Atwood, Kay (Katherine Conlee)

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Notes about the Billings and Lowery Families; list of pictures from Elizabeth Jones of Curry County; information about the Post Office in Mule Creek, OR; pictures of film strips of people and land; negative film strips from Curry Co., and Josephine Co. Historical Societies of people and nature; negative film strips of people and nature; note with Curry Co. Museum photos.

Scope and Contents Photograph of Billings family with horses; article titled “Mule Creek News” published The Gold Beach Curry on September 1st, 189u; information on Bill Rumley written by Blanche Von der Green McCreary in 1950; newspaper, Daily Courier from Grants Pass with article “River Ranch Take New Life” published on August 13th, 1981; application for enrollment for James and Harold Thornton on May 18th, 1928; article from the Port Orford Post regarding Dr. Von der Green January 5th, 1982; bits from...

Scope and Contents Negative film strips of Kelsey Creek and baskets; Pictures of negative film strips of Kelsey Creek and baskets; two children sitting by a flowing pipe line; a Pack String at Mule Creek; a large group of people; the Marcelles, Billings, and Jones family members; a family with horses in front of their house; Mule Creek Bridge; men at the Tina H. Camp; Mule Creek Flume; George Billings Home at Mule Creek; a man with three dead deer; a Thomas mower at B. Billings Ranch; Glen Woodridge...

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Letter to Kay Atwood from Ted Bould and Alisa regarding their just missing each other; letter to Kay Atwood from unknown sender; letter to Kay Atwood from unknown sender regarding photographs and a trip to Grants Pass; letter to Kay Atwood from Wilson; transcription of an article on Bill Rumley published in the Portland Telegram in 1909; annual report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the year 1879 part two.

Scope and Contents Photograph of woman with large woven baskets; Article titled “Earliest Oregon Post offices as Recorded at Washington” written by Lewis A. McArthur, dated 1940; Article titled “The Roads and Transportation of Territorial Oregon” written by Oscar Osburn Winther, dated 1940; Research material relating to Smith’s Indian Reservation; Handwritten ledger of receipts and deposits; Chronological list of events throughout the Rogue Valley starting in 1854 and ending in 1873; SOHS Receipts signed by...

Scope and Contents Interview with Rob in Jacksonville; Google search of the Adams Express History; Post office ledger from Crescent City dated Jul 20th, 1870; Notes on the Beekman Papers from the Oregon Historical Society; Pages from an unknown novel with the note “Bancroft’s works – Oregon ll”; Charles Armstrong’s Transportation Schedule; Newspaper clipping from the Crescent City Herald with articles relating to Cram, Rogers & Co. and the Eagle Mills owned by Messrs Thomas Bros., dated May 16th, 1855;...

Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping with article “Historical Ad Program Offered” from the Medford Mail Tribune featuring a photograph of Kay Atwood with Chris Barker, dated December 28th, 1971; Newspaper clipping with article “I Specialize in Very Expensive Books for Collectors Where the Book Itself is a Tactile Thing” from the Northwest Magazine relating to Louis Osborne, dated March 12th, 1972; Newspaper clipping with article “Festival Association Proposes Making Carriage House Theater” from the Medford...

Scope and Contents Note about Holly Peake and publications about it; Sketch of Cy Whiteneck, Whiskey Creek; color a city by a sea; cut out newspaper article from June 2, 1945 about George H. Holly Peake; Cy Whiteneck’s cabin in the woods, 1916; letter to Louise J. Nichols from San Heaney of the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management in regards to her occupying a cabin in Whiskey Creek for a set time to remove her property, dated March 1973; appraisal Report from the United States...

Scope and Contents Handwritten letter to Mr. Ken Mack and the Rogue River Recreational Dept. (Bob Alward, Tom Abbett, Doug Henry) from Dennis C. McHarness regarding Mule Creek – West Fort and the Mule Pack Trail; pages from the Navig study Kay Atwood conducted, all primary research; handwritten letter to Kay Atwood from Lee Root regarding her book Illahe; handwritten letter to the Topographical Office dated January 13th, 1859; written description on the history of gold in the Rogue River Valley titled “Of...