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The Crater National Forest: Its Resources and Their Conservation

by Findley Burns 1911 with Map

PAM 634.909 B87 1911 Library
Business Review Special Alert Edition

Chamber of Medford and Jackson County April 1989  Spotted Owl controversy newspaperand a petition  in support of adequate public timber…

PAM 634.927 C44 1989 Library
Lookout Life as I saw it and lived it

by Thelma Sims 1979; illustrated with a few photographs 

PAM 634.96 S54 1979 Library
Home Gardening

by C. B. Cordy Jackson County Extension SErvice Oregon State College. 1955

PAM 635 C67 1955 Library
Home Gardening

by C. B. Cordy Jackson County Extension Service Oregon State College. 1957

PAM 635 C79 1957 Library
Victory Garden Guide

1943. by Standard Oil Company of California

PAM 635 S73 1943 Library
Rogue Valley Herb Society 1964

" to awaken a wider interest in the ancient lore of herbs"  Past Presidents: John D. Holst, Stephen F. Counts, Otto Nagel, Walter McLean,…

PAM 635.706 R63 1964 Library
The Gladiolus Industry in Grants Pass

by Joseph L. Jameson Grants Pass, OR a History 478 term paper n.d.

PAM 635.9 J34 1960 Library
Floriculture

by C. B. Cordy County Extension Agent Horticulture Jackson County. 1956; Pest Control, Diseases, Fertilizers, propagation, annuals, biennual,…

PAM 635.9 C67 1956 Library
Dairying and Stockgrowning in the Rogue River Valley

Jackson County Bulletin No. 5 by Medford Commercial Club, Medford, OR. 1912

PAM636 M43 1912 Library
Medford Rose Society 6th Annual Rose Show

Booklet for Saturday May 28, 1960 Senior High Cafeteria 815 S. Oakdale, Medford, OR  cover has the "Cover Girl" orange rose 1960 P & D…

PAM 635.9074 1960 Library
MS1398 collection

2015.60.45: Employee monthly publication: '70's,'80's,'90's
box 6 - Jan 1978 - March - April 1993
box 7 - Feb 1966 - Dec 1977

M52 B 7 Mezzanine List
MS1398 collection

2015.60.45: Employee monthly publication: '70's,'80's,'90's
box 6 - Jan 1978 - March - April 1993
box 7 - Feb 1966 - Dec 1977

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MS1398 collection

2015.60.46 : 1967 - 1979 Southern Pacific Annual Reports

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Benjamin Thomas Davis

Benjamin Davis migrated to California in the Gold Rush.  His trip was  not a success and he ended up in Jacksonville, Oregon where he…

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Talent Pioneer Saw First Mail Sack Delivered.

On March 17, 1881, Mary Carey watched the stage coach drop off a sack of mail at a shanty that AP Talent had build for it.  The town was…

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Talent Pioneer saw first mail sack delivered.

On March 17, 1881, Mary Carey saw the first mail sack thrown from the stage coach at the small shanty A P Talent had built to serve as a post…

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Virginia Deason (obituary)

Virginia Deason was born in Chicago in 1941 and passed peacefully at home on July 3, 2025.  She attended the University of Iowa, but joined…

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Thomas Chavner and his town Gold Hill

Thomas Chavner arrived in Rogue Valley in 1851, and purchased a donation land claim across the Rogue River from the current site of Gold Hill.…

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The Basye family

The papers trace John Basye (b 18440,  William Basye, who bought a form in Jackson County in 1862, and Charles Basye, (b 1858) who became a…

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Grants Pass Courier

The Grants Pass Courier celebrated its 140th birthday April 3rd, 2025.  It won many awards over the years, and is now the oldest continuously…

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MS1398 collection

2015.60.35: Publications of Association of American Railroads

2015.60.37:  booklets for the Western Division with special notices and…

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Rowe, Jean Ellen Broadbent

RVTimes 4-29-2015 Obituary

Rowe Vertical File Biographies
Shannon, Cleo F.

MMT 12-16-1976 Obituary, Ruch Schools, 

Shannon Vertical File Biographies
MS1398 collection

2015.60.29: The Constitution, Statutes, and Rules of Order of the Order of Railway Conductors, Laws Governing the Mutual Benefit Department and…

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Davidson, Isaac

GPDailyCourier 4-13-2025 article, Lee-Janouch House placed on National Register of Historic Places.  Built in "Cascadian" style (or National…

Davidson Vertical File Biographies
Gore, Hattie

WestSideNews 1966, Edward E. Gore, 

Gore Vertical File Biographies
Mines

GPDailyCourier, 6-1-2025 article, Louis Belfils, Lost Frenchman's Mine, Golden, Buncom, Wold Creek, 

Mines Vertical File Subjects
Smith, S. Sumpter

MMT 11-5-1935 Obituary, Medford Sun, R. W. Ruhl, 

Smith Vertical File Biographies