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SMHS | Online Museum Tour | Seaside, Oregon, USA
Online
Museum Tour |
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| Your adventure
will take you back thousands of years, and then bring you forward
to the recent past. Allow yourself at least an hour to get an
overview of the galleries. |
Native American Exhibit
In the Native American exhibit, you
start your journey at the Palmrose and Par-Tee Archeological Digs
which were conducted by the Smithsonian Institution during the
1970s. Artifacts were carbon isotope dated and found to be over
2,000 years old. From these artifacts the lifestyle of the inhabitants
could be determined. Some of these artifacts are displayed along
with drawings and interpretive signage. |
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Above: Jennie Michelle identified
the location of the Lewis and Clark Salt Works, in 1904. She was
the last known full blooded Clatsop Indian in Seaside, Oregon. |
Other displays in the
Native American exhibit include:
- A lighted, interactive, wall map featuring
Native American names of geographical features and sites in
Clatsop County, Oregon;
- A map of Native American tribes and
languages;
- Chinook trade jargon;
- A model of a Clatsop Indian long house,
made according to details as described by Lewis and Clark;
- Hand-crafted items made by Clatsop
Indians in the late 1800s;
- A Lewis and Clark display featuring
quotes from the journals, interpretive signage, and artifacts;
- A diorama of the Lewis and Clark salt
works, illustrating the way the Corps of Discovery expedition
retrieved salt from the ocean;
- Jennie Michelle's portrait.
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| Logging
A display of very early logging photographs
donated to the museum by Crown Zellerbach.
Right: Logging operation using
oxen to haul the logs. This is one of many photos from the museum's
photo archive. |
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Above: Seaside Hotel at
the Seaside Turnaround, ca. 1922. |
Seaside's Hotels
A pictorial history of the hotel
at Seaside's Turnaround depicts the progression of ownership
from the Grimes Hotel to the Hotel Moore, Seasider Hotel, Seaside
Motor Inn, and up to the present Shilo Hotel.
There is also a display of artifacts and
photos from other Seaside hotels, dating from the late 1800s
through the 1960s. |
| Diorama of Seaside,
Oregon
Built to commemorate Seaside's 1899-1999
Centennial, this diorama of Seaside demonstrates the town as
it was in 1899.
Numbered buttons illuminate the houses
and a nine minute tape recorded narration tell the story of
this diorama.
Above: Diorama depicting
Seaside, Oregon, in 1899, looking North towards Gearhart,
Oregon. |
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Above: Diorama depicting Seaside, Oregon,
in 1899, looking south towards Tillimook Head. |
Also in the Diorama exhibit you will find photos and history of:
- Native Americans and early pioneers
- Mr. C.A. McGuire, first Mayor of Seaside
- Seaside Map, 1890
- Early 1900s beach scene
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