To honor this year’s theme of “Once Upon a Homecoming,” here is a montage to reminisce or see anew the many faces of Joe Vandal.
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Howard Brady Carpenter
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Coeur d'Alene Water Supply Company
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Dad's Weekend
Dad's Weekend
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Indian Post Office
“Mail call, mail call.” These words have long caused the heart of many a homesick wayfarer to quicken in anticipation. The conveniences of our modern postal system were unknown to early travelers passing through the rugged Idaho frontier. If old legends are true, ingenious journeyers devised their own system of...
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Stanley 'Bow-Wow' Wojtkiewicz
When the Freshmen Class of 1943 assembled in the fall of 1939 to elect officers, they were addressed by an enthusiastic young man promoting the virtues of Stanley Wojtkiewicz, who was promptly elected President. The nominator, it turned out, was Mr. Wojtkiewicz, who, grinning widely, always said his name was...
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More Mining Film Preserved
More mining film preserved 16mm color film (pos.) Kodachrome, approx. 300 ft. on a 7" reel, 3 splices. Stibnite; Bunker Hill, Burke Canyon. 1950 Stibnite, Idaho and the Bradley Mining Co. scenes from 1950, showing surface operations from a high vantage point, vans, a bulldozer at work, much on the...
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Even More Mining Film Preserved
More mining film preserved 16mm color film (pos.) Kodachrome, approx. 300 ft. on a 7" reel, 1 splice. Page Mine; Bunker Hill; Yankee Fork. (n.d., but c. late 1940s) Much footage of the Page Mine sawmill, with panoramic views of the town and mining site, and people. The Bunker Hill...
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Mining Films Preserved
Historic mining films from Idaho’s Silver Valley Mining District have been preserved thanks to a 2007 Partnership Grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) awarded to the University of Idaho Library’s Special Collections & Archives. The original moving pictures were filmed in 1926 and 1930 by Harry Webb Marsh,...
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General Chrisman, Idaho's Grand Old Man
In April 1936, the University of Idaho campus celebrated an unusual event when President Neale cancelled classes. The occasion: President Franklin D. Roosevelt had just designated, at Congress’ behest, General Edward R. Chrisman as Commandant of Cadets and Lecturer in Military Science and Tactics Emeritus for the “remainder of his...
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