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Association of Idaho Cities

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0884
Dates: 2021-05-31

Axel T. Nelson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0355
Summary

Idaho territorial warrants (1866-1889); Boise and Idaho County warrants (1871-1886); Idaho territorial coupons; mining stock certificates, miscellaneous receipts and business cards; eleven books in Swedish language; advertising flyers and copies of Nelson's poetry; and memorabilia. Also includes "The Cost to the State of Idaho of the Haywood Trial" and "Haywood Trial, Closing Argument of W.E. Borah."

Dates: 1866 - 1916

Boise city ballots

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1335
Summary

Sample and original ballots from Boise City municipal elections.

Dates: [1890] - 1967.

Charles P. McCarthy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0009
Summary

Includes two college notebooks dealing with property law (1901-1902); notes, pamphlets, financial papers and day books (1905-1909); correspondence including letters from W.E. Borah, D. Worth Clark, and C.C. Cavanah; legal papers (1909-1911) relating to Boise Cold Storage vs. O.S.R.R. Co., Boise City vs. Ada County (regarding road poll tax), and a grand jury investigation of the meat trust.

Dates: 1892 - 1912

Charles S. Irwin certificate

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0935
Summary

Appointment of Charles S. Irwin as city engineer of Boise, Idaho, by Mayor Moses Alexander.

Dates: 1901

Clair Jewell Wescott papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0474
Summary

Correspondence, certificates, clippings, and other ephemera relating to business and civic affairs in Boise, Idaho; also items relating to government service and activities with Boise organizations.

Dates: 1945 - 1961

Clinton DeWitt Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0267
Summary

Letters (in part transcriptions) from Smith to his family in Washington, D.C., regarding Idaho government and the relocation of the territorial capital from Lewiston to Boise; other family correspondence; newspaper clippings; and six Smith family photographs. Accompanied by a 1948 article about Smith.

Dates: 1862-1948.

Ernest George Eagleson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0010
Summary

Letterpress book (1902-1908) relating to the office of the U.S. surveyor general for Idaho; scrapbook and other records relating to mayoral terms, Boise, Idaho; correspondence, subject files and other materials relating to irrigation districts and projects; also personal records and memorabilia. Correspondents include W.E. Borah and Addison T. Smith.

Dates: 1902 - 1955

Ernest Henry McAuley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0509
Summary

Business papers, including plans and specifications for the power plant at Hailey, Idaho, belonging to the Wood River Power Company (1916); Boise City ordinances; correspondence of Irvin E. Rockwell; photographs; a plan and planting guide for McAuley Park in Boise, Idaho; and a letter thanking McAuley for his stand against the Industrial Workers of the World in Boise.

Dates: 1912 - 1941

Frank E. Johnesse papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0082
Summary

Records of the Consolidated Mining Syndicate and abstracts of mining properties throughout Idaho; papers relating to Johnesse's wife, Mary Patten, including correspondence as state chair for the Democratic Party in Idaho during the 1930s, concerning her unsuccessful candidacy for Congress in 1938, and relating to the parish of St. Michael's Cathedral in Boise; photographs and memorabilia.

Dates: 1898 - 1948

Fred Jason Babcock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0319
Summary

Political and personal papers (1930-1933); opinions of the Attorney General (1930-1932); and legal case files relating to the First National Bank of Caldwell; the Western Gold Corporation, Boise; the Rocky Bar Mining and Milling Company; and many other mining companies.

Dates: 1930 - 1939

Henry Westerman Whillock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0522
Summary

Records of Henry Westerman Whillock's business, political, military, and civic career. Includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs and subject files relating to his term as mayor of Boise; KDSH radio and KBOI television in Boise; attempts to locate a medical school in Boise; and campaign for governor of Idaho in 1966.

Dates: 1918 - 1985

Idaho Legisladies records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0141
Summary

Minutes of meetings, club rosters, and scrapbooks relating to the activities of this social club for the wives of Idaho's state legislators.

Dates: 1933 - 2010

James Alonzo Pinney scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1046
Summary

Disassembled scrapbook containing newspaper clippings regarding Pinney. Primarily about his campaign and election as mayor of Boise, Idaho.

Dates: 1890 - 1908

James B. Hays stationary

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0883
Summary

Letterhead stationary of Hays as judge, and later Chief Justice of Idaho. Also includes Territorial Capitol letterhead.

Dates: [188-]

James L. Edlefsen scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0722
Summary

One scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to Boise, Idaho Major James L. Edlefsen, dated chronologically from November 14, 1936 through June 25, 1939. Primary emphasis is on local coverage of events, people, and issues occuring throughout the Boise area.

Dates: 1936 - 1939

Jessica Elizabeth Ferguson Anderson Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0696
Summary

The Jessica Elizabeth Ferguson Anderson Taylor collection contains material mainly related to politics, Eastern Star, and real estate. Included are programs and clippings.

Dates: 1935 - 1979

John T. Morgan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0018
Summary

Collection includes political, business, and legal correspondence (1864-1890); legal opinions.

Dates: 1864 - 1899

League of Women Voters of Boise papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0386
Summary

The collection consists of organizational records from 1946-1980, as well as state and national materials. Also included are financial records, the League's work on education, water and environmental issues, foreign policy materials, local state and national government issues, including voter service materials. There are also materials on other subjects with which the League has been involved and various printed materials.

Dates: 1946 - 1980

Mae Scott Worthman scrapbook

 Item
Identifier: MS 2.01/19
Summary

Newspaper clippings pertaining to Worthman's career in state government and politics.

Dates: 1902 - 1914

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Industrial Workers of the World. Boise, Idaho. 1
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Jews-Idaho. 1
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KBOI (Television station : Boise, Idaho) 1
KDSH (Radio station : Boise, Idaho) 1
Lewiston (Idaho)-History-Sources. 1
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Poetry-Idaho. 1
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Republican State Central Committee (Boise, Idaho) 1
Smith family. 1
St. Michael's Cathedral (Boise, Idaho) 1
Television stations-Idaho-Boise-History-Sources. 1
United States-Politics and government-1865-1933. 1
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Wood River Power Company (Hailey, Idaho) 1
World War, 1914-1918-Idaho. 1
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Johnesse, Frank E., 1869-1941 1