Idaho Harvester

Posted on August 31, 2018

University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives remembers the legendary Aretha Franklin today as services are held celebrating her life in Detroit, Michigan. The International Jazz Collection Leonard Feather Collection includes a number of promotional photos of the singer from throughout her career. [Read More]

Posted on August 31, 2018

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]

Posted on August 28, 2018

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]

Posted on August 24, 2018

University of Idaho Vandal Volleyball opens the season in Memorial Gym this weekend playing host to the Idaho Volleyball Classic tournament. [Read More]

Posted on August 20, 2018

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]

Posted on August 16, 2018

Residence Hall move-in begins today! Welcome new and returning Vandals! Here in this 1962 photo, members of the Spurs and Intercollegiate Knights help Gail Cornell move into the dorms. [Read More]

Posted on August 10, 2018

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]

Posted on August 9, 2018

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]

Posted on August 8, 2018

Registering for sorority rush, Forney Hall [02] [Read More]