Related Records

1. 963.001 - Horse drawn plow used at Olaf Hanson Family Farm in 1930s. Family farm was located in Upper Preston at 10919 Upper Preston Rd SE.

   Plow, Moldboard

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2. 963.002 - Plow share from horse drawn plow used by Olaf Hanson of Preston.

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3. 992.001 - I'm a Little Norwegian Too: The Autobiography of Norman Holmes, 2013.

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4. PO.015.0159 - Preston Church in 1975. Swedish Pioneer community. Exterior view of church front. Tall evergreen left corner of church. Small evergreen shrub left of front entrance, under large window. The church was built by Swedish pioneers that settled in Preston. The church has a bell tower with a four side point with metal decorative rod on point. The church was built in L shape. The front door has a covered entry way. The window in the front appears to be a stain glass with a curved top that ends at a pint. There are four side windows visible.

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5. PO.030.0204 - Preston School Class- 1889. Group of students at entrance. Top row teacher in center of row. Group is centered on school porch with door open. Two boys left have bicycles, one boy right has bicycle.

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6. PO.040.1323 - Preston Community Hall.

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7. PO.040.1324 - Preston Church Steeple.

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8. PO.040.2000 - Old railroad tracks on Preston Snoqualmie line. Tree growing up through the railroad trestle on Northern Pacific Railroad through Preston.

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9. PO.045.1202 - Vasa Lodge Meeting and Program, Upper Preston. Members in meeting room, showing podium and leader, candleabra and second podium, far right side. Flags on end wall.

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10. PO.074.0204.a - Preston School on Highway 10 access road. Wooden building, painted green with red roof. Extension in center of building with roofed porch over entrance at front and high wooden steps. Condemned in 1966, later torn down.

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11. PO.074.0204.b - Preston School on Highway 10 access road. Wooden building, painted green with red roof. Extension in center of building with roofed porch over entrance at front and high wooden steps. Condemned in 1966, later torn down.

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12. PO.104.0047 - Edward W Whittaker had farm near Preston. Vignette photo; man wearing dark suit with vest, white shirt, large ascot tie; small pin on right vest flap; picture appears to be on piece of white paper with corners partially rolled; flower decorations at bottom. Sepia color.

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13. PO.219.0002 - Preston Baptist Church and congregation. Early view of church with congregation standing outside on side porch and in front yard in front of church. Wooden walk straight through unfinished yard to front door. Ladies wearing wide brimmed hats, with flowers, and girls also. Men wearing black Derby hats. Utility pole with cross-arm to right side of church. Front of church has large Gothic style window in front wall. Tongue and groove siding on lower part of church, and shingles on upper half in front and tower and steeple roof. Entrance is square room extending out from rest of building, and extending up to 2nd story room with windows in front and side; and upper part is tower steeple with pyramid roof and decorative pole extending from peak of steeple. Below roof of steeple is triple windows, peaked at top, and open, with bell inside. Narrow porch with railing along right side of church. B Negative #219/2/b Copy PO.219.0002/A made by museum

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14. PO.219.0003 - Early town view of Preston looking west across suspension bridge over Raging River. Looking at Preston Church and houses along lower part of hillside on right, and houses on two levels of hillside on left and in back of church. Wooden stairway up hillside to first level. Leafless tree in left foreground and tall, scraggily evergreen trees on top of hill to right of houses. Thick timber on hillside to right of hill. B NEGATIVE #219/3/b Original loaned to copy. 8 x 10, glossy print, black & white.

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15. PO.219.0004 - Slab of log cut at Preston Mill for St Louis World's Fair. August Lovegren on right. This was sent to the St Louis Worlds Fair 1904. August Lovegren on right side of cut in photo, uncle of Olga. Office of Preston Mill Co. building in rear behind group of men standing about. Slab ready to be loaded. Wood stack visible on left side of picture top to bottom. Stumps and snags visible behind office building. Neg. 219/4/B Copy PO.219.0004 (5" square) Original snapshot, 3 1/4" square, faded yellow

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16. PO.219.0005.1 - Panorama of town and mill at Preston, Wa. Two photos printed end to end. Photo taken 1904 5 1/2" x 14" Looking south. Contact print of Panorama of Preston Mill and town. Snag in front center foreground. Snags in low right foreground. August Lovegren home upper center. Flume just below with two story office building below center of flume. Mill buildings and stacks in center left. House and yard left bottom corner with road going toward center of photo. Tree covered hills in background with slope toward right center. Tree covered hills in background with slope towards right center. Neg. 219/5/B

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17. PO.219.0005.2 - Contact print of Panorama of Preston Mill and town. Snag in front center foreground. Snags in low right foreground. August Lovegren home upper center. Flume just below with two story office building below center of flume. Mill buildings and stacks in center left. house and yard left bottom corner with road going toward center of photo. Tree covered hills in background with slope toward right center.

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18. PO.219.0006 - First Day in Preston Sunday School. One room church with bell tower located in uncut field, high weeds and grasses growing in foreground; small hill in back and side of building with stumps, snags and sparse trees in it. In distance is evergreen forest. Church building is one room, hip roof, shingled, bell tower at front peak of roof. Tower has sloping, pyramid peak roof, supported by single, turned post at each corner, and extending above roof line. Bell hanging in center beneath roof. Shingle roof with foot cleats up one side of roof to peak. Brick chimney at back end of building extending through peak of roof. Four four-paned single windows along left side of building. Small front porch with shingle roof, supported by four turned posts. Double front doors with right side open. White painted siding, and diamond shaped shingles at peak of roof in front of building and porch roof. Congregation of men, women and children standing in fieldyard outside of side church. Minister stands to left of group. Women wearing hats, men in dark suits, one girl in long-sleeved white dress. This is the original one room school. Also used for Sunday school and church. Negative 219/6/B 8 X 10 black and white glossy print. Copy of photo loaned to copy. August Lovegren and wife Hilma (3rd and 4th from right in back row.) That might be August's brother-in-law Elof Edwin second from right. -Ed Holmes

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19. PO.219.0007 - Preston Mill and Lumber Yard. Preston Lumber Mill stacks and sheds. Looking southeast. Hotel, store and house in cluster on left side with flume coming down hill to rear of them. Single tree pole in left foreground. Steam and smoke from tall stack to right in middle. Background hills sloping up from left to right side. Baptist Church in center in back of stacks, houses, etc. 8 x 10 Negative owned by donor

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20. PO.219.0009 - Preston Mill Office and Store Building. Square box building with lap siding. Porch with square posts across front. Balcony above porch with spoke waist high railing. Tow men on balcony. Tow horse wagon on right with two men in it. August Lovegren's tow-seater wagon with one horse (no occupants) in front. Tow horse team on left hitched to buggy with two occupants. Vehicle just shows slightly. Thirteen men and woman standing on porch, one with long white apron. Two men seated on right side of steps. Power lines run across top of front of building. Dirt street with papers blowing about. 8 x 10 Negative owned by donor.

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