Wording on Monument. 1836, Site of Lapwai Mission, the first home, the first school, and the first church in Idaho. Established by Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding and Eliza Hart Spalding. Tablet placed by the Idaho Daughters of the American...
Wood shop in Two yard. making boxes which were used to distribute advertising material for Idaho. items such as plastic potatoes, lead silhouettes, etc. were packed in the boxes and distributed to promote Idaho.
Winter scene of snow covered mill buildings at the Belshazzar Mine near Quartzburg, Boise, County, Idaho. The mill building was erected on a mountainside covered with timber.
Weiser, Washington Co. Idaho. Center of the Fruit Section of the Irrigated Empire. A Paradise for the Fruitgrower, Farmer and Stockman. Inset car traveling along the Weiser River. Inset map of Idaho showing the location of Washington County.
Water wheel and water powered arrastra on Silver Creek near Pierce, Idaho. Arrastras were used to crush ore to liberate metals from the waste rock. Photo circa 1892.
Washing out gold using hydraulic mining equipment in the Salmon River Country, Lemhi County, Idaho. Hydraulic mining was done alongside mountains and riverbank.
Volume V, No. 15 of the Coeur d'Alene Miner published in Wallace, Idaho. This issue writes about a speech made by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican County Convention.