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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Aerial Mapping Company photograph

 Item
Identifier: 2018.38
Content Description

One oversize photograph of Boise and vicinity.

Dates: March 2, 1969

Ashley Sign Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 007
Content Description

This collection documents the activities of the Ashley Sign Company business from 1910-1973. The collection also includes a small set of Arthur E. Ashley’s personal records, and Arthur A. Ashley’s sign business which he operated prior to purchasing his father’s business.

Two photographs from the donor’s business, Idaho Electric Signs, are included in the collection.

Dates: 1905-after 1984

Boise Aviation and Aerial photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2018.09
Content Description

This collection contains aerial photographs of downtown Boise, the airport (early airport, Boise Air Terminal, Gowen Field), the runway, planes, people disembarking, and a very early airplane.

Dates: 1935-1972

Boise Barracks photographs

 File — Small Collections Box 2
Identifier: MS 098
Content Description

Three photographs of uniformed Army soldiers outside at Fort Boise acting out the execution of deserters. The images are titled with "Deserters," "The Deserters Fate," and "Burial." The names of some of the soldiers and the location are written in red ink at the bottom of the photographs.

Dates: 1909

Boise City and vicinity glass plate collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 086
Content Description

This collection contains glass plate negatives documenting the activities of unidentified people in and around Boise. Highlights include downtown buildings and parade in downtown Boise, homesteading, and outdoor pursuits.

Dates: 1904 - 1912

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, and publications. The collection also contains photographic and audiovisual documentation of events.

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

Boise Civic Flower Show Advertisement photograph

 Item — Small Collections Box 2
Identifier: MS 089
Scope and Contents

One photograph depicting a car decorated with an advertisement for the Boise Civic Flower Show.

Dates: after 1925

Boise Depot and Downtown oversize photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2018.49
Content Description

This collection contains a photograph of the Boise Union Pacific Depot shortly after its construction in 1925, and a photograph of downtown Boise showing the Grove Plaza taken on May 7, 1993.

Dates: after 1925- May 7, 1993

Boise Parks & Recreation Department records

 Collection
Identifier: RG 012
Content Description

This collection consists of a map of the Greenbelt, a map of Veterans Memorial Park, artifacts and documents retrieved from a time capsule buried in collaboration with the Boise Family YMCA, and color slides of Fort Boise, the Natatorium, public pools, and department events.

Dates: 1971-1990

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