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Boise (Idaho)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:

Floyd Posing collection of Laeta Jaques photograph albums

 Collection
Identifier: P1982-063
Content Description This collection contains more than 1,400 black and white photographic prints documenting the life of Laeta Jaques, a resident of Boise, Idaho from 1901-1915 and again from 1935-1975. Albums G-99, G-100, and G-107 contain images of family and friends of Laeta during her second marriage to Rothert R. McBride, an undertaker from Des Moines, Iowa. Albums G-101 to G-105 are comprised of ephemera from trips Laeta took throughout the state of California. Albums G-106 and G-108 contain images of...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1925

Found in collection: Airplanes near Boise, Idaho

 Collection — Box 1986.5
Identifier: P1986-115
Content Description

This collection contains seven black and white photographic negatives related to an airplane exhibition near Boise, Idaho. Several of the airplanes are marked with a German bar cross.

Dates: ca. 1920

Found in Collection: Boise High School reunion

 Collection — Box 1986.5
Identifier: P1983-103
Content Description

This collection contains two black and white photographic prints related to the Boise High School reunion in or around 1966. Images show two different groups of attendees posing for a group shot. The text in a banner behind the groups reads "Moments to remember".

Dates: ca. 1966

Found in collection: Boise, Idaho postcards

 Collection
Identifier: P1985-046
Content Description

Eighteen postcards of Boise, Owyhee Dam spillway, Ouasnemah springs in Starkey, and Sun Valley.

Dates: undated

Found in collection: Dakan's baseball team

 Collection — Box 1986.5
Identifier: P1986-142
Content Description

This black and white photographic print shows team members of a baseball team sponsored by Dakan's Funeral Home. Players are wearing baseball caps and stirrup-style socks with Dakan's uniforms

Dates: 1967-08-01

Found in collection: First Presbyterian Church photographs

 Collection — Box 1986.5
Identifier: P1986-111
Content Description

This collection contains eight black and white photographic negatives related to the First Presbyterian Church at 950 West State Street in Boise, Idaho. Images include members of the clergy, interior shots of the chapel, and the groundbreaking ceremony of the sanctuary in 1957.

Dates: ca. 1955

Found in collection: Ridenbaugh garden party

 Collection — Box 1986.5
Identifier: P1986-112
Content Description This back and white copy photographic print shows attendees of a garden party at the residence of Mrs. W. H. Ridenbaugh. Attendees are posed outside in formal dresses and ornate hats. Identified individuals: Back row (left to right) - Carrie Falk Manheim, Laura Moore Cunningham, Nellie Ballantine Kendall, Mrs. Alfred Eoff. Mrs. Calvin Coble, Mrs. Galbraith, Mrs. W. H. Ridenbaugh, Effie Bayhouse Pauling, Mrs. William Balderston. Middle row (left to right) - Clemme Sellers, Elma Coffin...
Dates: ca. 1890

Found in collection: Unidentified band in front of Idaho Territorial Capitol building

 Collection — Box 1986.5
Identifier: P1986-147
Content Description

This black and white photographic print shows an unidentified band in front of the Idaho Territorial Capitol building in Boise, Idaho. Band members are holding their instruments which include tubas, trombones, trumpets, and drums.

Dates: ca. 1900

Found in collection: Westgate Lanes, corner of Cole Road and Fairview Avenue - Boise, Idaho

 Collection — Box 1986.5
Identifier: P1986-151
Content Description

This black and white copy photograph negative shows an exterior shot of Westgate Lanes at the corner of Cole Road and Fairview Avenue in Boise, Idaho.

Dates: ca. 1950

Four-car train of Boise-Meridian-Nampa line of Boise Valley Railway Company - Boise, Idaho

 Collection — Box 1983.1
Identifier: P1983-016
Content Description

This black and white photographic print shows nine men on or around a four-car electric train owned by the Boise Valley Railway Company. This train has been identified as the Boise-Meridian-Nampa line, and is comprised of cars 200, 201, and 300.

Dates: 1907 - 1910

Frances Grabner collection of Boise, Idaho photographs

 Collection — Box 1984
Identifier: P1984-100
Content Description

This collection contains nine black and white photographic prints of scenes in Boise, Idaho, including a charity event for the Red Cross at the Aloha Apartments and Charles Lindbergh's flight to Boise on May 27, 1927. Members of the Gallet family are featured prominently

Dates: 1916 - 1927

Frank Coffin Holbrook collection of Coffin family photograph albums

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: P1984-012
Content Description

This collection contains approximately 840 photographic prints relating to the family of Franklin R. Coffin. Prints are glued to pages across five albums and include black and white images and cyanotypes. Primary subjects include buildings and streets of Boise, Idaho, friends and family members of the Coffin family, trips to California and Yellowstone National Park, and the Boise Barracks.

Dates: 1870 - 1910

Frank Houston Chapman photograph collection

 Collection — Box 1984
Identifier: P1984-011
Content Description

This collection contains 19 black and white copy photographic negatives relating to Boise, Idaho and Parma, Idaho. Dwellings and street scenes in Boise are featured prominently, as well as images of the Chapman Ranch near Parma, Idaho. Photographs were all taken by Frank Houston Chapman.

Dates: ca. 1905

Fraser Herndon photos of barn on W. Sidney Coy residence

 Collection — Box 1977
Identifier: P1977-055
Content Description

This collection contains 20 color photographic negatives and a sheet of contact proofs. All images were taken at the W. Sidney Cole residence in Boise, Idaho before the barn was torn down in 1977.

Dates: ca. 1977

Fred G. Bennett collection of Boise and Interurban Railway photographs

 Collection — Box 1977
Identifier: P1977-024
Content Description

This collection contains 12 black-and-white photographic prints, primarily of the Boise and Interurban Railway system, on which the donor, Fred G. Bennett, worked. Bennett is featured in several images.

Dates: 1910 - 1927

George P. Haley and family collection of glass plates and negatives

 Collection
Identifier: P1968-057
Content Description

Photograph collection of Dr. George P. Haley and family collected by Mrs. Alfred V. Johnson (her mother was the youngest daughter of Dr. Haley). Includes images of Dr. Haley in his office, the Haley family, and the Idaho State Penitentiary.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1922

George Strickler photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1970-140
Content Description

Photograph collection mostly taken by George H. Strickler, who was a motorcyclist and gunsmith. He worked for Morler's Cyclery in Boise. The photographs are not inventoried.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930

George Vaughan residence, 2001 North 17th Street - Boise, Idaho

 Collection
Identifier: P1987-036
Content Description

This black and white copy photographic print shows the George Vaughan residence at 2001 North 17th Street in Boise, Idaho. An unidentified child is on the porch, and there is a light layer of snow on the ground. Printed on textured cardstock, with historical information about the property written on the back.

Dates: 1910

Hip Sing Association Building

 Collection
Identifier: P2003-006
Content Description

Photoprints of the Hip Sing Association building in Boise, Idaho taken by the Idaho Statesman for the Centennial celebration in 1963. An image of Edna M. Allen, Harry Morrison's sister, is also included in the collection.

Dates: 1963

Idaho Camera Professional Photographer Workshop ca 1957

 Collection
Identifier: P1999-022
Content Description

Two photographs of the Idaho Camera Professional Photographer workshop circa 1957. Photographers included in the photograph are Ansgar Johnson (owner of Ansgar Johnson Studio), Robert H. Nagel (founder of Idaho Camera), Ed Bartlett (Technical Representative for Eastman Kodak), Channing Fanckboner (Idaho Camera employee, part owner of Bach Photo), Johnny Estano (owner of Estano Studio & Camera) and Robert Harold Sigler (owner of Sigler Studio).

Dates: Existence: 1957