A postcard featuring Mary Frances Farnham with a letter written on the back from Alfred L. Whiting of Dartmouth College Museum to Elsie M. Lundborg, Pacific University's librarian, thanking her for information about Farnham. Farnham was heavily involved with Pacific University at the turn of the century, working first as Principal of the Ladies Department and later as Dean of Women from 1897-1924.
Portrait of five male students, who were members of the Ancient Order Of United Mustache Growers. This club was created by members of the Alpha Zeta fraternity during the 1904-1905 school year, when they pledged to grow their mustaches for 8 weeks. The members shown here are: Harvey Waldo Gates; Melvin Wilson Markham, Class of 1905; Daniel Deronda Bump, Class of 1906; Chester Kimes Fletcher, Class of 1906; Arthur John Prideaux, Class of 1906; and .
Alfred Carlton Gilbert vaulting during a track competition. He was educated at Tualatin Academy before attending Pacific University. He was a member of the track team from 1900-1902, after which he transferred to Yale where he participated in both the track and football teams. He went on to be a professional athlete, winning an Olympic gold medal for pole vault in 1908. He also invented The Erector Set, a popular children's toy in the first half of the twentieth century. [There are numerous copies of this photo and one copy identifies the pole jumper as Holman Ferrin].
Employees and family standing outside Irwin L. Smith's cabinet shop in Forest Grove, a large wooden structure. The employees are shown with examples of their products, doors and cabinetry. The family, children and a baby, are seen further in the back. A water tower and horse-drawn wagon are also included in the photo. This photograph was probably created in the 1880s or early 1890s; it resembles others taken locally in the early 1880s by the I. G. Davidson Studio, and may be their work.
A photograph of Tsin-is-tum, also known as Jennie Michel, who was commonly called the "Last of the Clatsops." This image which was probably taken around 1900 at her home near Seaside, Oregon. She is holding a reed mat (or possibly a piece of thatch), next to bundle of reed canes and a lean-to thatched with more reeds. Tsin-is-tum lived from circa 1814-1905. Around 1900, she became well known as a source of Oregon coast Native knowledge as well as for the memories, handed down from her parents, of the visit of Lewis and Clark to Oregon in 1805-6. Photographs of Tsin-is-tum were sold as souvenirs to tourists for many years. They often included erroneous captions, such as those on this example, which states she was a 102-year-old woman named Pricess Jennie Marshall, the Last of the Clatsops. The designation as "the Last" of her tribe was based on 19th century white notions about what it meant to be a member of a tribe: only "full-blooded" tribal members were counted, even though intermarriage between tribes had always existed on the Oregon coast. There are, in fact, still Clatsop peoples alive today.
