Business District of The Dalles Sixty Years Ago - This is an unusually fine view showing the business center of The Dalles as it looked sixty years ago. In the immediate foreground is the Bird Stable (afterward Ward & Robinson) located where the Civic Auditorium now stands. Beyond can be seen the Congregational church and then the Baptist church, the latter of which was at the corner of Third and Washington streets. The gable roof of the first Umatilla House is shown by the river. In the upper left can be seen the Original Court House and near it the then new residence of J.W. French. The river was up somewhat and the wharf boat and two steamboats are moored near the foot of Union street. - 1875
Sarah Finley was the daughter of a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Despite health concerns that precipitated the Finleys’ return to California in 1872, she lived to be 89 years old, passing away in 1937. Finley was a leader of the suffrage movement in Sonoma County, California. Thomas Houseworth & Co. was one of the leading photography studios in San Francisco in the 1870s and 1880s.