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Vertical File Subjects A Better Understanding

A SOU Chinese history project gets half a million dollars so anthropology students can focus on gold rush period through the early 20th century.…

Vertical File Subjects, Chinese in Oregon, folder 1
Vertical File Subjects Noted Negro Tenor Hopes to help Race

George Garner was touring the United States giving concerts, accompanied by his wife.  His perormance was at the Benson hotel.  He said…

Vertical File Subjects, Blacks in Medford
Vertical File Subjects Oregon tribes retrace the Rogue River Trail of Tears to heal old wounds

Greg Archuleta, cultural policy analyst with the Grand Round tribe, said the current focus is on refamiliarizing tribal members with the places of…

Indians of North America, Social Life and Customs
Vertical File Subjects Scouts Prepare for National Roundup

June 17, 1958 eight southern Oregon Girl Scouts held a practice encampment by Bear Creek for a roundup held in Michigan later that month.

Girl Scouts
Vertical File Subjects Crater Lake Is Nature's Wonder Picture

A whimsical article in the 1923 Southern Pacific Bulletin about the creation of Crater Lake was delivered by J A Ormandy to the Portland Ad club…

Vertical File, Crater Lake, 1 of 2
Vertical File Subjects Old Fossils of Jayville Were at Sea

Prof, KS Crossman, U of O ethologist, visited the Jacksonville museum and offered to classify some of the town's old fossils that were found in…

Vertical File Subjects, Fossils
Vertical File Subjects Fire Lookouts in Readiness Early Account Drought

Five stories from the 1931 to 1933 regarding Firelookouts at Crater Lake at Watchman Peak.  The Watchman lookout at 8938 is only reached by a…

Vertical File Subjects, Forest Fires
Vertical File Subjects Drive continues to Buy Beekman Home

The Medford Mail Tribune, 1961 describes the campaign to acquire the home of banker CC Beeman.  Dr Haines, SOU Professor and past president…

Vertical File Subjects, Jacksonville, OR, Historic Houses, Beekman House
Vertical File Subjects Jacksonville Music Hub of Coast in Early Days

From the 1931 Mail Tribune:  Jacksonville and Southern Oregon rate high as being music hubs in the early days because of the number of spinet…

Vertical File Subjects, music, and Biographies, Alice Hanley
Vertical File Subjects Medford man to 0pen Up Caves

Mr. and Mrs. R Mcliveen will leave for the Oregon Marble caves in Josephine county to open the caves" accommodations for tourists for the coming…

Vertical File Subjects, Oregon Caves
Vertical File Subjects Historic 1870's hotel will soon belong to Britt

The brick hotel building that's being purchased for $1,452 million by the Britt Music & Arts Festival dates to the 1870's.  Britt wishes…

Vertical File Subjects. Jacksonville, OR, Britt Music Festival, 2
Vertical File Subjects Jacksonville's Cistern Pumper

Emil Britt presented this history of the Cistern Pumper.  Jacksonville purchased the pumper in 1880 when the town had 1800 people for about $…

Vertical File Subjects, Jacksonville, 1900 (prior to)
Vertical File Subjects Treasure Hunt in Jacksonville Stirs Pioneers

Around the area of the Hanley and Gore ranches, especially the knoll, were many holes about the size of an iron gold box, and crow bar holes for…

Vertical File Subjects, Mines, Miscellaneous
Vertical File Subjects The Past and Present of Mercy Flights, by Dennis Powers

George Milligan was the air traffic controller iin 1949 when the need for a plane to fly polio patients to the closest iron lung in Portland.…

Mercy Flights, Medford
Vertical File Subjects Lookouts

MMT 1930, 5 articles on Forest Service Lookouts, Mt. McLoughlin, Dutchman's Peak, Whiskey Peak, Mt. Baldy, Buch Rock, Battle Mountain, Union Creek…

Forest Fires
Vertical File Subjects Fresh Air Taxicabs

MMT Dec 1930, Holly Theater, Amos and Andy, Walter Leverette, George Olson

Medford Theaters, Holly
Vertical File Subjects Oregon Coast Artillery

MMT 7-25-1917, Official Roster, World War I

World War 1914-1918 WWI
Vertical File Subjects Water--Its Flow, Its Damage, Its future.

This series in the 1965 Mail Tribune looks at Southern Oregon floods from 1851 until publications.  Pictures are included.  

Vertical File, Subjects, Floods, Not 1964
Vertical File Subjects Pioneers Hold Annual Meet in the Jacksonville Masonic Hall

Nearly 300 men and women enjoyed a reunion and the opening of Sargent Museum .   After much food, there was an address by Charles Reames,…

Vertical File Subjects, Jacksonville, OR History 1
Vertical File Subjects Medford Catholic Church (Historic Pictures)

3 Views of 1911 on.

Medford, Oregon, Churches, Roman Catholic
Vertical File Subjects Pear Industry in Oregon's Rogue River Valley Big Business

This 1953 article illustrates how Harry and David's company became an industry leader in pear production.  Although there are 13 other…

Vertical File Subjects, Bear Creek Corporation.
Vertical File Subjects Lincoln residents oppose BLM sale along trail.

Where the Pacific Crest Trail crosses the steep mountainside, Doug Frank and Linda Buturain lead the fight to stop BLM's plans to clearcut near…

Vertical File Subjects, Siskiyou Mountains.
Vertical File Subjects H. A. Thierolf House

Historic home in Medford, 828 Minnesota, Frank C. Clark, Henry Albert Thierolf, Big Pines Lumber Company, George Pythian, Roland Hubbard, Geneva-…

Medford OR, Historic Houses, etc., Geneva-Minnesota History District
Vertical File Subjects Taxis in Rogue Valley

MMT January 1931, 3 articles, Medford General Cab company, Jack Crow and Myron Gleason, The Checkered Cab company, Jimmy Valentine, Jewell Louise…

Buses
Vertical File Subjects Collie, Thomas F.

MMT 11-29-1931 article, "Hales necktie party" by "masked reform organization" of 1922 (KKK), Arthur Worthington, Alice Hanley

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Vertical File Subjects Southern Oregon Brewing Company

JVMiner, 2-16-1934 article, Albert Horn, Pilsener, Fred Furey, Ted Geliauer

Medford, Or, Businesses, , S
Vertical File Subjects Wilson Creek Dam

Prime Times Mystery Photo response, Wilson Creek Dam construction, above Butte Falls, Dutch Cook, Jack and Bert McConochie, Skeeter Lumber co.

Dams
Vertical File Subjects Downtown Medford revitalization efforts 1979-1981

MMT 3 articles, Charles Smith, John Thomsen, Judith Nebot, Richard McLaughlin. Mike Benke, Al Densmore, Bernard Young

Downtown Medford Association
Vertical File Subjects Weeks and Orr Furniture Store

MMT 1999 article, 67 years in business, Eugene Orr

Medford, Or, Businesses, U - Z
Vertical File Subjects Medford Realty Board

MMT 1999 article, John Malone, W. P. Wright

Medford, Or., Businesses R