Transcription from front: “Major James Tilton. Born at or near Wilmington, Delaware, about 1822. Removed to Indiana in his youth. Entered volunteer service at the beginning of the War with Mexico, & at its close held the rank of major. Was appointed Surveyor-General of Washington Territory in 1854 by President Pierce, and reappointed by President Buchanan. Was Quartermaster General of Washington Volunteers in the Yakima Indian War of 1855 and 1856. Became a civil engineer in early life. His family were connected with the early Episcopal Church at Olympia.”
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: “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: “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 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.”
Three unidentified men in front of The Whitlock Store, Oregon City, Oregon. Transcription from back: “The Whitlock Store in Oregon City, general store.”
