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Boise interurban railway system photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P1970-181
Content Description

Various photographs of the Boise area, mainly of the Interurban Railway system. Other photographs include the Barber Dam, Arrowrock Dam, and the Boise Valley Traction Company.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1913 - 1916

Boise postcards and scenes from Canada

 Collection
Identifier: P2002-009
Content Description

14 postcards of various Boise scenes, including construction of a dam, camping, and Saint Luke's Children Hospital. All are unidentified. Also includes 80 negatives of Canada scenes including Hudson's Bay Company, railroads, and Treaty Day. All are unidentified.

Dates: Existence: 1910

Charles Mather photo album

 Collection
Identifier: P2022-028
Content Description

Charles Mather was a civil engineer who worked on the railroad from Moscow, ID to Boville, ID in the early 1900s. Album contains about 100 black and white photographs.

Dates: ca. 1907

David Peckham Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P2022-008
Content Description

Collection includes 23 black and white 35 mm negatives and 8 black and white photographic prints made from those negatives. Photographs depict a train ride from St. Maries, Idaho, to Missoula, Montana on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as the Milwaukee Road). Photographs taken by David Peckham.

Dates: 1979

Fred G. Bennett collection of Boise and Interurban Railway photographs

 Collection — Box: 1977
Identifier: P1977-024
Content Description

This collection contains 12 black-and-white photographic prints, primarily of the Boise and Interurban Railway system, on which the donor, Fred G. Bennett, worked. Bennett is featured in several images.

Dates: 1910 - 1927

Logging and Railroading in Cascade Area

 Collection — Box: 1998
Identifier: P1998-024
Content Description

Images of railroading and logging in Idaho City, Cascade, and Payette River. 46 prints on 25 pages. Includes home on 3401 Rose Hill, portrait of E.C MacGregor, Union Pacific trains, Idaho City in 1932, construction of the Cabarton bridge over Payette River, Round Valley in 1924 and Cascade in 1917.

Dates: Existence: 1917 - 1932

Northern Idaho Railroads

 Collection
Identifier: P2002-021
Content Description

Images of railroads in Konkolville, Camas Prairie, Spalding, Lapwai and Lewiston, Idaho from 1978, 1987, and 1980.

Dates: Existence: 1978-07-18 - 1987-11-18

Railroads and Trains

 Collection
Identifier: P1999-031
Content Description

Thirty seven photographic prints of railroads and trains including the Yellowstone branch in winter and accident at Orchard, Idaho. Taken 1950-1951, 1962.

Dates: Existence: Majority of material found within 1950 - 1962