Black and white image in a cardboard frame of an elderly couple seated next to one another in a room in a house. August Blassing was born in Baden, Germany, and came to the Unites States in 1891. Myrtle Brown Blassing was born in Iowa. They came to Oregon sometime in the early 1900s, and settled in Washington County before World War I. Myrtle died less than a year after this picture was taken, in 1951.
Black and white image of a group of children assembled outside a schoolhouse. Their teacher for this year, identified in museum records as Mrs. Jaenicke, stands at the left side of the back row. Since there were 42 students registered this year, it is likely these students all belonged to one 'class' or grade level. Blooming was a small community just south of Cornelius and was once known as 'the German Settlement.'
Black and white image of a group of children assembled outside a schoolhouse. Their teacher, identified in museum records as Edwin Heefer, stands at the left side of the back row. Blooming was a small community just south of Cornelius, and the school was one of the smaller 'walking' schools in the county, with only 35 students.
