Online Photos and Catalog - Southern Oregon Historical Society

Online Catalog

Do you miss seeing Southern Oregon Historical Society artifacts in a museum setting? We can exhibit a tiny fraction of what we own through our History: Made by You exhibits, but we can also give you a glimpse through the images in our online catalog. We can help you discover the many documents we own, too. Please click to try out the catalog. Warning: Clicking on Random Images can be quite a time killer...

Online Photos

CLICK HERE!! Over 800 photos have been scanned, digitized, and are now available to view online!

Southern Oregon University and Southern Oregon Historical Society are committed to providing access to Southern Oregon’s history through online images and information. The two organizations, plus the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, partnered to apply for and implement a federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant. With the grant funds, plus significant additional contributions, the organizations have created image collections to enhance educational and historical programs in Southern Oregon.

The Southern Oregon Historical Society photos were selected to represent diverse economic, cultural and recreational opportunities and events that have played their parts in Southern Oregon history. This collection allows us to peek into the past and take a glimpse at how everyday people lived their lives 80, 90, or 100 years ago.

The images include young men playing baseball; families making camp in the mountains; hunters and fishermen displaying their bounty; workers building bridges; children balancing on stilts;

packing houses crowded with workers sorting and boxing fruit; girls dancing a maypole dance; a Chinese family in the kitchen of their Medford restaurant; ranchers branding cattle; skiers skimming the snow at Mt. Ashland; miners; farmers; Native American women with their babies bundled on cradleboards; road builders hard at work; earlier twentieth century home interiors; boaters on Crater lake; a turtle farm; wheat-filled wagons lined up at a flour mill; homesteads; main streets of earlier Southern Oregon communities; logging camps in Northern California; oxen teams hauling old growth logs through the woods; and more.

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