Sepia-toned image of two men in RCMP uniforms, one man is checking the pulse of the other, who appears to be playing dead. The movie, 'The Trail of Vengeance', featured a Mountie in pursuit of criminals, and was produced by J. J. Fleming Productions, a film studio that set up shop in Beaverton during the 1920s.
Black and white image of a somewhat dilapidated saltbox style house. The J. Q. A. Young House is owned by Tualatin Hills Parks and Recreation District and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Black and white image of a family seated in a formal portrait studio. Samuel Walters was the first European American to claim land in the Cedar Mill area, and by marrying he gained even more land, since wives were allowed to claim anywhere from 160 to 320 acres in addition to that which their husbands already held. This provision in the Donation Land Claim Act meant that Oregon women were not only in high demand, but they married far younger than was typical for the times, most by the time they were 17, and some years earlier than that. (The national average age of marriage for women at this time was 20 to 21 years old.) In the 1870 census, Naomi Walters is listed as 17 years old with two sons, a three-year-old and a one-year-old, the two boys in this image. The younger child, Elial, died before the next census was taken in 1880. Naomi would have been approximately 18 or 19 in this image, and Samuel about 50 years old.
Black and white image of a couple. He is seated in a chair holding a pipe, while she stands next to him with one hand on his shoulder. Notice her tightly shaped bodice and the bustled skirt gathered at the back of her dress. Her dress also has velvet cuffs and a velvet collar, all typical of women's fashion styles in the late 1880s.
Black and white image of a few children standing outside of a stone or cement-sided building. The girls wear loose-fitting blouses and skirts typical of the 1920s, and the building material is no longer wood.
Black and white image of a large group of people gathered outside a school building, most likely the students and their parents. Two young boys have ascended the building and are sitting in the belfry.
Black and white image of a group of children and young adults standing outside of a large school building. Though they may appear to be old enough to be teachers, the older girls in the back row are more likely to be students.
Black and white image of young people swimming in a large pond area, while adults look on. Note that everyone wears a swimsuit with a top, ensuring that all chests are covered to the same extent. Many of the girls wear swim caps as well. Lost Park was an amusement park established in the late 1900s, and included a carousel in addition to the swimming hole and play equipment. Today, it is managed by Tualatin Hills Parks and Recreation District, though without the carousel or swimming hole.
Black and white image of an old wooden church building. A sign above the door reads 'Cedar Mill Community Church'. The church has some elements of Carpenter or American Gothic design.
Black and white image of a small house with a covered front porch and two side additions. Snow covers the roof and the ground, and is piled up on the fence rails. Several of the trees behind the house appear to have been burned off.
Black and white image of a group of boys and girls of various ages. The girls are attired as brides in white and wearing veils; the boys all wear suits.
Black and white image of a family standing on the porch of a general store. The ad for 'White River Flour' dominates the pediment above the porch, with 'Again at your grocers' written above it. A door that appears to lead into living quarters is on the image right, and a good number of boxes and bales are piled about, as if they had just arrived with their belongings. One window displays stacked cans of foodstuffs while the other has a display of hats.
Black and white image of a man and a woman. Her curly bangs and tightly drawn back hair together with the puffed sleeves of her dress were typical fashions in the 1890s. The Kattermans are listed in the 1900 census as farmers in the Beaverdam area, now occupied by the communities of Oak Hills and Cedar Mill. Born in Germany, Joseph arrived in the U.S. in 1888. Magdalena was born in Switzerland and immigrated in 1891. Most of the early European immigrants to the area were either born in the United States or from the British Isles, but in the late 1800s the Pacific Northwest, like much of the rest of the nation, saw an influx of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia, as well as other Eastern European countries.
Black and white image of a man standing next to a neatly dug trench along Burnside Road in eastern Washington County. This water district supplies much of the eastern side of the county with water, drawing from Portland's Bull Run system. In 1948, the year after this picture was taken, Wolf Creek Highway was renamed the Sunset Highway in honor of the 141st U.S. Infantry Division, formed in 1917 and consisting of soldiers primarily from Washington and Oregon.
Black and white image of a man and a boy. They sit or lean on a pile of logs, and the man holds on to a collie at his feet while the boy holds a duck in his arms.
Black and white image of two men with a wagon loaded with hay. Drawn by a four-horse team, the wagon is stacked with bundled hay. The street is unpaved, but has concrete sidewalks and curbs on both sides, and the houses and brick fence on the left look relatively modern. A note on the back indicates that the hay could be flax, instead.
Black and white image of half a dozen men sitting on a combine, with one man laying inside the pipe that feeds the harvested crop from the blades into the back container of the machine. The machine is steam-powered; the gears for the engine are just visible in the far left of the image.
Sepia-toned image of a group of schoolchildren in front of their one-room school. The children range in age from early elementary to high school, and there are nearly equal numbers of boys and girls in the photo. One boy at the back left of the group brandishes a baseball bat. Prickett School was located north of Banks, Oregon, on Green Mountain and Woollen Roads, and in 1944 it consolidated with Banks. The schoolhouse burned down in 1947.
Black and white image of a street with a plank center, lined on either side by two-story buildings. Three people ride bicycles down the plank center of the street, and horse carriages are seen parked by several of the buildings. A building on the left side of the image advertises 'Livery, Feed Stable.'
