Librarians attend a conference at the University of Idaho in 1958. We are always looking for ways to provide the best service to our patrons and new ideas are shared at professional workshops and conferences like this.
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WWI Speaker
Radioactive Trees
For our next #weirdlywednesday post, we’re showing evidence of the Atomic Age research of introducing radioisotopes to trees in the hope of studying how individual trees behave physiologically and how their absorption, translocation, and similar metabolic processes work. Field studies were conducted to study pole blight, a disease of western...
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Go Vandals!
The University of Idaho Vandals travel to Pocatello this weekend to take on cross state and Big Sky Conference rivals the Idaho State Bengals. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives showcases football program covers from three previous meetings between the Vandals and Bengals in 1962, 1965 and 1967.The...
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Attention, Class!
Happy World Teachers’ Day to all University of Idaho College of Education alumni as well as current students pursuing a degree in education.
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Halloween Ice Cream
Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, so for each Wednesday in October we will post a photo on the wonderfully weird side! Was it just me or is this every child’s dream to go to college and work in an ice cream laboratory? I wonder if they are brewing...
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The Tiger Hotel
Mine to Mine
The Tiger Hotel, located in Burke, Idaho, seven miles from Wallace, was a three story frame hotel with 150 rooms. It was built over the South Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River, and the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks ran through the lobby. The hotel’s only purpose was to provide food...
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Fair Season
Canning in Home Economics
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Student Surveyors
College of Engineering. University of Idaho. Surveying class, Moscow in distance. [224-4]
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Potato Fields
Potato field
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