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Calvin C. Clawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0165
Summary

Family and business correspondence; family photographs; photographs of mining properties and sites in the vicinity of Bonanza and Custer, Idaho; business records; diaries; autograph books; scrapbooks; artwork; greeting cards; invitations; business and calling cards; annotated books; and memorabilia. Most of the correspondence is to Czarina Clawson from family and friends, or family correspondence saved by her. Six pocket diaries record a journey through Yellowstone (1863).

Dates: 1829 - 1939

Elias S. Suydam papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0599
Summary

Mining claim deeds, leases, memoranda of gold bullion deposits, and other records relating to mines in Lemhi County, Idaho; also State of Idaho election certificate and a copy of Thanksgiving Proclamation signed by Governor George L. Shoup.

Dates: 1890 - 1951

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

Henry F. Samuels papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0567
Summary

Correspondence; Teton Coal Co. stock certificate; "Report of Idaho Cokoal Co"; various letterheads; state platform of the Progressive party of Idaho; newspaper clippings; and typewritten biography of Samuels, resident of Wallace, Idaho.

Dates: 1863 - 1951

James Henry Hawley papers (1887-1945)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0048
Summary

Correspondence relating to Hawley's law practice, including letters pertaining to the conspiracy trials of officers of the Western Federation of Miners for crimes associated with the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan concentrator at Wardner, Idaho, in 1899 and for the assassination of Frank Steunenberg in 1905; correspondence and reports relating to mining operations in which the Hawley family held an interest.

Dates: 1887 - 1945

William Edgar Borah correspondence (1902-1932)

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0515
Summary

Letters from T.H. Barnsdall, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, regarding Thunder Mountain Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company (1902); and miscellaneous letters from Borah to his constituents.

Dates: 1902 - 1932