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Joyce Lynn Hailicka (1946--March 13, 2024)

Joyce graduated from Rubidoux High in 1965, and moved to Oakland, OR where she was director of the audiovisual department.  She moved to…

Vertical File Biographies, HA 1
Photo of Pat Blair

Pat Blair was an artist and children's Librarian at the Medford Branch.  She was founder of the Storytelling Guild.

Vertical File Biographies, BL
Medford Catholic Church (Historic Pictures)

3 Views of 1911 on.

Medford, Oregon, Churches, Roman Catholic
Olin Thomas Whitman (obituary)

Olin Thomas Whitman died (perhaps in 1955) in Medford.  His parents Mr. and Mrs. J H Whitman, early pioneers brought him to this area and…

Vertical File Biographies, Whitman
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
Boss Cook of Famous Hotel is 82

MRS S E Howlett of Eagle Point continues to cook for guests and the Sunnyside Hotel because she likes to watch people eat her good food.  She…

Vertical File Biographies, Howlett
O & C Land Act of 1937

This act was a land grant to facilitate railroads in Oregon and California.  The idea was that the railroads would put the land to use to get…

Railroads, CA and OR
Jaida Ross-Bound for Paris

Medford native Jaida Ross was named the national women's field athlete of the year by the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Assn.…

Vertical File Biographies, Ross
Project Preserves historic Peter Britt Photos

Photography experts Matt Gebhardt and Matt Walker photographed glass negatives of Peter Britt at the SOHS.  Five thousand, seven hundred and…

Vertical File Biographies, Britt--Photography
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
Howlett, Mrs. S. E.

MMT 7-22-1931, Cook at Sunnyside Hotel in Eagle Point, "Mother" Howlett

Howlett Vertical File Biographies
Mrs. E. B. Hanley

MMT 10-30-1916, Feminist with "democratic pigs" campaigned for Hughes, Kathryn Hanley

Hanley Vertical File Biographies
Oregon Coast Artillery

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

World War 1914-1918 WWI Vertical File Subjects
Fresh Air Taxicabs

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

Medford Theaters, Holly 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
Chasing the Trail The Mapping of the Applegate Trail

By Gene Pierce and Dave Blanchard with photos and illustrations Contents: Clear Lake Swamp, Clear Lake, Horse Mountain, Tule Lake, Lost River,…

979.5 PIE 2011
Dana's Manual of Mineralogy 17th Edition

James and Edward Dana, Revised by Cornelius S. Hurlbut Jr. 1961.

549 D35 1961
Gems Minerals Crystals and Ores: The Collector's Encyclopedia

Richard M. Pearl, 1964

549 P41 1964
Wentworth's Practical Arithmetic

George A. Wentworth, 1901, Text-Book, Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry. Names of many former owners written on inside cover. Spine of…

511 W47 1901
A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Fredrick H. Pough, 1969

549 P69 1969
The Book of Mineral Photographs

B.M. Shaub, 1957, crystals 

549 S53 1957
Oregon Geology (two copies)

Thomas Condon, 1910

550 C65 1910
Dictionary of Geological Terms 3rd edition

American Geological Institute, 1984

550.321 D54 1984
Mount St. Helens: A Sleeping Volcano Awakes

Marian T. Place, 1981

551.2 P53 1981
The Ancient Volcanoes of Oregon

Howel Williams, 1953

ORE. CAB. REF 551.2 WILLIAMS, H 1953
Mount Multnomah: Ancient Ancestor of the Three Sisters

Edwin T. Hodge, 1925

ORE CAB REF 551.43 HODGE, E
Enchanted Corridors

Wayland A. Dunham, 1939, Oregon Caves, signed by athour.

ORE CAB REF 551.4409795 DUNHAM, W
Lower Clearwater Watershed Analysis Appendix Vol. 1

Diamond Lake Ranger District Umpqua National Forest, October 1999,  Geology and Soils, Vegetation, Hydrology, Resident Fish Species and…

551.48 D2 Vol.1
Lower Clearwater Watershed Analysis Appendix Vol. 2

Diamond Lake Ranger District Umpqua National Forest, October 1999,  Geology and Soils, Vegetation, Hydrology, Resident Fish Species and…

551.48 D2 Vol 2
The Little Butte Creek Watershed: An Overview of its Environmental History

Jeff LaLande, 1997, Prepared for the Little Butte Creek Watershed Assessment Analysis report. Bureau of Land Management and Rogue River National…

551.48 L19 1997