Black and white image of a group of fifteen school-age boys, each holding a large, plucked turkey carcass. Museum records do not identify the boys, other than to state that they are newspaper delivery boys and the turkeys are likely holiday bonuses. This image is part of the Herbert McMullen bequest. McMullen was a local photographer who owned a studio in Hillsboro; he also collected images of local life taken by other photographers.
Black and white image of three men monitoring what appears to be a pet food canning machine. A large steel drum occupies the lower right of the image, and a narrow chute descends from the ceiling at one end. Cans appear to be being fed into the tube, then ejected at the bottom. One man in a white coverall stands directly next to the chute, while two others watch from a distance. One wears a coverall and the other a white lab coat. Though perhaps better known today for their cornmeal and grits, museum records identify this Albers Mill, located in Hillsboro, as a manufacturer of Friskies canned pet foods. See WCMpic_013851, WCMpic_013854, WCMpic_013869, and WCMpic_013875 for other images of the mill as a pet food plant.
Black and white image of a man in a white coverall, moving large blocks of meat and bone parts from a cart to be sliced into a bin. Though perhaps better known today for their cornmeal and grits, museum records identify this Albers Mill, located in Hillsboro, as a manufacturer of Friskies canned pet foods. See WCMpic_013851, WCMpic_013855, WCMpic_013869, and WCMpic_013875 for other images of the mill as a pet food plant.
Black and white image of workers, mostly women, working at conveyors sorting fruit or produce for processing. Electric lights hang over each conveyor belt in addition to fluorescent lights overhead. Empty buckets are stacked about, and there are six visible work stations. The cannery was built in 1919 by a two local businessmen who were expanding from hops production into canning, Harold W. Ray and Bertrand E. Maling. They converted the plant to process frozen foods in the early 1930s, and the plant was sold in later years to Birds Eye Foods. The plant was demolished in the 1980s, its site near downtown Hillsboro now occupied by the Washington County Jail.
Postcard written to a family in Oregon City, wherein another relation gives orders concerning some trees and taxes. The writer of the postcard works in Hillsboro, Oregon, but the postcard is addressed to someone in Oregon City, Oregon.
A group of men are gathered in front of Stribich's Carriage and Wagon Shop in Forest Grove. The building is a large two-story wooden structure with many windows and a large door. A large sign on the front of the building reads 'Stribich's Wagon & Carriage Shop' with a smaller indecipherable sign underneath. Carriages and wagons are parked in front of the shop. John Stribich was the owner of the store.
A large group of men are lined up on the sidewalk and gathering in the street to join the Industrial Workers of the World union. All the men are wearing hats and coats.
An eight man work crew posing for the camera. Some are holding shovels while others are standing by. Most are grouped around what looks like a portable cement mixer on a four wheeled cart. There appears to be a sidewalk behind the men so this would indicate they are working on paving the street. The house in the background is of the Italiante architecture.
