Portrait of Reverend Elkanah Walker, a Congregationalist missionary who spent much of the latter part of his life in Forest Grove, where he helped found Tualatin Academy and Pacific University.
Portrait of Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding. An active missionary, he lived for a time in Forest Grove and served as a trustee to Tualatin Academy. His wife Eliza also served as the Academy's first teacher.
Team photo of the 1969 championship Pacific University wrestling team and their coach. Championship papers and the tournament brackets are held by four wrestlers: Jim Dodge, Tim Olmstead, Ernie Patterson [?], and Jim Roth.
Group photo of the 1969 Pacific University swim team and their coach. Top row: [Coach] Bill Bauer, John Bradford, Ed Chesnut, Don Horner, Ron Cook, Dick Ripper. Bottom row: Martha Conkey, Irene Holland, Ginny Smothers, Carol Young.
Photo of three members of the Pacific University Modern Dance group. The troupe used to preform during the May Day celebration every year. The student on the bottom of the photo is Pauline Heisler, Class of 1942.
Portrait of A. C. Gilbert in his Pacific University wrestling uniform. A. C. Gilbert attended Tualatin University and Pacific University, but left Pacific in 1902 and transferred to Yale University. He graduated from Yale, and won a gold medal in pole vaulting at the 1908 Olympics. He later founded the A. C. Gilbert Company, with the most famous product being the Erector Set.
Team photo of the Pacific University football team. They are posed on the front porch of Old College Hall with a skeleton. The photo was taken March 17, 1894 by their coach, Prof. Lloyd, after an exhibition game.
Portrait of Mary Richardson Walker and her children, posed as a group in front of the Mary and Elkanah Walker Family house in Forest Grove. From left to right, they are: Joseph Elkanah Walker; John R. Walker; Cyrus H. Walker; Mary Richardson Walker (seated); Marcus W. Walker; Abigail Walker Karr; Levi C. Walker; Samuel T. Walker; The Walker Family were among the earliest white residents of the Forest Grove area. Their house was north of the current Walker-Naylor District in Forest Grove.
Photo of Mrs. Marion Giersbach, wife of Pacific University president Walter C. Giersbach, serving tea to atendees of the Pioneer Rose Garden dedication on Pacific University campus. Marion Giersbach became the first curator of the Pacific University Museum in 1949.
Team photo of the Pacific University baseball team, circa 1960s. The uniforms say 'Badgers' - Pacific University did not adopt Boxer as its mascot until 1968.