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Boise (Idaho)-History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Albert L. Harle diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0647
Summary

Summaries of the author's life up to 1945, including accounts of various illnesses, military experience in World War I, and employment in the Boise, Idaho, area; and journal entries 1965-1980. The contents of the two volumes are nearly identical.

Dates: 1965 - 1980

Andrew Garber records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0191
Summary

Drafts, research notes, clippings, journal articles, subject files, and other records assembled by Garber and Dan Popkey for the Idaho Statesman Centennial Magazine (Boise), July 1, 1990.

Dates: 1989 - 1990

Arthur L. Baker reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0533
Summary

"The Mill Pond Island" by Arthur L. Baker, and "The Old Horse Collar Manufacturing Building" by Mary Baker, about old south Boise.

Dates: 1976 - 1983

Bill Tate, of Idaho, typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0769
Summary

Notes taken by Salome McNeilly recording the reminiscences of Tate concerning activities around Camas Prairie, Toll Gate, Pine, Mountain Home, and Boise, Idaho, after 1878.

Dates: 1953

Harlan Pefley letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0179
Summary

Letter to Charles Randall, Falks Store, Ada County, Idaho, from Pefley, Register of the United States Land Office, Boise, 1888.

Dates: 1888

Idaho State Capitol grounds collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0595
Summary

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes relating to the location of the Capitol, the trees, and the cannon on the Capitol grounds.

Dates: 1917 - 1936

James B. Hays stationary

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0883
Summary

Letterhead stationary of Hays as judge, and later Chief Justice of Idaho. Also includes Territorial Capitol letterhead.

Dates: [188-]

Mamie Mercer Mink Morrow reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0731
Summary

Dictated and transcribed memoirs of life in southwest Idaho and Boise.

Dates: 1977

MS 2/1570 1877 Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1570

Olive Minnie photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1018
Summary

Family photos and assorted scenes. Includes two letters.

Dates: 1918 - 1957

Preston H. Boomer correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0737
Summary

Letters from Boomer to W.H. Davison regarding life in early Boise, Idaho, including an attendance list of an old-timers meeting in 1890.

Dates: 1957

Shirleyanne Martens collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0740
Dates: ca.1870-1990.

Sons and Daughters of Idaho Pioneers records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0471
Summary

Minutes, financial and membership records, scrapbooks, and subject files. Subjects include: Basques, Idaho's 50th Anniversary, John Cuddy, Oliver B. Slater, Jules Defoe, Fort Boise, Henry's Fort, and Christ Chapel.

Dates: 1925 - 1994

Thomas Logan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0180
Summary

Deed for land in Boise and a memorial address delivered at Logan's funeral at St. Michael's Church, Boise.

Dates: 1890 - 1894

Timothy Regan letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0891
Summary

Letter from Regan, proprietor of the Idaho Hotel, Boise, to R. Z. Johnson, Boise, regarding maps of the Oro Fino mining district, the sale of the North Empire Mine, and comments on John Nugent. On the reverse of the letter is a note (of a later date) from Stanley B. Pottle of Boise to Fenn of Kooskia, concerning R. Z. Johnson.

Dates: 1888