Hillsboro Post Office

Title

Hillsboro Post Office

Description

Sepia-toned image of people and two horse-drawn carriages standing in front of a brick building. Another matched team of horses appears to be hitched up to a large bundle of firewood. Four people stand on the boardwalk in front of the building, two men and two women. The women wear white shirtwaists with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and long black skirts. One man is in a suit, as are the two men with the carriages. The fourth man stands behind the team of horses and is wearing work clothes. Small United States flags are displayed on the window edges of the main building. 'Post' is written across one window, and 'Office' on the second. A power pole is just visible in the far left of the image.

[Front] [pen] Post Office, 2nd St. Hillsboro. [pencil] Early 1900. [Back] [pencil] Posoffice [sic] Edmond. [Pen] Post Office, Hillsboro, Oregon. West side of 2nd St., between Main nd Washington Sts. [pencil] Early 1900. 1. [blank] 2. Bertha Hesse, 3. Ben Cornelius, 4. Susie Morgan, 5 [blank], 6 [blank]. Mrs. Rollins, Portland, Oct. 27, 1972. Her I. D.

Identifier

WCMpic_001085

Subject

Post office buildings

Postmasters

Postal Service

Women--Employment

Public architecture

Cornelius, Benjamin Peyton, 1850-1930

Cornelius, Susan (Brown) Morgan

Hesse, Bertha

Rollins, [?]

Economic History

Genealogy & Family History

Local & State History

Social History

Work

Spatial Coverage

Hillsboro, Oregon

Language

English

Date Created

circa 1900

Date

1900

Medium

card photographs

Rights

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Type

Still Image

Source

Washington County Museum