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Hells Canyon (Idaho and Or.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Hells Canyon Dam slides

 Collection
Identifier: P2024-006
Content Description

Collection consists of 59 color slides of the Hells Canyon Dam construction site, taken in 1966 or 1967 by Dr. Downs, company doctor and amateur photographer, as the dam was being constructed.

Dates: c 1966

Hells Canyon Homesteader Project interviews

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0915
Content Description

A collection of abstracts, indexes, and transcripts to accompany 13 digitized video interviews conducted with original homesteaders of Hells Canyon, captured by Patricia Keith and Carole Simon-Smolinski for the purposes of creating the documentary film "Not a Day Goes By: Remembering Hells Canyon."

Digital files include video interviews, a digitized 16mm film from 1942, and two documentary films from 200 and 2011.

Dates: Majority of material found in 20th Century

Hells Canyon trip notes

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1447
Summary

This collection consists of photocopies of illustrated notes documenting a trip down the Snake River through Hells Canyon in 1950 on the "Chief Joseph." Sarah Bloom Bothwell (1909-1957) was a passenger on the trip. Also included are three black and white photographs, one of the "Chief Joseph" and two of Sarah Bloom Bothwell.

Dates: 1949-1957.