Dr. Walter Reif, students, and faculty sitting in Price Chapel in Old College Hall and listening to an electronic organ. Dr. Walter Reif was Pacific University's Chaplain.
Portrait of Rev. Horace M. Ramsey, Pacific University Class of 1899. He went on to attend the University of California, and became Dean of St Stephen's Pro-Cathedral in Portland, Oregon.
Portrait of C. Franklin Koch, Pacific University Class of 1910. He went on to study divinity at the Wittenberg Seminary in Ohio, and later worked for the Board of Social Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America.
Black and white image of six nuns in habits at a beach. All seated or standing near rocks at the base of a large rock, and the sand in front of them is compacted and wet. Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon was founded in 1886, moving to their current Beaverton location in the 1890s.
Looking north through the intersection of SE 3rd and Walnut Streets in Hillboro, Oregon. A dirt road runs north, between two grassy verges. Sidewalks run along each verge, and houses and two church buildings are visible, as well as power lines. A man stands on the sidewalk beside the house at the left. The church on the image left of the intersection is St. Matthew's Catholic Church, though the rectory now sits where this building is located, with the church on the northeast corner of the block. The house on the right is the Rice-Gates House at 308 SE Walnut Street, which was built in 1890. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The house on the left is 272 SE Walnut Street, which was built in 1910.
A group portrait of women from the Ladies Guild of the Reformed Church of Helvetia, Oregon in 1937. Many of the members of this church were from Swiss or German immigrant families. Its original language for church services was German, although by the time this photograph was taken, most services were in English. The women wear comfortable dresses, most with shorter sleeves and buttons up the front. A man in a suit (possibly the church pastor?) stands at the very back of the group.
Sepia-toned image of a large, two-story Mission revival style church with a large, square bell tower. Elaborate stained glass windows fill the visible facades, and a long flight of stairs leads up to a recessed entrance. The church sits in a grassy yard, and a sidewalk runs beside it. Several tall, slender oak trees are set about the edge of the lawn.
Sepia-toned image of a two story Dutch Colonial Revival house with a gambrel roof and a widow's walk between the dormer windows in the roof. A covered porch runs along the front of the home, in front of two series of three windows on either side of the front door. Another staircase going into the side of the home can be seen to the left side of the image; a boardwalk leads to that staircase and another to the front staircase. Built in 1905 and designed by the then pastor's wife, this house was the parsonage for the Congregational Church in Forest Grove for approximately sixty years. Now a private home, the house still stands today and is located in Forest Grove's Clark Historic District. A one cent stamp is affixed to the back of the postcard.
Group photo of a large group of men and women, who are gathered for a meeting of Christian Endeavor, an evangelical, nondenominational group which sought to promote a Christian life among its members. A pennant being held up at the back of the photo shows the Christian Endeavor symbol and reads 'Washington County Union 1912-13.' This convention was held in Gaston, Oregon.
A group of wedding guests stands in front of the First Baptist Church in Hillsboro. They are grouped around the front door and a decorated car stands in front on the street, so they are probably waiting for the bride and groom.
Photo of the Bethel Congregational Church in Beaverton. A sign in the front of the church reads: 'Bethel Congregational Church; Founded 1880; Rev. Albert F. King; Rev. R. K. Marmaduke; reverends'
Black and white image of a priest in a cassock seated on a grey horse. The horse stands in front of a stone building. Father Joseph was born in Switzerland in 1837 and emigrated to the United States in 1871. He served in Jordan, in Linn County, before relocating to Hillsboro after 1900.
Black and white image of a group of boys and men gathered to watch as a Catholic church official (likely a bishop) prepares to turn over a shovel full of earth. St. Mary's Boys' home was founded by the Catholic church in 1889 as an orphanage. While it was run by the Sisters of St. Mary's of Oregon for almost fifty years, in 1953 they withdrew from the home, though it kept their name. In the 1960s, it was a self-sufficient campus with its own dairy, orchards and livestock, providing a home for boys ages 6 to 14.
Black and white image of a group of boys and several adults watching as a priest ceremonially breaks ground with a shovel. Though the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon were no longer affiliated with the school after 1953, the school today retains the 'St Mary's' name as the modern iteration of the orphanage which first brought the sisters to Beaverton in 1891.
Black and white image of a group of people gathered in front of a church building. Most likely the event commemorated here is the dedication of an expansion of the church building and its basement. Tualatin Plains Presbyterian was founded in 1873 by four families from Glasgow, Scotland. One of the most well-known historic buildings in the area, the current building was completed in 1878. The stained glass windows in the front are from Scotland, and at one point in the 1980s vandals broke one of the panes. This pane was an unusual dark red color, so the church contacted the original manufacturer in Scotland. The company subsequently unearthed the original, now century-old order in their archives, and was able to manufacture an exact replica for the broken pane.
Black and white image of the Hillsboro First Baptist Church at night with a large neon cross brightly lit as it hangs from the belfry. The Reverend John Schierling listed on the reader board served as pastor of the congregation from 1945 to 1957. The church has occupied its present site has at the corner of 2nd and Lincoln streets since 1921. Though the exterior features composite siding, the building's architectural style is Mission Revival.
Black and white image of a man on a stage expounding from an open bible. A number of other men on stage behind him are following along, and a couple of women look on. The banner at the back of the stage is not entirely visible, but appears to read 'Christ for the Crisis,' possibly referring to a group in the 1940s and 1950s that was conducting revivals focusing on the fulfillment of biblical prophecy and the perceived threat of communist Russia and the Iron Curtain to Western democracies.
Black and white image of a wooden church building in the Carpenter gothic style. Built in 1892 for the local Methodist Episcopal congregation, the building was known as 'Wesley Chapel.' Home to a Methodist congregation for forty years, it was later leased to a number of other churches and other community groups. In 1965 the building was demolished.
