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...
"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
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,...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
George W. Russell home. 'E. Main Street, Hot Springs Road.' Later the Eli Weston home, 1035 Warm Springs Avenue. Photocopy by Ralph M. Tucker by permission of family. Image of artwork in frame.
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...
later, O. B. 1848-1919. --Defoe, Jules. --Cuddy, John, 1834-1899. --Christ Chapel (Idaho) --Basque Americans-Idaho. --Henry's Fort (Idaho) --Fort Boise (Idaho) --Boise (Idaho)-History. --Idaho-Centennial celebrations, etc.
Minutes, financial and membership records, scrapbooks, and subject files. Subjects include: Basques, Idaho's 50th Anniversary, John Cuddy, Oliver B. Slater, Jules Defoe, Fort Boise, Henry's Fort, and Christ Chapel.
Fisher, Stanton G., 1840-1915 , Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909. Nez Percé Indians-History. Bannock Indians-History. Shoshoni Indians-History. Fort Hall Indian Reservation (Idaho)-History-Sources. Nez Percé Indian Reservation...
Correspondence (1889-1906); diaries (1875, 1877); autobiography (1888); scrapbook and newspaper clippings (1892-1915), photographs; journals; notebooks; and manuscript, Trail of a Gold Seeker, 1863.
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...
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...
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.
General correspondence; private files of executive officers; payroll account books; and other financial records of a company organized under the Carey Act in 1903, first to build canals and laterals and act as a land office and later to maintain...
