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Building the West (Mining Landscape Project) Collection, 1953-1998
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Building the West (Mining Landscape Project) Collection
- Dates
- 1953-1998 (inclusive)19531998
- Quantity
- 3 linear feet, (3 boxes, 5 drawers of cassettes)
- Collection Number
- MSS 190
- Summary
- Field notes, tape-recorded interviews, sketches, slides, and other papers, documenting buildings, structures, architecture, and landscapes associated with mining and mining history in the Coeur d'Alene and Silver Valley regions of northern Idaho; together with photocopies of historical papers.
- Repository
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Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive
Boise ID
83725
Telephone: 2084263990
archives@boisestate.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is available for research.
- Languages
- English
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Field notes, tape-recorded interviews, sketches, slides, and other papers, documenting buildings, structures, architecture, and landscapes associated with mining and mining history in the Coeur d'Alene and Silver Valley regions of northern Idaho; together with photocopies of historical papers collected during the course of the project. Includes interviews and reminiscences of labor leader Peter Piekarski, with details of labor history in the region; photocopies of scrapbooks (1960-71) of Northwest Metal Workers Auxiliary; and newsletters and strike bulletins (1953-1977) from United Steelworkers and Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers locals.
This collection forms part of the Ethnographic Archive of the Intermountain West.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
[item description], Building the West (Mining Landscape Project) Collection, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Assembled in 9 volumes (in 3 boxes). Plus 111 cassette tapes. An accompanying "User's Guide" was compiled by project staff.
Acquisition Information
Compiled in 1995 by faculty and students from Boise State University and the University of Utah and by local researchers for the Silver Valley Solidarity Committee. Transferred to the Special Collections Department by Professor Robert McCarl, Boise State University Anthropology Department, 2000. Additional papers donated by Pete Piekarski.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Interview MaterialsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box | ||
1 | Volume 1: Interview logs; Measured drawings |
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1 | Volume 2: Transcripts of Hardrock Mining Culture conference; Interview transcripts; Administrative materials |
1990 |
1 | Volume 3: Interview transcripts |
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1 | Volume 4: Interview transcripts |
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1 | Volume 5: Interview transcripts (Pete Piekarski) |
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2 | Volume 6: Interview transcripts, reminiscences (Pete Piekarski) |
Scrapbook and Administrative MaterialReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box | ||
2 | Volume 7: Northwest Metal Workers Auxiliary scrapbooks 1960-71 (photocopies); Administrative material |
1960-71 |
2 | Supplement: Partial duplication of volume 2, plus administrative material |
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2 | Short vol 1: Abridged version of Volume 1, without oversize measured drawings and sketches |
Workers UnionsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
3 | 1 | Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union, Local 18: Newsletters |
1954-1961 |
3 | 2 | Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union: News bulletins |
1953-1959 |
3 | 3 | Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union, Local 18: Strike bulletins |
1955-1960 |
3 | 4 | Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union: Miscellaneous |
1955-1960 |
3 | 5 | United Steelworkers, Local 7854: Newsletters |
1962-1977 |
3 | 6 | United Steelworkers, Local 7854: Strike bulletins |
1977 |
3 | 7 | Mine-Mill vs. Steelworkers representation campaigns |
1955-1962 |
3 | 8 | Union songs, etc. |
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3 | 9 | Miscellaneous labor publications |
Volume 8: SlidesReturn to Top
At the end of this series there are unidentified slides, processing was not complete.
Container(s) | Description | |
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Box | photo | |
2 | C001-001 | Harwood's Drugstore |
2 | C001-002 | Harwood's Drugstore |
2 | C001-003 | Art Harwood's Residence |
2 | C001-004 | Episcopal Church |
2 | C001-005 | Episcopal Church |
2 | C001-006 | Art Harwood's Residence |
2 | C001-007 | View of Earle Street in Mullan |
2 | C001-008 | View of Earle Street in Mullan |
2 | C001-009 | Fin Gulch House |
2 | C001-010 | Fin Gulch House |
2 | C001-011 | Unidentified |
2 | C001-012-015 | Fin Gulch Houses |
2 | C001-016-019 | Women's Boarding House in Mullan |
2 | C001-020-023 | Street in Mullan |
2 | C002-001-003 | Street in Mullan |
2 | C002-004-017 | Fin Gulch Houses |
2 | C003-001-002 | Silver Dollar Bar, Mullan |
2 | C003-003-004 | Older Houses in Mullan (4-sided) |
2 | C003-005-006 | Pioneer Cemetery, Mullan |
2 | C003-007-008 | Bob Blacketer's House, Mullan |
2 | C003-009-014 | Morning Club, Mullan |
2 | C003-015-016 | Morning Club Assembly Hall |
2 | C003-017 | Morning Club Kitchen |
2 | C003-019 | Morning Club Bowling Alley, Basement |
2 | C003-020 | Morning ClubSnack Bar, Basement |
2 | C004-001 | Recreation Room in Morning Club |
2 | C004-002 | Morning Club Bowling Alley, Basement |
2 | C004-003 | Morning Club Staircase |
2 | C004-004 | Morning Club Recreation Room |
2 | C004-005 | Upstairs Gallery in Morning Club |
2 | C004-006 | Tom Working Upstairs in the Morning Club |
2 | C004-007 | Carrie working on the main floor of the Morning Club |
2 | C004-007-040 | Solum Diary Barn |
2 | C005-001 | Solum Diary Barn |
2 | C006-001-002 | Herb and Milo Solum |
2 | C006-003-004 | Herb, Milo, and Edith Bolton |
2 | C006-005 | Milo Solum |
2 | C006-006 | Janice and Dorothy Solum |
2 | C006-008-009 | Upstairs of Solum Dairy Barn |
2 | C006-010 | Main Floor of Solum Dairy Barn (stall) |
2 | C006-011 | Solum Dairy Barn (initials) |
2 | C006-012-017 | Hecla Mining Company, above Burke |
2 | C006-018 | View up the valley from Hecla |
2 | C006-019-020 | Paulson Building, Riverside and Stevens, Spokane |
2 | C007-001-004 | Paulson Building, Riverside and Stevens, Spokane |
2 | C007-005-006 | unidentified |
2 | C007-007-008 | East side of Corbin House, Spokane |
2 | C007-009-010 | Front of Corbin House, Spokane |
2 | C007-011-012 | Rear of Corbin House, Spokane |
2 | C007-013-015 | Hecla Assay Office |
2 | C007-016-017 | Hecla Bank Building |
2 | C008-001 | Mill Samples |
2 | C008-002 | Scales, Slag Cups, Fusion Cups |
2 | C008-003 | Silver Beads |
2 | C008-004 | Jim by Scales |
2 | C008-005-007 | Atomic Absorption |
2 | C008-008 | Wavelength Glass Tube |
2 | C008-009-010 | Acid being cooked off |
2 | C008-011 | Dried Samples |
2 | C008-012 | Jim with Vein Samples |
2 | C008-013 | Jim showing sample places on truckload |
2 | C008-014 | Jim pointing at lead sulfate solution |
2 | C008-015-016 | Jim with Slag and Oven |
2 | C008-017 | Handful of Glass Slag |
2 | C008-018 | Bone Ash Cups-Cupels |
2 | C008-019 | Dirk, Jim, and Bob outside Hecla outside |
2 | C009-001 | Olkonen House, Mullan |
2 | C009-002-007 | Interior of Olkonen House |
2 | C009-008-009 | Unidentified |
2 | C009-010-011 | Drilling process from Wallace Museum |
2 | C009-012-013 | Outside of Nabob Mill |
2 | C009-014 | Jim Robbins and his book |
2 | C009-015 | Green Flotation Device in Nabob |
2 | C010-001-002 | Mining Equipment between Nabob Mine and Mill |
2 | C010-003 | Tom and Student Drawing Nabob Mill |
2 | C010-004-007 | View from the top of the Nabob Hill |
2 | C010-008 | Nabob Mine opening |
2 | C010-009-012 | YMCA in Kellog |
2 | C010-013-014 | Braun Residence, Hill Road, Kellog |
2 | C010-015-017 | Shotgun house in Kellog on East Cameron |
2 | C010-018-020 | Aerials of Silver Valley |
2 | C011-001-018 | Aerials of Silver Valley |
2 | C012-001-020 | Aerials of Silver Valley |
2 | C013-001-007 | Aerials of Silver Valley |
Cassette TapesReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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drawer | ||
9001 | Bob Carroll |
1995 |
9001 | John Vaughn and Lucille Hart Vaughn |
1995 |
9001 | Anne Greer |
1995 |
9001 | Ruth Hussa |
1995 |
9001 | Art Norlen |
1995 |
9001 | Carl Thompson |
1995 |
9001 | Vivian and William Hogan |
1995 |
9001 | Henry Koski |
1995 |
9001 | Bob Blacketer |
1995 |
9001 | Ben Palo and Howard "Bud" Britton |
1995 |
9001 | Dorothy Calkins |
1995 |
9001 | Imogene McKim |
1995 |
9001 | Jack Etherton |
1995 |
9001 | Bill Etheron |
1995 |
9001 | Jack and Jean Etherton |
1995 |
9001 | Edith Bolton, Dorothy Solum Caron, Herb Solum, Janet Solum, Milo Solum |
1995 |
9001 | Pete Piekarski |
1995 |
9001 | Bob Carroll |
1995 |
9001 | Steve Crnkovich |
1995 |
9001 | AV and Anne Greer |
1995 |
9001 | Luther Church |
1995 |
9001 | Ray White |
1995 |
9001 | Leo Hewitt |
1995 |
9001 | Horman Liepold |
1995 |
9001 | Byrd |
1995 |
9001 | Schultz |
1995 |
9001 | Corbeill |
1995 |
9001 | 1988 Women's Auxillary |
1995 |
9001 | 1970s Steel Worker's Meeting |
1995 |
9001 | Men Mining Money |
1995 |
9001 | Personal Holiday Hearings |
1995 |
9001 | McDaniel Hearing |
1995 |
9001 | H Nueyen Hearing |
1995 |
9001 | Alice Barnett Gilman, Flora Barnett, Dolly Parker |
1995 |
9001 | Evelyn Smith |
1995 |
9001 | Walt Almquist |
1995 |
9001 | Laura Olson, Ben Palo, and Howard "Bud" Britton |
1995 |
9001 | Della Braun |
1995 |
9001 | Ramona Arnold |
1995 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Architecture
- Gold mines and mining
- Labor unions
- Mines and Mineral Resources
- Mining camps
- Silver mines and mining--Idaho
Personal Names
- Piekarski, Peter P.
Geographical Names
- Coeur d'Alene (Idaho)
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks