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Besides being a prodigious doctor, Dr. Blalock was an enterprising entrepreneur and orchardist.
Anthony Ambrose’s business card from the Museum’s collection. Ambrose was active as a barber in Walla Walla from the 1910s to the 1950s.
Barbershop inside the Dacres Hotel, circa 1890s. 25 cents for a shave.
The Saturno Farmstead, including house, garden, and vineyard, represent some of the history of Walla Walla’s Italian community.
The Italian immigrant community funded and erected the statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the Walla Walla County Courthouse. Italians often experienced ethnic prejudice. Because Columbus was Italian, it was a way to make Italian identity be accepted as American and to demonstrate both pride in their ethnic identity and their patriotism.
This is the oldest cabin at the Museum. Lettice became its owner after her husband died, making her the Valley’s first female landowner and homesteader.
Maintained by the Daughters of the Pioneers, this cabin was formerly part of W. W. Davies’ Kingdom of Heaven commune.
An illustration of the Davies’ Commune.
This Village was the first part of this Museum complex. Since the Museum started, the Pioneer Village has immersed visitors and schoolkids in the historic frontier days.
The Bertillon card of a prisoner brought to Walla Walla Penitentiary in 1917.
Bertillon cards recorded identifying measurements and a mugshot.
Prisoners in a “bucket cell like those on display at the Museum.
The Prison once included a typewriter repair workshop. Prisoners were active in many different crafts.
Penitentiary jute mill in 1914.
Carl Penner, one of the Museum’s founders, donated this building and these mules to give a more accurate sense of what farming was once like.
It took many men, many mules or horses, and good cooks to have a smooth harvest.
Dorsey Baker built the Territory’s first railroad. Baker’s Blue Mountain Locomotive is the oldest surviving railroad in Washington.
A panel from True Comics No. 22 (1943)
Going counter-clockwise, this exhibit takes you through different eras of the final Fort Walla Walla.
The 14th Cavalry band had a bear as a mascot. Military bands often participated in parades and events in town, and soldiers’ baseball teams helped popularize the sport here. As Walla Walla was peaceful for much of the fort’s history, there was opportunity for fun and games.
Four videos featuring our partners at Tamástslikt Cultural Institute on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition meet the Walla Walla People.
Illustration of the meeting with Yellept by local artist Norman Adams.
Beautiful beadwork and a story of generations of positive interaction.