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Boise (Idaho)-History-Sources.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:

Allen B. Eaton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0077
Summary

Correspondence concerning National Recovery Administration activities in Idaho; letters from James P. Pope; paper regarding the Boise Library Board, of which Eaton was a member; articles concerned with national politics in the 1940s, and miscellaneous photographs and personal papers.

Dates: 1915 - 1973

American Red Cross. Boise Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0633
Summary

Three volumes of record books, minutes of the Red Cross Boise Chapter meetings; including annual reports.

Dates: 1914 - 1947

Artesian Water and Land Improvement Company document

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0334
Summary

Consent of stockholders agreeing to an increase in capital stock.

Dates: [189-?].

Axel T. Nelson collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0355
Summary

Idaho territorial warrants (1866-1889); Boise and Idaho County warrants (1871-1886); Idaho territorial coupons; mining stock certificates, miscellaneous receipts and business cards; eleven books in Swedish language; advertising flyers and copies of Nelson's poetry; and memorabilia. Also includes "The Cost to the State of Idaho of the Haywood Trial" and "Haywood Trial, Closing Argument of W.E. Borah."

Dates: 1866 - 1916

Boise aviation history collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1134
Summary

Collection contains miscellaneous clippings from the Idaho Statesman and Boise Capital News regarding new airports, conferences, and competitions.

Dates: 1929

Boise Chamber of Commerce papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0612
Summary

Majority of items is promotional material sponsored by Boise or Idaho Chamber of Commerce. Collection also includes material pertaining to Aviation development in Boise.

Dates: 1904 - 1962

Boise Mausoleum time capsule collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0328
Summary

Time capsule contents, placed in 1938 and opened in 1988 at the Boise Memorial Mausoleum in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise. Includes lists of civic and elected officials, material from various fraternal and business organizations, personal messages and memorabilia.

Dates: 1936 - 1988

Boise military cemetery register

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1281
Summary

Roster of soldiers and sailors buried in the cemeteries of Boise.

Dates: [19--].

[Boise Music Week programs]

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1271
Dates: 1923-1931.

Boise Saturday Fortnightly Club records

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS 0832
Summary

The Boise Saturday Fortnightly Club Records contains the yearly programs, financial records, minute books and scrapbooks related to Club activities since 1892.

Dates: 1892 - 2000

Byron E. Hyatt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0344
Summary

Personal correspondence, including letters to Hyatt in Boise, Idaho, from his daughter, Madge, a student at the University of California at Berkeley (1917-1919), and letters between other family members.

Dates: 1909 - 1959; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1925

Carmelita H. Leonardson diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0359
Summary

Five diaries, undated. One volume chronicles a trip which Leonardson and her parents, Roy and Iona Hickman Leonardson, residents of Boise, Idaho, took to New England. The other four volumes contain poems and fragments of fiction, as well as journal entries.

Dates: [between 1950 and 1969]

Carolyn Huntoon Palmer reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0224
Summary

An account of life in Boise, Idaho, in the 1860s; includes photographs.

Dates: 1918

Charles B. Little papers and records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0625
Summary

One box of primary material about life and work of Charles B. Little. A life history witten by Little in 1940 and a journal of an auto trip to San Francisco in 1915 written by his daughter Edna at age 11. Also building project material regarding the First Presbyterian Church of Boise City and the Booth Building, legal and financial documents, correspondence and one blue print of the Boise City National Bank.

Dates: 1894 - 1967

Charles P. McCarthy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0009
Summary

Includes two college notebooks dealing with property law (1901-1902); notes, pamphlets, financial papers and day books (1905-1909); correspondence including letters from W.E. Borah, D. Worth Clark, and C.C. Cavanah; legal papers (1909-1911) relating to Boise Cold Storage vs. O.S.R.R. Co., Boise City vs. Ada County (regarding road poll tax), and a grand jury investigation of the meat trust.

Dates: 1892 - 1912

Charlotte "Lottie" Branstetter autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0674
Summary

Diary signed by friends of Boise and Silver City, Idaho

Dates: 1882 - 1890

Chet Moulton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0831
Summary

Photographs, negatives, reminiscences, printed material, and a 1946 governor's proclamation celebrating the 20th anniversary of airmail by private airlines in the United States. Photographs show downtown Boise, Idaho; terracing on the Boise foothills; large scale ground printing and other aerial scenes. Also included is a memorial to William Sanborn who was killed in an air crash near King Hill, Idaho, in 1927.

Dates: 1927 - 1972

Claudia C. Ross, Under the Stars celebration summary

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1159
Summary

Collection contains a letter to Gladys Bradley summarizing "Under the Stars," a pageant presented by the Boise Celebration Association, Inc. Based on historical data compiled by Altha E. Fouch of the Idaho State Historical Society and the pageant script/program.

Dates: 1938.

Clinton DeWitt Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0267
Summary

Letters (in part transcriptions) from Smith to his family in Washington, D.C., regarding Idaho government and the relocation of the territorial capital from Lewiston to Boise; other family correspondence; newspaper clippings; and six Smith family photographs. Accompanied by a 1948 article about Smith.

Dates: 1862-1948.

Cora M. Isenberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0565
Summary

Decree of Settlement of Final Account and Final Distribution of the estate of Isenberg (1960); Water decree from Watermaster's record (1864-1904); Abstract of Title for part of the Mauvais subdivision, Ada County, Idaho (1948).

Dates: 1904 - 1960