Kathryn Greathouse won the quilt in a raffle in September 1976 in support of the new Cedar Mill Community Library Association. See item CMLpic000028 and related items in this collection for more information on the project.
