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Pride Month Display

Posted on June 3, 2021

LGBTQ+ Pride display [1]
The Library has a new Special Collections display on the first floor outside the Reading Room! To honor LGBTQ+ Pride Month this June, we’re showcasing some of our archival collections that relate to LGBTQ+ history in Idaho! [Read More]
Tags: LGBTQ+ pride diversity

Idaho Test Oath

Digital Memories

Posted on May 31, 2021

The Idaho Test Oath
Idaho politics during the territorial period were as convoluted and Byzantine as any before or since. Political and regional factionalism pitted the Democrats and the Mormons against the newly emerging Republicans and the Northern secessionists. When the Mormon and Democrat contingent lost control of the territory in 1882, ambitious Republicans... [Read More]
Tags: polygamy Mormonism Church of Latter Day Saints Idaho Supreme Court religion

Mortar Board

Diverse Collections

Posted on May 28, 2021

Mortar Board women at table
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of Mortar Board Records. Mortar Board, Inc., is a national honor society of college seniors, which recognizes in its membership the qualities of superior scholastic ability, outstanding and continual leadership, and dedicated service to the college or university community. [Read More]
Tags: women diversity

Lily Wai

Wonder Women

Posted on May 24, 2021

Lily Wai [1]
Lily Wai was born in Hangzhou, China on 29 September 1939. In 1946, her parents and three siblings moved to the village of Wu-er in Taiwan. In 1961, Wai moved to Kansas for graduate school and met her husband Chien. They married in Los Angeles in 1965. [Read More]
Tags: Asian Americans women diversity

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

Diverse Collections

Posted on May 21, 2021

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission letter head
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Records, 1979-1988 collection. Special Collections houses 4 boxes of meeting minutes, agendas, reports, and supporting documents relating to Native American fisheries, distributed to Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission members and collected by Robert Strom, commission member representing... [Read More]
Tags: Indigenous history diversity

Sunshine Mining Company annual reports

Posted on May 20, 2021

Sunshine Mining Company Annual Report [6]
Sunshine Mining Company was located between Kellogg, Idaho and Wallace, Idaho and was one of the most successful and highest-producing silver mines in the United States and the world. “By 1931, the Sunshine mine was the second largest silver producer in the United States. In 1937, the Sunshine was the... [Read More]
Tags: mining reports

Grace Fenton

Wonder Women

Posted on May 18, 2021

Grace Fenton
Grace Fenton Roberts was the first woman to graduate from the College of Engineering at the University of Idaho, graduating in 1938. Unfortunately, not much is known about her exact degree program or what she went on to do with her degree. [Read More]
Tags: women photography diversity

reimagining the Library website

Posted on May 10, 2021

Library website
Our Library website is currently themed with the official Vandal colors of Pride Gold and Black. But “Wild Rose” is also an official Vandal color, and Spec thinks it should be utilized more! What if the Library website was Wild Rose instead of Pride Gold? We tested it! The world... [Read More]
Tags: colors websites design

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