Black and white portrait of a woman from the shoulders up. She wears a dress with pleated shoulders and a pleated insert. Her hair is short and parted on the side and combed back from her face.
Black and white portrait of a young woman wearing a white dress. She is seated in a wicker chair and holds a rolled up document and a bouquet of roses in her lap. Her long-sleeved dress is almost entirely overlaid with eyelet material, and she wears a large corsage on her chest. Several bouquets stand beside her and flowers are gathered at her feet. Her short hair is curled and combed softly back from her face. Though the back of the card reads 'Mrs. Morrissey,' it is more likely that the photo is that of one of the Morrisseys' daughters.
Black and white image of a woman standing in front of a shingle-sided building. Two large plate glass windows are visible to her right, and the sign on the top of the building reads 'Red Robin, Lunch.' the woman has short hair, parted on one side, and stands with her hands in the pockets of her front button dress.
Black and white image of a Carpenter Gothic church. The center section extends above two sides, which function as buttresses. Pointed arched windows are placed along the side, with a triple window in the front of the church. Small round windows line the visible wall above the side section roof, and carved bargeboards decorate the edges of the roof. A large, square tower dominates the forward corner of the building, featuring a rounded arch window above a wide doorway and culminating in a tall, narrow 8-sided steeple. Decorative woodwork adorns the tower, including two carved crosses. The main building and church tower still stand at the corner of 11th and Beech streets, though the upper portion of the main building has been removed, as has the tall steeple. A one cent stamp is affixed to the back of the postcard.
Black and white image of a square, two-story building with a sign reading 'Noblecraft Industries' on the front. A large semi is parked nearby. The trailer of the truck reads in part, 'Noblecraft. Kitchen cabinets -- Fixtures. Hillsboro, Oregon.' The factory stretches out away from the first building. The upper portion of the image has been obscured by a piece of paper, held on by a paperclip. This images was part of the Herbert McMullen bequest. McMullen was a local photographer who also collected other images of daily life in the area.
Black and white aerial image of Cornelius, Oregon. The main road running from the lower center left to the upper center right is Tualatin Valley Highway or Baseline Street, and the railroad runs along the south side of the road.
Black and white image of a group of women gathered in front of a wooden building. The sign hanging above them indicates the building is the Public Library and it has a rest room in side. Some of the women wear fur coats; most wear somewhat shapeless dresses of the style in the 1930s. Cloche hats and round, dark framed glasses further set the photo in the late 1930s.
Black and white aerial view of a drive-in movie theater. According to museum records, this is most likely the Car-Vue theater, which was built in 1950 and planned in 1949 by Orange Phelps. The Cornelius Fred Meyer occupies this spot now (2012).
Black and white image of a child and a young woman holding a bucket of beans. The child wears pants and a shirt and a cowboy hat. People of all ages can be seen picking beans throughout the field behind the pair at the center of the image. Museum records identify this location as the Carothers & Son farm, near Cornelius, Oregon.
Black and white (overexposed) image of a tractor pulling a mechanical bean picker through a field of beans. The harvested beans are dropping from a hopper into wooden crates behind the picker, overseen by a young man. Museum records identify this location as the Carothers & Son farm, near Cornelius, Oregon.
Black and white(overexposed) image of a mechanical bean picker being pulled through a field of beans. The harvested beans are dropping from a hopper into wooden crates behind the picker, supervised by a young man making certain the crates do not overflow. Museum records identify this location as the Carothers & Son farm, near Cornelius, Oregon.
Black and white (overexposed) image of a tractor pulling a mechanical bean picker through a field of bush beans. A pick-up truck follows in the background. Museum records identify this location as the Carothers & Son farm, near Cornelius, Oregon.
Black and white (overexposed) image of a tractor pulling harvesting equipment through a field of beans. The harvested beans are lifted up a conveyor belt and then dropped into wooden crates behind the picker. A young man rides on the trailer, supervising the fall of the harvested beans. Museum records identify this location as the Carothers & Son farm, near Cornelius, Oregon.
Black and white image of a young girl, identified in museum records as Eileen Carothers, and a woman wearing a hat. They stand in between two rows of pole beans, and the woman holds a handful of beans while Eileen is picking some. Museum records identify this image as from the Carothers & Son farm, near Cornelius.
Black and white image of hand-harvested flax stacked in a field outside Cornelius, Oregon. These traditional stacks or 'little chapels' preserved the fibers at their longest and most supple, ideal for the manufacture of cloth. One of the oldest fibers known to mankind, flax produces both linen and linseed oil. A major crop in the Cornelius and North Plains area from the late 1800s, a large processing plant was built near Cornelius in the twentieth century. Cheaper cotton and synthetic fibers collapsed the flax market in the late 1950s. Currently, flax is on the upswing again as a crop, though today it is valued more for its seeds, which are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and highly prized for both human consumption and animal feed.
Sepia-toned image of people gathered for a barn raising. The barn is framed, but not roofed or sided. A number of men sit along the top of the front cross-beam, while the rest of the group is gathered along the bottom of the framing on the floor of the barn. Several children, mostly girls, stand with the men, and a group of women is seated on a board in front of the floor. Museum records identify the location as 'near Firdale Gr. School.' Firdale school was in the hills north of Cornelius, Oregon.
Black and white image of students arranged on the front steps of their school, with their teacher, Mrs. R. A. Withycomb, standing in the background. Johnson School served students in and around the Blooming community, which was an unincorporated area south of Cornelius originally known for its large concentration of German settlers.
Black and white image of two young women wearing fancy tone-on-tone striped dresses with pleated skirts and satin yokes and sleeves. One girl is seated, and one is standing,. Both wear their hair up with a bow, though the standing girl's bow is much larger than her companion's. Girls' clothing in the 1910s especially became more child-friendly. One of the girls in this image is identified as Theresa Hendricks, the other is most likely her sister Edna, two years older than Theresa. Both the girls lived in Cornelius with their family. In the 1910 census, Theresa's father, Alphonse, is listed as the proprietor of a general merchandise store.
Sepia-toned image of a building with several men and a young boy standing in front of it. The boy wears a nice suit with short pants and stands next to a distinguished looking man who also wears a nice suit. The business appears to be both a bank and a land office, offering 4% interest on savings, fire insurance, and real estate loans.
Black and white image of a large group of students gathered along the boardwalk in front of their two-story school building with their teachers. Note the various lengths of pants worn by the boys in the front row; some are still wearing the short pants that were popular for young boys, while others simply wear long pants. By this time few boys of school age wore the traditional skirts, but many young boys still wore 'short pants' until they reached an age where their families would allow them to wear long pants. The two women standing at the far left of the image are the teachers, while the man at the far right is the principal.
Black and white image of a large group of children of various ages, from young elementary aged children to older teens, with a few adult chaperones. Most of the girls and women wear white, if nothing else white tops, and the boys almost all have white shirts. Note, too, that most of the women do not have hats, though they could have been removed for the photograph.
Black and white image of a team pulling a wagon loaded with large wooden boxes down a dirt street. Notice the street lights hanging over the street, and the power poles lining it. In addition, a windmill stands above one of the buildings. Most of the visible buildings are two-story. A bicycle rests against the porch post of the building in the foreground.
