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Mega Index
| Title | Body | Location | Source Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A D Griffin- Republican | Democratic Times 7 Feb 1898 p. 3 Local Notes A D Friffin, "who is not colored, but born that way," is scheduled to make some Republican speeches… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| A Gruesome Discovery | Democratic Times newspaper clipping 7 Aug 1902 p. 1 mentions a suicide on Poorman's Creek on the Beck place - the body of Henry a… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Victorian Crochet by Weldon and Company | Weldon and Company, 1974, textiles, clothes |
746.43 V52 1974 | Library | |
| Encyclopedia of Applique: An Illustrated, Numerical Index to Traditional and Modern Patterns | Barbara Brackman, 1993 |
746.44 B79 1993 | Library | |
| Needlework | Adolph S. Cavallo, 1979, textiles, art |
746.44 C39 1979 | Library | |
| Victorian Fancywork: Nineteenth-Century Needlepoint Patterns and Designs | Lilo Markrich and Heniz Edgar Kiewe, 1974, textiles production |
746.44 M37 1974 | Library | |
| American Needlework 1776/1976 | 1975, textiles, rugs, quilt, flag, patterns |
746.44 T54 1975 | Library | |
| The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art An Oral History | Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Buferd, 1978, textiles, women's history |
746.46 C65 1978 | Library | |
| Old Patchwork Quilts and the Women Who Made Them | Ruth E. Finley, 1929, textiles, women's history |
746.46 F49 1929 | Library | |
| The Standard Book of Quilt Making and Collection | Marguerite Ickis, 1949, textiles |
746.46 I25 1949 | Library | |
| Key to a Third 1000 Quilt Patterns | Judy Rehmel,1980, textiles |
746.46 R43 1980 | Library | |
| Key to a Second 1000 Quilt Patterns | Judy Rehmel, 1979, textiles |
746.46 R43 1979 | Library | |
| Key to 1000 Quilt Patterns | Judy Rehmel, 1978, textiles, this volume contains revisions in the back. |
746.46 R43 1978 | Library | |
| Two Parents protest Black School Bus Driver | Medford Mail Tribune clipping 4 may 1978 Ruch Elementary School bus driver, Claude C. Cherry of Ashland continued to serve despite the complaints… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| 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 | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Samuel Cozzen, an aged negro | Ashland Tidings 13 Feb 1891 clipping Samuel died leaving some valuable property in Jacksonville |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Veteran of Rogue River Indian War is Wanted | Louis Southworth, a former slave from MO xd the plains in 1852 ... Veteran of the Rogue River Indian War ...lived in Polk County. The… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Oregon Sentinel articles 1860s about Black people | various dates in the 1860s - all copied on one page about the following people of color: Sam, a colored preacher to replace Isaac Jones, Mat Banks… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Jack Berry, a colored man | death notice 10 Jun 1892 unknown source, Jack came with Overbeck family to Oregon |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| A negro from Yreka, John Wesley Franklin | Ashland Tidings clipping 8 Aug 1884 p. 3 J.W. Franklin came to Ashland to carry brick for the new bank building and caused some trouble. ..… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Excellent Photographic Work | Ashland Tidings 14 Oct 1901 p. 3 Photographer Camps took pictures of the Depot Hotel. Mr. Pracht who runs the hotel installed all white… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Albert Johnson, the Spanish negro | Ashland Tidings clipping 21 Dec 1899 pleaded guilty of rape ...sentenced to 15 years |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Accused of a Serious Crime | Ashland Tidings 18 Dec 1899 p. 3 Col. 2 Albert Johnston, a negro, accused of rape |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Died - Richard Conway | (colored man) 10 Oct 1863 Oregon Sentinel death notice |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Amalgamation | Oregon Sentinel 17 Jun 1863 p. 2 clipping about a "yarn" Copperhead papers were spreading. ..S. Oregon has a a number of staunch Secession… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Civil Rights Tested | Oregon Sentinel 1 May 1869 mentions a dispute between a German and a black man who were trying to work for Major Glen of Jacksonville to clean up… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Asland Council Approves Black Lives Statue | Medford Mail Tribune clipping 23 Sep 2022 p. 31 Piece memorializes victims of racially motivated violence by Morgan Rothborne |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Simon Pure Democracy | Marysville Daily Appeal , Marysville, CA 8 Jul 1862 p 2 clipping Harry Bailey [actually Henry Bailey] married Julianna Johnson .... her hair… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| The Editor's Last Word | Ashland Tidings 5 Oct 1929... U of O have a problem on their hands. A very bright colored girl applied for admission to the University… |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects | |
| Self-Defense Is Plea of Negro Held as Slayer | Medford Mail Tribune clipping 9 Jun 1926 p. 2 William Carter, local colored bootblack shot Antone Farris, a local Mexican in the leg |
Blacks in Southern Oregon | Vertical File Subjects |