World War, 1939-1945-Prisoners and prisons-Personal narratives, American.
Diary (1941-1945), written as a prisoner of war; newsletters, bulletins, form letters, and newspaper clippings concerning World War II in the Pacific and prisoners of war.
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.
Looking west from corner of Main and 6th Street. Presbyterian Church spire on right in background is at later site of Idanha Hotel. Firehouse bell tower on left. 3D photo.
Shoup, George Laird, 1836-1904. --General stores-Idaho-Salmon-History-Sources. --Indians of North America-Wars-1862-1865. --Massacres-Idaho-Birch Creek. --Frontier and pioneer life-Idaho. --Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.
A miscellaneous assortment of material from Shoup's varied career as Idaho territorial legislator, territorial and later state governor, and U.S. senator. Included is a copy of a diary kept during Shoup's military campaigns in Colorado, New Mexico...
Roberts Bros. Store was located at 906, 908 W. Idaho. Elmer Roberts is at right (he was later State Superintendent of Public Instruction), next to him is Harold Roberts, then Cy Roberts, Charley Roberts, ___ Roberts, Otis Roberts, Mr. Rathburn, Bob...
schools; schoolhouses; group portraits; students; teachers
Star School, 1900. Ella Breshears Reed, teacher, later Supit. of Schools, Gem County. Left to right, 1st row: Wallace McDowell, Bert Niccolls, Fred Fouch, Hugh Fouch, Walter Graham, Unidentified . 2nd row: Ed McDowell, Jim Niccolls, Walter...
Ross Charles Benjamin. --Cruikshank Sheep Company. --Mountain Home Sheep Company. --Sheep industry-Idaho-Mountain Home-History-Sources. --Idaho-Politics and government-History-Sources.
Primarily political, memorial, and commencement speeches of a Boise, Idaho, attorney and chairman of the Idaho Code Commission. Also includes notes, photographs, and memorabilia; newspaper clippings concerning C. Ben Ross; and legal papers relating...
Upper row: 1. Helen Murphy Blackinger (left), 2. Fred Irwin, Mgr. Idaho-Pittsburg later Trade Dollar Mine, 3. Permeal French, later Dean of Women, University of Idaho. Lower row: 1. R. H. Britt, Mgr. Poorman Mine.
"A summary of Events in teh lives of Major Patrick Collins and his wife, Mary Leddy Collins, as related years later by thier daughter Carrie Collins McNeil (our mother) and by Grandma Collins herself." by Marguerite McNeil
"A summary of Events in teh lives of Major Patrick Collins and his wife, Mary Leddy Collins, as related years later by thier daughter Carrie Collins McNeil (our mother) and by Grandma Collins herself." by Marguerite McNeil
"A summary of Events in teh lives of Major Patrick Collins and his wife, Mary Leddy Collins, as related years later by thier daughter Carrie Collins McNeil (our mother) and by Grandma Collins herself." by Marguerite McNeil
Newspapers from the Roosevelt and Thunder Mountain area tells interesting stories, and describes area businesses that were later destroyed by the mudslide and flood. First page describes "The Golden Goal" of a miner which was to proceed at all...
Mine Disaster Memorial. This double life size statue was sculptured from steel with welding torch and rod by Ken Lonn to honor the 91 victims of the country's worst mine disaster since 1917 plus all the living hardrock miners of the Coeur d'Alene...
In her interview conducted on July 23, 1981 by Kris Major, Dorothy McKenzie describes how she came to the Yankee Fork area in 1940. She first stayed in a campground, Flat Rock Campground, and later lived in a log cabin with the rest of the mining...
Excerpt from interview with Dorothy McKenzie conducted on July 23, 1981 by Kris Major, where Dorothy McKenzie describes how she came to the Yankee Fork area in 1940. She first stayed in a campground, Flat Rock Campground, and later lived in a log...
Photo shows the Pittsburg, Confederate Star, and other properties in the Rocky Bar Mining District in Elmore County prior to 1884. The Elmore Mine mill was later built in this area. Note the man in the foreground.
Two couples, and their dogs, in front of a wooden cabin in the Thunder Mountain region. Woman on right is Lenny Charters who later moved to Atlanta and lived for many years.
Miners in the hoist room at a mine (probably the Checkmate) in the Pearl Mining District, Gem County, ID, Lower left man identified as L.S. Gerlough, later a Rhodes Scholar. Identified by T.D. Gerlough (now of San Francisco) of Squibb & County,...
Man in center, wearing vest, and white shirt, is John McNish. He was an Emmett pioneer of the 1880's. An Idaho Statesman article, dated February 3rd, 1957 states that "the picture was taken at the Gold Hill mine in Quartzburg in 1885. While these...
Man in center, vest & white shirt, is John McNish, Emmett pioneer of 1880s. An article in the February 3, 1957 Idaho Statesman indicated the photo was taken at the Gold Hill and Iowa Mine at Quartzburg in 1885. While these men came from all...
