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Portraits

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Use as a form subdivision under names of individual persons who lived after 1400, individual families, classes of persons and ethnic groups for collections of portraits of those persons. Also use under names of individual religious and monastic orders and wars for portraits of persons associated with those orders and wars. For collections of art depicting persons who lived before 1400, use the subdivision [Art.]

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Florence Brown Dawson photographs of Rocky Bar residents

 Collection — Box 1977.2
Identifier: P1977-123
Content Description

This collection contains three black and white photographic prints. Two images are portraits of Ida Mekim. The third is a portrait of Newt Nichols.

Dates: Majority of material found in ca. 1880

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

Fowler Family Portrait, Myers photographer

 Collection — Box 1998
Identifier: P1998-023
Content Description

Mounted studio portrait of Betty Fowler, Lonella Fowler, and Walter Fowler.

Dates: 1896

Gallet family photographs

 Collection — Box 1983.2
Identifier: P1983-112
Content Description

This collection contains 12 black and white photographic prints relating to the Gallet family of Boise, Idaho. Two images show Edward Griswald Gallet when he was State Auditor on a trip to Orofino, Idaho with the Idaho Board of Land Commissioners. Also included is a series of images of Grace Gallet, who was selected by the General Federation of Women's Clubs to represent Idaho for a service project to support troops deployed in France during World War I.

Dates: 1913 - 1930

Governor D.W. Davis

 Collection
Identifier: P2000-015
Content Description

One framed image of Idaho Governor (1919-1922) D.W. Davis, seemingly signed. Image is a letterpress halftone.

Dates: Existence: 1920

Grostein Family Portraits

 Collection
Identifier: P1999-004
Content Description Portraits of Robert and Rosa Newman Grostein, and Aaron Kuhn and Leah Grostein Kuhn, Jewish families from Lewiston, Idaho. The portrait of Aaron and Leah Grostein Kuhn was taken in 1884 on their wedding day. According to the Lewiston Teller of May 15, 1884, Leah Grostein Kuhn was the first Jewish woman to have been born and married in Idaho Territory. Aaron Kuhn was president of the Traders National Bank, the Spoken and Eastern Trust Company, the Davenport National Bank, and the Bonner...
Dates: 1884-05-08; 1905

Hawley family photograph collection

 Item
Identifier: P1960-108
Content Description

Images of the Hawley family (Governor James H. Hawley, 1847-1929). Includes images from Governors' Conferences, the Spanish-American War, and a Boise parade.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1920

Helen Lambson photograph collection of Lambson and Campbell families

 Collection
Identifier: P1970-175
Content Description

Family photographs of the Lambson and Campbell families. Joseph Milton Campbell was born in Clarksville, Pennsylvania on May 16, 1852 and moved to Boise in 1900. Mrs. Campbell (Maggie H. Dunbar) was born in Prairie City, Illinois in April 12, 1858.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1901 - 1958

Henry James Syms Family Portrait

 Collection
Identifier: P2000-014
Content Description

Family portrait of Syms family of Boise taken during a visit to Auckland, New Zealand in 1910. Taken at the Captain Cook Hotel, Newmarke, Auckland, New Zealand.

Dates: Existence: 1910

Herbert Fischer collection of Idaho related photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P1969-019
Content Description

Photographs include portraits of Jacob Garretson Galbraith, Mary E. Ridenbaugh, and William Forse, etc.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1899 - 1919

Hugh F. Millender collection of Idaho related photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P1970-156
Content Description

Various unidentified photographs of people and places, some in Idaho but also from other places. A few of the portraits have first names listed on them. One image of interest is a glass plate positive transparency of a man on a burro.

Dates: 1880 - 1920

Idaho Constitutional Convention Slideshow courtesy of Tom Blanchard

 Collection
Identifier: P2022-011
Content Description

64 slides used by Tom Blanchard for a presentation about the Idaho State Constitutional Convention. The bulk of the slides are portraits of delegates. Slides taken from originals found throughout the state.

Dates: Slides are primarily second or third-generation images produced 1987-1988; original images date from circa 1880s-1900s

Idaho Legislature, 1935 and 1941, Portraits

 Collection
Identifier: P2000-011
Content Description

Prints of the Idaho State Legislature composite of 1935 and 1941.

Dates: Existence: 1935 - 1941

Idaho Military service members

 Collection — Box 1977
Identifier: P1977-010
Content Description

This collection contains 13 black and white photographic prints of enlisted servicemen from 1899 to 1942, including members of the Idaho 1st Regiment who fought in the Spanish-American War.

Dates: 1899 - 1942

Idaho Photography

 Collection
Identifier: P2000-031
Content Description

Large photography collection collected by Dale Walden. Includes 265 photographs identified by photographer, 387 photographs identified by person or place, 10 tintypes, 2 opalotypes, and 17 negatives. Photographers featured are Charles Kingsley, R. Harold Sigler, and Johnson and Son.

Dates: Existence: 1880 - 1930

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

Idaho State Historical Society's collection of elementary school classroom photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P1964-027
Content Description

This is a collection of 5x7 glass plate negatives, presumably of Boise persons and of elementary school classrooms and classes.

Dates: 1900

Ink drawing of Senator William E. Borah

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1317
Dates: [undetermined]

Ireton family photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0566
Summary

Collection consists of a few genealogical items, legal documents, and burial information. The bulk of the collecion is 19th Century family (portrait) photographs.

Dates: 1891 - 1944

James Pinney photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1971-106
Content Description

Photographs of James Pinney in his office at the Pinney Theater in Boise.

Dates: 1910