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L.L. Packer : Gold mining in the Boise Basin

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1384

Summary

First item is a typescript history (15 l. : ports. ; 29 x 23 cm.) of the L.L. Packer gold mining operation in the Boise Basin for the period of 1924-1958. Includes assay and placer location information, excerpts from various documents, and copies of photographs showing various mining operations and of Louie Leroy and Ruth Ellen Packer (1958). Prepared by a daughter of the Packers, in 1996. The second item is also a typescript history (unpaged: ports ; 29 x 23 cm.) entitled: "L.L. Packer: Gold Miner's Daughters, The Education of, 1930-1943." It was prepared by a daughter of the Packers in 2006.

Dates

  • Creation: 1924-1958.

Extent

2 Items (1 folder.)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Group

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Idaho State Archives Manuscript Collections Repository

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