Adams family in front of home

Title

Adams family in front of home

Description

A man and a woman, identified on back as Calvin and Catherine Adams, stand separately before a 2-story house and behind a wooden plank fence. He wears a jacket, vest, and hat and is bearded. She wears her hair pulled back and up, and is clothed in an ankle-length dark dress with a lighter colored apron and dark shoes. The house has two sections, one with a long covered porch featuring carved posts, corner scrollwork, and climbing vines. Leafy trees and bushes front the house; a boardwalk runs in front of the fence.

Catherine Julia Bartlet Adams wife of Calvin Henry Adams. At their home, N.E. corner of 3rd & Oak St. Hillsboro, Oregon. Pioneers of 1852. They setteled on a D.L.C. 1852 near Brownsville or Waldo Hills. Moved to North of Hillsboro in 1862. To this jome ca 1870. Home razed ca 1969. See more history in files. Donor - violet Rush a GreatGrandDaughter.

Identifier

WCMpic_000022

Subject

Pioneers

Houses

Adams, Calvin Henry

Adams, Catherine Julia Bartlet

History (General)

Genealogy & Family History

Local & State History

Nineteenth Century History

Western United States History

Spatial Coverage

Hillsboro, Oregon

Language

English

Date Created

circa 1875

Date

1875

Medium

photographic prints

Rights

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Type

Still Image

Source

Washington County Museum