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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 95 Collections and/or Records:

Ranches - J.M. Bowman; photographer - Stevens, Caldwell, ID

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: .4
Content Description From the Collection:

Photographs are of the Bowman family and the Ashley Sign Company established in Boise in 1910. Also includes 19 tintype portraits.

Dates: Existence: 1910 - 1971

Riordan and Reeves Family

 Collection
Identifier: P2002-013
Content Description

Various mounted photographs, tintypes, and photographic prints of Ed Riordan and Effie Reeves's family and friends. Ed and Effie were married in Idaho City and Uncle "Web" and Uncle Rilly Reeves had a cigar store and Reeves Wholesale in Boise and maybe earlier in Idaho City.

Dates: Existence: 1910 - 1936

Robert O. Swan photographs of Boise, Idaho families

 Collection
Identifier: P1987-038
Content Description

This collection contains nine black and white photographic prints related to families in Boise, Idaho. The majority of the images in this collection are portraits, but several images of houses are also included. Families pictured in the collection include the Weaver family, the Youngkin family and the Lack family. This collection also includes an exterior shot of the Weaver family home at 1519 North 16th Street, Boise, Idaho.

Dates: 1890 - 1920

Sherwood Museum Photograph Collection, 1892-1907 and undated

 Item
Identifier: P1996-021
Content Description The collection includes 275 glass plate negatives, 63 identified original prints, approximately 350 unidentified items (prints, cabinet cards, stereographs, postcards), and 201 contact prints. Images on people include Native Americans, local settlers, and the Sherwood family. Activities such as ice fishing, horseback riding, skiing, sledding, and boating are documented. There are photographs of Joseph Sherwood's inventions including a boat, snow vehicle, and car. Also included are scenic...
Dates: 1892-1907n.d

Simons and Alexander Families

 Collection
Identifier: P2002-022
Content Description

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

Dates: Existence: 1903 - 1930

Sister Mary Alfreda Elsensohn photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1975-228
Content Description

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.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1960

Skyla Rae Temens portrait

 Item
Identifier: P2022-024
Dates: 2022-09-02

Spanish American War, First Idaho Volunteers Company B

 Collection
Identifier: P1999-011
Content Description

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).

Dates: Existence: 1898

Stan Oliner collection of Charles Calvin Moore photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P1987-032
Content Description

This collection contains eight black and white photographic prints, mostly related to Idaho Governor Charles C. Moore, including a shot of the governor with Senator Frank Gooding. The collection also includes a birds-eye view of Mullan, Idaho

Dates: 1926 - 1929

Tate sisters portrait

 Collection — Box 1977.2
Identifier: P1977-149
Content Description

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.

Dates: ca. 1950

Thelma Allen collection of Boise, Idaho portraits

 Collection
Identifier: P1987-035
Content Description

This collection contains six black and white photographic prints showing portraits of mostly unidentified individuals on cabinet cards by photographers and studios in Boise, Idaho. Photographers and studios include W. T. Allen, Whyte, Whyte and Demaree. One woman is identified as Katherine Taylor of C. E. Baker Star Grocery.

Dates: ca. 1900

Verna McConnell collection of Boise, Idaho photographs

 Collection — Box 1984.2
Identifier: P1984-117
Content Description

This collection contains ten black and white copy photographic negatives and two black and white photographic prints of scenes and businesses in and around Boise, Idaho. An outing of Boise High School students from the class of 1906, including Harry Elkington, to the Foote House on the Boise River is featured prominently. This collection also includes two original portraits of members of the Langhausen family.

Dates: 1906 - 1912

Walter Braun photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P2019-013
Content Description

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

Dates: 1943-2009

Wedding portrait of Alva D. Stanton (left) and Gertrude Perry Stanton (right)

 Collection — Box 1983.2
Identifier: P1983-136
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1900

William Edgar Borah interview from Drawn from Life

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1002
Summary

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

Dates: 1932