Portraits

Photographs from the Simons, Moses Alexander, and Weil families in Boise, New York City, Philadelphia and more.

This collection contains 211 photographic prints and twelve photographic negatives related to Sister Elsensohn's work at the Historical Museum at Saint Gertrude's Academy and Convent in Cottonwood, Idaho. Subjects include Polly Bemis, Chinese immigrants in the Lewiston area, and Idaho County pioneers. This collection also contains many images of Saint Gertrude's.

One 11x13 print of Spanish American War soldiers from the First Idaho Volunteers Company B. Members are identified on the back of the image. Seven carte de visite prints of Spanish American soldiers, including John O'Derr, John Little (Lewiston, Idaho), James Weston (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), and C.W. Alkire (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho).

This single-photograph collection contains a sepia-toned portrait of Elizabeth Tate and Suzanne Tate. Elizabeth is seated on the left in a dark-colored off-the-shoulder dress with sequin embroidery. Suzanne is seated on the right in a light-colored dress with fabric flowers sewn to a cowl-like neckline.

(3,050) photographs taken by Walter Braun, studio photographer, operating in Caldwell and Nampa, Idaho, and Ontario and Burns, Oregon 1943-2009.

This black and white photographic print shows Alva D. Stanton and Gertude Perry Stanton on their wedding day. Alva is seated in a chair wearing a bowtie. A watch chain is dangling from his breast pocket. Gertrude is standing to the right of Alva, wearing a white blouse and a floor-length dark-colored skirt.

Published interview with Borah, described in Drawn from life, by S. J. Woolf.