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Helen Redbird-Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-001
Abstract This collection consists of manuscripts, documents, miscellanea, and sound recordings relating primarily to the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon, and secondarily to the Confederated Tribes of the Yakama Nation of Toppenish, Washington. This collection contains one box of manuscript materials relating mostly to the Yakama Indians of Washington state. Eleven boxes in the collection deal with Warm Springs, and make this collection extremely useful for research on the Confederated...
Dates: Existence: 1855-2001

Peter Britt photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-003
Abstract The collection contains approximately 2,067 prints. Nearly half the portraits are unidentified. Most of the prints are portraits taken by Peter Britt. Emil Britt began making photos professionally in 1883 after training for a year in San Francisco. Peter Britt took photographs outside the studio infrequently. However, Emil carried the camera out on many picnic excursions in the earlier part of the twentieth century. The earliest prints come from the 1860s, with the most recent taken in...
Dates: 1850-1950

Anthony Netboy papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-016
Abstract

Netboy was a natural resources writer and salmon authority. The collection includes his book manuscripts, articles, research notes, correspondence, and other papers, as well as a bibliography of his works compiled by Netboy and Southern Oregon University librarian Harold Otness.

Dates: 1940s-1990s

Susan J. Reid papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-017
Abstract

Susan Reid of Ashland compiled historical and contemporary photographs and poetry in connection with her 1988 master’s thesis, “Pear Packing: A Season of Women’s Work,” which examines the historical role of women in the Rogue Valley pear industry and the importance of women’s work in the regional economy.

Dates: 1990-2009

Francis Haines papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-022
Abstract

Ashland City Council minutes, reports, correspondence, city publications, and other background and supporting materials about the issues considered by the council.

Dates: 1968-1970

Kay Atwood Collection of Regional History

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-025
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.

Dates: 1850-2016

Jeffrey M. LaLande papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-027
Abstract

The collection covers LaLande’s work beginning in 1982 and contains books, articles, reports, and other items published by LaLande, as well as his correspondence and research materials. In addition to regional cultural resource inventories, archaeological surveys, and environmental histories, he is known among historians for his research on the early explorer Peter Skene Ogden.

Dates: 1979-2019

George Duggar maps

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-031
Abstract

The collection holds 127 different maps from locations all over Oregon and California, with a focus on Josephine and Jackson counties of Southern Oregon.

Dates: 1852-2001

Harry Smedes papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-032
Abstract

The collection focuses on maps from the Southern Oregon area and includes notes regarding local geological studies.

Dates: 1924-2005

Maps of Oregon and northern California

 Collection — Container: Case 01
Identifier: MSS-041
Abstract

The collection contains maps found in the Southern Oregon Univesity computer science building.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1935-1991