Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers

Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers, 1950-1962

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Gracie (Bowers) Pfost, 1906-1965
Title: Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers
Dates: 1950-1962 (inclusive)
19501962
Quantity: 61 cubic feet
Collection Number: MG044 (collection)
Summary: Administrative records including inter-office memoranda and procedure statements, constituent correspondence, personal correspondence, records of committees, bills sponsored by Congresswoman Pfost, speeches, news releases, and audio tapes of radio talks.
Repository: University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Gracie Pfost (pronounced Post), Democrat, achieved distinction as Idaho's only woman to serve in Congress. Representing the state's first congressional district, she was elected to five consecutive terms in the U. S. House of Representatives, ably serving her constituents from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1963. Described as a "unique and forceful political personality," Pfost diligently promoted the mining, timber and agricultural interests of the Gem State's northern counties. In 1962, the Congresswoman declined to run for her sixth term in the House and instead entered the Senate race. Nominated by the Democratic State Central Committee, she lost by narrow margin to Republican Len B. Jordan in the general election. But her career as a public servant did not end. In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy appointed Pfost administrator of Public Housing for the Elderly in the Federal Housing Administration, a position she held until her death two years later.

Born March 12, 1906 in Harrison, Arkansas to William Layfette and Lily Elizabeth (Wood) Bowers, Gracie moved with her family to the Boise Valley in 1911. She attended area schools receiving her secondary education at Meridian High School, Meridian, Idaho, and graduating in 1926 from Links Business University. On August 4, 1923 she married John Walter (Jack) Pfost, a man 22 years her senior, who played an important role in his wife's later political career. In fact Gracie credits him as the person who most encouraged and supported her campaign for election to Congress. Once Gracie was elected to the House of Representatives, Jack Pfost acted unofficially as the Congresswoman's political advisor. He worked long hours beside his wife and after his death on July 17, 1961, at the age of 77, it was said of him that his death "cost Idaho an unofficial but effective public servant who was as untiring as he was unassuming."

Gracie Pfost's public career began in 1929 when, at age 23, she was appointed deputy county clerk, auditor and recorder for Canyon County. She served the county in this capacity until 1940 at which time she was elected Treasurer. After five consecutive terms as Treasurer, she ran unsuccessfully against Republican John T. Wood in 1950 for a seat in congress. Defeated by 783 votes in that election, Pfost again announced her candidacy in 1952.

With the slogan "Tie Your Vote to a Solid Post--Gracie Pfost for Congress," she canvased the counties of the first district profiling her campaign issues. She supported stabilization of farm products, improved labor legislation and the production and conservation of domestic minerals and metals. Favoring broader Social Security coverage and reduced taxes, her platform also included support for humanitarian legislation. Of greater significance and one which marked her congressional career, she opposed private interests and championed the federal construction of a high, multi-purpose dam at Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border. Later, in her first speech before the House of Representatives on April 16, 1953, she introduced the bill to allow the federal government the right to construct a dam on the Snake River. Her vigorous support of the project earned her the sobriquet: "Hell's Belle." Throughout her career in the House, Pfost continued to support legislation protecting mining (lead-zinc) and timber interests as well as bills providing for public works and federal aid to education.

In Congress, Pfost was appointed to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and served on or chaired the subcommittees on Irrigation and Reclamation, Mines and Mining and Public Lands. She was also a member of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. She was also named to special subcommittees, one to study water resources and one to investigate Foundations Exempt from Income Tax. In 1960 she was a conference delegate to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission.

In addition to her political responsibilities, Pfost was a member of the Idaho Federation of Womens' Clubs, Business and Professional Women's Club, Soroptimist Club, Gem Area Girl Scout Council, Nampa Chamber of Commerce and the Idaho Real Estate Board. Before election to Congress, she was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1944, 1948 and 1952. For recreation and relaxation she enjoyed hunting, fishing, and painting.

On August 11, 1965, Gracie Pfost died of Hodgkin's Disease at Johns Hopkins Hospital near Baltimore, Maryland. With her death "Idaho [lost its] First Lady of Politics."

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The papers of Gracie Pfost span the years 1950 to 1963, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1953 to 1962. A few of her speeches dating from the 1940s are also included.

The congressional papers include administrative records, such as inter-office memos and mailing lists; constituent correspondence, which is divided into three sections and forms the major part of the collection; general and personal correspondence; legislative material which includes bills introduced by Gracie Pfost, her statements to congressional committees, Congressional Record inserts, and committee files; public relations material which includes her speeches, newspaper clippings, news releases, and audio tapes of radio speeches. The campaign files include campaign material, files of clippings on people, places, or events of interest to her, as well as other political files.

Signatures of well known politicians such as Harry Truman, John McCormack, Frank Church, and John F. Kennedy may be found in some of the folders. Presence of these signatures is noted on the folder itself.

The University of Idaho library also has the congressional papers of Mrs. Pfost's successor in the House of Representatives, Compton I. White, Jr. (Manuscript Group 93).

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The majority of Gracie Pfost's papers were in labeled folders when received; the unlabeled material was sorted and integrated into existing categories. Every effort was made to retain the original folder headings, although it was sometimes necessary to make slight alterations, such as adding a committee name in the legislative correspondence. Occasionally material relating to the same subject shows up in several series, and it is necessary for the researcher to consult each series to identify all the material.

The first series, Correspondence, is divided into five subseries, the first three of which deal with constituent correspondence. The first subdivision, Legislation, is arranged alphabetically by the Congressional committee which Mrs. Pfost contacted for assistance in answering a question or to which a particular piece of legislation had been referred. The second subseries is arranged by the government department which supplied information for answers to constituent problems; and the third subseries is arranged alphabetically by independent agency. The general correspondence contains both constituent and official letters, and is arranged alphabetically by subject. Many of the folders in this subseries were heavily sampled since many requests for publications were routine and duplicated year after year. This subseries also includes form letters, mimeographed letters, and mass mailings sent by the office, and applications for post office positions. Returns of Small Business Ballots, the opinions of small businessmen on legislation before Congress as registered on printed forms, which were also heavily sampled, are also in this section. The final subseries in this series contains personal and political correspondence.

The second series consists of legislative material. The bills introduced by Congresswoman Pfost are filed both cumulatively by Congress, and also individually by House Bill number if there is any supporting documentation such as committee or departmental reports. Some correspondence is also included in the files. Also included are typescripts of her statements to congressional committees, typescripts of speeches made on the floor of the House, Congressional Record inserts, and voting records, both official and those prepared by special interest groups. Other material includes material gathered while serving on committees. Some of these which include inter-committee correspondence or material relating to specific committee activities are filed by committee. Most of the remainder of the material is arranged alphabetically by subject. The majority of Hells Canyon material is in this section.

The Administrative series contains inter-office memos, lists of Idaho newspapers, various post office statistics, e.g. the number of box holders, to assist the staff with mass mailings, lists of members of organizations in Idaho which were used for specialized mass mailings, and samples of stationery, telephone, and telegraph accounts. Also included are names of members of a variety of organizations which were used for specialized mailing lists.

The Public Relations series contains various biographical sketches prepared by Mrs. Pfost's staff, and some published articles by and about her. Also included are her newsletters to constituents, press releases issued by her office, newspaper clippings, typed copies of speeches, and several audio tapes (reel to reel) of radio speeches.

The final series contains campaign files dating from her unsuccessful first bid for Congress in 1950 through her Senate race in 1962, also unsuccessful. Included in these files are campaign brochures, newspaper clippings dealing with Mrs. Pfost and her opponents, and election results. There are also files concerning the Democratic party and other material of a political nature, including files on Idaho politicians, and a card file listing Democrats in Idaho alphabetically by county, and items of personal interest.

The historical and research value of 33 boxes of "white" carbon copies of outgoing letters which were filed alphabetically by correspondent was questioned and found to be very limited, therefore they were discarded. Many large "single issue" files, such as the anti-liquor advertising campaign, were sampled by taking every 10th or in some cases every 25th item. In other cases only one complete folder was retained. The Small Business Ballots were sampled using the "fat folder" criteria. Only one year of statements for the teletephone, telegraph and stationery accounts was retained. The method of sampling is noted on the first folder in the sequence. The only large single issue not sampled, but retained in total, was the correspondence concerning Hells Canyon which was Pfost's major campaign issue. Single copies of machine and sample letters were retained.

In arriving at item counts for each folder all material stapled together, regardless of the number of papers involved, was counted as a single item. After the count was determined, the staples were removed.

Following the guidelines in the Senate records management guide the following types of material were discarded: declined invitations, when filed separately; out of state correspondence, when filed separately; and job applications. Using the same guidelines, only the records of those applicants accepted at the several service academies were retained. Duplicates of mimeographed material were discarded without notation; however, many correspondence files contained similar carbon responses attached to incoming letters. In these cases the carbons were discarded and a separation sheet documenting the number of such carbons was prepared. Similarly separation sheets were prepared when individual replies were sent to signers of petitions or mail campaigns waged by special interest groups.

Government documents were separated from the collection and sent to the government documents library. Other published material was removed for consideration for the general book collection.

When the Records Storage Center transferred the papers of Gracie Pfost to the office of Senator Frank Church they totaled 355 cubic feet. He and his staff reduced the records to 170 cubic feet before sending them to the University of Idaho Library where they were reduced to 157 cubic feet. There is no record of what material Church discarded, but it appears from transfer documents that the material discarded after receipt by the university library included books, government documents, plus many duplicate copies of publications. In the final processing, undertaken 22 years after receipt of the papers, the collection was reduced by another 96 cubic feet.

Acquisition Information

The congressional papers of Representative Gracie Pfost were donated to the University of Idaho Library by Idaho's Senior Senator Frank Church, in 1968.

Processing Note

The papers were processed by Judith Nielsen, with the assistance of Wilma Woods and Randy Doyle, between October 1990 and June 1991.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Correspondence, 1952-1962Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	A. Legislation	1953-1962
Box/Folder
1/1-17	Agriculture Committee 1069 items	1953-1962
1/18	Baker Bill 17 items	1953
1/19	Cattlemen's Association 7 items	1953
1/20	Cotton 8 items	1955
1/21	Farm Bill H.R.12 and farm subsidy 58 items	1955
1/22	Farm Bill 1 item	1959
1/23	Farm Bill 46 items	1962
2/24	Farm Bureau 2 items	1953
2/25	Food stamp plan 13 items	1953-1959
2/26	Forest Service 40 items	1953-1954
2/27	Forest Service, sustained yield 9 items	1953-1954
2/28	Forests 15 items	1955
2/29	Honey supports 6 items	1954
2/30	Lumber 66 items	1962
2/31	Metcalf Bill 18 items	1955-1956
2/32	Onion futures trading 18 items	1956
2/33	Potatoes 8 items	1955-1956
2/34	Price supports 59 items	1954
2/35	Rural Electrification Administration 4 items	1959
2/36	Soil bank plan 33 items	1956
2/37-39	Soil conservation 37 items	1954-1962
2/40	Sugar Bill 68 items	1956
2/41	Wheat quotas 13 items	1959-1960
2/42	Wool and wool growers 30 items	1953-1956
2/43-50	Appropriations Committee 260 items	1953-1962
2/51	Agriculture 7 items	1959
2/52	Agriculture, Forest Service 10 items	1957-1959
2/53	Budget 26 items	1959
2/54	Brucellosis research 4 items	1958
2/55	Bully Creek Dam 3 items	1957
2/56	Bonners Ferry-Troy transmission line 15 items	1953
2/57	Carrot research 18 items	1957-1959
2/58	Civil works program, 1st district, Idaho 1 item	1959
2/59	Defense cuts 1 item	1957
2/60	Dried bean research 1 item	1957
2/61	Farm weather service 1 item	1957
2/62	Farmers Home Administration 1 item	1957
2/63	Government expenditure 89 items	1957
3/64	Health 51 items	1955-1956
3/65	Health, Education and Welfare 14 items	1952-1959
3/66	John Day Dam 1 item	1957
3/67	Lake Coeur d'Alene survey for map 20 items	1958-1959
3/68	Library Services Bill 30 items	1958
3/69	Meat inspection 1 item	1959
3/70	National Defense Education Act 7 items	1959
3/71	Post Office 61 items	1957
3/72	Public works 2 items	1957
3/73	Roads 8 items	1953-1954
3/74	Silicosis research 6 items	1957
3/75	Soil conservation 9 items	1958-1959
3/76	Spruce Bark Beetle 21 items	1953
3/77	Timber 15 items	1955-1956
3/78	Tungsten 13 items	1957
3/79-82	Veterans Administration 181 items	1953-1962
3/83	Vocational education 14 items	1953-1954
3/84	Water pollution control 3 items	1957-1958
3/85	Weiser River flood control 13 items	1953
3/86	Wool 8 items	1957-1958
3/87-91	Armed Services Committee 136 items	1953-1962
3/92	Closing defense plants (Stratton bill H.R.2568) 2 items	1959
3/93	GI bill, peace time veterans 5 items	1959
3/94	National security training 98 items	1955
3/95	Orthodox church (S.106; H.R.360) 19 items	1955
3/96	Selective Service 4 items	1959
3/97	Universal military training, Against 64 items	1955
3/98	WAAC bill (S.2035) 3 items	1959
3/99	World War I veterans 1 item	1959
3/100-101	Atomic Energy Committee 58 items	1954-1959
3/102-109	Banking and Currency Committee 235 items	1953-1962
4/110	Financial Institutions Bill 2 items	1959
4/111	Free marketing of gold 19 items	1953-1955
4/112	Housing 17 items	1955-1956
4/113	Housing bills 16 items	1959
4/114-115	District of Columbia Committee 32 items	1953-1961
4/116-126	Education and Labor Committee 814 items	1953-1962
4/127-128	Fair labor standards act 37 items	1957-1959
4/129-131	Federal aid to education 108 items	1957-1959
4/132	Health 21 items	1955
4/133-134	Labor 67 items	1954-1956
5/135-136	Labor bill 253 items	1959
5/137	Middleton grange petition on NLRB 6 items	1953
5/138	Mine safety 27 items	1961
5/139	Minimum wage 8 items	1957
5/140	Minimum wage, Against 88 items	1961
5/141	Over 40 job discrimination 1 item	1958
5/142	School aid, For 119 items	1961
5/143	School aid, Against 138 items	1961
5/144	Taft-Hartley 48 items	1954
5/145	Taft-Hartley amendments 1 item	1957
5/146	Union racketeering 3 items	1959
5/147	Vocational rehabilitation 1 item	1957
5/148	Wage and hour law 15 items	1957
5/149	Youth Conservation Corps 19 items	1957-1959
5/150-159	Foreign Affairs Committee 384 items	1953-1962
5/160	Foundations Committee 76 items	1953-1955
5/161-165	Government Operations Committee 137 items	1953-1962
5/166	House Administration Committee 7 items	1953-1961
6/167-177	Interior and Insular Affairs 732 items	1953-1962
6/178	Alaska statehood 8 items	1957
6/179	Antimony on minerals purchase 3 items	1957
6/180	Bear River compact 33 items	1957-1958
6/181	Bradley mines 8 items	1953
6/182-184	Burns Creek 37 items	1957-1962
6/185	C-L Electric Company 1 item	1953-1954
6/186	Capitol building, Boise, Idaho 3 items	1957
6/187-188	Clearwater Dams 12 items	1954-1956
6/189	Coal carbonization 2 items	1957
6/190	Coal lease bill 2 items	1957
6/191	Cobalt 12 items	1959
6/192	Columbia Basin Act amendments 9 items	1957
6/193	Frying Pan, Arkansas, reclamation project 4 items	1957
6/194	Gold bill 31 items	1961-1962
6/195	Great Northern Railroad 2 items	1962
6/196	Guffey Dam 2 items	1957
6/197-198	Hawaiian Statehood 17 items	1957-1959
6/199-200	Hells Canyon petitions 34 items	1953-1958
6/201	Hells Canyon: out of state 80 items	1953-1956
7/202-224	Hells Canyon, A-Z 1095 items	1953-1957
8/225-228	Hells Canyon, Against, A-Z 202 items	1953-1956
8/229	Hells Canyon: Voice of the people 3 items	1953-1956
8/230	Hells Canyon, For 5 items	1954-1958
8/231-232	Hells Canyon, Against 144 items	1956-1957
8/233	Hells Canyon 6 items	1959
8/234-245	Hells Canyon, A-Z 590 items	1957-1958
8/246	Hells Canyon: Thank you notes to colleagues 20 items	1956
8/247	Humane trap bill 5 items	1957
8/248-251	Indian affairs 92 items	1953-1959
8/252-253	Irrigation and reclamation 53 items	1953-1960
8/254-262	Lead-Zinc 122 items	1953-1954
9/263-265	Lead-Zinc 72 items	1957-1958
9/266	Lead-Zinc barter program 70 items	1957-1958
9/267-270	Mines and mining 160 items	1953-1959
9/271	Mining and securities 4 items	1957-1958
9/272	Mountain Sheep-Pleasant Valley Dam 1 item	1957
9/273	National cemeteries 2 items	1959
9/274	National cemetery at Sarasota, Florida 12 items	1957
9/275	National forests 1 item	1957
9/276	National parks and forests 24 items	1960
9/277	National wilderness preservation system, HR.500 1 item	1957
9/278	Natural resources 4 items	1956-1957
9/279	Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 6 items	1957-1958
9/280	Paradise Dam, Montana 1 item	1957
9/281	Payment in lieu of taxes 1 item	1957
9/282-286	Public lands 125 items	1955-1961
9/287	Reclamation 8 items	1957-1959
9/288	St. Lawrence Seaway 2 items	1954
9/289	Tennessee Valley Authority 1 item	1957
9/290	Uniform grazing bill 112 items	1953-1954
9/291	Virgin Islands Organic Act, revised 1 item	1957
9/292	Water problems 8 items	1957
9/293	Whitman national monument 10 items	1957-1958
9/294-296	Wilderness bill 109 items	1957-1960
9/297-301	Wilderness bill, Against 350 items	1961-1962
10/302-303	Wilderness bill, Against 58 items	1961-1962
10/304-311	Wilderness bill, For 590 items	1961-1962
10/312	Wildlife 15 items	1954
10/313-321	Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee 532 items	1953-1962
11/322	Bryson Bill 7 items	1954
11/323	Federal Communications Commission, Against exemption 165 items	1958
11/324	Federal fair trade act 8 items	1959
11/325	Firearms act 1 item	1959
11/326	Food additives 1 item	1959
11/327	Food and drugs 3 items	1953-1954
11/328-329	Freight rate increase 42 items	1956-1957
11/330	Health 42 items	1954
11/331	H.R.5713 (Railway labor act amendment) 4 items	1953
11/332	Joint committee on printing 1 item	1959
11/333-348	Liquor advertising, Letters and petitions against 332 items	1953-1961
11/349	Natural gas act 16 items	1955-1956
11/350	Railroads 63 items	1960
11/351	Railroad relief, Petitions 71 items	1958
11/352-354	Railroad retirement 93 items	1954-1959
11/355	Railroad report, Against presidential commission railroad report 68 items	1962
11/356	Territories 28 items	1953-1954
11/357	Transportation 19 items	1956
11/358	Trip leasing contracts (H.R.3203) 26 items	1953-1954
11/359	Trucking bill 32 items	1957-1958
11/360	Truck taxes, For piggyback 59 items	1961
11/361-365	Television, Petitions and letters against pay as you see TV 369 items	1958
11/366	S.1089 & S.1197 (Railroad exemption), Against 19 items	1961
11/367	Trout labeling bill 1 item	1954
12/368-376	Judiciary Committee 483 items	1953-1962
12/377	Bricker amendment 32 items	1954-1956
12/378	Congressional and judicial pay raise 10 items	1953-1954
12/379	Contracts 16 items	1953-1954
12/380-381	Equal rights 85 items	1953-1955
12/382	Grandmothers' day 2 items	1954
12/383-386	Immigration and naturalization 30 items	1954-1960
12/387	Juvenile delinquency 9 items	1954-1955
12/388	McCarran-Walter bill 4 items	1953
12/389	Monopolies 39 items	1955-1956
12/390	Refugees 85 items	1957-1958
12/391	Tidelands Oil 20 items	1953
12/392	World War II veterans, Incorporate organizations 87 items	1957-1958
12/393	S.1917, Watkins bill 4 items	1953
12/394	S.2026, Henley Construction Company 7 items	1954-1956
12/395-396	Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee 20 items	1953-1962
12/397	Fisheries and Game 6 items	1962
12/398-403	Post Office and Civil Service Committee 262 items	1953-1959
13/404-407	Post Office and Civil Service Committee 275 items	1960-1962
13/408	Civil Service 5 items	1954
13/409	Disabled veterans (H.R.5404) 3 items	1953
13/410	Federal employees 14 items	1954
13/411-412	Federal employees pay raise 101 items	1955-1957
13/413	Life insurance for state agency employees 10 items	1957
13/414	Pensions 21 items	1954
13/415-416	Post Office 70 items	1953-1954
13/417	Postal employee form letters 43 items	1954-1957
13/418	Postal employees 14 items	1954-1956
13/419-426	Postal employees pay raise 262 items	1955-1960
13/427-428	Postal rates 170 items	1955-1958
13/429	Postal service 12 items	1955
13/430	Postmasters salaries 25 items	1955
13/431	Railroad retirement 20 items	1954
13/432	Retirement adjustment 10 items	1957
13/433-434	Retirement and pensions 113 items	1956-1960
13/435	Retirement bill thank you letters 11 items	1958
13/436	Scientific and professional classification act 8 items	1957
13/437	Selected topics 18 items	1957
14/438-444	Public Works Committee 167 items	1953-1962
14/445	Albeni Falls, Idaho 2 items	1957-1958
14/446	Billboard advertising on interstate highways 1 item	1957
14/447	Bruces Eddy Dam 16 items	1959
14/448	Bruces Eddy and Penny Cliffs Dams 55 items	1957-1958
14/449-450	Clearwater dams, Against 94 items	1954-1956
14/451	Clearwater dams, For 23 items	1954-1955
14/452	Columbia River Development Corporation (S.3114) 4 items	1959
14/453	Council reclamation project 8 items	1955
14/454	Davis-Bacon school construction 3 items	1956
14/455	Demolition of grange building 46 items	1957
14/456	Filtration bill 29 items	1954-1955
14/457	Highway bill petition 8 items	1955
14/458	Highway construction bill 1 item	1960
14/459	Highway improvement for northwest 2 items	1959
14/460	Lewis-Clark highway 31 items	1957-1958
14/461	Libby Dam 8 items	1955-1956
14/462	Mountain Sheep/Pleasant Valley 6 items	1956
14/463	Public power 23 items	1955-1956
14/464	Recession 6 items	1958
14/465	Reclamation 11 items	1955-1956
14/466	Residence for vice-president 2 items	1957
14/467	Rivers and harbors--water rights 34 items	1958
14/468-469	Roads 91 items	1956
14/470	Roads: Highway bill 46 items	1955
14/471	Tennessee Valley Authority 21 items	1959
14/472	Tennessee Valley Authority revenue bonds 3 items	1957-1958
14/473	Water conservation act 1 item	1957
14/474	Rules Committee 12 items	1959-1961
14/475	Un-American Activities Committee (H.R.53) 33 items	1959
14/476	Small Business, Select Committee on 3 items	1958
14/477	Space and Astronautics Committee 2 items	1960-1962
14/477-482	Un-American Activities Committee 185 items	1953-1962
14/483	Communism 13 items	1954-1959
14/484	Subversives 2 items	1954
14/485-486	Veterans Affairs Committee 77 items	1953-1954
15/487-495	Veterans Affairs Committee 628 items	1955-1962
15/496	Form letters 3 items	1956
15/497	Hearings 4 items	1954
15/498	Hoover commission report on veterans rights 46 items	1955
15/499	Optometry 12 items	1960
15/500-501	Pensions 125 items	1956
15/502	Pensions, Spanish-American War veterans 41 items	1956
15/503-514	Pensions, World War I veterans 609 items	1956-1962
15/515	Summary of Veterans Affairs Committee, 84th Congress 6 items	1955
15/516	World War I veterans security bill (H.R.4264) 2 items	1956
16/517-528	Ways and Means Committee 964 items	1953-1962
16/529	Congressional pay raise 12 items	1955
16/530	Federal spending 36 items	1959
16/531-533	Forand Bill (H.R.4700) 381 items	1959-1960
16/534	Foreign trade--Oil imports 2 items	1959
16/535	Keogh Bill (H.R.10) 75 items	1959
16/536	Liquor, Against 57 items	1959
17/537	Medical care for the aged: form letters 139 items	1962
17/538-539	Medical care for the aged, Against 214 items	1962
17/540	Medical care for the aged, For 25 items	1962
17/541	Narcotics 8 items	1956
17/542	Organization for trade cooperation 1 item	1957
17/543-545	Railroad retirement 25 items	1953-1956
17/546	Reciprocal trade agreements 28 items	1958
17/547-548	Road tax, Against 256 items	1961
17/549-560	Social Security 337 items	1953-1960
17/561	Social Security, Blind 3 items	1959
17/562-563	Social Security, Clergy 88 items	1954
17/564	Social Security, Self employed 57 items	1957-1958
17/565-568	Tariffs and trade 60 items	1954-1957
17/569-570	Taxation 80 items	1954-1956
18/571-573	Taxation 62 items	1957-1959
18/574	Taxes, Admissions 6 items	1953
18/575	Taxes, Cooperatives and credit unions 16 items	1953
18/576-577	Taxes, Cooperatives 48 items	1957-1959
18/578-581	Taxes, Excise 81 items	1953-1958
18/582	Taxes, Excise: Telephone 50 items	1959
18/583	Taxes, Freight; Insurance companies 6 items	1957-1958
18/584	Taxes, Gas 22 items	1959
18/585-587	Taxes, Income 59 items	1953-1958
18/588	Taxes, Internal revenue code amendment 11 items	1957-1958
18/589-590	Taxes, Transportation 107 items	1957-1958
18/591	Taxes, For tax cut 14 items	1962
18/592	Taxes, Tax deductions 7 items	1957-1958
18/593	Taxes, Tax deduction for civil defense workers 7 items	1957-1958
18/594	Taxes, Tax reduction for small business 20 items	1957-1958
18/595	Taxes, Tax revision for teachers 21 items	1957-1958
18/596-598	Townsend Plan 122 items	1953-1958
18/599	Trade agreements 23 items	1953
18/600-601	Unemployment benefits 21 items	1954-1958
18/602	Uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act 1 item	1957
18/603	Withholding tax, Against 59 items	1962
18/604	Wool import duties 16 items	1957-1958
18/605	Unanswered 15 items	1961
18/606-614	Unsorted 414 items	1953-1962
18/615	Unsorted, Housing 13 items	1954
18/616	Unsorted, Petitions 3 items	1957-1959
18/617	Unsorted, Voting rights for minors 1 item	1954
	B. Department	1953-1962
Box/Folder
19/618-633	Agriculture, Department of 574 items	1953-1962
19/634	Commodity Stabilization Service 2 items	1955
19/635-636	Farmers Home Administration 42 items	1953-1954
20/637-641	Farmers Home Administration 76 items	1957-1962
20/642-655	Forest Service 264 items	1953-1962
20/656	Forest Service: Paddy Flats Road 17 items	1955
20/657	Forest Service: Yellow Pine Road 3 items	1959
20/658	Idaho Seed Bank (Proposed) 2 items	1956
20/659	Milk price spread, Petition 3 items	1958
20/660	PMA (wheat allotment) 13 items	1953
20/661	Potatoes 12 items	1953-1954
20/662	Publications available 6 items	1953-1954
21/663-669	Rural Electrification Administration 112 items	1953-1962
21/670	Rural Electrification Administration: Cooperatives in Idaho 4 items	1954
21/671	Seed storage facility 29 items	1956
21/672-675	Soil Conservation Service 70 items	1953-1962
21/676	Trucking differential--grain storage 9 items	1956
21/677	Wheat program 10 items	1959
21/678-688	Air Force 192 items	1953-1962
21/659	Cottonwood Housing 34 items	1957
21/690	Mountain Home laundry 4 items	1953
21/691-694	Army 167 items	1953-1956
22/695-700	Army 163 items	1957-1962
22/701-713	Corps of Engineers 360 items	1953-1962
22/714	Corps of Engineers, Bruces Eddy Dam 12 items	1960-1961
23/715	Corps of Engineers: Cottonwood Road 5 items	1957
23/716	Corps of Engineers: Council reclamation project 12 items	1953-1955
23/717	Corps of Engineers: Libby Dam 8 items	1957
23/718	Corps of Engineers: Little Salmon flood control 9 items	1954-1956
23/719	Corps of Engineers Little Wood River project 11 items	1956
23/720	Corps of Engineers: Nez Perce Dam 13 items	1956-1959
23/721	Corps of Engineers: Peck, A.B. 8 items	1955
23/722	Corps of Engineers: Salmon River flood control - Dump Creek 10 items	1956-1957
23/723	National Guard 30 items	1957-1959
23/724	National Guard: 96th Division Association 12 items	1955-1956
23/725-730	Commerce, Department of 66 items	1953-1962
23/731	Air Space Committee 8 items	1957
23/732	Area Redevelopment Act 21 items	1961-1962
23/733-737	Bureau of Public Roads 91 items	1953-1963
23/738	Bureau of Public Roads: Federal construction of Highway 287, Petition 4 items	1959
23/739-740	Bureau of Public Roads: Lewis-Clark Highway 25 items	1955-1956
23/741	Bureau of Public Roads: Thompson Pass 6 items	1954
23/742	Bureau of Public Roads: Williams Creek Pass 7 items	1954
23/743-746	Census Bureau 31 items	1954-1960
23/747-751	Civil Aeronautics Administration 38 items	1953-1958
23/752	Patent Office 13 items	1954-1958
23/753	Weather Bureau 3 items	1957
23/754-759	Defense Department 45 items	1953-1962
23/760	Consolidate Pacific coast military shipping overseas at one port 1 item	1959
24/761-763	Executive: Civil and Defense Mobilization Office 16 items	1957-1961
24/764-766	Executive: White House 47 items	1953-1962
24/767-778	Health, Education and Welfare, Department of 311 items	1953-1962
24/779	Cancer 5 items	1954
24/780	Federal grants 78 items	1960-1962
24/781-783	Food and Drug Administration 46 items	1953-1959
24/784	National Institutes of Health 2 items	1955
24/785	Office of Education 9 items	1958
24/786	Polycultural University of America 8 items	1953-1955
24/787-789	Public Health Service 47 items	1953-1958
24/790-793	Social Security Administration 72 items	1956-1959
25/794-796	Social Security Administration 89 items	1960-1962
25/797-799	Surplus property program 78 items	1956-1958
25/800-808	Interior, Department of 188 items	1953-1962
25/809-810	Bonneville Power Administration 14 items	1955-1959
25/811-817	Bureau of Indian Affairs 124 items	1953-1959
26/818-820	Bureau of Indian Affairs 58 items	1960-1962
26/821-832	Bureau of Land Management 257 items	1953-1962
26/834	Bureau of Land Management: Against forest land withdrawal 18 items	1959
26/835	Bureau of Land Management: Bear Valley land withdrawal 3 items	1957
26/836	Bureau of Land Management: Commodity Credit Corporation 3 items	1954-1955
26/837-840	Bureau of Mines 23 items	1953-1959
26/841-846	Bureau of Reclamation 95 items	1953-1960
27/847-848	Bureau of Reclamation 25 items	1961-1962
27/849	Bureau of Reclamation: Avondale-Dalton project 35 items	1953-1954
27/850	Bureau of Reclamation: Guffey plan 3 items	1957
27/851	Bureau of Reclamation: North side Minidoka project 5 items	1953
27/852	Bureau of Reclamation: Rathdrum Prairie project, Hayden Lake unit 1 item	1956
27/853	Bureau of Reclamation: soil conservation 4 items	1955-1956
27/854	Defense Minerals Exploration Administration 9 items	1953
27/855-857	Fish and Wildlife Service 40 items	1955-1960
27/858	Geological Survey 5 items	1957-1958
27/859-861	National Park Service 48 items	1955-1962
27/862	Water Resources 1 item	1959
27/863-868	Justice, Department of 44 items	1953-1962
27/869-873	Immigration and Naturalization Service 55 items	1953-1961
27/874	Immigration and Naturalization Service: Bakony Case 10 items	1956-1957
27/875	Immigration and Naturalization Service: New citizens 13 items	1960-1962
27/876	Onion futures 2 items	1959-1960
27/877-883	Labor, Department of 102 items	1953-1962
27/884-886	Bureau of Employees Compensation 16 items	1957-1959
27/887	Bureau of Employment Security 5 items	1957
27/888-892	Navy, Department of the 66 items	1953-1957
28/893-897	Navy, Department of the 60 items	1958-1963
28/898	Bureau of Naval Personnel 3 items	1958
28/899-900	Marine Corps 7 items	1954-1959
28/901-903	Pocatello Ordinance Plant 138 items	1954-1960
28/904	Sahwave-Black Rock gunnery withdrawal 17 items	1957-1958
28/905	Spokane Naval Supply Depot 41 items	1954-1956
28/906-921	Post Office Department 424 items	1954-1961
29/922	Post Office Department 38 items	1962
29/923	Bowmont 5 items	1953-1954
29/924	Broten 5 items	1954
29/925	Cameron 1 item	1955
29/926	Careywood 7 items	1954
29/927	Chilley 1 item	1958
29/928	Clagstone 1 item	1955
29/929	Clearwater 7 items	1954
29/930	Cocolalla 14 items	1954
29/931	Corral 3 items	1953
29/932	Culdesac: removal of Rohrman 24 items	1955
29/933	Cuprum 12 items	1953
29/934	Driggs 7 items	1950-1953
29/935	Fenn 13 items	1954-1957
29/936	Foster Grave Road (out of Cottonwood) 16 items	1954
29/937	Gibbs 9 items	1954-1957
29/938	Grangeville-Lewiston 1 item	1954
29/939	Granile 5 items	1954
29/940	Greencreek 10 items	1954
29/941	Greenleaf 26 items	1953
29/942	Hayden Lake 11 items	1959
29/943	Headquarters: Petition 9 items	1957
29/944	Hope: bids for Hope post office 8 items	1962
29/945	Juliaetta: Petition 13 items	1957
29/946	Kamiah: railroad from Kamiah to Glenwood 19 items	1954
29/947	Kooskia: Circle route #2 9 items	1954
29/948	Lenore 9 items	1959
29/949	Lucile 4 items	1953
29/950	Meadows 6 items	1953
29/951	Medimont 19 items	1954
29/952	Middleton 6 items	1954
29/953	Mohler 8 items	1954
29/954	Montour 4 items	1958
29/955	Moscow 17 items	1953
29/956	Moscow-Lewiston mail petition 12 items	1956-1957
29/957	Moyie Springs 2 items	1955
29/958	Myrtle 1 item	1954
29/959-963	North Central Idaho mail change 110 items	1955
29/964	Parma 12 items	1957
29/965	Plummer 1 item	1955
29/966	Pollock 6 items	1953
29/967	Potlatch 3 items	1953
29/968	Roswell 6 items	1954
29/969	Spalding 10 items	1954
29/970	Sweetwater 4 items	1954-1955
29/971	Springston 22 items	1954
29/972	Triangle (Twin Falls Route #2) 10 items	1953-1955
29/973	Twin Falls (R.F.D. route) 5 items	1954
29/974	Conversion and discontinuance 6 items	1958-1959
29/975	Notices of examinations 8 items	1955
29/976	Rural carriers 6 items	1958
29/977	Rural route extensions 5 items	1959
29/978	Star route, Sandpoint to Carreywood 2 items	1955-1956
29/979	Tish Erb case 2 items	1953
29/980-989	State Department 209 items	1953-1962
30/990	Refugee relief act 6 items	1955-1956
30/991-992	Visas and passports 8 items	1957-1959
30/993-1000	Treasury Department 62 items	1954-1962
30/1001	Bureau of Customs 3 items	1960
30/1002	Coast Guard 1 item	1957
30/1003-1007	Internal Revenue Service 91 items	1953-1959
30/1008	Unsorted 16 items	1953-1962
	C. Independent Agency	1953-1962
Box/Folder
30/1009	Alcohol Beverage Control Board 4 items	1953
30/1010-1016	Atomic Energy Commission 122 items	1953-1962
30/1017	Budget Director 1 item	1959
30/1018	Central Intelligence Agency 1 item	1956
30/1019-1023	Civil Aeronautics Board 60 items	1955-1961
30/1024-1030	Civil Service Commission 63 items	1953-1962
30/1031	Community Facilities Administration 1 item	1962
30/1032	Development Loan Fund 1 item	1959
30/1033	District of Columbia Commission 1 item	1960
30/1034	Doorkeeper 8 items	1954-1959
30/1035	Employment Service 1 item	1961
30/1036-1037	Federal Aviation Agency 36 items	1960-1962
30/1038-1039	Federal Civil Defense Administration 13 items	1955-1958
30/1040-1044	Federal Communications Commission 53 items	1953-1957
31/1045-1048	Federal Communications Commission 69 items	1958-1962
31/1049	Against licensing TV boosters 13 items	1959
31/1050	Orchards Community TV Association 45 items	1955
31/1051	TV booster stations 14 items	1959
31/1052	TV reception in Lewiston area 30 items	1956-1957
31/1053	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 23 items	1955
31/1054	Federal Home Loan Bank 14 items	1962
31/1055-1058	Federal Housing Administration 40 items	1953-1962
31/1059-1063	Federal Power Commission 66 items	1953-1962
31/1064	Pacific Northwest pipeline 25 items	1953-1954
31/1065	Federal Reserve System 1 item	1959
31/1066-1069	Federal Trade Commission 31 items	1953-1962
31/1070-1071	Foreign Claims Settlement Commission: War claims 61 items	1954-1957
31/1072	Foreign Operations Office 1 item	1955
31/1073	General Accounting Office 1 item	1954
31/1074	Comptroller General 7 items	1958-1960
31/1075-1079	General Services Administration 68 items	1953-1962
31/1080	Mica buying depot 16 items	1957
31/1081	Government Printing Office 4 items	1958
31/1082-1084	Housing and Home Finance Agency 6 items	1953-1955
31/1085	International Cooperation Administration 11 items	1958-1961
31/1086-1091	Interstate Commerce Commission 65 items	1953-1962
31/1092	Local bus service in North Idaho 3 items	1961
31/1093-1094	Library of Congress 51 items	1957-1961
31/1095	Maritime Commission 2 items	1953
31/1096	Mental Health Commission 1 item	1957
32/1097	National Gallery of Art 1 item	1957
32/1098	National Labor Relations Board 2 items	1958-1961
32/1099	National Mediation Board 1 item	1958
32/1100	National Production Administration 2 items	1953
32/1101	National Science Foundation 5 items	1956-1958
32/1102	Peace Corps 2 items	1961
32/1103	President's Council on Youth Fitness 1 item	1961
32/1104	Price Stabilization, Office of 1 item	1952
32/1105-1107	Public Housing Administration 8 items	1954-1962
32/1108	Caldwell Labor Camp 8 items	1954
32/1109	Mullan Park 7 items	1953
32/1110	Railroad Retirement Board 4 items	1957-1962
32/1111	Reconstruction Finance Corporation 7 items	1953-1957
32/1112-1114	Securities and Exchange Commission 25 items	1953-1959
32/1115-1116	Selective Service System 19 items	1953-1962
32/1117-1124	Small Business Administration 163 items	1954-1962
32/1125	Moffett Lumber Company 12 items	1960
32/1126	Smithsonian Institution 1 item	1955
32/1127	Surplus Property Utilization 1 item	1960
32/1128	Tennessee Valley Authority 5 items	1955-1959
32/1129	United States Information Agency 4 items	1954-1961
32/1130-1132	United States Tariff Commission 35 items	1955-1960
32/1133	Alsike clover seed 27 items	1959
32/1134-1141	Veterans Administration 104 items	1953-1957
33/1142-1148	Veterans Administration 145 items	1958-1962
33/1149-1150	Boise Hospital 108 items	1955
	D. General	1953-1962
Box/Folder
33/1151	American Enterprise Association 1 item	1959
33/1152-1155	Applications: General 140 items	1954-1961
33/1156	Applications: Federal Judge 1 item	1961
33/1157	Applications: Chaphe, Franklin G. 15 items	1955-1956
33/1158	Applications: U.S. District Attorney 6 items	1961
33/1159	Applications: U.S. Marshall 23 items	1960-1961
33/1160	Appointments: Idaho State Advisory Committee 1 item	1962
33/1161	Architect of the Capitol 3 items	1955
33/1162	Army-Navy tickets 3 items	1959
33/1163	Calendars 9 items	1954-1962
33/1164	Capitol Hill Pages 1 item	1957
33/1165	Cattlemen's Association resolutions 2 items	1957-1959
33/1166	Clerk of the House 52 items	1953-1960
33/1167-1169	Colleagues 219 items	1953-1962
33/1170-1171	Communism 17 items	1954-1962
33/1172	Condolences and sympathy 38 items	1954-1961
33/1173-1177	Congratulations and greetings 309 items	1953-1961
34/1178	Congressional Directory 32 items	1953-1960
34/1179	Congressional Record 106 items	1956-1962
34/1180	Constituent positions 2 items	1959
34/1181-1183	Constituent services 150 items	1953-1958
34/1184	Contributions from GP 4 items	1956-1957
34/1185	Cuba 3 items	1959
34/1186	Delegations 6 items	1956
34/1187	Democratic Breakfast Club 28 items	1953-1955
34/1188	Democratic Caucus 20 items	1954-1955
34/1189	Democratic National Committee 10 items	1956-1959
34/1190	Democratic Program 3 items	1957
34/1191	Democrats 1 item	1962
34/1192	Employment 1 item	1962
34/1193	Equipment 13 items	1952-1958
34/1194-1197	Folding Room 124 items	1953-1962
34/1198-1209	Form letters and sample letters 808 items	1953-1962
34/1210-1215	Graduation: school lists, certificates, and letters of congratulation 113 items	1953-1960
34/1216	Aged, Medical aid to 13 items	1961-1962
34/1217	Agriculture: farm bill 17 items	1961-1962
34/1218	Alcoholic beverages 28 items	1959-1961
34/1219	Bonneville Power 2 items	1961
34/1220	Burns Creek 24 items	1960-1961
34/1221	Common Situs 1 item	1961
34/1222	Communism 5 items	1961-1962
34/1223	Education, Aid to 40 items	1960-1961
34/1224	Federal Communications Commission 1 item	1961
34/1225	Foreign aid 11 items	1960-1961
34/1226	Gold bill 5 items	1961
34/1227	Highways, Federal 1 item	1961
34/1228	Lead-Zinc 5 items	1960-1961
34/1229	Mail petition 4 items	1956
34/1230	Minimum wage 12 items	1960-1961
34/1231	Nepotism 1 item	1961
34/1232	Piggyback and road taxes 3 items	1961
34/1233	Postal increase 3 items	1960-1962
34/1234	Requests 10 items	1961
34/1235	Service Academies 2 items	1961-1962
34/1236	Small business ballot letters 27 items	1957-1960
34/1237	Social security 2 items	1961
34/1238	Sugar act 1 item	1961
34/1239	Tax on dividends 3 items	1962
34/1240	Veterans 30 items	1960-1961
34/1241	Wheat 10 items	1960
34/1242	Wilderness bill 12 items	1961-1962
34/1243	Wool act 2 items	1961
34/1244	Youth Conservation Corps 4 items	1961
35/1245-1246	General 40 items	1959-1963
35/1247	Idaho Democrat (newspaper) 2 items	1961-1962
35/1248-1263	Idaho State Matters 728 items	1954-1961
36/1264-1270	Idaho State Matters 300 items	1961-1962
36/1271	Against communism, Castro, etc. 60 items	1961
36/1272	Dr. Distler case 11 items	1957
36/1273	Drivers license applications 2 items	1955
36/1274	Federal building for Boise 3 items	1961
36/1275	Game waste 5 items	1962
36/1276	Idaho National Guard 20 items	1962
36/1277	Initiative 63 items	1954
36/1278	Water rights (S.B.113) 7 items	1955
36/1279	Idaho Territorial centennial 20 items	1959-1961
36/1280	Impossible file 53 items	1962
36/1281	Investigations 3 items	1954
36/1282-1290	Invitations 536 items	1953-1958
37/1291-1295	Invitations 232 items	1959-1962
37/1296	"Keep Congress in session" 21 items	1961
37/1297	League of Women Voters 1 item	1959
37/1298	Legislative Reference 3 items	1962
37/1299-1300	Library of Congress 61 items	1955-1962
37/1301	Literature: Brigham Young 4 items	1953-1954
37/1302-1303	Literature: Publications sent to GP 77 items	1953-1959
37/1304	Lower Wood River: Army engineers 2 items	1956
37/1305	Material sent to chiefs of police 5 items	1954
37/1306	Messages received by and sent to GP 12 items	1957
37/1307-1314	Miscellaneous 271 items	1954-1962
37/1315	National Federation of Business and Professional Women 1 item	1959
37/1316	National Rural Electric Cooperative Association 5 items	1952
37/1317	National Rural Letter Carriers' Association 1 item	1959
37/1318	Newsletter correspondence 17 items	1960
37/1319	Nutri-Bio meetings 2 items	1959
37/1320-1322	Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 38 items	1958-1962
37/1323	Patronage 12 items	1955-1959
37/1324-1327	Pending 75 items	1961-1962
37/1328	Petitions 36 items	1960-1962
37/1329	Communism 1 item	1954
37/1330	East Fork Bridge (Valley County) 2 items	1956
37/1331	Paddy Flats Road 2 items	1955
37/1332	Petitions not answered 26 items	1961
38/1333	Post Office Applications: General 16 items	1961-1962
38/1334-1394	Post Office Applications: Alphabetical by town 478 items	1960-1962
38/1395-1296	Postmaster requests (for correction of names) 118 items	1954-1955
38/1397	Power of Supreme Court 1 item	1969
38/1398	Priest Lake land leases 1 item	1962
38/1399	Prisoners of war 2 items	1956
38/1400	Projects file 3 items	1961
38/1401	Public Power Committee 6 items	1955
38/1402	Publications, miscellaneous 18 items	1955-1957
38/1403	Receipts 2 items	1954
38/1404-1405	Recommendations 17 items	1953-1959
38/1406	Referrals 12 items	1961
38/1407-1409	Requests 236 items	1960
39/1410-1412	Agricultural Yearbooks 254 items	1953-1960
39/1413	Baby books 8 items	1954-1959
39/1414	The Capitol 6 items	1960
39/1415	City officials 14 items	1953
39/1416	Cookbooks 10 items	1954
39/1417	Congressional Record 44 items	1955
39/1418-1419	From Gracie Pfost 64 items	1953-1959
39/1420	Library of Congress 27 items	1953-1954
39/1421	Our laws and how they are made 15 items	1955
39/1422	Photographs and autographs 15 items	1954-1959
39/1423-1425	Students 107 items	1960-1961
39/1426	Our American Government; American creed 81 items	1961
39/1427	To Gracie Pfost 65 items	1953-1961
39/1428	Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee 1 item	1957
39/1429	Sergeant at Arms 13 items	1953-1957
39/1430	Service Academies: Forms 7 items	undated
39/1431-1443	Service Academies: General 266 items	1953-1962
39/1444	Service Academies: General, not first district 6 items	1962
39/1445	Air Force Academy 22 items	1953-1959
39/1446-1452	Annapolis (Naval Academy) 84 items	1953-1959
39/1453	Merchant Marine Academy 8 items	1956
39/1454-1457	West Point (Military Academy) 70 items	1953-1958
40/1458	Small business ballots: General information 9 items	1953-1955
40/1459-1466	Small business ballots: Individual returns 48 items	1953-1961
40/1467-1470	Small business ballots: Tabulations 197 items	1953-1962
40/1471	Small business letter: list of those receiving 3 items	1958-1960
40/1472	Stamps 19 items	1953-1956
40/1473	Subsidies 2 items	1954
40/1474	Supreme court 1 item	1962
40/1475-1480	Telegrams 1014 items	1955-1961
40/1481	Television 17 items	1958-1959
40/1482	Tennessee Valley Public Power Association 3 items	1957-1960
40/1483-1486	Thank you letters 348 items	1953-1956
41/1487-1491	Thank you letters 369 items	1957-1962
41/1492	Tickets: Football 10 items	1954-1956
41/1493	Townsend plan, Payette petition 10 items	1955-1957
41/1494	Treaties 3 items	1954
41/1495	Unanswered mail 63 items	1962
41/1496	United Nations 14 items	1953-1962
41/1497	Unsorted mail 49 items	1959-1961
41/1498	Visitors 1 item	1958
	E. Personal and Other	1950-1962
Box/Folder
41/1499-1511	Personal 640 items	1952-1962
41/1512-1516	Personal, A-E 218 items	1953-1958
42/1517-1531	Personal, F-Z 646 items	1953-1958
42/1532-1550	Personal, A-Z 209 items	1959-1962
42/1551	Birthday wishes 3 items	1961
42/1552	Crackpot 12 items	1953-1962
42/1553	Christmas cards 9 items	1954-1956
42/1554	Family 60 items	1952-1956
42/1555	From government offices 16 items	1958-1962
42/1556	Minerals 7 items	1952-1956
42/1557	Pfost, Jack 6 items	1955-1956
42/1558	Illness 15 items	1955
42/1559	Get well cards and letters 56 items	1955-1956
42/1560	Patent material 9 items	1960
42/1561-1563	Sourdough 167 items	1953-1962
43/1564	Thank you letters 2 items	1962
43/1565	Thanks from Cub Scouts 10 items	1959
43/1566-1575	Wilson, Asher B. 497 items	1953-1960
43/1576-1596	Political correspondence 762 items	1950-1956
44/1597-1606	Political correspondence 410 items	1956-1960
44/1607	Democratic National Committee 37 items	1950-1952
44/1608	Hedges and Pledges 187 items	1953
44/1609-1613	Publicity 198 items	1953-1958
44/1614-1615	Sent to Nampa 81 items	1953-1954
44/1616-1618	Unanswered 97 items	1960-1961
44/1619-1622	Unsorted 136 items	1957-1962

Series II. Legislative, 1952-1962Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	A. Gracie Pfost's Contributions	1953-1962
Box/Folder
44/1623-1628	Statements to Committees 106 items	1953-1958
45/1629-1632	Statements to Committees 34 items	1959-1962
45/1633-1642	Congressional Record inserts 218 items	1953-1962
45/1643-1652	Floor statements 124 items	1953-1962
45/1653	Bills introduced by GP, 83rd Congress 20 items	1953-1954
45/1654	H.R.4707, Lee Yim Quon relief 23 items	1953-1954
45/1655	H.R.5704, Mining assessment change of date 36 items	1953-1955
45/1656	H.R.6156 & H.R.6912, Gold bills 6 items	1953-1954
45/1657	H.R.6543, To create a United States Department of Mineral Resources 5 items	1953-1955
45/1658	H.R.6654, Mine incentive payment 28 items	1953-1954
45/1659	H.R.7031, Mrs. George Meffan relief 33 items	1953-1954
45/1660	H.R.8007, Price supports--milk 3 items	1954
45/1661	H.R.8558, Price supports--dairy products 5 items	1954
45/1662	H.Con.Res.212, Indians 11 items	1954
45/1663	H.J.Res.482, Investigation of gold mining industry 8 items	1954
45/1664	Bills introduced by GP, 84th Congress 35 items	1955-1956
45/1665	H.R.1331, Luigi Tozzi 22 items	1953-1955
45/1666	H.R.2423, Sandpoint sewage disposal plant 20 items	1955-1956
45/1667	H.R.4690, Relief for the city of Priest River 35 items	1955
45/1668	H.R.4719, To authorize construction of Hells Canyon Dam 4 items	1955
45/1669	H.R.5261, To amend domestic minerals program extension act of 1953 10 items	1955
45/1670	H.R.5411, To amend the sugar act 7 items	1955
45/1671	H.R.5904, Postal pay raise 3 items	1955
45/1672	H.R.8068, Relief of Elma Agnes Gibson Hollingsworth 25 items	1955
45/1673	H.R.9916, Free marketing of newly mined gold 14 items	1956
45/1674	H.R.9918, Riverside Irrigation District 18 items	1955-1956
45/1675	H.R.9999, Strategic minerals bill 3 items	1956
45/1676	H.R.10257, H.R.10316, & H.R.10317, Amend organic act of Virgin Islands 5 items	1956
45/1677	H.R.10346, Hayden Lake unit Rathdrum Prairie 18 items	1956
45/1678	H.R.10347, Domestic antimony purchase program act 4 items	1956
45/1679	H.R.11381, Cascade Reservoir, sale of certain lands for community development, Boise Federal Reclamation Project 5 items	1956
45/1680	H.R.11604, H.R.11632, & H.R. 11894, Tungsten, asbestos, fluorspar, and columbium-tantalum production and purchase act 18 items	1956
45/1681	H.R.12437, Amend federal power act 2 items	1956
45/1682	H.J.Res.545, Lewis and Clark national tourway 5 items	1956
45/1683	H.J.Res.578, Investigation of gold mining industry 3 items	1956
45/1684	Bills introduced by GP, 85th Congress 32 items	1957-1958
45/1685	H.R.5, Hells Canyon 2 items	1957
45/1686	H.R.375, Free marketing of gold 47 items	1957-1958
45/1687-1689	H.R.376, Onion futures 191 items	1957-1958
46/1690	H.J.Res.74, Investigate gold mining industry 3 items	1957
46/1691-1693	H.R.607, Retirement increases 70 items	1957-1958
46/1694-1696	H.R.1209, Retirement increases 248 items	1957-1958
46/1697	H.R.3682, Palisades 7 items	1958-1959
46/1698	H.R.3860, 5,000 acre limit on public land withdrawals 5 items	1957
46/1699	H.R.3955, Indian tribal lands 10 items	1957
46/1700	H.R.4616, Authorize funds for roads under Federal Highway Act 11 items	1957
46/1701	H.R.4819, National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 6 items	1958
46/1702	H.R.6512, To prohibit exportation of national forest timber 13 items	1957
46/1703	H.R.8307, Import taxes on lead and zinc 12 items	1957
46/1704	H.R.9323, To prohibit government agencies from acquiring or using national grange headquarters 25 items	1957-1958
46/1705	H.R.9696, To support the price of milk 50 items	1958
46/1706	H.R.9973, To extend the National Wool Act of 1954 40 items	1958
46/1707	H.R.10086, To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 4 items	1958
46/1708	H.R.10245, To add certain lands to Boise and Payette National Forests 6 items	1958
46/1709	H.R.10285, Federal Aid Highway Act 6 items	1957-1958
46/1710	H.R.10384, Withdrawal of public lands 5 items	1956
46/1711	H.R.13228, Mineral production stabilization 37 items	1958
46/1712	Bills introduced by GP, 86th Congress 53 items	1959-1960
46/1713	H.R.2497, Add lands to Boise and Payette National Forests 5 items	1959
46/1714	H.R.3057, Free marketing of newly mined gold 3 items	1959
46/1715	H.R.3192, Amend REA reorganization plan number 2 of 1953 7 items	1959
46/1716	H.R.3349, Price support for milk and butterfat products 5 items	1959
46/1717	H.R.3395, To direct the Secretary of the Interior to administer certain acquired lands 2 items	1959
46/1718	H.R.3496, To revise the boundaries of the Kings' Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina 2 items	1959
46/1719	H.R.3682, Caribou and Targhee National Forests 5 items	1959
46/1720	H.R.3743, Rural television reception--Community Television Bureau/FCC 5 items	1959
46/1721	HR.3744, Youth Conservation Corps 8 items	1959
46/1722	H.R.3915, Domestic Cobalt industry 4 items	1959
46/1723	H.R.4604, Withdrawal public lands/water rights 3 items	1959
46/1724	H.R.6110, Amend flood control act of 1950 re: Libby Dam 2 items	1959
46/1725	H.R.6259, Stabilize domestic market prices, lead-zinc 2 items	1959
46/1726	H.R.6926, Transmission of electric power 3 items	1959
46/1727	H.R.7339, Authorize use of funds arising from a judgment in favor of the Coeur d'Alene tribe 3 items	1959
46/1728	H.R.7956, Nez Perce reservation 1 item	1959
46/1729	H.R.8234, Federal land to Nez Perce Indian tribe 5 items	1959
46/1730	H.R.9288, Mann Creek federal reclamation project 2 items	1959
46/1731	H.R.9366, Milk program for children 11 items	1960
46/1732	H.Con.Res.180, Domestic mining and mineral industries 13 items	1959
46/1733	H.J.Res.635, Senior Citizens Month 5 items	1960
46/1734	H.R.3683, Pacific Northwest Account 2 items	1960
46/1735	H.R.3915, Domestic cobalt industry 2 items	1960
46/1736	H.R.10364, Family farm income act 3 items	1960
46/7137	H.R.10824, Appropriation of funds for Federal Highway Act 36 items	1960
46/1738	H.R.11786, Import taxes on lead and zinc 2 items	1960
46/1739	Bills introduced by GP, 87th Congress 35 items	1961-1962
46/1740	H.R.36, Burns Creek 1 item	1961
46/1741	H.R.3898, To authorize funds arising from a judgment for the Nez Perce tribe 2 items	1961
46/1742	H.J.Res.364, Equal rights 11 items	1961
46/1743	H.R.11265, Northwest preference (electric consumers) 6 items	1962
46/1744	H.R.11699, Forest roads and trails 6 items	1962
46/1745	H.R.12475, Lumber problems 15 items	1962
	B. Committee Files	1953-1962
Box/Folder
47/1746	List of standing committees of the House 2 items	1956-1961
47/1747	Regulations for standing, special and select committees 1 item	1960
47/1748	Government Operations Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources 6 items	1954-1956
47/1749-1753	Interior and Insular Affairs Committee 78 items	1953-1962
47/1754-1757	Bills, resumes, notices 85 items	1953-1962
47/1758	Committee press releases 6 items	1960-1961
47/1759	Committee members 2 items	1953-1956
47/1760	Alaska 13 items	1955
47/1761	Arrowrock Division, Boise project 10 items	1956
47/1762	Bent's Old Fort (H.R.6851) 5 items	1959-1960
47/1763	Black Canyon irrigation project 18 items	1954
47/1764	Bureau of Reclamation background data 1 item	1953
47/1765	Castillo de San Marcos national monument (H.R.8226) 4 items	1959-1960
47/1766	Columbia Basin Act (H.R.4802) 4 items	1956-1957
47/1767	Echo Park Dam 38 items	1954-1955
47/1768	Frying Pan-Arkansas project 9 items	1953-1956
47/1769-1770	Hells Canyon Proxies 72 items	1953-1958
47/1771	Ionics (desalting water) 6 items	1953
47/1772	Michaud Flats project 7 items	1954-1956
47/1773-1774	Montana earthquake 32 items	1959
47/1775	Mountain Home irrigation project 1 item	1953
47/1776	Pleasant Valley dam 6 items	1955-1956
47/1777	Public power 7 items	1954-1956
47/1778	Puerto Rico 22 items	1959
47/1779	Spokane Valley irrigation 15 items	1961
47/1780	Territories 49 items	1955-1956
47/1781	Trips 25 items	1953-1962
47/1782-1784	Upper Colorado River Basin Project 35 items	1953-1956
47/1785	Virgin Islands 20 items	1955-1959
47/1786	Water rights settlement act 12 items	1956
48/1787	Irrigation and Reclamation Subcommittee 15 items	1956-1957
48/1788	Columbia Basin Account 20 items	1959-1960
48/1789	Burns Creek 4 items	1961-1962
48/1790	Public power 34 items	1962
48/1791	Water rights 6 items	1959
48/1792	Mines and Mining Subcommittee 2 items	1957
48/1793-1794	Cobalt 38 items	1959
48/1795	Gold 22 items	1961
48/1796	Lead-Zinc 6 items	1959-1961
48/1797-1801	Public Lands Subcommittee 155 items	1953-1962
48/1802	Bills referred 16 items	1957
48/1803-1804	C & O Canal national historic park 56 items	1959
48/1805	Payment in lieu of taxes 8 items	1955-1956
48/1806	Squatter problem, Colorado River 2 items	1959
48/1807	St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia 30 items	1956
48/1808	Wilderness 36 items	1961-1962
48/1809	Western Trip 29 items	1959
48/1810	Post Office and Civil Service Committee 30 items	1955-1960
48/1811	Hearings and Reports 20 items	1954-1957
48/1812	Mrs. Pfost's report on S.3315 (amendment to Civil Service Retirement Act) 4 items	1956
48/1813-1815	Manpower Utilization Subcommittee 53 items	1955-1957
48/1816	Reports 4 items	1956-1958
48/1817	Retirement Subcommittee 3 items	1957
48/1818	Public Works Committee 21 items	1958-1959
48/1819	Special Committee to investigate tax exempt foundations 47 items	1953-1954
	C. Subject	1952-1962
Box/Folder
48/1820	Agriculture 27 items	1954-1960
48/1821	Albeni Falls 4 items	1955-1958
48/1822	Al Serena case 8 items	1956
48/1823	Atomic energy 4 items	1954
48/1824	Avondale & Dalton irrigation districts 19 items	1961
49/1825-1826	Bonneville Power Administration 11 items	1953-1961
49/1827-1829	Bruces Eddy Dam 86 items	1954-1958
49/1830	Burns Creek 10 items	1956-1962
49/1831	C & O Canal 30 items	1957-1958
49/1832	Colorado River transmission lines 3 items	1962
49/1833	Columbia basin 4 items	1957-1961
49/1834	Committee for an effective congress 7 items	1954-1956
49/1835	Conservation of migratory fish 6 items	1959
49/1836	Council project 4 items	1953
49/1837	Dams 16 items	1954-1957
49/1838	Education 3 items	1960
49/1839	Emergency lead-zinc committee 3 items	1962
49/1840	Equal pay 6 items	1962
49/1841	Equal rights amendment 40 items	1953-1961
49/1842	Everglades national park 14 items	1957-1958
49/1843	Export origin study, Idaho 2 items	1962
49/1844	Family farm program 10 items	1957-1960
49/1845	Farm subsidy 15 items	1953-1956
49/1846	Federal grants in aid, Washington and Oregon 4 items	1954
49/1847	Federal range code, Helmick case 2 items	1955
49/1848	Feed grain and livestock data 5 items	1962
49/1849	Flood control 3 items	1958-1962
49/1850	Food certificate amendment 7 items	1956
49/1851	Food stamp bill 6 items	1958
49/1852	Foreign aid 4 items	1959
49/1853	Forest access roads 3 items	1958
49/1854	Forests (map) 1 item	1953
49/1855	Gas; natural gas bill 2 items	1955
49/1856	German bond 7 items	1953
49/1857-1858	Gore Access roads, Lewis-Clark highway 33 items	1957
49/1859	Government subsidies 3 items	1954-1957
49/1860	Guam 1 item	1961
49/1861	Guffey Dam 6 items	1955-1960
49/1862-1869	Hells Canyon, General 134 items	1952-1958
49/1870	Brochures 17 items	1953-1958
49/1871-1873	Brownlee Dam 18 items	1956-1958
49/1874-1876	Congressional Record inserts 28 items	1952-1957
49/1877-1879	Correspondence 44 items	1951-1954
50/1880-1883	Correspondence 89 items	1955-1958
50/1884	Correspondence: Interior and Insular Affairs Committee 6 items	1955-1958
50/1885	Correspondence: Lee Metcalf letters 13 items	1953
50/1886	Correspondence: Voice of the people responses 14 items	1953
50/1887	Data and maps 16 items	1952-1955
50/1888-1889	Department of Interior material 25 items	1948-1957
50/1890	Federal Power Commission material 19 items	1953-1954
50/1891	Hearings Weekly Roundup 8 items	1954
50/1892	Hells Canyon Association 29 items	1951-1958
50/1893	Idaho Power Company 28 items	1953-1958
50/1894-1896	Legal opinions and briefs 28 items	1953-1957
50/1897-1905	Newspaper clippings 328 items	1951-1960
50/1906	Pacific supply cooperative material 2 items	1952
50/1907	Photographs 21 items	1956
50/1908	Publication: "The development of the Snake River projects" 1 item	1955
50/1909	Publications about Hells Canyon 4 items	1953-1957
50/1910-1911	San Francisco REA meeting, material for 67 items	1953
51/1912-1923	Speeches, statements, testimony, etc. 204 items	1952-1958
51/1924	Washington Post editorials 4 items	1953
51/1925	Hells Canyon Scenic Area 1 item	1962
51/1926	Highway statistics (Haynes & Hartzler) 8 items	1955
51/1927	Hillcrest/Minidoka 8 items	1953-1956
51/1928	Hoover Report 5 items	1955
51/1929	Housing 1 item	1959
51/1930	Ice Harbor dam 1 item	1953
51/1931	Idaho farm statistics 2 items	1961
51/1932-1933	Initiative (Idaho Power) 91 items	1953-1954
51/1934	Irrigation: Jensen proposal 5 items	1953
51/1935	Irrigation: Leadore, Idaho 1 item	1961
51/1936-1943	Lead-zinc 87 items	1953-1962
51/1944	Lake Coeur d'Alene 7 items	1958
51/1945	Lewis and Clark Highway 10 items	1955-1958
51/1946	Liquor on aircraft 3 items	1959-1960
51/1947	Little Wood River, Idaho 2 items	1955-1956
51/1948	Lucky Peak photographs 2 items	1953
51/1949	Lumber 6 items	1962
51/1950	Mann Creek federal reclamation project 47 items	1959-1962
51/1951	Mentally retarded 13 items	1957
52/1952	Mexican migrant workers 3 items	1953
52/1953	Michaud Flats: Budge plan 5 items	1953
52/1954	Middle Snake River, feasible storage sites 2 items	1951
52/1955	Mine assessment bill 2 items	1958
52/1956-1958	Mining 59 items	1953-1959
52/1959	Mountain Sheep dam 19 items	1958-1962
52/1960	Mountain Sheep reclamation project 8 items	1953-1955
52/1961	National cemeteries 4 items	1955-1957
52/1962	National forests 1 item	1959
52/1963	National parks 7 items	1956-1957
52/1964	Nez Perce Dam 3 items	1960
52/1965	Oil 3 items	1957
52/1966	Omnibus public works bill 1 item	1962
52/1967	Onion and carrot research 3 items	1961
52/1968	Onion futures 21 items	1957-1958
52/1969	Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 7 items	1958
52/1970	Pensions 12 items	1953
52/1971	Phosphate 7 items	1956
52/1972	Pleasant Valley 1 item	1958
52/1973	Potato marketing 1 item	1956
52/1974	Power plants 2 items	undated
52/1975	President's budget 7 items	1959
52/1976	Public housing 1 item	undated
52/1977	Public land transfers 4 items	1954
52/1978-1983	Public power 51 items	1953-1962
52/1984	Public power: Columbia river 3 items	1960
52/1985	Reclamation 4 items	1953
52/1986	Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1 item	1953
52/1987	Redevelopment 22 items	1961
52/1988	Relief of Asae Nishimoto (S.1034 introduced by Frank Church) 4 items	1959
52/1989-1990	Retirement 20 items	1957-1958
52/1991	Rural areas development 16 items	1961
52/1992-1993	Rural Electric Cooperative Association 7 items	1954-1958
52/1994	Salmon flood control project 1 item	1953
52/1995	School construction 8 items	1953-1956
52/1996	School lunch and milk program 5 items	1961
52/1997	Selway-Bitterroot wilderness 2 items	1961
52/1998	Silver 1 item	1953
52/1999	Small business 4 items	1958-1959
52/2000	Small Business Administration 4 items	1961-1962
52/2001	Snake River, Upper and Middle reports 5 items	1955
52/2002	Snake River dams 7 items	1960-1961
52/2003	Social Security 4 items	1957-1958
52/2004	Soil Conservation 8 items	1954-1961
52/2005	Subsidy 6 items	1954-1958
52/2006	Surplus property 6 items	1955-1960
52/2007	Taxes 2 items	1952-1953
52/2008	Tennessee Valley Authority 4 items	1957-1958
52/2009	Tennessee Valley Authority: self financing 3 items	1959
52/2010	Tidelands oil 13 items	1952-1955
52/2011	Timber 1 item	1961
52/2012	Trade expansion 5 items	1962
52/2013	Transmission lines 10 items	1953
52/2014	United Nations 3 items	1954
52/2015	Veterans 2 items	1962
52/2016	Virgin Islands 2 items	1957-1958
52/2017-2019	Water resources 29 items	1954-1960
52/2020	Water rights 2 items	1959
52/2021	Withdrawals of Idaho lands 12 items	1962
52/2011	Wool: National wool act 1 item	1958
52/2023	Yellowtail dam 5 items	1956
	D. Other	1952-1962
Box/Folder
52/2024	Departmental news releases: Agriculture 8 items	1953-1962
52/2025	Air Force 2 items	1962
52/2026	Army Corps of Engineers 9 items	1962
52/2027	Defense 2 items	1962
52/2028	Health, Education and Welfare 1 item	1962
53/2029	Idaho Bureau of Reclamation 14 items	1953
53/2030-2031	Interior 35 items	1960-1962
53/2032	Congressional Record, roll calls 32 items	1953
53/2033	Consent Calendar, August 6 1 item	1961
53/2034	House of Representatives membership and information 17 items	1953-1956
53/2035	House rules and manual 1 item	1952
53/2036	Major accomplishments of the session 1 item	1961
53/2037-2038	GP's typed and manuscript notes 11 items	1953
53/2039	Reports to be made to Congress 1 item	1960
53/2040	Trips 24 items	1953-1955
53/2041	Voting record: Official 5 items	1953-1962
53/2042	Prepared by Democratic National Committee 2 items	1953-1961
53/2043	Prepared by Republican National Committee 5 items	1953-1957
53/2044	Prepared by special interest groups 11 items	1954-1961
53/2045	Whip notices 7 items	1960
53/2046	Women members of Congress 2 items	1954

Series III. Administrative, 1953-1962Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
53/2047	Applications, work Records, salaries 3 items	1960-1962
53/2048-2049	Appointment calendars 9 items	1956-1960
53/2050	Books on loan from Library of Congress 1 item	1962
53/2051-2052	Correspondence 99 items	1953-1962
53/2053	Correspondence re: Virginia Rishel as administrative assistant 1 item	1952
53/2054	Letterhead 2 items	undated
53/2055	Idaho projects--money reported by White House 28 items	1962
53/2056	Lists to be carded 12 items	1954-1958
53/2057	Lists which have been carded 1 item	1957
53/2058	American Legion 2 items	1958-1959
53/2059	Congressional Record distribution list 1 item	1960
53/2060	Democratic Digest subscribers 2 items	1956
53/2061	Farm related organizations 6 items	1953-1959
53/2062	Idaho (various lists) 13 items	1956-1957
53/2063	Idaho County Light and Power membership 1 item	undated
53/2064	Irrigation districts, Officers 3 items	1956-1958
53/2065	Kootenai County voting list 1 item	1959
53/2066	Mailing lists 12 items	1955-1956
53/2067	Newspapers in Idaho 17 items	1954-1959
53/2068	Physicians in Idaho 2 items	undated
53/2069	Political lists 5 items	1954
53/2070	Postmasters and Post offices 2 items	1961
53/2071	Specialized mailing list 1 item	1957
53/2072	Soil conservation managers 2 items	1961-1962
53/2073	Union officers (Idaho locals) 1 item	undated
53/2074	Veterans Organizations 31 items	1955-1957
54/2075	Log of letters sent from D.C. 1 item	1957
54/2076-2088	Office memos 693 items	1953-1962
54/2089	Office Procedures 57 items	1955-1960
54/2090	People who called office 35 items	1957-1962
54/2091	Phone messages 35 items	1953
54/2092	"Pinks" hold for GP 19 items	1959
54/2093	Post Offices 4 items	1956-1958
54/2094	City delivery data 19 items	1953
54/2095	Delivery statistics 16 items	1950-1961
54/2096	Box holder material 8 items	1952-1954
54/2097	Records Management Handbook: Plain letters 1 item	1955
54/2098	Samples of mailings 22 items	1954-1958
54/2099	Telegrams and telephone list 60 items	1953
54/2100	Telephone, telegraph, and stationery accounts 4 items	1958

Series IV. Public Relations, 1953-1962Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
54/2101	Articles by Gracie Pfost 10 items	1955-1960
54/2102	Business and Professional Women, Lewiston 7 items	1958
54/2103	Business and Professional Women, Birmingham, Alabama 13 items	1959
54/2104	Congresswoman Knutson 1 item	1953
54/2105	Craters of the Moon 1 item	1953
54/2106	Democratic State Convention 1 item	1958
54/2107	Editorials for Idaho Statesman 2 items	1956
54/2108	House recording studios 2 items	1961
54/2109	Indian conference 3 items	1954
54/2110	Jackson club of Oregon 4 items	1953
54/2111	New Plymouth Grange meeting 4 items	1958
54/2112	News release list 1 item	1953
54/2113	Newsletters, General 2 items	1959
54/2114-2116	Newsletters 7 items	1960-1962
54/2117-2126	Newspaper clippings 270 items	1953-1962
54/2127	Patten scandal 11 items	1954
54/2128-2134	Press releases 277 items	1953-1959
55/2135-2137	Press releases 301 items	1960-1962
55/2138-2157	Speeches and statements 443 items	1949-1959
56/2158-2160	Speeches and statements 37 items	1960-1962
56/2161	Speech: "The dollar is a lady" 7 items	1948
56/2162-2163	United Nations and other speech material 59 items	1952
56/2164	Credit union speech in Caldwell 2 items	1953
56/2165	Rural Electric Cooperative Association speech 6 items	1954
56/2166	Wheat speech 2 items	1960
56/2167	TV appearances 1 item	1953
56/2168	Washington Post article on Hells Canyon 2 items	1953
56/2169-2174	Audio tapes of radio talks 12 items	1956

Series V. Campaign and other material, 1950-1962Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
56/2175	Altar of the Nation, war dead memorial 1 item	undated
56/2176	Army engineers bids 46 items	1959-1960
56/2177	Biography: Correspondence requesting 5 items	1952
56/2178	Background sketches 14 items	1950-1957
56/2179	Brief sketches 25 items	1951-1958
56/2180	Newspaper clippings 3 items	1952-1958
56/2181	Publications 10 items	1953-1960
56/2182	Borah on public power 5 items	ca. 1957
56/2183	Budge, Hammer 9 items	1953-1958
56/2184	Bureau of Reclamation projects in Idaho 1 item	1953-1954
56/2185	Bureau of Reclamation photographs 27 items	ca. 1951
56/2186	Business and Professional Women's Club 30 items	1951-1957
56/2187	Campaign: Democratic advertising 4 items	undated
56/2188	Campaign: Gracie Pfost letterhead 2 items	undated
56/2189	Campaign 25 items	1950
56/2190	Speeches 21 items	1950
56/2191	Mats and printing plates 9 items	1950
56/2192	Campaign: Announcements, advertising 13 items	1952
56/2193	Correspondence 60 items	1952
56/2194-2195	Newspaper clippings 101 items	1952
56/2196	Primary and general election results 12 items	1952
56/2197	Primary opponents 21 items	1952
56/2198-2199	Radio addresses, speeches, news releases 59 items	1952
56/2200-2204	Wood, John T., files on 191 items	1952
57/2205	Campaign 2 items	1954
57/2206	Advertisements 12 items	1954
57/2207	Democratic National Committee 4 items	1954
57/2208	Election results 18 items	1954
57/2209	Other candidates 11 items	1954
57/2210	Petitions 49 items	1954
57/2211	Political lists 10 items	1954
57/2212	Campaign: Advertisements, announcements 53 items	1956
57/2213	Democratic National Committee material 19 items	1956
57/2214	Election results 2 items	1956
57/2215	Itinerary, talks, etc. 19 items	1956
57/2216	Radio talks 8 items	1956
57/2217	Shadduck, Louise 20 items	1956
57/2218	Other candidates 11 items	1956
57/2219	Petitions 35 items	1956
57/2220	Campaign: Election results 1 item	1958
57/2221	Petitions 60 items	1958
57/2222	Political endorsements 11 items	1958
57/2223	Speeches 23 items	1958
57/2224	Campaign: Advertising 17 items	1960
57/2225-2226	Correspondence 79 items	1960
57/2227	Democratic National Committee 10 items	1960
57/2228	Itineraries and speech material 12 items	1960
57/2229	Newspaper clippings 13 items	1960
57/2230-2236	Petitions 46 items	1960
57/2237	Sample ballots and election results 21 items	1960
57/2238-2239	Campaign 58 items	1962
57/2240	Canyon County statistics--FHA Black Canyon 1 item	undated
57/2241-2243	Church, Frank 111 items	1957-1962
57/2244	Congressional Handbook and lists 4 items	1961
57/2245	Congressional Hotel, rent invoices 9 items	1958
57/2246	Democratic Digest "Facts to file" 6 items	1959
57/2247	Democratic lists 3 items	1949-1954
57/2248	Democratic party platforms; National 5 items	1932-1960
57/2249	Democratic party platforms; Idaho 2 items	1954-1960
57/2250-2251	Democratic National Committee 26 items	1955-1962
57/2252	Democratic National Committee, Natural Resources Advisory Committee 3 items	1956
58/2253	Democratic National Congressional Committee 1 item	1954
58/2254-2255	Democratic National Convention 13 items	1956-1960
58/2256-2259	Democratic Study Group fact sheet updates 171 items	1961-1962
58/2260	Diets 4 items	undated
58/2261	Dinners, receptions, etc. 15 items	1952-1961
58/2262	Dworshak, Henry 2 items	1962
58/2263	Early reclamation in Idaho 1 item	undated
58/2264	Equal rights 3 items	1955
58/2265	Farm information 5 items	1958
58/2266	Feed grain 1 item	1962
58/2267	Fishing 5 items	1953
58/2268	Flood in Boise, Idaho; Forest Service Report 1 item	1959
58/2269	Forests 8 items	1953-1958
58/2270	Garden City 1 item	undated
58/2271	Gold; Fort Knox statistics 2 items	1959
58/2272	Harding, Ralph 30 items	1961-1962
58/2273	Highways, Interstate routing in Idaho 1 item	1960
58/2274	Idaho 10 items	1952-1955
58/2275	Idaho Democratic Central Committee 5 items	1961
58/2276	Idaho State Society in Washington, D.C. 8 items	1952-1960
58/2277	Idaho wilderness 9 items	1960-1962
58/2278	Inaugural information and invitations 30 items	1953-1957
58/2279	Interparliamentary union 10 items	1961
58/2280	Itinerary 1 item	1961
58/2281	Kennedy, John F., messages 4 items	1962
58/2282	Kennedy-Johnson Natural Resources Advisory Committee 5 items	1961
58/2283	Law and order, Nez Perce Indian hunting treaty rights 1 item	1955
58/2284	Lewiston, Idaho 1 item	1952
58/2285	List of percentage depletion rates for minerals 1 item	1959
58/2286	McKay, Douglas 24 items	1953
58/2287	Miscellaneous 20 items	1953-1961
58/2288	Miscellaneous manuscript notes 19 items	undated
58/2289	Miss Washington contest 1 item	1959
58/2290	Mountain Home Air Force Base 1 item	1962
58/2291	Nampa, Idaho 1 item	1961
58/2292	National Guard, Idaho 3 items	1953
58/2293	National Park Service 3 items	1957
58/2294	New York Tour 8 items	1953
58/2295	Newspaper clippings on various topics 33 items	1953-1956
58/2296	North Idaho 7 items	1962
58/2297	Palisades project 1 item	1955
58/2298	Peas: problems and background 2 items	1961
58/2299	Penny Cliffs Dam; Fish and Game photographs 16 items	1954
58/2300	Pfost, Jack: Death 4 items	1961
58/2301	Photographs of Gracie Pfost 4 items	1950
58/2302	Property tax 1 item	1961
58/2303	Publications on U.S. history and government 10 items	1952-1961
58/2304	Publications about Washington, D.C. 17 items	1953-1961
58/2305	Rayburn, Sam: Testimonial 1 item	1955
58/2306	Recipes 4 items	undated
58/2307	Roosevelt, Theodore 3 items	undated
58/2308	Saund, D.S. "Judge" 2 items	1961-1962
58/2309	Schweibert, Erwin 5 items	1955
58/2310	Soroptimist Club 26 items	1945-1949
58/2311	"The Spirit of America" 1 item	1955
58/2312	Steelworkers strike 4 items	1959
58/2313	Sugar beets 4 items	1957
58/2314	Taylor, Glen 9 items	1949-1956
58/2315	Taxes 6 items	1952-1953
58/2316	United Nations 7 items	1953-1957
58/2317	Visitor passes 3 items	1953-1962
58/2318	Wallace, Idaho 10 items	1958
58/2319	Welker, Herman 30 items	1953-1954
58/2320	White, Compton I. 1 item	1954
58/2321	Wilson, Asher B. 2 items	1946-1960
58/2322	Wood, John T.: Legislation file 5 items	1951-1953
59/2323-2324	Alphabetical list of Democrats in Idaho by county: Adams-Boundary	2475
60/2325-2326	Canyon-Idaho	2850
61/2327-2329	Kootenai-Washington	3975

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Subject Terms

Legislators--United States--Correspondence

Personal Names

Pfost, Gracie Bowers, 1906-1965--Archives

Geographical Names

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989

Occupations

United States Representative from Idaho, 1952-1962; unsuccessful candidate for United States senate, 1962; administrator of public housing for the elderly after 1963

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