Black and white image of Patricia Nixon, most likely campaigning in Oregon for her husband's presidential bid. Note the 'portable' movie camera filming the event in the upper left of the image.
Black and white image of candidate Stassens taking advantage of the opportunity for a photo op. Harold Stassens was in Oregon to participate in a debate before the state's Republican primary . Stassens eventually lost his bid for the nomination to New York governor Thomas E. Dewey.
Black and white image of Thomas E. Dewey speaking to a group of people at the Washington County Courthouse. Dewey sought the Republican nomination three times, in 1940, 1944, and successfully in 1948. Incumbent president Harry Truman defeated Dewey in the general election that year.
Black and white image of a crowd filling the lawn in front of Pacific University's Marsh Hall to listen to then-governor of New York, Thomas Dewey, speak. Dewey was running for the Republican nomination for President against a field of five other candidates.
Black and white image of Thomas E. Dewey, speaking to a crowed at Pacific University. Dewey won the Republican nomination, but lost in the general election that following November to incumbent president Harry Truman.
Black and white image of Thomas E. Dewey, campaigning for the Republican nomination for President in Hillsboro in 1948. Dewey speaks from the front entrance of the Washington County Courthouse. Eventually winning the Republican nomination against a field of 5 other candidates and highly favored to win, Dewey lost in the general election that fall, leading to the famous picture of President Harry Truman holding up the newspaper with the headline 'Dewey Defeats Truman' on the morning after the election.
Black and white image of Thomas E. Dewey, campaigning for the Republican nomination for President at Pacific University in 1948. Dewey defeated, among others, Harold Stassens for the nomination that year, only to lose to Truman in the general election in November. Though perhaps most familiar to most as the loser of the 1948 election to Truman, Dewey came to prominence in his home state of New York in the mid 1930s, where as Special Prosecutor he mounted an ambitious campaign to bring down mob bosses and corrupt politicians.
One of a pair of humorous images dating from the 1888 Presidential election between Harrison and Cleveland. A crowd of men and boys watches as a man who was carrying an American flag is dumped out of a wheelbarrow into the muddy street. A caption below the wheelbarrow reads, “Hurrah for Cleveland.” Cleveland, unlike the majority of Forest Grove at the time, was a Democrat; he won the election. A related image captioned “Hurrah for Harrison” shows the same man being carried down the street on the other end of the same block. The Oregonian printed a description of this scene on November 15, 1888, noting that two local men had made a bet about the outcome of the election and that the loser had to carry the other one in a wheelbarrow procession through town, but that the loser dumped out the winner as a joke. The man holding the wheelbarrow was Charles Fritz, who ran a local photography studio; the man riding in the wheelbarrow was Joseph Vaughn. This photograph was taken in downtown Forest Grove, just north of the present-day intersection of Pacific Avenue and Main Street, looking south. It is one of very few images showing downtown Forest Grove’s original wooden buildings. The building farthest to the right was a general merchandise store. The white building behind it housed a drugstore and meeting hall for the Odd Fellows; the Forest Grove National Bank building would later be built on that site. Neither of the buildings in the foreground survive today.
