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Atwood, Kay (Katherine Conlee)

 Person

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:

OHS photograph map, bulk: 1852-2007

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS025:04.59
Scope and Contents Letter to Kay Atwood from Lucy Berkley regarding the completion of her manuscript, dated October 18th, 2007; Instructions on how to care for and proceed with sample tracking charts for the Oregon territory 1852; Instructions on how to care for and proceed with sample tracking charts for the “B” Map; Instructions on how to care for and proceed with sample tracking charts for the Oregon territory west of the cascades 1855; Letter to Lucy Berkley from Kay Atwood regarding permission to use...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1852-2007

Old Photographs of Ashland

 File — Box 08: Series MSS025:02 [Barcode: 35138008116409], Folder: 01
Identifier: MSS025:02.01
Scope and Contents

The collection of photographs shows the city of Ashland through the lens of a local photographer, Terry Skibby. Skibby has spent years photographing and documenting the history of Ashland.

Dates: 1890-2004

Orchards history, 1980

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS025:03.55
Scope and Contents

These materials are related to the history of orchards in southern Oregon. Included are several newspaper clippings and letters of correspondence, some of which deal with the deaths of individuals, presumably from the orchard community.

Dates: 1980

Oregon City - Descriptions etc., 1948-1949

 File — Box 46: Series MSS025:05 [Barcode: 35138008116797], Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS025:05.82
Scope and Contents Handwritten notes pertaining to Oregon City research; Excerpt of “The Spousal Letters of Samuel R. Thurston, Oregon’s First Territorial Delegate” by James R. Perry, Richard H. Chused, and Mary DeLano; Notes regarding QHQ Volume 49 (1948) Barker, Burt Brown, “The Estate of Dr. John McLoughlin: The Papers Discovered”; Copy of Oregon Historical Quarterly published in September 1949; Written description of Oregon City and Oregon in the early 1850’s by Shwartes; Article titled “Early...
Dates: 1948-1949

Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1995

 File — Box 25: Series MSS025:03 [Barcode: 35138008116581], Folder: 09
Identifier: MSS025:03.72
Scope and Contents

Two copies of the Winter 1994-95 issue of Oregon Historical Quarterly. This is a "special issue" concerning "Aspects of Southern Oregon History."

Dates: 1995

Orlando Coolidge House, 137 North Main Street, Ashland, Oregon, 1979

 File — Box 05: Series MSS025:01 [Barcode: 35138008116375], Folder: 03
Identifier: MSS025:01.60
Scope and Contents The National Registry of Historic Places describes the Coolidge House as a private residence built about 1875 for Orlando Coolidge. Coolidge was the first commercial nurseryman in Jackson County. He operated his nursery business for thirty years. The home remained in the family until 1929.Two pages from "Portrait and Biographical Record of Western Oregon" give an account of the lives of the Coolidge's. Also included are handwritten notes concerning the research of the...
Dates: 1979

Other Surveyors – Correspondence, bulk: 1854-1859

 File — Box 45: Series MSS025:05 [Barcode: 35138008116789], Folder: 08
Identifier: MSS025:05.62
Scope and Contents

Letter to Gen. H. Beldon from an unknown sender; Letter to the Surveyor General of Oregon and Washington from William Burk, dated May 15th, 1854; Letter to Mr. Thompson from A. R. Armstrong, dated August 10th, 1859

Dates: Majority of material found within 1854-1859

Ownership of Whiskey Creek cabin, Rogue River canyon, bulk: 1916-1972

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS025:04.05
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...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1916-1972

Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 1988

 File — Box 25: Series MSS025:03 [Barcode: 35138008116581], Folder: 08
Identifier: MSS025:03.71
Scope and Contents

Two copies of Volume 79, Number 4 of the Pacific Northwest Quarterly from October 1988. The Pacific Northwest Quarterly is published by the University of Washington.

Dates: 1988

Parker Meadows Shelter, Butte Falls Ranger District, Rogue River National Forest, Jackson County, Oregon, 1976

 File — Box 07: Series MSS025:01 [Barcode: 35138008116391], Folder: 03
Identifier: MSS025:01.80
Scope and Contents

The research compiled in 1976 outlines the Parker Meadows Shelter. Materials provide an evaluation and recommendation of the area with images of the existing structures and a copy of a map. A second research paper expands on the findings of the Parker Meadows Shelter with handwritten notations.

Dates: 1976

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 523
Digital Record 4
Collection 2
 
Subject
Historic buildings 211
research notes 154
History, Local 108
Surveyors 85
Photographs 83
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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
Environmentalism 1
Floods 1
Forest management 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Geology 1
Illinois River Valley (Or.) 1
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific 1
Jackson County (Or.) 1
Oregon 1
Phoenix (Or.) 1
Pioneers 1
Police 1
Religion 1
Salem 1
Slides 1
Tulelake (Calif.) 1
Universities and colleges -- History 1
Video recordings 1
Washington (State) 1
scrapbooks 1
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