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Imperial Mining Company ledger [Read More]

Dreaming of going outdoors this rainy weekend? Travel through photos instead with Archives Outdoors! In October of 1977, Marcia Wells was the first coed to complete the map and compass test course on the first try. [Read More]

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The Great Tasting Potato [Read More]

uispecialcollections: "The wheat smut center of the world."  That was the dubious distinction of the Pacific Northwest thirty years ago.  It was a critical situation and one which threatened the very existence of the grain industry in this region.  Through the concerted efforts of plant scientists, farmers, and commercial interests... [Read More]

uispecialcollections: This map from our Bunker Hill Mining Company Records Collection measures about 5 feet by 20 feet.  The different colors show a different level underground, showing levels 9 through 17 in the Bunker Hill Mining Complex.  Unfortunately the date is not known. Vacation week reblog! [Read More]

uispecialcollections: Active apparently only in 1975, the Idaho Star Trek Club had at least 13 members.  With brief mentions of a possible local chapter of a fan club in the 1980s and 1990s, and online interest just recently, there might still be some Star Trek fans out there on the... [Read More]

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. In observance, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives shares photos from its photography collection featuring a hand-made scrapbook documenting some aspects of life in the Kooskia, Idaho Internment Camp where Japanese American men were forced to live during World War II... [Read More]

Humming Bird Mining Company [Read More]