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.
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...
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...
College workbooks and diploma from Western Normal College, Lincoln, Nebraska (1893); and personal correspondence of Schuster while residing in Nampa, Idaho (1945-1954).
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.
