Sepia-toned image mounted on card stock of a man and two women in a room with printing equipment. The two women stand at a table putting type in trays, and wear full skirts and shirts with full sleeves. The man stands next to the press, and wears an apron over pants and a vest and shirt. Papers and other debris litter the floor, and it appears to be daylight outside the windows.
Portrait of Thomas Otchin. He was born in England in 1814, and moved the North America, where he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. He eventually settled in a Donation Land Claim near Orenco, where he died in 1906.
Sepia-toned image of the town of Orenco. A number of buildings and homes sit in an empty dirt field, connected by plank sidewalks. Some of the buildings are numbered in pen. Trees and hills are visible in the background, and power poles can be seen in the upper right of the image.
Sepia-toned image of a train station with a train sitting on the tracks. A sign reading 'Orenco' sits atop the windows on one facade of the building. Power poles sit on either side of the tracks by the crossing, and a luggage cart sits on the platform. A man is walking on the platform, wearing a hat and dark suit.
Sepia-toned image of a two-story wooden store fronted by a dirt road. The building stands alone and has a boardwalk running in front and down one side. The front story has large display windows, a covered porch which provides a balcony for the second floor. the sign hanging from the porch eaves reads 'Orenco Drug Co.' A woman and child appear to be leaving the store; she wears a full skirt and jacket with lapels and mutton-leg sleeves, with a dark hat and gloves. The child wears a dark jacket and a white skirt or short pants.
Group portrait of the Oliver family. It seems likely that the 'Percy Oliver' referenced on the back is the child in the image; he grew up in Hillsboro but died in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.
Black and white photograph of Ruth Gates and Elizabeth Patterson with an old wax-cylinder phonograph. Note the wax cylinder recordings the woman is holding, and the additional recordings in their cardboard tubes on the shelf beneath the player.
Portrait of Glen Taylor and Very McKinney, in uniform. There is no insignia on the uniforms, but they are typical of American First World War uniforms. The photo was taken while they were serving in France during the Forst World War.
Sepia-toned image of a ;large, square, two-story building with two sets of large doors open to the street. Several wagons and carriages with teams harnessed to them are lined up on the dirt street outside the building. A power pole stands on the corner, and a man leans against one of the second story windows.
Sepia-toned image of a large, shingle-style home in Orenco. Two tall pine trees bracket the home, and a muddy road leads up through the yard to a covered carriage driveway.
Black and white aerial photograph of Hillsboro, looking north-north-east. The County Courthouse is visible just to the upper left of the center of the image.
Black and white image of crowds watching one-horse carriages being pulled down Main Street in Hillsboro. The street is plank, and there are power lines crossing the street and running alongside them. Most of the buildings visible are brick and the trees are in full leaf.
Sepia-toned image of a crowd of children backed by adults in a snowy yard standing around two reindeer hitched to a sled. There are bare trees in the background, and a number of buildings and houses are visible beyond the street corner behind the children, including the old Hillsboro city library. Power poles and cars line the streets, with two trucks also visible.
A view of 10th Street in Hillsboro, Oregon, looking north, with a part of Shute Park visible on the left. There are water-filled muddy ruts to one side, next to a fence bordering a large grove of pine trees. On the other side of the road two large houses are visible, and power poles line the side the road. The atmosphere appears to be foggy and grey. There are two German stamps attached to the back, each with an '8' in the upper corners and 'Deutsches Reich' on the bottom.
Sepia-toned image of horses being sold in downtown Hillsboro. A great number of men and horses fill the plank road between buildings on Main Street. Buggies and carriages are visible, and power poles line both sides of the street with power lines paralleling and crisscrossing the road. A 1 cent postage stamp with a postmark from Hillsboro is affixed to the back.
Sepia-toned image of a group of men in suits and hats arrayed in two rows on the Hillsboro train-station platform. One man kneels on the train tracks; he has a long beard and wears a narrow sash across his chest and a sword. Most of the men's hats are pinned up on their left side with rosettes or ribbon. A fringed sign on the left of the platform identifies the group as 'Montezuma Lodge, No. 50, Hillsboro, Ore.
Photo of glass-door entrance to the Odd Fellows' hall. Door has taped notice advertising an upcoming centennial celebration, and lists meeting nights. A car across the street is reflected in the glass.
Sepia-toned image of a two story building with a fancy pediment and elaborate detailing of spindles and eaves. Two men stand in the recessed doorway; one wears a hat and they both wear dark suits. Large, single-paned windows dominate the first floor, and the building's square facade faces the street front.
Black and white image of two men sitting at a table desk in an office. The desk is covered with papers and files, and two maps hang on the walls, along with a number of note cards. Sheaves of grain protrude from a box at the left rear of the image, and a woodstove sits in the right of the image. The wallpaper is a geometric pattern of concentric circles and diamonds. The floor is wooden.
Image of three men, identified on the photograph from left-to-right as Chief Mox Mox, Bill [Deewater?], and "Matthew's Interpreter." The photograph was taken in Lewiston, Idaho, near the Nez Perce reservation. Regarding "Chief Mox Mox": There were several prominent Native leaders from the Walla Walla and Nez Perce tribes whose names included the words "moxmox," which means "yellow." The identity of this man is unclear, but he may have been from the Nez Perce tribe or from another tribe on the Columbia Plateau. Regarding "Bill", the white man in the center of the image: This was probably a government employee, possibly an Indian Agent or other staff member. The photograph likely dates from circa 1900-1915.
Photographs like these were sometimes sold as souvenirs. This particular copy appears to have been acquired some time after it was originally created, by a resident of Hillsboro, Oregon, named Tennessee (“Tenny”) Weatherred, who donated it to the Washington County Museum.
