Transcription from back: “Mt. Taurus in background. Umpqua Academy Wilbur, Ore. Before 1873 after 1857.” Related collection materials available in the OHS Research Library Royal Family Papers, Mss 1628.
Group portrait of Ulysses S. Grant and family. Depicting Ulysses S. Grant, his wife Julia Dent Grant, and children Frederick Grant, Ulysses Grant Jr., Ellen Grant and Jesse Grant.
Transcription from front: “Mrs. John R. Thompson, boarding house, 1864.” Transcription from back: “ Mrs. J. R. Thompson, manager Thompson’s Boarding House, 185 Front Corner Madison.”
Three unidentified men in front of The Whitlock Store, Oregon City, Oregon. Transcription from back: “The Whitlock Store in Oregon City, general store.”
Transcription from back: “Hon. William Wallace Thayer (Governor). Crossed the plains 1862. Sixth governor of State of Oregon 1878-1882. Chief Justice of Oregon State Supreme Court 1888-1890. See “History of the Bench and Bar of Oregon” page 278.”
Transcription from back: “Terry, Chester N. Sec. Of the Grand Lodge of I.O.O.F. 1856. Secretary of the Constitutional Convention, Salem, Sept. 18, 1857. Presented by Mrs. S. C. Dyer, Salem. Rec. No. 270.”
