In 1919, the University of Idaho became the first home west of the Rocky Mountains to the Suffolk breed of sheep thanks to a donation from the English Suffolk Sheep Society. The three ewes and two rams impressed breeders so much that Suffolk importation increased dramatically, and today it’s one...
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Don't Forget Your Mask
Even in this damaged image, you can see mask fashion hasn’t changed in the last century. Whether you’re going to work, like these people, or heading back to school, don’t forget your mask!
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Winter Sports
Women's Recreation Wednesday
![Women skiing [2]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/69-499_th.jpg)
This week’s photos feature women skiing! The first ever recorded ski jumping event was performed by a Norwegian woman named Ingrid Olavsdottir Vestby who is said to have “soared 20 feet” in Trysil, Norway in 1862.1 However, it wasn’t until 1990s when women were “first allowed to fully participate in...
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75 Years, Remembering the Hiroshima Bombing
At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945 the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Justified as a means to end the war in the Pacific, it killed 80,000 people instantly and over 200,000 total. It was followed three days later with another bombing in Nagasaki.
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Volleyball
Women's Recreation Wednesday
![Women's volleyball game [1]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/69-428_th.jpg)
Volleyball was reportedly invented by William G. Morgan
in 1895 just four years after the invention of basketball.1
This was how volleyball was introduced - facts and information about the game ↩
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Did You Miss Us?
![I' Tank, University of Idaho. [89-4]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/thumbs/campus02869_th.jpg)
Over the last several months we’ve had to remain socially distant from our campus, staggering schedules, limited in our ability to perform reference, and missing our Vandal friends and family. This week we all return fully to campus (with precautions). Most of our Special Collections staff will be back in...
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Track and Field
Women's Recreation Wednesday
Welcome back to another week of Women’s Recreation
Wednesday, our series covering the Women’s Recreation Association here at the
University of Idaho.
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Tennis
Women's Recreation Wednesday
This week features photos of women playing tennis.
“Today, tennis is a major international sport and a multi-billion dollar
industry – and it’s also one of the few sports in which the earning potential
of male and female athletes is totally equal.”1
What Women’s Tennis Looked Like Through History ↩
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Swimming
Women's Recreation Wednesday
This week’s photos feature women’s swimming. The 1920s were an important time in women’s history, not only due to women’s suffrage, but because “while women pushed for voting rights, they also fought for equality in physical activities such as swimming. They believed that by showing their athletic side and fighting...
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Softball
Women's Recreation Wednesday
![Softball Game [1]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/69-251_th.jpg)
This week’s photos feature women playing softball near the University Library and Memorial Gym. Softball developed out of indoor baseball, which was invented in Chicago in 1887.1 “Women’s fast-pitch softball became an official sport of the Summer in 1996 but was dropped in 2012. Still, that hasn’t deterred millions of...
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