Exciting News! We at the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives have just finished our latest digital exhibit. Moving Forward While Looking Back: Japanese Americans, Japan, Idaho and the University explores the experiences of Japanese Americans and Japan during and after World War II.
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Not of Noble Birth: The Triumph of Jennie Hughes Smith
Digital Memories
Jennie Eva Hughes, Class of 1899, was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Idaho. She was born on July 20, 1879, in Washington, D.C. Little is known about Jennie’s father, Alexander Hughes, but it is known that her mother, Louisa, married Lewis E. Crisemon shortly after Jennie...
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Minidoka Letter
Digital Memories
When Fumiko wrote to her Uncle George Shitamae in September 1942, the two of them were caught up in the domestic backlash of World War Two. He had been picked up in Seattle after Pearl Harbor and interned in New Mexico. After many hearings, he was not to be released...
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A Discolored Adventure
![SEM Scan of National Medal of Arts [5]](https://webpages.uidaho.edu/library/spec/harvester/objects/thumbs/hamptonnationalmedal-05_th.jpg)
With the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival approaching, we thought we would take a look at one of the investigations we did with our International Jazz Collections over the last year.
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Trailer Village
Digital Memories
![Veterans Housing Trailer Village, University of Idaho. [120-3]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/thumbs/campus00221_th.jpg)
The close of World War II meant great changes for the University of Idaho, as it did for the country as a whole. For the first time in nearly a decade, military uniforms were not the most common form of apparel. The return to university studies was accelerated by the...
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Lodgepole Pine Moth
Cone and seed insects such as the lodgepole cone moth (Eucosma rescissoriana Hein) cause significant damage to forests and seed orchards by feeding on the seeds in lodgepole pine trees as well as other valuable tree crops such as western white pines. They can be found in forests throughout northwestern...
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W.C. Handy letter
Digital Memories
In this letter to a Lewiston autograph collector, W. C. Handy reminisces about traveling to Lewiston with Mahara’s Minstrels. He pinpoints 1896 “when McKinley and Bryan were the republican and democratic nominees for president.” Handy joined Mahara’s in August 1896, according to his autobiography, Father of the Blues (1941), and...
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Happy 132nd Birthday to the University of Idaho!
![Administration Building, University of Idaho (1892-1906). [51-41]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/thumbs/campus02131_th.jpg)
The University of Idaho was founded 132 years ago on January 30, 1889. Idaho Governor Edward A. Stevenson signed the Territorial Legislature’s Council Bill No. 20 which established the University of Idaho.1
Historical Timeline of the University of Idaho ↩
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S-Bridge Trainwreck
Digital Memories
![Mullan (Idaho), "S" bridge wreck, 1903 [01]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/barstock/barstock313.jpg)
Winter storms in the mountains of Northern Idaho often bring transportation to a standstill. The railroads first attacked the problem with human power. Labor gangs, Japanese in one case, would be sent out with shovels to clear the ravines of snowdrifts that could reach thirty or more feet deep. Later,...
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President Theodore Roosevelt in Idaho
![President Theodore Roosevelt [1]](https://webpages.uidaho.edu/library/spec/harvester/objects/thumbs/PG83_37_2_th.jpg)
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt visited Wallace, Idaho. These photos show President Roosevelt on 6th Street, turning onto Bank Street, in a parade. He gave a Presidential Address that day.
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