Sepia-toned image of a group of school students gathered on the front steps of the Sherwood school. While there appear to be slightly more boys than girls in the younger students, almost all of the older students are female. Four of the boys in the front row are barefoot. Sherwood School District was organized in 1892.
Black and white image of two men standing in a room with two printing presses. Notice the power lines running along the wall and over onto the ceiling, and the hand tools hanging on the wall. Despite the fact that the caption on the photo gives the date as 1911, a close examination of the photo reveals that the calendar hanging between the two windows in the rear of the photo gives a date of November, 1914. It is possible the date refers to the founding of the newspaper rather than the date of the photo itself.
Black and white image of a dirt main street with houses on the image right and a barn and a water tower on the left. The road is dirt, and a boardwalk runs down alongside part of the right side of the image.
Sepia-toned image of a half a dozen men standing just beneath the roof of an open work area. Two brick making machines are there, with carts stacked with bricks ready to go into the kilns for drying in front of each. The man visible in the rafters on the image left is probably loading the clay into the brick press from the upper floor.
Sepia-toned image of a two story mill with a number of adults and children standing about in front of it and in the windows. The man with the hat in the doorway is J. C. Smock, leading citizen of Sherwood, and the small children lined along the front of the mill are his children. The grist mill ground corn and wheat into flour for local farmers and families.
Sepia-tone image of a large, two-story school building with a basement and a group of students gathered on the front porch steps. A large open belfry sports a United States flag, and power lines run to the building.
Seventh and eighth grade students from Sherwood, Oregon gathered on the front steps of a school around 1920. Most of the boys wear overalls and all have short hair, while the girls wear a variety of styles of dress, reflecting the more fitted styles of the previous decades. All the children are dressed in more adult fashion rather then the shorter skirts and less-adult styles that became popular in the 1910s for children, girls especially.
The members of the first Sherwood Grange pose to take a picture during a meeting. The Sherwood Grange was farmers who formed a political alliance in Sherwood, Oregon.
Sepia-toned image of a group of men and women kneeling in a field before a tent containing religious iconography. According to museum records, this is a Corpus Christi parade, a traditional Catholic feast day celebrated in late May or June.
Black and white image of a warehouse next to a rail line, with covering the ground. Lettered on the front of the warehouse is 'J. E. Morback. Farm Produce a Spe[cialty].' Two men stand on the loading dock, and a power line follows the railroad line into the distance.
Black and white image of a single-story building with a glass front and gingerbread trim on the front gable. 'J. C. Smock. General Merchandise' is lettered on the front facade, while along the side is written 'Farm Products a Specialty.' A boardwalk and a dirt road front the store. Because his store held the first post office in the area, the community was originally known as 'Smockville,' and later changed to Sherwood. This is the second building he built for his store.
Black and white image of a farm at the base of a hill. Stumps and a zigzag rail fence cross the front of the image, and a plowed and planted field fills the middle of the image. A large, salt-box style house is in the left middle, along with a barn and several other outbuildings.
