Wreck of bridge over the Salmon River at mouth of Whitebird Vreek. Composite cantilever bridge built during the war with little steel. Wrecked in 1931 by a drove of cattle and drivers. Seventeen steers and one driver went intot he river. Loss was...
Camps; Pest control; Conservation and restoration; Agriculture; Insects
Work Project 728 showing dead and alive crickets. Workers from Camp DG-3 completed this pest control project. One rancher doubled his crops in 1936 over 1935 because of the cricket control program.
Two log cabin structures at Thunder Mountain, Idaho. One is being used as a saloon and the other as a post office. The post office has a canvas roof. Possibly Roosevelt.
Limbert, Robert W., 1885-1933. --Archaeological expeditions-Idaho. --Idaho-Description and travel.
Two field notebooks and related papers. One notebook contains brief narrative accounts of field trips to areas around Boise, including the Payette and Snake River canyons. Robert Limbert was a participant on some of these expeditions.
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.
The Chief (Lee Morrison) standing on the precipitous edge of Mount Borah. Some three thousand feet below may be seen a mountain lake in one of the glacial canyons.
Street scene early 1870's south side of Main Street, between 8th & 9th."" Repairs underway after fire. Valley Store, 805 Main, at left. Idaho Statesman, April 17, 1925, Sec. 3, p.4, c.3.: ""Taken after fire which burned Calkins & Beachy store, a...
Some of the first buildings at Leesburg, Idaho. The photo taken in 1870 by A, F. Thrasher shows a group of men stand on a wooden sidewalk in front of the buildings. One man is mounted on a horse.
Six men and one woman are posed in front of a log cabin. A variety of men's clothing is represented. Earl Willson identifies the black woman as "Mandy" and the black man as "Brown Gravy Sam." Possibly Roosevelt.
