Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan: James Beamer ranch a few miles south of Milton-Freewater near the intersection of Dry Creek Road and Highway 11. Harvest and farming photos from the 1920s to 1944 courtesy of Lori Vincent and Helen Roloff Adams. In 1952, Jim Beamer was awarded Oregon's "Conservation Man of the Year".

Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan

BYGONE WALLA WALLA PROJECT BY JOE DRAZAN is a local non-profit, non-commercial effort to build and share a visual history of Walla Walla. Use SEARCH box or the INDEX, or just scroll. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE; right click & open in new tab for even LARGER view. WANTED! Your old snapshots, slides, or negatives of Walla Walla area places and events to share in this project, please contact me to get them scanned in; over 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2025

Thursday, February 17, 2022

James Beamer ranch a few miles south of Milton-Freewater near the intersection of Dry Creek Road and Highway 11. Harvest and farming photos from the 1920s to 1944 courtesy of Lori Vincent and Helen Roloff Adams. In 1952, Jim Beamer was awarded Oregon's "Conservation Man of the Year".

Holt combine

Cook wagon

Jim Beamer on Caterpillar tractor

Row Crop tractor

Pea harvest, 1944

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James Beamer was honored with Oregon's Conservation Man of the Year award in 1952.