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Hall, Phyllis

RVTimes obituary May 1, 1932 to June 11, 2025, Owned Phil's Froshty in Shady Cove in the 1970's.

Hall Vertical File Biographies
Oregon Lime Products Company

MMT article 1-17-1935, The Oregon Lime Products company has been operating on a quarry on Williams creek between Williams and Provolt.  The…

Quarries Vertical File Subjects
Voegeli, Henry

Med Success article 10-31-1902, Henry Voegeli returned to Medford from the Dalles.  He served three years and seven months in a Misouri…

VO Vertical File Biographies
Hoover Elementary School

Oregonian articles May 5 & 12, 1983, Two fires in the Hoover Elementary School gymnasium 8 days apart are being investigated as arson.

Medford, OR, Schools Vertical File Subjects
Schubert, Ruth

Letter from Vicky Bryden 1990, local artist at the Rogue Gallery

SC Vertical File Biographies
photographs of Jacksonville

Collection of twenty (20) black and white 8 x 10 photographs of various locations in Jacksonville, Oregon in the 1960s - 2025.44.2

Envelope…

M22 A 5 Mezzanine List
Zufich, Nancy R.

Ashland.news obituary Dec. 26, 1935 to Oct.14, 2025, Blue Heron Gallery and Art & Soul in Ashland, married Bob Cox

Z Vertical File Biographies
Bessonette, Alice Aleen Mooers

Ashlland.news obituary Feb. 7, 1926 to Nov. 3, 2025, B & G Restaurant in Ashland

BE Vertical File Biographies
Kelly, Scott

Ashland.news obiturary 6-2-1965 to 11-5-2025, Asante Health System, Rogue Regional Medical Center

Kelly Vertical File Biographies
Jessamine Bushnell

Oregonian article Dec. 13, 1914, May be a direct descendent of Admiral David Bushnell who invented the submarine.  She may christen a…

BU Vertical File Biographies
Jackson, Mary Linda

Ashland.news, obituary, 12-12-2025, managed dentist practice of husband Daniel Jackson in Ashland, 

Jackson Vertical File Biographies
Bound volumes of Harper's Magazine

Harper's New Monthly Magazine & Brothers-publishing No. 277, June 1878. 800 pages. End pages missing. Illustrated, leather cover of light tan…

M33 F 2 Mezzanine List
Hayes, James

2021 Letter from Larry and Liz Siessler to Gayle Lewis about paintings by Dorland Robinson given to James Hayes by Dr. Robinson.  James Hayes…

Hayes Vertical File Biographies
Loughridge, Dr. Sherman

GP Daily Courier article 1-25-2026, Grants Pass, born 1864 and died 1925, Methodist Episcopal Church, Nannie M. Findley, Josephine County Bank of…

LO Vertical File Biographies
Elder, George W.

GP Daily Courier article 1-25-2026, Waldo, Charles N. Decker, Sailors Diggings, Postmaster

EL Vertical File Biographies
Holst, Jaunnesse Maria Lucretiz

Obituary 11-12-1904 to 3-11-1917, Sams Valley

HO Vertical File Biographies
Bound volumes of Harper's Magazine

Vol. 34 Dec. 1866 to May 1867
Vol. 35 June to Nov. 1867
Vol. 36 Dec 1867 to May 1868
Vol . 37 June to Nov. 1868
Vol. 38 Dec. 1868 to…

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Frost, Evan J.

Ashland.news obituaty, April 18, 1963 - December 12, 2025, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

FR Vertical File Biographies
Lizotte, James "Jim" Desmond

Ashland.news obituary 2-28-2026

LI Vertical File Biographies
Hansen. Doris Irene

Ashland,news obituary 2-25-2026, Program Manager of the Talent Food Pantry, 1994 Talent Community Service Award

Hansen Vertical File Biographies
Jarvis, Barbara

Ashland.news Obituary 3-9-2026, Judge, April 14, 1934 - January 13, 2026

JA Vertical File Biographies
Handbook to the Rogue River Canyon

by James M. Quinn, James W. Quinn and James G. King, 1978

917.9521 Q55 1979 Library
Handbook to the Illinois River Canyon

By James M. Quinn, James W. Quinn and James G. King, 1979

step by step guide to running the rapids, camping, flora and fauna.

917.9525 Q55 1979 Library
Discovery and Exxploration of the Oregon Caves

by Frank K. Walsh and William R. Halliday 1971

Pamphlet

917.9525 W14 1971 Library
"On the Trail of Skookum John"

by Charles Aiken

From Sunset Magazine October 1908 pp. 478-494

Photocopy

917.9527 A33 1908 Library
Medford and the Beautiful Rogue Valley: The Center of it all

Picture book of Medford and local businesses published by Barry Levin 2001 

917.8521 MED Library
"Up and Down Oregon's Rogue"

articles on the Rogue and Umpqua rivers and recreation found in Sunset Magazine, June 1966

917.9521 Library
Domain of the Cavemen

A historic resource study of Oregon Caves National Monument

by Stephen R. Mark, 2006

2 copies

917.9525 M2 copies 1 and 2, 2006 Library
...About the Rogue River

a series of brochures from the U. S. Dept. of Interior and Bureau of Land Management, 1980

Orcas Ref 917.9521 About Library
The Rogue: Portrait of a River

Photographs and text by Roger Dorband 2006

2 copies

917.9521 D69 2006 Library