Box 5
Contains 10 Results:
Henry J. and Mary Taylor (incoming), 1873-1882
Taylor family correspondence is arranged by author/recipient and then by date. It includes World War I correspondence from and about Fred Kees and letters from Maud Taylor Wilson and correspondence after her death in Mexico.
Loose Photographs: Mary Louisa Kees and Fred Taylor, 1880-1920
In this sub-series are photographs of the Taylor, Kees and Becket families. Also included are Kees ancestors from White and Lenox lines.
Green "Photos" Album, 1906-1920
Photographs of and postcards from Taylor families are in this sub-series. Shown are family, friends, living and work environments, modes of transportation and travel. Scenes of wheat harvest, Pendleton, Joseph and surroundings, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, San Diego, Mexico, Newberg, Oregon, and the Pendleton Round-Up are included.
Scrapbook of W.F. Taylor, 1883-1970
Photographs of and postcards from Taylor families are in this sub-series. Shown are family, friends, living and work environments, modes of transportation and travel. Scenes of wheat harvest, Pendleton, Joseph and surroundings, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, San Diego, Mexico, Newberg, Oregon, and the Pendleton Round-Up are included.
Doll, circa 1870
This sub-series contains membership cards, pins, and an American flag from national, community, fraternal, and church affiliations. A pocket watch fob, thought to be that of Henry J. Taylor, and an IOOF clasp with a lock of Aaron Kees’ hair is included. A postcard album of Indian postcards is contained here as is a doll belonging to William Frederick Taylor.
Marriage License, 1899
This sub-series contains E.E.R.’s Valedictory speech, his college scholarship offers and Blanche’s funeral tribute. A detailed work of genealogical research, by E.E.R., is included.
Transport Order, 1919
Letters, reports, postcards, photographs and artifacts from E.E.R.’s service with the American Library Service at Fort Lewis, Washington, and in France and Germany.
Mortgage Records and Property Deeds, 1855-1899
Contained, in this sub-series, is a lap desk that housed Aiken and Ruby family documents and materials: property deeds and mortgage papers for the Fleecy Dale Woolen Mill located in Richmond, Indiana, high school awards, programs, and essays of E. E. R., greeting cards, and a Book of Proverbs. Also contained is a silver box used during the initiation ceremonies of Beta Epsilon sorority, which became Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Diplomas, 1921-1950
This sub-series contains academic diplomas for Betty Ruby and Henry Taylor.
Brown Embossed Album, 1850-1928
Contained, in this sub-series, are high school annuals and a Whitman College scrapbook, photographs of family, friends, domestic life and travel, and a souvenir silk scarf from the Pendleton Round-Up.