Summary Collection contains two volumes. The first is a photocopy of an original journal kept by Susie Foster. The second volume includes a transcript of the journal, a history of the Foster family by Olive Foster Clark, and photocopies of family letters and photographs. Susie Foster's journal begins with an entry in 1886 in Texas and then records family life in California, 1891 to 1898. The family left California for Lewiston, Idaho in 1898 where they lived before filing a claim on...

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Glen Lionberger's reminiscences of his life on the Northwestern frontier, from childhood at the turn of the century to 1967.

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Manuscript of life in Challis, Idaho in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Correspondence, predominately from Fitzgerald to her mother, written in Lapwai or Boise, Idaho, and other locations in the Western United States.

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Collection includes correspondence (1884-1911) of John P. Tate, Tate's husband and founder of Tate Insurance Agency and philanthropist; Tate and Gekeler families genealogical information; miscellaneous bills, receipts, deeds, etc. Financial records relating to the Alaska Building.

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Diary (Sept. 1887-June 1888), recording business and recreational activities of Fouch as store manager in Parma, Idaho; addresses commemorating Old Fort Boise monument (1927); correspondence concerning the early history of the Boise Valley.

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Script of "Owyhee Joe" written by H.P. Ashby of the Martell Dramatic Arts School to present to the Sons and Daughters of the Idaho Pioneers.

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Collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings pertaining to Harry B. and Elizabeth Kinport.

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Typed transcriptions of personal letters written by a man, identified only as Harry, to his mother in Michigan relating his experiences as an early settler of the Henry's Lake area in Fremont County, Idaho.

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Journal of an automobile trip from Boise to Baltimore, Maryland, and return (1915-1916); student sketch book of maps, photographs, membership card for a "Pioneer of Idaho Territory" and a postcard (1876), to S.G. Langmaid, Middleton, Idaho.

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Collection consists of a diary (1914-1919) by O.V. Allen and a family history of Elizabeth Klein a German immigrant who settled in Idaho in 1866. She was nicknamed Mother of the Meadows Valley.