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.
A portrait of Elda Walker late in life, perhaps in the 1940s or 1950s. Elda was the daughter of Levi C. Walker and Belle Putman Walker, and the granddaughter of Oregon missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. Elda and her sister, Leva, graduated from Pacific University in 1900. Born in 1877 and 1878, they were most likely the first women from Forest Grove to earn a doctoral degree, Elda from the University of Nebraska and Leva from Cornell University. Both Doctorates were in Biology. The sisters taught together at the University of Nebraska and lived together until their deaths in 1970 and 1971.
A portrait of a Belle (or Bell) Putman Walker. Belle spent much of her early life in Forest Grove, Oregon. She was the wife of Levi C. Walker and the daughter-in-law of prominent missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. In the 1880s, Belle Walker worked as an instructor at the Forest Grove Indian School. This hand-colored portrait was taken in Lincoln, Nebraska where her daughter Elda and Leva Walker lived, probably around the 1930s.
An unidentified football player runs with the football. There was information of the back of the photo but the photo has since been cropped and the writing is illegible or missing.
A photo of Samuel T. Walker, son of Elkanah Walker and Mary Richardson Walker, and his wife, Lucy Edith (Mckune) Walker. They are posed with the side-saddle Mary rode on the trip west.
Stone monument for College Hall with metal plaque. The plaque reads 'College Hall Erected 1850 The oldest building in continuous use for educational purposes west of the Rocky Mountains. Tualatin Academy now Pacific University Here were educated men and women who have won recognition throughout the world in all the learned professions. Placed by Multnomah Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution May 12, 1939'.
