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Idaho State Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (ISSDAR) records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0330

Content Description

Minutes, reports, yearbooks, financial records, geneologies, subject files, scrapbooks, and annual histories of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Idaho; also records of Idaho chapters.

Dates

  • Creation: 1904-2015

Background

The National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution was incorporated as a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, approved by an Act of Congress on February 20, 1896. The Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution came to Idaho at the instigation of Mary Gridley Tarr in 1904. Gridley acted as State Regent organizing DAR chapters. The first Idaho Chapter, Pioneer, was created in 1908 by Anna Pursell at Boise, Idaho. The Idaho State Daughters of the American Revolution "seek to preserve [their] heritage of liberty and uphold those foundational principles which their great self-sacrifice and devotion left us." (DAR History 1904-1934)

Extent

15 Cubic Feet (14 record boxes, 5 document boxes, 1 flat clamshell, and 2 oversize scrapbooks)

Language of Materials

English

Title
MS330 Idaho State Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (ISSDAR) records
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Idaho State Archives Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2205 Old Penitentiary Road
Boise ID 83712
(208) 334-2620