Fran Rader photograph collection, 1860-1998

Photographs of Lewiston and vicinity, towns, peoples, activities. Images were mounted to oversized shiny coated boards with double-sided tape that was starting to fail, with most photos coming loose. Multiple images could often be found on one page. All photos that could be removed from the boards were removed and all images on each page were placed in individual archival folders. Sometimes subjects spanned multiple pages, but to keep with the original order, only photos from each page were placed in one folder. Photos that could not be removed from the backing were trimmed to fit with their corresponding folder. Oversized photos are housed in an oversized box, as noted in the inventory. Some of the photos have handwritten notes on the back giving the description or where the photo originated, such as Engstrom's Studio, but many are unlabled. A few had captions pasted on the boards, those captions were written on the back of the images. For many of the images, it is unknown who the photographer is, or why they were organized as they were.

The collection also contained some correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photocopies of illustrations.