Black and white image of a man and a woman seated in an early model Brass-era automobile. The woman holds a baby. Trees and a large grassy area are visible behind the couple, and the road is dirt. Museum records identify the image only the 'Gaston postmaster,' the image being taken about 1910.
Black and white image of a man in a suit seated in a small covered sulkey drawn by a single horse. Printed on the side of the sulkey is 'U. S. Mail. R. F. D. No. 2.' Museum records indicate that this is a copy of a printed postcard which had a postmark date of August 9, 1909, Beaverton, Oregon. The image was donated by Waldo Flint
Black and white image of a group of men waiting for mail to be disbursed from an airplane. Museum records do not identify where the airplane has landed, or who the men are who are waiting to receive the mail.
Black and white image of a clerk in behind the counter in a post office, reading. Boxes filled with letters and newspapers line the wall, and other stacks of letters are arranged on the worktable.
Black and white image of a man standing beside a small, box-shaped, light-colored mail carriage. Pulled by two horses, the carriage has the lettering 'Rural Delivery Route No.2. U.S. Mail'. There is a rail fence behind him, and a barn and a shed visible in the distance; ostensibly the man is in the rural area to which the mail is delivered.
Color image of an unpainted, wooden, two-story cross-gabled house in a field. There is a covered porch around the longer section of the house, and double-hung, single-paned windows in the facades. A television antennae extends up from the front faade to several feet above the roofline, and a white sign in stands in the front yard.
Handmade quilt square which depicts tools of the local post office as part of the 15-panel Heritage Quilt of Cedar Mill. Description from accompanying pamphlet: LOCK 11 POSTAL CANCELLATION AND STAMPS by Margye Armstrong. This cancellation says Cedar Mill, Oregon and is dated July 3, 1904, the last date in the stamp owned by Bernard P. Young, a descendant of the first postmaster. Rural delivery came to the area about this time and the Cedar Mill service was discontinued. The small stamp on the right is the wooden handled postal stamp. On the left is actually a notary seal which is owned by the Reeves family who are descendants of G. H. Reeves, the second commissioned postmaster who operated a general store on the corner of Barnes Road and Cornell. The seal says B. B. Reeves, Notary Public, State of Oregon.
Left to right: A.M. Kennedy, W.B. Emmons, Victor Emmons, and Billy Boyd. The post office was located in the Cady Building on SW Farmington Road at the time the photo was taken. Notice the World War I -era newspaper.
Andrew Kennedy is at the wheel of a 1911 Brush automobile on an unpaved road. He was the carrier for Beaverton's Rural Route 1. He is wearing a uniform and hat.
Bill Boyd, mail carrier, is wearing suit, tie, and hat and sitting in a one or two passenger horse-drawn buggy. U.S. Mail and RFD and a part of the route number are visible on the side of the buggy.
