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Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0731
Summary
Dictated and transcribed memoirs of life in southwest Idaho and Boise.
Dates:
1977
Collection
Identifier: P1982-113
Content Description
This black and white photographic shows a man wearing a hat with his hands in his pockets. He is standing next to a shack built out of dimensional lumber of various sizes and lengths. A small stovepipe can be seen extending from the ceiling. A dog (possibly a border collie) is lying on the ground near the shack. Other items nearby include an outdoor stove, a black kettle, and a bucksaw. A railroad bridge across the Snake River can be seen in the background on the right. Writing on back of...
Dates:
ca. 1900
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1287
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0540
Summary
Includes updating appendices relating to travel within Idaho.
Dates:
1956 - 1961
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1480
Summary
This collection contains a typewritten manuscript, "1883-1884: Rail Service Arrives and Transforms Idaho and the Wood River Valley: Branch Roads are Built; the Railroad Promotes Settlement in Idaho," that is an excerpt from a paper entitled "Life in a Small Mountain Town, Idaho Pioneers-Matthew and Isabelle Campbell McFall, Early Settlers of Bellevue (1881) and Shoshone (1893)."
Dates:
Event: 1883-1884.
Collection
Identifier: P1998-012
Content Description
This album (10 1/2 in. x 13 1/2 in.) of black and white photographs was created by Lyman Marden, official photographer of the United States Geological Survey expedition, that explored and mapped Mount Borah in 1934. The album was presented to Lee Morrison, the chief of the survey party. Individuals identified include: Lee Morrison, Mrs. Morrison, Lew Costello, Mrs. Costello, Lyman Marden, and F.F. Hayford. Geographical sites include: Mount Borah, Leatherman Peak, Poison Springs, Thousand...
Dates:
1934
Collection — Box: 1983.1
Identifier: P1983-74
Content Description
This collection contains 13 black and white photographic prints related to the Salmon River and the area around Salmon, Idaho. Subjects include several early images of Salmon, Idaho, a scow boat floating Pine Creek Rapids, and several unidentified portraits. Of particular interest are two images of David Sandilands, brother of George Sandilands, a scow boat pilot who assisted Henry "Harry" Guleke until his death on the Salmon River in August 1907.
Dates:
ca. 1890-1910
Collection
Identifier: MS 0030
Summary
Bibliographic citations to works about Idaho or by Idahoans, with biographical information on Idaho writers.
Dates:
1950s
Collection
Identifier: MS 0046
Summary
Correspondence and papers of Margaret Cobb Ailshie (1886-1959) and of Fanny Cobb, Lyon Cobb, and Calvin Cobb; also correspondence relating to the Lyon Company, Chicago, Illinois (1895-1929); letters from W.E. Borah; photographs of Boise, of Idaho, and of family members in Chicago; scrapbook related to the Cobb family and to the Haywood trial; partial copy of an intermediate version of Harry Orchard's autobiography (1907); joke edition of the Idaho Statesman (Boise) about Eva Hunt Dockery...
Dates:
1872 - 1959
Collection
Identifier: P1960-001
Content Description
Photographs, albums, and one scrapbook from Margaret Cobb Ailshie (1886-1959), publisher of the Idaho Statesman.
Dates:
1880 - 1960
Collection — Box: 1977.2
Identifier: P1977-120
Content Description
This black and white photographic print shows water running down the slopes of Thousand Springs
Dates:
Unknown date
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1336
Summary
Margaret Roberts' journal containing various quotes on religion and women's sufferage, a love letter to her, a photograph and a speech given in 1858 on religion and politics.
Dates:
1858-1939.
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0265
Summary
Brief biographies and genealogical notes on Margaret Clayville's mother Dorothy Haxby Simplot and her aunt Hazel Haxby Schwaegler; also family recipes and photographs.
Dates:
1967.
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0061
Summary
Relating to the C.R. (Dick) Simplot family of Burley, Idaho. Includes photographs.
Dates:
1912 - 1913
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0999
Summary
Invitation to the inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt and Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks.
Dates:
1905
Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0602
Summary
Accounts of the Ward Massacre which occurred near the Boise River on August 20, 1854. Also included is a letter written from Margaret Ward to Mrs. Jane Ward (1878).
Dates:
1878
Collection
Identifier: MS 0446
Summary
A history of the Council, Idaho, area.
Dates:
1977
Collection
Identifier: MS 0602
Summary
Collection of 133 letters from Marian Detwiler, wife of Indian Field Service worker Phil Detwiler, to her family in Washington, D.C. between October 1928 and July 1932. The majority of her letters are from Fort Hall, Idaho and describe her experiences and travels through the area, interaction with the Shoshone and Bannock Indians, and her duties as a hostess for various Field Service visitors. Approximately one third of the letters are from Pine Ridge, South Dakota and the Crow...
Dates:
1928 - 1932
Collection
Identifier: MS 0041
Summary
Scrapbook relating to an audit of the Idaho State Highway Bureau (1932-1936) and the 1938 general election; correspondence of Daniel Fitch Banks (1878-1955) relating to World War I, and items relating to his position as Idaho State Treasurer (1921-1928); postcards and photos of Idaho National Guard units (1910-1917); miscellaneous commercial advertisements, postcards and photographs depicting scenes and landmarks in Boise, Caldwell and many other Idaho and eastern Oregon communities;...
Dates:
1900 - 1948
Collection
Identifier: MS 0342
Summary
Includes dance cards, photographs, poetry, sketches, and greeting cards.
Dates:
1904 - 1912
