Atwood, Kay (Katherine Conlee)
Dates
- Existence: 1942 - 2014
Biography
Local historian and author Kay Atwood, who has written extensively about the Southern Oregon region. Atwood’s books include Illahe: The Story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon, Mill Creek Journal: Ashland Oregon, 1850-1860, and Chaining Oregon: Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855. Her many other books and articles explore the settlement and development of communities in Southern Oregon, and include National Register nominations, cultural resource inventories, and environmental and organizational histories.
Found in 529 Collections and/or Records:
Misc. Josephine Co. Pioneers, Bridges, Ferries, 1931-1978
The materials are a collection of historical documents related to various aspects of Josephine County, including early community pioneers and infrastructure of the region.
Misc. Research for John Gibbs Mountain house
Miscellaneous handwritten notes on scratch paper regarding research; Screenshot of a google search for Leonard Gibbs and Betsy Robards; History of Chickasaw and Howard Counties by W.E. Alexander; Land patent details for John Gibbs’ Mountain House; Handwritten notes on Hugh Franklin and the Russell family; To do list for Kay Atwood regarding Emil Wienecke research
Miscellaneous Chinese Research Findings (Jacksonville Area), 1992
Miscellaneous Josephine County material, 1872-1983
The materials constitute a miscellany of information about Josephine County. These materials include primary source documents such as train schedules, photographs, and newspaper articles, as well as secondary source documents like historical writings and summaries, etc. Map of Mineral Locations in Josephine County, OR dated 1979.
Miscellaneous Research Findings, 1873
Miscellaneous handwritten notes; Handwritten material on legal paper; Clippings of an article titled “A Moral Perjurer, if not Legal, and His Aiders and Abettors” published in the Times; Clippings of an article titled “Vite Prejudice and the Chinese” published in The Oregon Sentinel, dated Summer of 1873
Miscellaneous Research Findings, 1935
Miscellaneous Rogue Valley research material, bulk: 1822-1940
Miscellaneous Rogue Valley research material, bulk: 1870-2002
Miscellaneous Russell research and photographs, 2013
Miscellaneous Southern Oregon cemeteries research
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- Collection 2
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- Historic buildings 211
- research notes 154
- History, Local 108
- Surveyors 85
- Photographs 83
- Ashland (Or.) 81
- Mines and mineral resources 51
- West (U.S.) 45
- Business correspondence 43
- Oregon, Southern 39
- Universities and colleges--Faculty 38
- oral histories 38
- Chinese Americans 37
- Authorship 32
- Josephine County (Or.) 31
- Cemeteries 28
- Maps 26
- Rogue River Valley (Klamath County-Curry County, Or.) 24
- Hazardous geographic environments 22
- Sound recordings 22
- Oregon, Western 21
- Periodicals 19
- Forests and forestry 15
- Klamath County (Or.) 15
- Fire lookouts 13
- Grants Pass (Or.) 13
- Orchards 12
- personal correspondence 11
- Biography 9
- California, Northern 8
- Elementary and Secondary Education 7
- Klamath Falls (Or.) 7
- personal narratives 7
- City councils 6
- Interviews 6
- Medicine 6
- Northwest, Pacific 6
- diaries 6
- Business records 4
- Central Point (Or.) 4
- Indians of North America 4
- Ranching 4
- Sawmills 4
- 19th century 3
- Jacksonville (Or.) 3
- Minorities 3
- Real property 3
- Roads--Design and construction 3
- Ships and Shipping 3
- Siskiyou National Forest (Or. and Calif.) 3
- Crater Lake (Or.) 2
- Depressions--1929 2
- Eagle Point (Or.) 2
- Fire departments 2
- Law 2
- Prospect (Or.) 2
- Railroads 2
- Rogue River National Forest (Or. and Calif.) 2
- Roseburg (Or.) 2
- Takelma Indians 2
- Watersheds 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Abstracts of title 1
- Agriculture 1
- Art 1
- Census 1
- Colleges and Universities 1
- County courts 1
- Drama festivals 1
- Endemic plants 1
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- Floods 1
- Forest management 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Geology 1
- Illinois River Valley (Or.) 1
- Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific 1
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- Oregon 1
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- Pioneers 1
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- Religion 1
- Salem 1
- Slides 1
- Tulelake (Calif.) 1
- Universities and colleges -- History 1
- Video recordings 1
- Washington (State) 1
- scrapbooks 1 + ∧ less