The fir tree in the middle of the street near the flagpole is the one on which several Chinese were hanged until near death and until they confessed which one killed Frasier. The guilty were later hanged.
Ferries were popular in the old days. This one over the Snake River near Thousand Springs near Twin Falls, Idaho is transporting a horse and rider and an automobile.
K.P. Plowman's claim near Idaho City. Miners sitting on hydraulic equipment. 1st row l to r: 1. Fred Garrecht, 2. Clay Mosher, 3. John Barry, 4. Louis Garrecht, 5. 6. 2nd row l to r 1. Ed Foster 2. Will Garrecht, 3. 4. William Horton, 5. Arch...
Miners working near ore bins for new sorting plant at the Morning Mine near Mullan in Shoshone County, Idaho. Note all the various supplies and mining and milling equipment.
Miners standing near the headframe at a mine near Pearl, Gem County, ID, ca. 1899. Note the miners candlesticks and candles in some of the miners hands. Candles were used for lighting underground before the invention of the carbide light.
copies (museum) pioneer pictures for 50 year Special Edition, 4/18/1940. Photograph of a stage coach coming up the road being drawn by a four horse hitch. Wooded mountains are in the background to the horizon.
A dozen men and boys are standing around the smashed remains of a single engine aircraft that went down in front of a house near the old Boise airport.
A close up of the tail end of the damaged airplane near the old Boise airport. A Webbs Flying Service vehicle is in this view. 3 women are onlookers at the site.
A crowd of onlookers stand near the crash scene of a biplane that landed upside down next to Bob Fifer's Broadway Commission Company. The plane has impacted the corner of a building.
In this January 2001 interview with Chris Stocking, Elmer Nielsen offers his memories of the Great Depression. Baird lived in Utah (Salt Lake City and near Pleasant Grove, Utah) and spoke about his life in the 1920s and 1930s. This interview was...
World War, 1939-1945--European Theater--Personal narratives.
In his December 2001 interview with Caleb Lammers and Tim Hoyt, Ernest Thaete offers his memories of World War II. Thaete served in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1945, training in the United States and serving in the European Theater, mainly training...
Entrance of the public school field used by Boise High School. Designed in a Spanish style with stucco walls and tile roof, the entry has two ticket windows and ornate iron gate. Located near corner of Broadway and Warm Springs avenues.
horse blankets; horses; Indian textile styles; cabins; logs;
Khool-khool-tah-meh in front of his cabin near Stites, one of the leaders in Nez Perce Indian War of 1877. Traditional Indian clothing and horse trappings are displayed in this view.
