Commemorative postcard showing Banks in 1902 and in 2002. The Post Office was created in 1902, although the town was not officially incorporated until 1921. The photo on the left shows Market and Main Streets in Banks as they appeared in 1902, and the photo on the right show Main Street in 2002, with one of the many logging trucks that pass through town each day.
Main Street in Banks, circa 1910-1912. On the left the blacksmith shop, Kinton & Schulmerich Grocery and Powne & Jensen Grocery and Dry Goods, and Dance Hall are visible. On the right, the Millers Hotel and Bar, Banks Herald office, Washington County Bank and the pharmacy of Dr. William Munford are visible.
A steam engine travels through newly felled trees on the Tillamook Line of the Southern Pacific railway, which ran between Banks, Timber, and Cochran, Oregon.
Two women and a man stand by the engineer's car of a Southern Pacific line train. The train is stopped at the Timber, Oregon station. The engineer's car was a sleeper car used by the engineers for overnight trips.
Greenville, Oregon in the 1870s. The town had growth enough by this time to justify a post office, but the town dwindled as Banks and Forest Grove prospered, and the post office in Greenville was moved to Banks in 1907.
The widow and daughters of Dr. Marion Parker sit in their 1918 Overland Automobile. In the front seat is his widow Emma, and driving is his daughter Viola. In the back seats are daughters Lillian, Gertrude and Grace.
Portrait of the Turner family, including Montgomery 'Gum' Turner and Vessie Parmley Turner and their children Flonnie (born 1895), Herman (born 1897), James Carl (born 1900), and Nellie May (born 1902).
