The Tualatin Academy girl's basketball team. The girls are, left to right, Lila McDonald, Ada Wiest, Beulah Ireland, Grace Thomas, Helen Allworth, and Florence Avery. [The girls were misidentified on the back of the photo. The correct names were found in the 1909 Pacific University Heart of Oak yearbook.]
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.
