Photos

Hydraulic mining at Sterling Mine

Inside pages of the invitation to attend ceremony at Ashland on 12-17-1887, when the last spike was driven by Charles Crocker, president of…

Interior of Hull's studio

Interior scene in the Hull's apartment upstairs over Hubbard's Hardware Store in Medford

Jackson County Bank in its new building, opposite from its old location

Large group of people around a fountain in the park in Medford

Left hand photo shows hydraulic mining at the Sterling Mine. Right hand photo shows dam at Gold Ray where one of Medford's first power plants…

Long view of the Rogue Valley, from Ashland northwest toward Medford and beyond

Looking Down the Boulevard in Ashland toward the Plaza and the Masonic Building

Looking east down Oregon St. toward California St.

Looking from the Plaza toward Ashland Mills and the future Lithia Park, about 1870

Looking south on the boulevard in Ashland/ 1910

Looking west on Main St. from Riverside Ave. in Medford

Looking west on Main St. from the intersection of Main and Oakdale, in Medford

Looking west over Medford from hill between Hillcrest Rd. and Cherry Heights

Man and 2 women in an auto on a trip to Ashland

Man and woman in very early automobile that has tiller, built ca 1905, labeled Early Day Motorists. Formerly labled an electric car, which is…

Old Time House Situated about a mile out of Ashland on Old Pacific Highway taken about 1888. Home of Giles and Martha Wells 

Man standing beside Rogue River Valley Railroad engine # 8

Man standing beside Rogue River Valley Railroad engine and coach

Man, 2 women, and a child, in an auto

Medford National Bank on the northwest corner of Main and Central

Medford residential street, with the South Medford Methodist Episcopal Church on the corner of W. Main and Oakdale

Medford street scene. Main Street looking West

Medford's first bank, established in 1888, with Mr. Vawter, president, in foreground, at the corner of Main and Central

Men and horses in front of Ashland Mills

Moore Block purchased by W. E. Thomas about the start of WWII. "I hoped to make some money, but it didn't turn out that way"

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ely and 3 other men in an auto; Ely flew 1st plane seen in Medford

Mrs. Beckett and Mrs. Shearer riding their bicycles past the old Isaacs house on N. Oakdale in Medford

Mrs. Beckett and Mrs. Shearer with bicycles in Medford, with Rufus Cox home on N. Central in the background

Mrs. Conroy Fiero and friends on the rim above Crater Lake; the car is a Packard

Mrs. Edgar Hafer at the wheel of her Packard, a 1910 model

Mrs. Frank Hull and another woman viewing the construction of Gold Ray Dam

Mrs. Ray being chauffeured during the construction of the dam

Nash Livery Stables on N. Front St. between Main and 6th Sts in Medford

Niagara Falls

Nine officers of the First Oregon Militia, including Abel Helman; Walker; Frank Applegate; Blake; and others/ 1863

Old brewery at Jacksonville, operated by water power

Old livery stable in Central Point

Old time packing crew for rogue River Orchards

Old time pioneer cabin

Old Time Fountain in Ashland Plaza Honoring the Pioneers and Dispensing Lithia Water about 1915

Old time steam engine and threshing crew

Old time steam engine and threshing crew at Phipps place

On the bridge at Gold Ray Dam (car, people, Power Plant in background, and Table Rock) (photo missing) see 84982

Oregon & California double header at Grants Pass in 1890. There are 2 headlights on each engine because of the danger of slides in Cow Creek…

Oregon and California passenger train at Myrtle Creek, Oregon, some time after the road was opened to that point, on 8-4-1882

Passenger train at a depot

People camping at the "Percido" (Presidio) after the disaster in San Francisco; 4-20-1906/ 1906

People camping in Chautauqua Grove in Ashland