Photographs, selected from the vast holdings the Southern Oregon Historical Society’s Research Library, show people working, traveling, and raising families in rural lands and towns of the Rogue Valley since the late 1800s.
Pictures from the archives of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival include production stills, sets of Shakespearean and other plays, backstage teams, and theaters from OSF’s beginnings in 1935 through 2009.
Photographs from the Southern Oregon University Archives reflect the evolution of SOU from its humble beginning as a normal school into a robust contemporary liberal arts university.
Pear Packing: A Season of Women's Work, from the Susan J. Reid Collection in Special Collections, consists of historic photographs of pear packing in Southern Oregon, and poems Reid authored about area women who provided labor for seasonal pear packing. The collection was assembled by Reid to accompany her 1988 SOU graduate …
This selection of photographs by the famous Jacksonville photographer and his son, Emil, depict portraits and landscapes as well as the social, cultural, and economic life of southern Oregon between 1880 and 1930.
Images selected from the Historical Records Collection of Rogue River National Forest trace 100 years of forest history, economy, landscapes, and recreation from its founding as Crater National Forest in 1908.
Photographs of 100 representative artifacts from the Collins collection of Native American artifacts, donated to SOU by Mary Collins, provide information into the material culture of many Native nations, primarily of the Southwest.
Examples of symmetry found in natural settings as well as in natural and man-made objects, the collection was originally produced as a slide collection by John Engelhardt, SOU Emeritus Professor Mathematics.
Images of 100 wind, string, and percussion instruments, from the larger Schuman Collection of Musical Instruments donated by Jack and Dorinda Schuman to SOU, represent musical traditions of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Welcome to Hannon Library’s growing collections of images. In 2009 Hannon Library was awarded an LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) Grant, through the Oregon State Library, that funded collaboration between Southern Oregon University, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Southern Oregon Historical Society to digitize images documenting the history, culture, and growth of Southern Oregon. We continue to add
new image collections.
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Copyright information can be found at http://soda.sou.edu/copyright.html or in the metadata for each image.
If you have comments or questions about our digital collections, please contact Teresa Montgomery (montgomery@sou.edu, 541-552-6837).
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