This picture shows a bridge crossing the Ridenbaugh Canal in Boise. A car is on the bridge. Next to the bridge is a billboard advertising Camel cigarettes. In the background are homes along the steet. The canal is dry and the trees do not have...
Statesman Anniversary Edition, 1940, (9 neg), (cabins, street scene, lake views) A two story wood structure is the focal point. Various signs advertise a hotel and other businesses. Classic cars line the street.
Business districts; Stores & shops; Storefronts; Vehicles; Street lights; City & town life; Streets; Celebrations; Fairs;
A look down Main Street in Boise, Idaho on Western Idaho Fair Parade Day August, 1940. Cars, flags, businesses, and business signs fill this panoramic photo. The Owyhee, Idanha, and California hotels are prominent.
Business districts; Stores & shops; Storefronts; Vehicles; Street lights; City & town life; Streets; Celebrations; Fairs; Traffic signs & signals;
looking west down Main Street in Boise, Idaho on parade day August 1940. The ADA movie theatre is on the corner of Capitol and Main. A lot of cars and people are visible.
This defile is named for a series of skirmishes between Indians and Emigrants on the Oregon Trail, August 10, 1862. Nine whites were killed, and six more were wounded. As the traveler speeds through this opening in the rocks, he seldom thinks of...
This valley was discovered in 1822 by an expedition of Hudson's Bay Company trappers led by Michel Bourdon. Bourdon had come to the Northwest with David Thompson, who had started the Idaho fur trade in 1808-9. Trappers searched everwhere for...
Known as Goddin's River in the days of the fur trade. This stream originally was named for the trapper who discovered it. Thery Goddin, a prominent Iroquois who explored this river in 1819 or 1820, had come here with Donald Mackenzie's fur hunters...
Switch gear of the first electric hoist used at the Bunker Hill Mine operated by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company near Kellogg, Idaho. The hoist serviced the No. 1 shaft. Photo circa 1917.
Near the base of this hill, over 100 cavalry men and volunteers met disaster in the opening battle of the Nez Perce War. Rushing from Grangeville on the evening of June 16, 1877, Captain David Perry planned to stop the Indians from crossing Salmon...
