Barrel racing in the Fairgrounds arena, 1968.

Turkeys! Round-up at the ranches just west of Walla Walla in the 1950s, processing at Jasper Reynold's Poultry Shipping & Feed plant, and outcomes in two local grocery stores. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Ray Shelden's turkey farm on Whitman Monument Road

 

Jasper Reynolds, 1950s

Albertson's, 1959

Selected for a temporary stay in Sigman's Grocery, 1953

Fair Farmerettes of 1955. Photos by Bill Lilley courtesy of Jeanne Lilley Savage.

Carol Ann White (center)

 

Flood of March 31st, 1931. Newly discovered negatives of the event taken by Bill Lilley, age 23, when he lived at the Birchway Apartments on Birch Street.

House at 221 E. Birch

Birch Street looking east

Birchway Apts, 248 E. Birch

William T Lilley, Jr. worked at Penney's while living in the Birchway Apts

Pea harvest 1956; cutting, loading and transporting to the viner station. Color slides by Bill Lilley courtesy of Jeanne Lilley Savage.

Penrose Memorial Library groundbreaking ceremony at Whitman College in February 1956, and students moving the collection from the old Reynolds Hall to the new building in March 1957. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

President Chester Maxey on left

June 1956

November 1956

Old library was in Reynolds Hall seen in background

March 1st 1957

Library Director Ruth Reynolds at Reynolds Hall 

What may be the last armloads of books from Reynolds Hall.