Transcription from back: “Hon. Andrew Jackson Thayer, 1853. Resident of Corvallis, Oregon from October 9 1853 until his death April 28, 1873, although absent from time to time while holding political offices. From Buffalo, N.Y. via the plains 1853. Representative from Oregon in U.S. Congress 1860-62. Associate Justice Oregon State Supreme Court from 1870 until his death. Brother of Gov. William Wallace Thayer. See “Bench and Bar of Oregon” page 277.”
Transcription from front: “General Tom Thumb and Wife. In the identical costumes worn before Her Majesty, Queen Victoria in Windsor Castle, June 24, 1865.” Transcription from back: Compliments of Charles S. Stratton, Lavinia Warren Stratton. (Autographs) 1864.”
Transcription from front: “General Tom Thumb and Wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren. In identical costumes worn before Emperor Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie. At the Palace of Tuilleries, Nov. 29, 1864.” Transcription from back: Compliments of Charles S. Stratton, Lavinia Warren Stratton, G. W. McNutt, Minnie Warren. Approx 1867, Oakland. (Mary Gilbert, aged 7 years same size as these people.)”
Transcription from front: “General Tom Thumb and Wife, Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren. In identical costumes worn before Emperor Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie. At the Palace of Tuilleries, Nov. 29, 1864.”
Transcription from front: “Mrs. John R. Thompson, boarding house, 1864.” Transcription from back: “ Mrs. J. R. Thompson, manager Thompson’s Boarding House, 185 Front Corner Madison.”
Transcription from front: “Mrs. J. Q. Thornton, 1846. First select school teacher in Oregon City, 1847.” Transcription from back: “Mrs. () Thornton. Pioneer of 1846 from via . Mrs. Thornton was the first select (or private) school teacher in Oregon. She taught the first select school in Oregon at Oregon City in 1847. Wife of J. Quinn Thornton, a pioneer lawyer of 1846 from Illinois.”
Transcription on front: “Born in Vancouver, Wa. T., 1855, By the time he was 20 he had filled every place in steamboat service from deckhand to Captain. Began on the old steamer Vancouver, of which his father W. H. Troup, was the Captain. Was in the service of the O.R.&N. Co. for many years, first as purser and afterwards as Captain. He left Oregon waters in the 80’s, he went to British Columbia. While in charge of the Union Pacific Water lines he built the Thomas J. Potter, the fastest sidewheeler afloat in the Pacific Northwest.”
