Box 28

Abstract

Local historian and author Kay Atwood has written extensively about the Southern Oregon region. Atwood's collection includes her publications, accompanied by her research notes, correspondence and photographs. Related publications, many written for cities and forest agencies, are also included.

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National Register of Historic Places nomination form describing various properties located in Ashland and Southern Oregon.

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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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.

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List of Frank Thornton pictures; two pages of negative film strips of Oak Flat School ruins and Foster Creek; pictures of film strips of people, Oak Flat School ruins, and Foster Creek; notes about David Hastings and Frank Thornton.

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The Sanderson House on the Rogue River Trail below Grave Creek; Kodak Films Album Prints booklet with four pictures of people and the creek; two older men fishing and pulling a fish out of the river; men building the Rogue River trail; the Forest Service trail new Agness.

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 Negative Film strips of Edna Plaisted, and the Billing’s homestead, and weight measurements. Photographs of: Edna Plaisted sitting in a chair, February 25, 1978; Edna Plaisted sitting on a couch; Edna Plaisted sitting in a chair with a dog at her feet, February 25, 1978; Edna Plaisted sitting on a couch with a dog at her feet, February 25, 1978; cabin the woods; Johnny Fry; a family sitting on the front porch; a man with two children; a girl wearing a black dress; a man on a horse; a...