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Small Manuscripts and Subject Files, 1878-2018

Overview of the Collection

Title
Small Manuscripts and Subject Files
Dates
1878-2018 (inclusive)
Quantity
3 linear feet, (3 boxes and 1 drawer)
Collection Number
MSS 323
Summary
The Small Manuscripts and Subject Files contains primarily single-item or subject-created collections.
Repository
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

Collection is available for research.

Languages
English
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Content Description

The Small Manuscripts and Subject Files contains primarily single-item or subject-created collections.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[item description], Small Manuscripts and Subject Files, Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Albertson, Joseph A. funeral program
    Dates: 1993
  • Description: Albertsons History - The Old "Jerry Whitsitt" Sixteenth Street Albertsons Gang 1963-1967 (5 part history)
    Dates: 1963-1967
  • Description: Albertsons LLC
    Dates: 2013
  • Description: Allen, Frederick letter discussing ranching on the Lost River between Challis and Blackfoot
    Dates: 1886
  • Description: Anderson, Dee articles of a Boise Junior College alumnus that died during World War II's D-Day Invasion
    Dates: 1940-1944
  • Description: Arrowrock Dam 75th Anniversary Program
    Dates: 1990
  • Description: Balch, Elise campaign platform statement concerning her position on Boise Junior College
    Dates: 1960
  • Description: Barker, Jim Cambodia, marathon, Vietnam
    Dates: 1986-2016
  • Description: Batt, Governor Philip E. inaugural program
    Dates: 1995
  • Description: Batt, Governor Philip E. "Centennial Idaho" song manuscript
  • Description: Bicycles
    Dates: 1973
  • Description: Bishop, Marilyn Darlene, Boise Junior College diploma
    Dates: 1953
  • Description: Blackaller, Dwayne "Artifacts"

    "Artifacts" is a paper that was written for Professor Tom Trusky's English class. Blackaller received cards, letters, and audio-cassette tapes from his birth father, a gay man named David Marcum that lived in San Francisco and died of AIDS. Also includes two programs from Blackaller's exhibition called "(...dad...)".

    Dates: 2003
  • Description: Blue Cross of Idaho, history
    Dates: 1971
  • Description: Bogus Basin by Double R Ranch Poster
  • Description: Boise Area Economic Development Council: Target Industry Analysis: Executive Summary
    Dates: 1988
  • Description: Boise Aviation Anniversary, Cyril C. Thompson memorabilia
    Dates: 1926-1974
  • Description: Boise Aviation Anniversary, flight reenactment
    Dates: 1976
  • Description: Boise Cascade
  • Description: Boise Foothills Open Space Campaign
    Dates: 2001
  • Description: Boise Junior College Association brochure, "Boise needs a Co-Educational Junior College."
    Dates: 1932
  • Description: Boise Peace Quilt
    Dates: circa 1991
  • Description: Boise Tower sales packet
    Dates: 2001
  • Description: Borah, William E. letter to W.O. Watts of Twin Falls
    Dates: 1935
  • Description: "Boys of Boise" coverage, excerpts from Seattle Gay News
    Dates: 1990s
  • Description: Brady, Jerry: Jerry Brady for Idaho Governor campaign buttons, bumper stickers, and balloons
    Dates: 2006
  • Description: Brassey, Dorothy Barbour reminiscences of Boise Junior College, Class of 1941
  • Description: Burmaster, Orvis

    Photograph and correspondence between Orv Burmaster and Carl Latta, who served together in the Marine Corps in 1945, about Burmaster's life working on ranches, working as a fire lookout, and operating a saw mill.

    Dates: 1946-1953, 2005
  • Description: Carver, John A., 90th birthday celebration DVD
    Dates: 2008
  • Description: Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
  • Description: Chapin, Ellis photographs of Jantz/Ayers car accident (Idaho Statesman)
    Dates: 1948
  • Description: Chapman, John J. (1894-1943) biography presented by Joan Chapman Cooney
    Dates: 1999
  • Description: Chinese in Idaho student papers for Professor Glen Barrett's history classes. One on Idaho City includes a map of the city from "about 1884" color coded to indicate White and Chinese businesses.
    Dates: 1972-1976
  • Description: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), Boise, public tours of new temple
    Dates: 2012
  • Description: Clark, Charles A., former commander of Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Idaho
  • Description: "Community College YES" special election voting literature
    Dates: 2007
  • Description: Craters of the Moon National Monument, correspondence and photographs
    Dates: 1923-1924
  • Description: Dam, Son, Vietnam memorabilia
    Dates: 1975
  • Description: "Damned and Dead in Boise" By Lonnie Willis
    Briggs, Manley (dnr)
  • Description: Derr, Hattie (1905—1994), Idaho's first female State Senator
  • Description: Durham, Neal, Canyon County photographs
    Dates: 1906-1907
  • Description: Egyptian Theatre
  • Description: Falconry Periodical Articles

    American Falconry, Volume 40 (Winter 2005) American Falconry, Volume 41 (Spring 2006) American Falconry, Volume 42 (Summer 2006) American Falconry, Volume 43 (Fall 2006) The Blue Darter: Annual Publication of the Georgia Falconry Association (2001/2002) The Blue Darter: Annual Publication of the Georgia Falconry Association (2004) The Blue Darter: Annual Publication of the Georgia Falconry Association (2005) Hawk Chalk, Volume 46, Number 1 (August 2006) Hawk Chalk, Volume 47, Number 3 (December 2006) National Geographic (July 1994) North American Falconers' Association Journal, Volume 45 (2006)

    Dates: 1994-2006
  • Description: First Methodist Church Bulletin (October 11, 1953)
    Dates: 1953
  • Description: Fisher, Bernard Francis, Congressional Medal of Honor memorabilia
  • Description: Fisher, Vardis (Vardis Fisher autopsy report)
  • Description: "Vardis Fisher: Hemingway's Strongest Critic" by Joseph M. Flora
    Dates: 1996
  • Description: Fisher, Vardis We Are Betrayed letters that accompanied review copies
    Dates: 1934
  • Description: Vardis Fisher Week Proclamation
    Dates: 1996-1997
  • Description: Fitch, Harland E. letter to Mrs. Eloise Hamilton
    Dates: 1970
  • Description: Gaming / Bingo. Coeur D'Alene Tribal Bingo Casino and Kootenai Tribal Casino.
  • Description: Gann, Walter
  • Description: Gerard, Morris. Memoir of his time as an American civilian contractor on Wake Island (1941-1945)
  • Description: Hafer, Dick. Political cartoons of: the National Education Association, Governor John Evans, and Congressional candidate George Hansen

    Three

    Dates: 1982, 1984
  • Description: Harris, Gene funeral program
    Dates: 2000
  • Description: Hayes, Edith, Rev. St. Michael Fackler
    Dates: 1984
  • Description: Hayes, Marjorie Geddes, Conservation Materials

    Marjorie Geddes Hayes, an Idaho conservationist, donated several small items related to conservation, including an essay on the Fall River Hydro Failure, an editorial and resolutions promoting conservation, and an article "Morphological Features of Small Streams: Significance and Function." Also included are photographs of Apollo 11 and Apollo 16.

    Dates: 1987-2001
  • Description: Heglar, Clark historical reenactment, portrayal of Robert Limbert
    Dates: 1998
  • Description: Hemingway, Ernest

    Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, articles, Cuba colloquium, International Hemingway Conference, "Ernest Hemingway and the Modern Temper" Book League Monthly, "Notes Towards Future Hemingway Criticism" Gypsy

  • Description: "Here's Boise"
    Dates: 1948
  • Description: "Historic Houses: Hemingway in Idaho" Architectural Digest, by Jack Hemingway
    Dates: 1988
  • Description: Holcolmb, A.A. (1850-1909) memoirs
  • Description: Hudson, Helen notes on Vardis Fisher

    Notes taken from lectures by Vardis Fisher when he was writer-in-residence at the College of Idaho in 1968.

  • Description: Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial Guide
  • Description: Idaho Department of Fish and Game
    Dates: 1987
  • Description: Idaho First National Bank
  • Description: Idaho Legisladies
    Dates: 1973-1974
  • Description: Idaho Memorabilia (pins and iron-on patch)
  • Description: Idaho Mining and Irrigation Company's Canal
    Dates: 1891-1892
  • Description: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
    Dates: 1977-2001
  • Description: Idaho Nursing/St. Alphonsus - Jeanne Cooper
    Dates: 1950-2018
  • Description: Idaho Songs
  • Description: Idaho Statehood Centennial Calendar. Illustrated by Jack Carskaddon with images of "A Pictorial Look at the Ghost Towns of Idaho"
    Dates: 1990
  • Description: Idaho Statesman newspapers about John F. Kennedy's Assassination
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Disk 1
  • Description: Idaho Statesman, commemorative 150th anniversary
    Dates: 2014
    Container: Drawer 1
  • Description: Idaho Territory First National Bank of Idaho 100 Dollar Bill Money Replica
    Dates: 1967
  • Description: Idaho Tourism: Idaho City, Juliaetta and Kendrick, Kellogg, Montpelier, Oregon Trail, Pierce, Riggins, Sawtooth Wilderness Area, Shoshone Indian Ice Caves, Sun Valley, Wallace
    Dates: 1950-1990
  • Description: Idaho Wine Commission
    Container: Drawer 1
  • Description: Idaho-Wyoming Thrust Fault Zone, Field Trip Guide
    Dates: 1975
  • Description: Jaialdi
    Dates: 2015
    Container: Drawer 1
  • Description: Johnson, Roxie McMillan (1897-1985)
    Dates: 2001
  • Description: Junior College Jamboree Committee minute book and clippings
    Dates: 1935
  • Description: Koi & Goldfish Show
  • Description: Klotz, Alden W. "Forty Years of History: Idaho State Health Department"
    Dates: 1985
  • Description: The Lewis and Clark Trail
    Dates: 1962, undated
  • Description: Livestock grazing. Seven Popular Myths About Livestock Grazing on Public Lands
    Dates: 1990
  • Description: Lorraine, M.J. Correspondence about running the Columbia River in a raft to Wade Dauch
    Dates: 1930
  • Description: Lucas, George L. letter to Jane I. Francis
    Dates: 1878
  • Description: Making History in Ada County Award

    Pamphlet for the 2006 award winner, J. R. Simplot.

    Dates: 2006
  • Description: McKnight, Ed research about Doc Hisom
    Dates: 2010
  • Description: Micron
  • Description: Montadon-Fidelity Building
  • Description: Mormons: "The Danites," "Counterfeiting Among Mormons" (1859), "Letter from Utah Territory" (1873)
  • Description: Morrison-Knudsen Company Reports
  • Description: Music Week
    Dates: 1948-1949
  • Description: Naked Mole Rats Posters

    The Naked Mole Rats was a small Boise underground arts group, which produced two posters, both of which satirized then-U.S. Representative Helen Chenoweth: "Top Ten Things Helen Chenoweth Would Do for a Vote" (1994); and "Our Lady Chenoweth" (1995). Also included is a 1998 campaign poster for Laura Rogan-Wilson for Ada County Coroner, which was not produced by the Naked Mole Rats. The posters were donated by Nicole LeFavour in 2000.

    Dates: 1994-1995
    Container: Map Case 11
  • Description: Neil, John B. letter nominating James L. Onderdonk
    Dates: 1883
  • Description: Northwest Liberal Arts Coalition nude art exhibition
    Dates: 2001
  • Description: Onweiler, Bill, photos with Governor Smylie, Frank Church, Len Jordan, Green Belt plan
  • Description: Oregon Trail Tourism
  • Description: Orofino Lumberjack Days (Clearwater County) Parade with Cecil Andrus photographs and article

    Six snapshot photographs of Cecil Andrus participating in the 1991 Orofino Lumberjacks Days parade taken by Gregory Muhonen as well as the September 1991 issue of The Deliverer, published by Marvel Muhonen, with an article about the parade. Also includes 1993 signed letter from Andrus to Harvey Grasser. Donated by Harvey Grasser's daughter, Mary Jackson, in 2023.

    Dates: 1991-1993
  • Description: Pacific Island Employees Foundation, Inc., correspondence and chronology, Wake Island during World War II
    Dates: 1945
  • Description: Photograph Album of Idaho

    Photo album contains images of Boise, Idaho, and Utah, including personal photographs, images of mountains of and recreation areas as well as color postcards.

    Dates: 1907-1917
  • Description: Political Buttons: Frank Church, William Borah, Democratic Party, Robert Smylie, Cecil Andrus, David Leroy, Jim McClure, George Hanson
  • Description: Pollock, Sharon regarding play about Nell Shipman (Moving Pictures)
    Dates: 2004
  • Description: Renk, Eldred (includes a copy of "American Neutrality and its Preservation" by Frank Church and Edlred Renk from 1939)
    Dates: 1937-1966, 1998
  • Description: Ringside Review programs
    Ringside Review issues for wrestling at Bronco Stadium on July 13, 1953, and for wrestling at Riverside Arena on January 25, 1954. Distributed by Tex Hager.
    Dates: 1953-1954
  • Description: "Rough Country" by Dana Gioia broadside (printed by The Limberlost Press, 2003)
    Dates: 2003
  • Description: Sawtooth Mountains photographs
  • Description: Simplot, J.R. Range magazine article
    Dates: 1998
  • Description: Smylie, Governor Robert address regarding water, Hells Canyon Dam, and the Columbia Basin
    Dates: 1951
  • Description: Snowmobiling in Idaho
  • Description: Special Olympics, 2009 World Winter Games
  • Description: Spofford, William B. speech at the dedication of Subal Theater
    Dates: 1968
  • Description: Sternling, Jennifer actress portraying Nell Shipman
    Dates: 1993
  • Description: Stock Certificates: Adams Bond & Share, Inc.; Gem State Petroleum Company; Greater Idaho Corporation; Pumice Inc.; Idaho Investment Corporation; Mineral Hill Uranium Exploration Co.; Mountain States Oil & Gas Company; Northwest Lumber Processing Co.; Owyhee Mining Company; Rubydale-Lee Mines, Inc.; Salmon River Uranium Development, Inc.; United uranium, Inc.; Weiser Gas and Petroleum Company
  • Description: Sun Valley Bald Mountain Ski Poster
  • Description: Symphony No. 61 by Alan Hovhaness for the 25th Anniversary of the Boise Philharmonic
    Container: Map Case 11
  • Description: Telephone Creek film re-publication
  • Description: Trueblood, Ted
    Dates: 1950s
  • Description: Ugly Duckling Press
    Dates: 2012
  • Description: U.S. West/Bell Telephone Bumper Sticker "Buckle Up, Idaho!"
    Dates: undated
    Container: Map Case 11
  • Description: Idaho Governors and Senators
  • Description: Ward, Fritz "Hiking Up Quaking Asp"
    Dates: 2002
  • Description: Went, Roy and Ralph Hansen correspondence regarding the Deseret Alphabet
    Dates: 1979
  • Description: Western Idaho Community Action Program, Inc. Emmett, Idaho budget
    Dates: 1970
  • Description: White, Compton campaign letter
    Dates: 1968
  • Description: Wildlife Society Idaho Chapter, "Impact of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act on Idaho"
    Dates: 1969
  • Description: Wilson Price Hunt Party memorial celebration
    Dates: 1952
  • Description: Women and Children's Alliance
  • Description: Wright, Darryl, National Guard and Army soldier in Iraq
  • Description: Zamzow, Carmalita (1897-2001) biographical sketch, aged 104 years
    Dates: 2001

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Corporate Names

  • First National Bank of Idaho
  • Idaho First National Bank

Geographical Names

  • Idaho
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