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The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Volume 11 1997

Oregon Institute of Technology 1947 - 1997 The First Fifty Years

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The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 9 1995 From the Sketchbook of First Sergeant Michael McCathy by Francis S. Landrum

Reminiscence of Abraham Henry Garrison Over the…

M71 Library
The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 8 1994 Through a Strange Country Covered with Lakes by Jeff LaLande ; Imagemakers of the Modoc War: Louis Heller and Eadweard Muybridge by…

M71 Library
The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 7 1993 Klamath Commandos by Dorothy Laurenson Ebbett; Anatomy of a Massacre: Bloody Point, 1852 by Thomas H Hunt; Bloody Point Archaeological…

M71 Library
The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 6 1992 mules in the Land of Lakes by John Keast Lord; Oliver Cromwell Applegate Paternalistic Friend of the Indians by James White Paiute…

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The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 5 No. 1 & 2 1991  Two Jesses and the Modoc War by Robert B Johnston

The Sagebrush War: The California -Neveda Boundary Dispute…

M71 Library
The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 4 No 2 Spring 1990 by Richard W. Reinhardt ; The Modoc War by Maurice Ftizgerald ; Homesteads and Broken Hearts by Timothy S. Olmstead; The…

M71 Library
The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 4 No. 1 Fall 1989 Winter in Oregon From Fremont to the Modoc War Deac 1843 John C. Fremont; Trail by Oliver C. Applegate; Winter Champaign by…

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The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 3 No. 2 Spring 1989  Fort Klamath and the Bread Riot A Near Tragedy of Early Days by Orson A. Stearns, Railroads and Politics 1890-1931…

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The Journal of the Shaw Historical Library

Vol 3  No. 1 Fall 1988 The Modoc War - a Symposium  Oregon Tech Foundation, Oregon Institute of Technology includes 

A Native…

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Harper's magazine

2 bound copies of Harper's magazine bound 

Harper's Young People 1882

Harper's Young People 1883

M33 F 3 Mezzanine List
Harper's magazine

2 bound copies of Harper's magazine bound 

Harper's Young People 1880

Harper's Young People 1881

M33 E 3 Mezzanine List
After 62 Years Still Going Strong - Rogue River Valley University Club

A History 1910-1973 by Willard W. "Bill " Aldrich includes the beginnings of the club, the 1920s; Near Demise in 1930s; WW II and after; Financial…

VF. Rogue River Valley University Club Library
Lavine, Tom

rv-times, 5-30-2026 obituary, Dedicated pro bono photographer of the South Medford High School Panthers and retired Medfor police lieutenant and…

LA Vertical File Biographies
Foris Vineyard and Winery

DailyCourier, 6-5-2026, History of Holland, OR, Ted Gerber, Grayce and Joe Hudrun, Jim Rich, Jack Sauer, 

Wine and Winemaking Vertical File Subjects
Stearns, Samuel Eastman

By Christina Hoyt, Susan Terry Whitaker, Baptist minister, 1853 settled a donation land claim that is now in the city limits of Medford, OR.,…

Stearns Vertical File Biographies
Diane Newell Meyer

DailyCourier, 5-24-2026, obituary, Bill Meyer, Sierra Club, Environmentalist and wilderness advocate

Diane Newell Meyer Vertical File Biographies
Kitty Kautz

Fort Steilacoom, WA, Winter 1997, The Indian Family of August V. Kautz, Kitty, the daughter of the Quiemuth of the Nisqually tribe, was the common…

KA Vertical File Biographies
Medford Mail Tribune Archives

rv-times, DailyCourier, 7-7-2026, Southern Oregon Histoircal Scoiety has acquired and is preserving the archives of the closed Medford Mail…

Medford, OR, Newspapers Vertical File Subjects
Dennis Lee Barr

rv-times 7-1-2026 obituary, Judith Ann McGraw, Fred Spiegelberg, Acme Bluegrass Companym Barr Dental Supply, Patterson Dental Company

BA Vertical File Biographies
Beekman Bank cash drawer

7/17/2026 Ben Truwe, White's Improved Money Drawer (May 2, 1873 ad attached) like the one in the Beekman Bank in Jacksonville.

Jacksinville, OR, Historic Houses, Beekman Bank Vertical File Subjects
Thomas Petch House

MMT 8/5/1982 Historical plaque has been approved for the Thomas Petch house at 3654 S. Pacific Highway.  Built in 1922 by Thomas and Leila…

PE Vertical File Biographies
Silas and Marie Vance Timeline

Prepared by Mariam Hansen and Gail Unzelman timeline for Silas Albert and Marie Hyatt Vance  includes reference to mining claim in Josephine…

Vertical File, Biography -VA Vertical File Biographies
Narrative Picture Report Submitted by Camp Supt. at Camp Prescott State Park, Medford, Oregon

Photographic p`rogress report submitted by R. M. Kent (Project Superintendent) to the U. S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, April 1…

979.527 USA 1936 Library
The History of Jackson County Oregon, second copy

William Pierce Tucker, 1931, a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts, University of Washington, geology, Native peoples,…

ORE CAB R 979.527 TUC Library
Nomination Forms, Union Creek Historic District

National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Forms, prepared by Elizabeth Gail Throop, 1979, descriptions of structures and sites…

979.527 U55 1979 Library
On Trial for Murder

On Trial for Murder

by Larry Derry     December 1961

term paper prsented to Dr. Frank Haines in partial fulfillment of the…

979.527 D48 1961 Library
Lost Towns of Jackson County

unpublished manuscript by Imogene Vincent ca. 1976-1989, descriptions of ghost towns, Asbestos, Thomas Mill, Spikenard, Etna, Moonville, Beagle,…

979.527 V4 Library
A Reevaluation of Cultural Resources Within the Proposed Elk Creek Lake Project Area Jackson County, Oregon

1981 report prepared for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District, Contract No. DACW57-79-C-0084 by the Department of Anthropology,…

979.527 U55 1981 Library
A History of Dead Indian Soda Springs

A History of Dead Indian Soda Springs

by Edward Demmer    December, 1960

a term paper presented to Dr. Francis Haines,…

979.527 D44 1960 Library