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This collection contains a map, ordinance, charter, agreement, correspondence, proclamation, newspaper articles, and records related to the city's COVID pandemic response.

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This collection contains three Idaho Sunday Statesman newspapers dated 1910 and 1911. Newspapers include Section 2 dating to October 2, 1910; Section 1 and 2 of the paper dating to December 10, 1911. Articles include photographs and names of past Boise mayors and the social news of Idaho’s Capitol for one week.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of newspaper clippings, speeches, correspondence, reports, studies, court documents, and ephemera documenting Richard Eardley's tenure as a member of the Boise City Council from 1969-1973 and as Boise Mayor from 1974-1986. Notable issues documented in the collection includes policing, development of downtown, urban renewal, and affordable housing. Also included in the collection are original works of Darwin H. “Dar” Dodds documenting his imprisonment on Wake Island...

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This collection contains a brief biography of Russell E. Edlefsen, a 1953 speech Edlefsen gave at Bishop Kelly’s Episcopal Silver Jubilee, correspondence, photographs, awards, newspaper/magazine clippings, and five copies of Look magazine (January 24, 1967- April 4, 1967). There is also an oversize illustration drawn by John G. Collias in 1951 of Edlefsen and his family in honor of Edlefsen’s 45th birthday.