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://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/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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Garden of Paradise
Digital Memories
The tropical paradise pictured on this sheet music cover is part of the tangled history of the University of Idaho’s alma mater and the state song of Idaho. The music for this popular song was adapted by Alice Bessee to fit words by McKinley Helm, both University of Idaho students,...
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Idaho Stunts at WSC
Digital Memories
![Idaho Stunt at Harvard Yell Contest at football game [04]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/pg2/pg22551.jpg)
Pep rallies and half-time events have a long tradition on the university campus; one of the earlier manifestations was the Harvard Yell Contest. In 1919, the Harvard Clubs of the University of Idaho and nearby Washington State College jointly offered a prize to the school “showing superior sportsmanship and entertainment...
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Payette National Forest
Wilderness Wednesday
The Payette National Forest was originally established in 1905 but in 1944, the Weiser National Forest (established 1905) and the Idaho National Forest (established 1908) were combined to create much of the Payette National Forest that we know today.1
Payette National Forest, History & Culture ↩
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