At the high end of summer, many seek the cooling pursuit of piscatorial pleasures. These youngsters, with their net full of steelhead, were captured on glass by John B. Wilson, a professional photographer in Lewiston, Idaho, between 1915 and 1920. In the background can be seen a river steamer at...
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Steamboat a'Coming
Digital Memories
It was in 1880 that the age of steamboat travel in the Coeur d’Alenes of northern Idaho began. For over a decade steamboats formed a valuable link between the gold and silver mining region and the rest of the world as it quickly became apparent that the key to the...
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Idaho Trout
![Postcard of oversized fish [1]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/keithpetersonfish_1_th.jpg)
Today we have some fun fishing facts from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game! There several reasons why Idaho is a great fishing destination: Idaho has over 26,000 miles of rivers and streams Idaho has over 3,000 natural lakes Idaho has over 42 game fish species to catch1 Fishing...
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Gymnasium and Library
Digital Memories
![Gymnasium, University of Idaho interior with track sports and library shelves. [54-6]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/thumbs/campus02319_th.jpg)
The alliance between athletics and academics, uneasy at best, is nowhere more exemplified than in this scene from the University of Idaho’s early history. In March 1906, fire of suspicious origin destroyed the primary building on the university campus, the Administration Building, holding offices, classrooms, and the library. When M....
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Women's History Month Exhibit
![Women's History Month Exhibit [1]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/whmexhibit_1_th.jpg)
Special Collections has a new exhibit up for Women’s History Month! The exhibit features Jennie Eva Hughes, the first Black woman to graduate from UI in the Class of 1899. It’s located outside the Special Collections Reading Room on the first floor of the Library. Be sure to check it...
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Moving Forward While Looking Back
A New Digital Exhibit
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://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/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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