Hydraulic placer mining on the Boise River near Twin Springs in Elmore County, Idaho. Photo shows a miner operating a hydraulic giant on a hillside while another miner is inspecting the runoff in the ground sluice below.
College workbooks and diploma from Western Normal College, Lincoln, Nebraska (1893); and personal correspondence of Schuster while residing in Nampa, Idaho (1945-1954).
John David Rogge Sr. was born July 14, 1920, in Payette, Idaho. While helping Morrison Knudson to build an airbase on Wake Island, he, along with many others, was captured by the Japanese in 1941. The correspondence in the collection is mainly to...
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...
Workers at the McFarland Sheep Shearing camp stand and sit on wool stacks while posing for a picture in 1903. The camp was located north of the power plant and west of Horseshoe Bend.
A group of men sit on the porch of the hotel while other guests pose on the 2nd floor balcony, and children stand on the roof. (this is a photo of an older photo)
Personal and political correspondence relating to Haines'gubernatorial campaigns in 1912 and 1914, and recommendations, endorsements and communiques written while governor of Idaho. Correspondents include William E. Borah and Alfred Budge.
Funsten, James Bowen, 1856-1918. --St. Luke's Hospital (Boise, Idaho) --Saint Margaret's Hall (Boise, Idaho) --Episcopal Church-Idaho-History-Sources. --Episcopal Church-Wyoming-History-Sources.
Diaries (17 vols., 1899-1918), and two address and account books maintained by Bishop Funsten while Episcopal Bishop of western Wyoming and southern Idaho, and later of Wyoming and Idaho.
In her interview on May 6, 1970, Mina LaMonte spoke of her time in Idaho. LaMonte discussed the time period from the 1880s to about the 1920s. She spoke about how she took care of her children while her first husband was sick by working mines,...
This paper was issued to Grace before she left New York City. She had to carry these papers everywhere she went while in St. Nazaire, France in 1919. (Grace Gallet was born on May 23, 1893 in Pocatello, Idaho. After World War I, Grace was chosen by...
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...
Nez Percé Indians-Wars, 1877. --Bannock Indians-Wars, 1878. --Idaho County (Idaho)-History-Sources. --United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Prisoners and prisons.
Correspondence, business records, and Idaho Militia records. Including Civil War letters by and to Shearer while in a Union prisoner of war camp at Fort Delaware, Maryland, and reports of battles in the Nez Perce War, 1877, and the Sheepeater War,...
