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FEATURED TOPICS IN LOCAL HISTORY Settlements, Post Office Locations and Schools Historic Houses and Buildings Lost Meek Wagon Train of 1845 and Elliott Cutoff of 1853 Ranch History including P Ranch, Double-O-Ranch, Riddle Brothers Ranch Notable Pioneers including Bill Brown, Peter French, and Bill Hanley Early Military Camps and Battles Burns Paiute Tribal History and Culture Basque Heritage and Culture Edward Hines Lumber Company Sagebrush Symphony Orchestra of Mary V. Dodge Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Steens Mountain Water Resources Management/Flood Events Harney County Fair, Rodeo and Race Meet and much more..... |
CLAIRE McGILL LUCE Claire Isabel McGill Luce was an accomplished businesswoman and philanthropist born in Andrews, Harney County, Oregon. Best known as the wife of Time Magazine publisher Henry Luce, III, she worked her way up the corporate ranks from humble beginnings. Although much of her adult life was spent traveling the world in business, humanitarian and philanthropic pursuits, the experiences of her girlhood in rural Oregon were never forgotten. In 1969, Luce heard that a new library was being planned for Burns and determined to preserve the history of the county she loved. The next year, she wrote George Hibbard, a friend in Burns, that she had “found faith and courage in a place of ghosts, Harney City, from my Grandfather who never experienced comfort and security, but whose door was never locked, and whose meager table was freely shared by every stranger. I am forever grateful to Harney County.” It was Luce's goal to encourage the local community not only to appreciate its rich history but to preserve it for future generations. Her vision culminated in the addition of the Claire McGill Luce Western History Room to the Harney County Library in 2006. The research room was funded in part from a $30,000 endowment Luce established at the library shortly before her death on June 22, 1971. The collection holds hundreds of local oral histories, photographs, microfilm, and special collections of books on regional and local history. |
Many of the publications archived in the Western History Room are cataloged in the SAGE online library catalog. Photographs, microfilm and other archival collections are indexed in a searchable on-site database
Images of America: Harney County
Compiled by staff using photos from the combined collections of the Claire McGill Luce Western History Room, the Harney County Historical Museum and local families, this book depicts the varied facets of life in Harney County from a bygone era.
All royalties from sales of this book directly benefit the non-profit Harney County Library Foundation
To view more titles in the Images of America series, visit Arcadia Publishing.
Compiled by staff using photos from the combined collections of the Claire McGill Luce Western History Room, the Harney County Historical Museum and local families, this book depicts the varied facets of life in Harney County from a bygone era.
All royalties from sales of this book directly benefit the non-profit Harney County Library Foundation
To view more titles in the Images of America series, visit Arcadia Publishing.