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Title Body Location Source Reference
A Pony Expressman's Recollections

Isaac Van Dorsey Mossman, 1955

388 M68 1955
This was Trucking: A Pictorial History of the First Quarter Century of the Trucking Industry

Robert F. Karolevitz, 1966

388.3 K37 1966
TV Series "All Across Oregon" set to go nationwide

Vinny DiCostanzo plans to expand scope of local travel show which describes local restauranteurs.  It airs on Southern Oregon PBS.

Vertical File Subjects, television.
Pioneer Dress in the Oregon Country: A Basic Study For Theatrical Use

Wilma Sanders, 1965

391 S25 1965
A Brief History of Vance DeBar Colvig (1892-1967)

SOHS pamphlet on the life of Pinto Colvig 

3 copies

Pam 920 C64 1983
American Costume, 1915-1970: mA Source Book for the Stage Costumer

Shirley Miles O'Donnol, 1982

391.0973 036 1982
The Christmas Almanack

Gerard and Patricia Del Re, 1979

394.268 D36 1979
Folklife Annual 1986

A Collection of articles on traditional expressive life and culture of the United States, 1986

398.3 F66 1986
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary

G. & C. Merriam Co. 1972, first page has the name "John Hood" written on it.

423 W42 1972
Rehabilitation: An Alternative for Historic Industrial Building

Selma Thomas, 1978

725.4 R43 1978 25
Builders of Oregon

Building companies and pictures of the buildings that they built, no year given in book, but based on car's shown in pictures somewhere around…

720.9795 B85
Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945

John J.-G. Blumenson, 1977

720.973 B58 1977
SOHS Program For 1988 Railroad Exhibit

Joy Constock, March 9th 1988

728.6 W32
Homes for Home-Builders or Practical Designs for Country, Farm and Village

David W. King, 1902. Contains the designs and estimated cost of many different houses.

728.6 K52
Palliser's Model Homes: Designs for Model Dwellings

1975 (first printed in 1878

728 P34 1975
Games of Yesteryear entice new players at Hanley Farm

The Southern Oregon Historical Society hosted a Games Children Played event at Hanley Farm.  Youngsters played with wooden cup and ball toyed…

Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm.
The Complete Encyclopedia of Illustration

J.G. Heck, 1979.translated by Spencer F. Baird. Containing all the Original Illustrations from the 1851 edition of The Iconographic…

743.9 H42 1979
A History of the Big Ditch Northern California

by Charles Nevi 1961 to fulfill class work at Pacific Northwest; The 1851 ditch used in gold mining days. 32 miles long.

PAM 622 N49 1961
The Official 1983 Price Guide to Antique Jewelry

Arthur Guy Kaplan, 1983

739.2075 K36 1983
China and Cut Glass: Higgins & Seiter 1899

1971, vases, pottery, clocks, plaques, steins, cups, plates

738.202 H53 1971
Interior Decoration for the Small Home

Amy L. Rolfe, 1917, walls, ceilings, windows, floors, rugs, carpets, lighting

747 R64 1917
A Boy, A Bicycle, and a Turtle

Ahland LithiaGraph newspaper story about Emerson Vail's (a black boy) dream to become an Olympian

Blacks in Southern Oregon
Warren Lee, the colored waiter at the Gold Hill

Gold Hill News  10 Mar 1900...left for his home in Portland.

Blacks in Southern Oregon
American Needlework: The History of Decorative Stitchery and Embroidery from the 16th to the 20th Century

Georgiana Brown Harbeson, 1938

746.4 H37 1938
Victorian Stencils For Design and Decoration

Edmund V. Gillon Jr., 1968

745.7 G54 1968
Gold Diggers Guild

Gold Diggers Guild - scrapbooks 2011 - 2014

Mezzanine 78 E 4
Webfoots & Bunchgrassers: Folk Art of the Oregon Country

Suzi Jones, 1980, Pioneers, Buckaroos, Ethnic Arts

745 F64 1980
Pioneer Woolen Mills in Oregon: History of Woolen Textile Industry in Oregon, 1811-1875

Alfred L. Lomax, 1941, Sticker on the inside cover reads "With Washougal Woolen Mills' Grateful Recognition of Good Service. (hand signed) Ernest…

677.0979 L64 1941
The Loggers

Richard L. Williams, 1976

674 T54 1976
Archaeologists find riches in the road

Rebuilding of Highway 238 through downtown Jacksonville allows ODOT dig team to unearth historic treasures.  Archaeologist Julie Schablitsky…

Vertical File, Subjects, Roads, Misc.