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Moscow, ID photographs, 1885-1938

Overview of the Collection

Title
Moscow, ID photographs
Dates
1885-1938 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 folder
Collection Number
PG 118
Summary
Photographs depicting scenes from the University of Idaho campus and town of Moscow.
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
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
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Content Description

40 photographs depicting scenes from the University of Idaho campus and town of Moscow. Many appear to be copies. Street scenes show people and cars as well as businesses. The photos were donated by alumna Marian Webb, whose father, Claude Johnson, also attended the U of I and served as an extension agent in Blackfoot.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Photographer, "Title," date. Collection name, object ID. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Material was recieved in 2014 from Marian and Gordon Webb, by way of Eric Bennett, Director of Development at the U of I College of Science (MA 2014-53).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Photographs

    • Description: Street scene
      1 photographic prints : First Trust and Savings Bank, Table Talk Bakery, Creightons. People walking on the paved street, cars parked on street edges and driving through intersection
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 1
    • Description: Moscow landscape from Administration building
      1 photographic prints : Post office does not show, 3rd and Washington
      Dates: May 1910
      Container: Object 2
    • Description: Methodist Church
      1 photographic prints
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 3
    • Description: Headly Home on Hayes
      1 photographic prints : Shows people standing in yard by fence and a horse-drawn carriage
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 4
    • Description: Lumber Yard
      1 photographic prints
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 5
    • Description: Barton House
      1 photographic prints : 4th and Main where Moscow Hotel now stands
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 6
    • Description: High School
      1 photographic prints : Old High School Bldg about 1900
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Object 7
    • Description: School House
      1 photographic prints : Irving School House about 08
      Dates: 1908
      Container: Object 8
    • Description: Landscape
      1 photographic prints : First Administration Building of U of I Burned in 6 or 07. Shows houses, a person and horse, campus buidlings in the background
      Dates: circa 1905
      Container: Object 9
    • Description: Grocery Store interior
      1 photographic prints : Grandpa Carter- shorter one. George Wolfe- grocery.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 10
    • Description: Cornwall
      1 photographic prints : Town of Cornwall about 1908, Grice (?) Flower Mill in foreground
      Dates: 1908
      Container: Object 11
    • Description: Livery & Feedstable, Tom Keene cigar
      1 photographic prints : Shows people on horse-drawn carriages on dirt road, parked next to wooden sidewalks
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 12
    • Description: Moscow Cab & Auto Livery Neely & Son
      1 photographic prints : Show people standing next to parked cars on edge of road and sidewalk infront of building
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 13
    • Description: Landscape
      1 photographic prints : Shows fields, barns, houses and fences. Note on back gives dates of when railroads entered Moscow
      Dates: September 23rd, 1885
      Container: Object 14
    • Description: Moscow City Hall
      1 photographic prints : Shows people and a horse-drawn wagon with construction debris between the building and the dirt road
      Dates: circa 1912
      Container: Object 15
    • Description: McGregor House
      1 photographic prints : Shows people on wooden sidewalk, second floor porch, and looking out from a third floor window
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 16
    • Description: Men with pigs
      1 photographic prints : About 1936 Wade Wells (?) and Dr. Malchom Buson in background. Claude Johnson - White Cap, Rulon Rider - right, Melvin Butterfeild - hat and tie, ? Peterson - next to Mel
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Object 17
    • Description: City map
      1 photographic prints : Moscow, Idaho. The First Street Paved 1912.
      Dates: 1912
      Container: Object 18
    • Description: High School
      1 photographic prints : High School 1912
      Dates: 1912
      Container: Object 19
    • Description: Unknown House
      1 photographic prints : Address number on front is 101. Upper floors have apparent fire damage
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 20
    • Description: Church
      1 photographic prints : Now: Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 21
    • Description: Construction of Moscow City Hall
      1 photographic prints : Shows workers and equipment and unfinished basement
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Object 22
    • Description: Construction of Moscow City Hall
      1 photographic prints : Shows workers and equipment and unfinished foundation
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 23
    • Description: Construction of Moscow City Hall
      1 photographic prints : Shows workers standing on ceiling of almost completed first floor
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 24
    • Description: Unknown building
      1 photographic prints
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 25
    • Description: Moscow Christian Church
      1 photographic prints
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 26
    • Description: Russel School
      1 photographic prints : Carsen (?) negative
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 27
    • Description: Moscow City Hall
      1 photographic prints : From intersection of 2nd and Washington. Shows cars parked along sidewalk and driving through intersection, gas station, wood working shop, and other buildings
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 28
    • Description: Women's Gymnasium, now Art and Architecture North on campus
      1 photographic prints : Appears to be a plowed field where Admin Lawn is now
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 29
    • Description: Street View - looking north towards Main St. from a building near 7th
      1 photographic prints : Shows: Shell, Firestone, Standard, Nuart, Sears, Browns Furnature
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 30
    • Description: Landscape
      1 photographic prints : Possibly from Admin Lawn before Hello Walk? Shows fields, buildings, houses
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Object 31
    • Description: Street scene
      1 photographic prints : Looking north at 8th and Main, shows Firestone, R.B. Ward hardware store, Chevrolet, Goodyear Tires, Home Cooking
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 32
    • Description: McGregor Home
      1 photographic prints : Orchard in forground, people on porch, windmill or silo next to house
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 33
    • Description: Street scene
      1 photographic prints : Woman in horse-drawn carriage on dirt road, infront of unknown house
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 34
    • Description: Landscape
      1 photographic prints : winter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 35
    • Description: Dariy Cattle Barnes U of Idaho
      1 photographic prints
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 36
    • Description: Little International Parade
      1 photographic prints : Claude Johnson leading Percheron stallion down Main St.
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Object 37
    • Description: Gathering of people in a barn
      1 photographic prints : Claude Johnson 's dad was Carl E. Johnson of Idaho Falls, ID class of 1913. Far left: Mr. Carlyle - former Dean of Ag, was there at Moscow when Claude's Dad was going to college
      Dates: circa 1913
      Container: Object 38
    • Description: Street scene
      1 photographic prints : no. 40 Main St., looking east Lewiston
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Object 39
    • Description: City Hotel
      1 photographic prints : Grandpa and Grandma Carter and the hotel they owned. It is unknown who Grandpa and Grandma Carter are. Stands where Idaho Hotel is now. People standing on front porch and wooden sidewalk
      Dates: undated
      Container: Object 40

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Subject Terms

  • Photograph collections
  • College campuses
  • Photography--History

Corporate Names

  • University of Idaho

Geographical Names

  • Moscow (Idaho)
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