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Idaho Falls (Idaho)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Sylvester Lafferty postcard collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1970-090
Content Description

Postcards mementos from the donor's grandfather's grocery store in Harrison, Idaho. His name was Benjamin Sylvester Lafferty and he came to the panhandle area around 1880. He was an Irish immigrant and his wife Wilhelmina Scheweekman was a German immigrant. They raised 7 children, one of whom was Albert Lafferty who had the tugboats on Coeur d'Alene until his death about 1957. Postcards are of Rathdrum, Harrison, and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Dates: 1908 - 1909

Governor Barzilla Clark photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1966-042
Content Description

Photographs from the Barzilla Clark MS 166 Collection. Images from across Idaho.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1890 - 1920

Idaho State Historical Society collection of postcard negatives

 Collection
Identifier: P1969-004
Content Description

Various negatives of greeting cards. Listed are the Christmas specific postcards. The collection includes more than are listed.

Dates: 1900

J. M. Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0759
Summary

Brief reminiscence of Taylor and a historical sketch of Taylor's Bridge and Eagle Rock (later Idaho Falls), Idaho.

Dates: 1936

United States. Atomic Energy Commission program. President's visit to National Reactor Testing Station

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1398
Summary

Collection consists of a Commissioner's Data Book (unpaged) and two pamphlets commemorating the visit of President Lyndon B. Johnson to the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho on August 26, 1966. Also included are 12 - 8 x 10 in. black and white photoprints of President Johnson and other dignitaries at the ceremony.

Dates: 1966.

Utah State Historical Society photographs of Idaho rivers

 Collection — Box 1982
Identifier: P1982-107
Content Description

This collection contains 3 black and white photographic prints of rivers in Idaho, including two images of the Snake River near Idaho falls, and an image of the Lucky Peak Dam spillway on the Boise River.

Dates: 1890 - 1958