Late 19th Century and early 20th Century postcards are interesting in that many are not postcards in the sense that we think of them today. When home photography became popular with the little Kodak box camera, most photos that were developed had a postcard motif on the backside. The camera shop that developed the film or maybe the film maker put a postcard outline on the back of each photo. That way the photographer could share the photo by simply writing the address and message on the back of the photograph. They were one shot, one-of-a-kind photos. We have many of these personal postcards...

This is a casual tale of some the Grants Pass buildings we walk by each day and frequently enter to conduct business. The interiors of many deny the fact that some are old in the terms of a human life span. Sometimes the interior or facade of a building today hides the time they were originally constructed. Many business buildings in downtown Grants Pass are over 100 years of age and still in use. Some have been remodeled several times and the original facade has long disappeared. Remodeling is going on continually in the Historic District and buildings that are adjacent. Some retain their...

This is Volume 3 in a series of photographs of buildings in Grants Pass, Oregon in 2014. It is published by the Josephine County Historical Society for benefit of the Society. In the future, we will have an idea of what the buildings in Grants Pass looked like in 2014. Maybe 25 or 50 years from now these images will be useful for historical reference. The idea for these small books, divided into sections of the town of Grants Pass, came about when I was looking for photos of what the older buildings in town looked like when they were first built. I discovered that no pictures were ever given...