Frederick Albert Blackwell moved to northern Idaho in 1902, where he was active in milling and mining and soon owned and operated the Coeur d'Alene & Spokane Railroad. Circa 1904-1910 he created two photo albums, one personal and one for business promotional purposes.
The albums remained in the family, and in 1976 his great grandson Frederick Warn Blackwell received a grant through the Washington State Historians' Bicentennial Project to create slide sets from the albums.
This slide collection, created in 1976, reproduces 181 life and business photographs of Northern Idaho in 1904-1910. A print index to individual images, created at the time the slides were made, accompanied the collection.
Slides are in original order, unlabeled, but a print index accompanies them. There are eight series of images, as follows: Cities and Civic Events (32 slides); Lakes and Rivers (50 slides); Steamers, Boats (12 slides); Railroads (55 slides); Timber in Pend Oreille and Spirit Lake Country (12 slides); Logging (6 slides); Sawmills (8 slides); Miscellaneous (8 slides).
This collection is open and available for research use.
[Item description] Frederick Warn Blackwell Slides of "The Northern Idaho of F. A. Blackwell, ca. 1904-10", 1976 (PC 106)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
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