One of the many characters who inhabit the collections found at the U of I Library’s Special Collections and Archives is writer, film producer, and actor Nell Shipman. She started her production company, Nell Shipman Productions, in California to make her own way in the film industry and eventually moved...
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Idaho’s Senate Bean Soup
How the University of Idaho Defended its Bean Honor
Post written by Aarika Dobbins
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Remember Me and Write...
Burton French Ellis was a University of Idaho alumnus and a career military officer. Among the books, articles, photographs, and correspondence that make up his papers in Special Collections are letters, cables, telegrams, and V-mail exchanges with his wife, Dee Dee. Letters were a vital touchstone for service people away...
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Anthropology Day
Celebrate. Engage. Inspire.
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Happy Birthday to the University of Idaho!
On January 30, 1889, 135 years ago today, Idaho Territory’s Governor Stevenson signed the bill which established the University of Idaho. One year later Idaho was granted statehood. This land grant institution of higher education was Idaho’s only university for 71 years.
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Steel House - Stronger Than Mere Bricks and Mortar
The Ethel K. Steel House was the only cooperative women’s living group on the University of Idaho campus. It was founded in 1953 when Ridenbaugh Hall was converted into a music rehearsal space–a role it serves even today. A new building was constructed on the other side of Blake Avenue...
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Moscow Food Co-Op
Celebrating Community Connection
Last year the Moscow Food Co-op celebrated fifty years of providing wholesome groceries and community connection here on the Palouse. Started in 1973 by a group of friends, the cooperative venture was heavily influenced by cultural attitudes of the time, including a desire for healthier foods, disillusionment with corporate agriculture,...
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Got Milk?
It’s National Milk Day!
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Travels with the Civilian Conservation Corps
Recently, the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives was gifted a photo album created by Ben Geisler.
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John Lorenzo Aram
The newly processed John Lorenzo Aram papers contains photographs, newspaper clippings, diplomas, certificates, and some genealogical history of the Aram family. John L. Aram was a University of Idaho alum, graduating in 1936 with a B.S. in Business. Later in life he worked for the Clearwater Unit of Potlatch Forests,...
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