A two-story wooden house with a family in the yard. The home is surrounded by large trees. A broken wooden fence is in the foreground. Levi Walker is seen seated on the porch. There are two women standing nearby. Two babies in carriages and another young child are also in the photo.
Wilson M. Tigard arrived in Oregon in 1852 from Arkansas and took up a donation land claim near the present site of Tigard. In 1853 he built a log school house with the help of neighbors. Tigard was then known as East Butte and the school was called Butte School. Wilson Tigard is buried in Crescent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, Oregon.
A faded black and white photograph shows various members of the Butte Grange No. 148. The members pose on the porch landing in front of the Butte Grange Hall, a white clapboard-sided building with a gabled roof. Behind the members is a doorway into the grange hall. Double-sash windows are visible to the left and right of the doorway. Above the doorway and the left window are two signs with the same inscription: 'Butte Grange No. 148 / P. of H. / Organized April 22, 1874' Three men standing in the back row each hold a staff, and another man standing to the far right holds a staff with an owl carving on top. Several men and one woman are wearing hats. A woman in the front row holds an infant, and a woman in the back row holds a young girl. All members have a ribbon pinned to their left breast. In 1874 when the Butte Grange was established, the area around present day Tigard was known as Butte and East Butte.
A black and white portrait of Friedrick Brandt of Tigardville. Mr. Brandt has a mustache and a long white beard that extends below his chin. He is wearing a white collared shirt, a wide black tie, and a black vest and jacket. His hair is neatly combed and parted at the side. Mr. Brandt helped organize the first Evangelical Church in Tigardville and taught the senior men's Bible class. Friedrick Brandt died in 1914 and is buried in Crescent Grove Cemetery in Tigard.
Photo of two-story brick building set on a corner with background blanked out. The building is dark brick, with the door facing the corner, set off by columns and a triangular pediment on top. On the left side, several recessed entranceways are framed by windows above and below, and a sign reading 'Hillsboro Mercantile Co.' stretches across the top of the first story. A concrete sidewalk runs in front of the building, and the street in the foreground of the image is either wet or muddy. Image is framed with white and dark squares, mounted on cardstock. Printed on the bottom of the image is 'Hillsboro Commercial Bank.'
A group of people outdoors, with tents and camping gear in a heavily wooded area. Three women sit or stand near a makeshift set amidst several tables underneath a small awning. Pots and pans sit on the tables ,and a coffee pot on the stove. Another awning is set up behind the first, and laundry hangs from several lines strung about the camp. All the women are wearing long full skirts with full-sleeved jackets, and their hair is up. One has a tray and appears to be painting. Another woman sits nearby with her arms resting on her upraised knees. In the background a man stands, wearing a white shirt, vest, and bow tie with a hat. To one side, a young boy sits on the back of a small, wicker-paneled wagon-like vehicle with tiller steering and wire-spoked wheels. Decorative iron rims extend above the side panels of the back of the vehicle. What appears to be a bicycle is parked beyond the tree beside the vehicle. In the foreground, a pot hangs from a rack and steams over a fire. A folding campstool sits nearby, with a folded newspaper on the ground beside it.
A man stands behind a wagon on a packed dirt road. He wears a white hat, a long-sleeved white shirt, and overalls. A horse is hitched to the wagon, and a triangular frame holds a canvas cover over the wagon seat. The front wheels are smaller than the back wheels. Boxes are stacked two-high, filling the wagon bed and the tailgate. Leafy trees fill the background, behind a plank fence with a small strip of grass running in front of it.
Photograph of a two-story gabled home with family members. A white house sits behind a picket fence and a yard with flowers and bushes. The house is t-shaped, and a sidewalk leads up to the front entrance where a covered porch extends over an entrance. The roof of the porch is a balcony reached by a door out of the second floor of the home. Two double-hung windows rest on either side of a double front door on the first floor, and a woman in a dark dress and white pinafore apron stands in the door, while two women sit in chairs on the porch on either side of the door. Someone holds a baby in a white dress sitting on the sill in one open window, and another person is just visible inside the other first floor window. The house has decorative struts on the eaves, and two chimneys are visible, one in the middle of each section. The oblong section of the house has a porch with an extended roof down its entire length, and two double-hung windows and a door are visible beneath that roof. The porches are raised, with steps leading up to them. Nine people stand in front of the second porch: three small children, with short hair and in skirts, one plaid, a man with a dark jacket and light shirt and hat, two more children, a girl in a dark dress and a young boy in a shirt and pants, two men in dark jackets and hats, and another woman in a dark dress with a white pinafore apron. Leafy vines are draped over the end of the second porch, and a large leafy tree fills the left of the image.
Sepia-toned image of a group of men on the Hillsboro Courthouse steps. A boardwalk leads up to graduated steps that culminate in a wide porch. Strung across the porch and down the steps on either side are ten men in suits, arranged so that they appear to be of the same height. Two men stand at least one step down so that they do not tower over everyone else . All the men wear three piece suits, some in the sack suit style and others in a three piece vested style. All hold their hats, which are bowlers, fedoras, and other stiff-brimmed hats. About half have full, bushy mustaches; the rest have full beards, some in the Van Dyke style. One man leans on a cane. The building behind them is solid brick, all of one tone, and the courthouse doors are open.
Downtown Cornelius, Oregon around the 1880s. This photograph was taken looking west at what is now the intersection of Alpine Street and 12th Avenue, on the south side of the railroad tracks. On the right side of the photograph is a large grain warehouse belonging to the town’s namesake, T.R. Cornelius. According to notes on the back of the photograph, the buildings from foreground to background on the left side of the photograph are: St. Joseph Hotel; Dr. Clark Smiths’ Drugstore; a store owned by T.R. Cornelius; a warehouse; a saloon; and Keim’s store. None of the buildings pictured appear to have survived today. Notes identify several of the people standing in the photograph: “T.R. Cornelius, black hat, in front of door; Scott Cornelius in doorway; Dr. Smith, tall man near corner of hotel; Alec Couture sitting on platform, first in picture.” Several horse-drawn wagons appear in the background. The grain warehouse was the place where farmers from surrounding communities brought their wheat so that it could be moved to market via the railroad nearby. The photograph was taken by the I.G. Davidson Studio of Portland. This appears to be a black-and-white copy print of an earlier albumen card print. It was donated to the museum by Lester Mooberry, a prominent area resident who wrote a book on the history of Forest Grove and Cornelius.
A house identified in a handwritten note as the "William Connell House at Glencoe about 1887," and as the "Hoover Homestead." Glencoe is a neighborhood on the northwest side of Hillsboro, Oregon, near what is now Connell Avenue.
Notes on the verso identify the people appearing in the photograph as: Leona Victor and Helen Victor, standing on the balcony in the background; [Illegible, possibly "Mrs.?'] Connell; and Ann, Hattie and Grace Connell [children], foreground. The elder Connell is the woman in a long, dark print dress and a white apron standing by the baby carriage with the three small children. She might be Letitia Hoover Connell, their mother; or could be another female relative. The photograph was donated to the Washington County Museum by Charles Deichman; probably the son of Leona Victor Deichman, who appears in the image.
The house has covered porches running the length of both floors, each with two doors opening out onto the porch. The doors are each bracketed by two paned windows. The railing on the upper porch appears to be partially broken out. A dark horse is tied to the front fence near an open gate. Plants hang from the eaves of both levels of the porch, and the trees and bushes in the frame are bushy, with a large, flowered bush blooming in the front center yard. Another small building can be seen just behind and to the image-right of the house.
Black and white image of a gabled wooden church. A covered porch is centered in the front faade, bracketed by two double-hung windows with panes. Immediately above the porch is another window, arched and with an arched moldings. Four windows with decorative transoms are spaced down the visible side of the building. The belfry is tall and narrow, with arched, louvered windows and has a cross-gabled roof beneath a four-sided steeple topped with a cross. A power pole stands just to the image right of the building; it has a streetlight and power lines run from the upper edge of the image to the pole and out to the right. At least one line connects the church to the power pole. Small deciduous trees are planted at regular intervals in the churchyard, two to the front the others down the side and also down beside the boardwalk that runs beside and in front of the building. A fence and other buildings are visible in the background of the image.
