United States. Bureau of Reclamation.

Content Description This collection contains 112 black and white photographic negative copies of images related to the United States Bureau of Reclamation's Minidoka Project Office in Burley, Idaho. The bulk of this collection documents the relocation and demolition of homes and business in American Falls, Idaho to facilitate the construction of the American Falls Dam, which inundated the original town site in 1927. This collection also contains images of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Rupert, Idaho, and the...

Scope and Contents The papers of Daniel W. Applegate were donated to the Idaho State Historical Society by his daughter, Susan Applegate, in November 2003. Dylan McDonald processed the collection in November 2003.Spanning from 1929 to 1995, the bulk of the Applegate collection runs between 1934 and 1959. Material includes correspondence, maps, blueprints, black and white photographs, ephemera, reports, hard and softbound manuals, and a manuscript. No original order could be determined; therefore...

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Photograph albums of Leo G. Thompson. Thompson was an engineer for the Idaho State Highway Department and was Ada County Engineer when the W.P.A. built the Bureau of Reclamation building on Fairview near the old fairgrounds. Thompson died in 1963. The album contains pictures of army life, construction and logging. Pictures are mainly along the north and south highway.