Black and white image several gabled buildings, two with false fronts. Primary is a building with large double doors and a sign reading 'Blacksmith shop' on the front facade. A man identified in museum records as James Lincoln Loving, the proprietor, stands just outside the shop's large door. He wears work clothes, a newsboy-style cap, and a leather apron. Another man sits on a bench nearby; most likely a man named Sylvester Culver. Numerous wagon axles, frames, and wagon wheels are parked in front of the shop and leaning against various walls and fences. A fenced yard separates the blacksmith shop from another building with a door and two windows in the front facade and a sign indicating it is Jacobsen's Shoe and Harness Shop. A man and a boy stand on the front porch; the man may be I. Jacobson, the proprietor. The third building in the image is the Berry & Dallas Prune Dryer, which dried apples, prunes, pears, pumpkins, and corn.
Black and white image of a small, two-story building with a squared off front. A covered porch extends from the front of the building, and a single-gable building with large double doors sits next door to it. The buildings sit in a grassy lot, with power lines and tall cypress trees in the image. See WCMpic_14099 for an image of the blacksmith shop around 1900.
Black and white image of a two-story shop with a covered front porch. Half a dozen men and a number of horses and wagons are gathered in front of the building. Two men wear blacksmith's aprons and hold tools in their hands. The rest of the men wear suit jackets and hats. A large sign made up of a down-turned horseshoe and a wagon wheel is set up on the roof of the porch. To the image left of the building a woman sits in a carriage with two small children, identified in museum records as Mrs. Walter and her children. Advertisements for 'plug cut' tobacco and other products are posted on the walls of the building. The loft door is open, showing wagon wheels and seats. The road in front of the building is unpaved and muddy. Charles Walter's blacksmith shop was in Glencoe, which is now part of North Plains, just north of Hillsboro. See WCMpic_014102 for an image of this building in 1987.
Sepia-toned image a large barn-style building. Advertising decorates both of the large barn doors, and a large pile of wood can be seen stacked next to the outer wall inside a covered porch area.
The Ariss Blacksmith Shop in Tigard, Oregon, circa 1912. The image shows a small, two-story building with a single garage door, which stands open in a square front facade. Three men, two in work clothes and one in a suit, stand in the doorway. A single window opens above the garage door, and a sign hangs perpendicular to the building, which reads: 'W. H. Ariss. General Blacksmithing.' On the wall below the window hangs a second sign advertising 'Winona Wagons'. Wooden fencing surrounds a yard to the building's right, with various wagon wheels and other equipment just visible through and above it, and brush fills a vacant lot to the building's left.
Sepia-toned image of a two men in coveralls standing in front of a gas station and garage. One man wearing a fedora stands next to a single gas pump at the side of a covered awning, while a younger man wearing a newsboy cap stands next to him. Behind them is an antique car. Two sets of garage doors are open, and a brick forge can be seen in the interior of one. Hoses hang at the left corner of the building. A sign on the top of the covered driveway reads 'Garage' while a sign beneath that says, 'Good Year Service Station' next to a tire. Another sign on the building's right corner reads 'Monogram Greases Oils' and another 'Union Coupons.'
A group of men inside the Ariss Blacksmith shop in Tigard, Oregon circa 1912. A note on the back of the photograph identifies some of the men as Bill Ariss, Kuhne, and Hunziker. Most of the men wear overalls or work coveralls, and a great deal of equipment fills the walls behind them. Pliers and forceps hang alongside a forge, and horseshoes, bits, and other tack materials can be seen hanging on the wall. In the center of the image, one man holds what looks like a large hubcap with spokes and lug nuts over a trough of water.
Two men stand in a blacksmith shop. The mustached man standing akimbo wears dark pants, a dark shirt, and a leather apron, with a cap on his head. Another man has one foot up on a shelf or stool, wears a long apron over overalls and a light-colored shirt, and has a cap. Various tools are hanging on a table to the front of the image, and an anvil with a hammer resting on it stands in front of and between the men. The shop disappears into the background of the image, with studs holding up the ceiling, bare rafters overhead, and plank walls with bare studs. A sign with illegible writing is posted on one support, while posters are visible on the wall at the front of the image. Photo on cardstock, with handwritten label taped beneath.
Three men stand in front of an elongated gable-roofed barn. An awning-style roof extends over an open barn door with a wooden ramp leading into the building. To the left is a set of closed doors, and a dead sapling. Posters and printed material adorn the open doors of the middle section. A glass double pained window is above the awning, with a sign suspended perpendicular to the building. The right section of the building has a window-sized opening and then an empty doorway. The men stand on a boardwalk or planked road. The man on the left stands akimbo and wears a dark shirt with white stripes, long-sleeved, with a leather apron over dark pants, and a cap. The man in the middle has a mustache, and a dark shirt with a leather apron over dark pants and a cap. The third man stands with his hands behind him and wears a buttoned coat over dark pants and a fedora. Signs on the building advertise 'Sloan's Liniment' and 'Sensation [illegible].'
A sepia-toned photograph of four adult men, one child, and two horses standing outside the John Gaarde Blacksmith Shop. John Gaarde is the second man from the right and is standing next to his son Hans Gaarde. The man on the far left is Al Johnson. An unidentified man on the far right sits on one of the horses.
John Gaarde, also known as Jørgen, was born in Denmark. He settled in what is now Tigard, Oregon in the late 1800s. John Gaarde established his blacksmith shop in Tigardville in 1893. The shop was located on present-day Pacific Highway, across from McDonald Street. John Gaarde's shop and Charles Tigard's general store and post office were at the center of Tigardville's early commercial activity.
This photograph shows the shop's buildings, which had western style false-front facades and a wide bay door on the ground floor. The building to the left is a two-story building with two double-paned windows on the second floor and one on the ground floor. The building to the right is a one-story building. Two double-paned windows are visible along the side of the building and a chimney extends upward from the roof.
