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Craigmont Vollmer photograph collection, 1894-1920

Overview of the Collection

Title
Craigmont Vollmer photograph collection
Dates
1894-1920 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 cubic feet, (1 archival document box plus one oversized portrait (16x20))
Collection Number
PG 148
Summary
Early photos from settlers in the Craigmont/Vollmer area.
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
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Content Description

A collection of about 130 items. The biggest part of the collection is family photos from the Carley and Stanford family. The collection is also filled with serval images relating to roads and railways that were in the area at the time.

Historical landscape, farming, railroad photos, postcards of the road between Lewiston and Grangevillee. Also a few school report cards.

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Historical Note

In 1890 Idaho was declared a part of the United States of America, at that time the population was 88,548. Many families came to the west to have land and homestead off it in hopes of raising children that would be a part of a growing community. John Herman Stanford and his wife Mary Jane Nelson did just this. They moved to Idaho in 1888 with their children, where they began their new life. They began to farm and homestead from the land. The family started a long lineage who have still to this day stayed not only in the pacific northwest but in Idaho as well.

Donated by Tina Cutler, whose great grandfather homesteaded there in 1903. Also sent genealogical information stored on digital drive.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Materials received from Tina Culter in 2021 (MA 2021-29)."

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Series I: Images

    • Description: Genealogical Info
      4 items : Four pages of paragraphs of information of different family members
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: Augustus Steven Carley and Violet Stanford Family
      14 items : Photos of Violet and Augustus and their family, including a 16x20 portrait
      Dates: 1894-1920
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: Post Cards of Railroad and Roads
      17 items : 17 Post Cards with photos of roads and railroads. Only one of them is written on
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: Pictures of Unknown People and Daily Life
      42 items : Many photos of the family and pictures of things would have been seen in everyday life such as stores and roads.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: Earl and Gladys Carley School Autograph Books
      2 items : Two autograph books with signatures and notes from classmates
      Dates: 1905-1906
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: Earl Carley School Memories
      21 items : Photos and grade reports documenting the school years of Earl Carley
      Dates: 1904-1917
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: Lewis Wilbur Thompson and Laura Beatrice Carley
      4 items : Photos of Lewis and Laura with their siblings
      Dates: 1910-1912
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: Jesse Harold Sanford and his brother
      3 items : Two pictures of Jesse and Chester Sanford as children
      Dates: 1917
      Container: Box 1, Folder 8
    • Description: Thomas Franklin Churchill Family
      5 items : Pictures of different members of the Churchill family and a picture of Celaski Clawson
      Dates: 1905-1908
      Container: Box 1, Folder 9
    • Description: William Millage Family picture
      2 items : A picture of Clair, Hester and John Millage as young children
      Dates: 1908
      Container: Box 1, Folder 10
    • Description: John Herman Stanford and Mary Jane Nelson Family pictures
      6 items : Pictures of the family including a larger print of the entire family
      Dates: 1902-1920
      Container: Box 1, Folder 11
    • Description: John Leroy Sanford family
      2 items : A picture of two young children: Mary and Loyd
      Dates: 1911
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
    • Description: Carley family photos and local location photos
      7 items : A family picture of the Carley and Stanford family. Two photos of harvest and three pictures of Spokane Falls.
      Dates: 1917
      Container: Box 1, Folder 13

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Subject Terms

  • Photographs
  • Roads
  • Travel
  • University of Idaho
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