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Boise City Department of Arts & History records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 005
Content Description

The collection documents the actions and activities of the Boise City Department of Arts & History including its administration, finances, events, projects, and programs. The records consist of correspondence, meeting minutes and materials, newspaper articles, architectural drawings, reports, surveys, promotional material, grant applications, artist submissions, and publications. The collection also contains photographic and audiovisual documentation of events.

Dates: 1931-2022; Majority of material found within 2008-2020
Found in: Collections

Boise postcards collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 047
Content Description

This collection contains postcards related to Idaho, Boise, and the Oregon Trail including cards with images of downtown buildings and streets, parks, dams, and landscapes.

Dates: approximately 1900-1980
Found in: Collections

Boise Public Library records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 011
Content Description

This collection consists of plat maps of Boise and foothills development and management plans.

Dates: Unknown
Found in: Collections

Bureau of Reclamation photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 009
Scope and Contents Collection contains images taken by J.D. Roderick for the Bureau of Reclamation that were specific to Boise from 1966-1969. The images were used to advertise/market the importance of electricity and precipitation. Each image is accompanied by an identical negative and an envelope that at one time housed both the image and the negative. The sleeve includes the date the image was taken as well as a caption the Bureau of Reclamation used in its advertising/marketing. One undated...
Dates: 1945-1969
Found in: Collections

Carlos Mendiolah postcards

 Collection
Identifier: MS 013
Content Description

The collection consists of 14 postcards primarily depicting downtown Boise. Noteably the postcards depict Arrow Rock Dam, High School Park, the Natatorium, the Y.M.C.A building, Boise High School, the Boise Depot, the Federal Building, Main Street, view from Owyhee Hotel, and the Idaho State Capitol building.

Dates: ca. 1900-1969
Found in: Collections

City of Boise photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 023
Content Description

This collection contains three digital photographs, one taken in June 2018 of Pride Fest at the intersection of Capitol Blvd. and Idaho Street, and two taken of the Cactus Bar on October 2018 at 517 W Main St.

Dates: 2018
Found in: Collections

Eby family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 012
Scope and Contents

This collection contains postcards, photographic prints of downtown Boise, an American Legion pamphlet, newspaper clippings, a copy of the Grapevine Newsletter, Village News, and Old West Newspaper from Time Magazine. The material was collected by the Eby's while living in Boise.

Dates: after 1900-1982
Found in: Collections

Idaho Transportation Department photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 016
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of Boise streetscapes including Curtis, Front, Warm Springs, Broadway, Capitol Boulevard, Fairview, Grove, Main, Protest, and State.

Dates: 1951-1962
Found in: Collections

Jose Angel Saenz photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 001
Scope and Contents

This collection contains black and white photographs of people in Boise. The project is titled "Collaboration."

Dates: 2013
Found in: Collections