Go Vandals!

The University of Idaho Vandal Football team opens their season Saturday with a visit to Fresno State. Vandal gridiron players here take to the field in 1960. [Read More]

National Bow Tie Day

Judge James H. Forney
On National Bow Tie Day, the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives salutes the use of this accessory to complete a dapper ensemble. Judge James H. Forney, one of the UI’s founders and a member of the earliest board of regents, sported one. [Read More]

The Great Fire of 1910

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Today marks the 108th anniversary of the start of one of the largest forest fires in U.S. history, the Great Fire of 1910, which burnt 3 million acres in Northern Idaho and Western Montana in just 2 days. Hurricane-force winds pulled whole burning trees from the ground, roots and all,... [Read More]

Rush On!

Rush week at Delta Tau Delta house [03]
Sorority and fraternity recruitment, known as Rush, continues on the University of Idaho campus. Potential new members are meeting and greeting those students already part of Greek Life on the UI campus at gatherings throughout the weekend not unlike students did at these parties hosted by the Delta Tau Delta... [Read More]

Bountiful Yield

Horse-drawn threshing machine [1]
University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives tips our sun hat to farmers throughout the Palouse who are in the process of harvesting their wheat crop. Today’s modern combines use a different type of horsepower than the horse-drawn threshing machine seen in this photo from 1893. [Read More]

Congratulations, Jerry Kramer

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The University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives congratulates former University of Idaho Vandal Jerry Kramer on his induction into the Pro-Football Hall of Fame. Kramer played for the University of Idaho from 1954 to 1957 where he was selected as an All-American. He was drafted by the Green... [Read More]

Sunset Mercantile Company

Mine to Mine

Sunset Brewery in Wallace, Idaho
One of the many side businesses Henry L. Day was involved in was the Sunset Mercantile Company, a reorganization of the Sunset Brewery in Wallace, ID. Sunset Mercantile existed from 1934 to 1946, although their first beer, named ”Gem State,” was introduced in 1938. [Read More]