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Silver City (Idaho)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

C.G. d'Easum collection of Silver City glass plates

 Item
Identifier: P1960-139
Content Description

Glass plate photographs from the Silver City vicinity. Includes images of troops in Silver City, Colonel Dewey, and a Labor Day Parade.

Dates: 1894 - 1898

Charlotte "Lottie" Branstetter autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0674
Summary

Diary signed by friends of Boise and Silver City, Idaho

Dates: 1882 - 1890

Diamond Tooth Lil photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P1969-146
Content Description

Eight photographs of Diamondtooth Lil. Including the Depot Inn, her residences in Caldwell and Los Angeles, CA, and portraits.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1907 - 1947

Dr. A. B. Boeck collection of glass plates and negatives

 Collection
Identifier: P1966-083
Content Description

Photographs from Dr. A. B. Boeck of Idaho City, Silver City, Shoshone Falls and model trains.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1909 - 1940

Florida Mountain Mining Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1120
Summary

Silver City Assay reports.

Dates: 1896-1897.

George Stoddard letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1437
Summary

Collection consists of a letter (2 p.), envelope and photograph sent by George Stoddard, Silver City, Idaho to Isabel Jones, Boise, Idaho. Also included is a color scan of the photograph which shows Stoddard standing in front of the C.W. Moore Bank building in Silver City. In the letter, Stoddard refers to a recent trip taken by Miss Jones and her parents to Silver City, the weather, and his life in Silver City.

Dates: 1937.

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

Gloria Williams Otto collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0700
Summary

Collection contains six flat graphic items including plats of Idaho Power/Tip Top mill and adjoining sites in Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho. Collection also includes photographs, a photograph album and a variety of reports, correspondence, and other materials pertainly primarily to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Steele of Silver City and the Banner and Empire mining companies.

Dates: 1900 - 1975

Henry McDonald collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0289
Summary

Letter to William Bryan, Boise, from Tom Capalow, Silver City, regarding McDonald's testimony n his trial for the murder of George Meyers, freighter (1881); Handwritten account of the hanging of McDonald (1881); and a reprint of an Idaho Statesman article on the hanging (1931).

Dates: 1881 - 1931

Idaho State Historical Society collection of Idaho related photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P1964-105
Content Description

Collection created by the Idaho State Historical Society of miscellaneous photographs. Includes images of Silver City, Shoshone Falls, William H. Borah and E.W. Harold.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1939 - 1964

Joseph Brooks account book

 Item
Identifier: MS 2.01/52
Summary

Account of Silver City, Idaho general store operated by Brooks.

Dates: 1873 - 1874

Julia Conway Welch manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0760
Summary

Three manuscripts from author and historian Julia Conway Welch. "Growing Up with Ghosts: Memories of Silver City, Idaho" (published 1984), "Coming of Age in Jail", and "Gold Town to Ghost Town: The Story of Silver City, Idaho" (published 1982).

Dates: 1980s

Mabel Ketner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1078
Summary

Collection consists of letters to mother and father while traveling to and staying in Silver City. Also included is an essay entitled "Canyon Flowers," and signed The Sky Pilot, dated 1911.

Dates: 1911 - 1928

Seely collection of Boise glass plates

 Item
Identifier: P1960-120
Content Description

Glass plate negatives taken in Boise in 1947. Includes images of mines and Silver City. Glass plates found by Mrs. Willamette Seely in the attic of a house torn down in Boise in 1947.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1940

Silver City (Idaho) business collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0763
Summary

Letterhead stationary from numerous Silver City, Idaho businesses, including Silver City and DeLamar Meat Market; Owyhee Livery, Feed and Sale Stable; Adams and Allen Furniture; and the N. C. Larson Hardware, Ammunition and Tinware of Bellevue, Idaho.

Dates: 1880 - 1900

Stoddard House research notes

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0768

Willa May Gardner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1368
Summary Collection consists of material related to Willa May Gardner and various Gardner family members. Included are 23 black and white photoprints of Boise, the Twin Falls area, Silver City, Bogus Basin, and the Gardner family; Gardner's c. 1905 report card from Silver City; a brief family tree chart showing Gardner, her parents, and siblings; graduation announcements from Boise High School (1913 and 1915); programs for various music and theatrical presentations in Boise (1912-1913) and Silver...
Dates: c.1905-1944