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Families--history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

Vernon L. Bisterfeldt , September 15, 2010, August 31, 2011, and September 9, 2011

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Abstract In three interviews with Brandi Burns on September 15, 2010, August 31 and September 9, 2011 Vernon Bisterfeldt discusses his family and personal history, his career in the Boise Police Department, and his decade of service as a member of the Boise City Council. In Vernon Bisterfeldt’s interview on August 31, 2011, Bisterfeldt shared his experiences as a Boise City Police Officer. Bisterfeldt worked for the Boise Police Department from May 1959 to January 1987, retiring after 28...
Dates: September 15, 2010, August 31, 2011, and September 9, 2011
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 2: Boise City Departments / City Council

Vicki Linderborn, July 13, 2013

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Abstract Vicki Linderborn was born in Mackey Idaho in 1936. Her father worked for the U.S. Forest Service, out of the Boise office, near 900 River Street. Her parents bought a house on the Bench in 1941, when Vicki was five. She went to Franklin Elementary School and spent most of her free time playing in the open fields. She was the first class to enter South Junior High and remembers voting for school colors and a mascot. Getting to school was difficult due to canals with no bridges. As a teenager...
Dates: July 13, 2013
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Central Bench Neighborhood Association History Project

Wilch family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 008
Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, cards, photographic prints and negatives, advertisements, bills, and ephemera. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence and cards addressed to Mary dated between 1942-1968. A significant portion of the correspondence is from 1956, when Mary’s mother Edith and sister Hazel traveled to Chicago. Correspondents include Edith McCarthy, Hazel McCarthy, William McCarthy, Mrs. Kenneth Lingley, Blanch McCarthy, and Frank "Tex" Branning.

Dates: 1920-1970; Majority of material found in 1942-1968
Found in: Collections / Wilch family papers

William Ah Fong, March 7, 2023

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Abstract Travis Jeffres conducted this remote interview on March 7th, 2023, with William Ah Fong as part of the Documenting Chinese History in Greater Boise through Oral History project. William Ah Fong, the great-grandson of C.K. Ah Fong a Chinese herbal specialist, offers his memories of Boise’s Chinese population, Boise’s Chinatown, and growing up in Boise as a Chinese American person. Fong discusses his family history, including his great-grandfather’s immigration from China, the evolution of his...
Dates: March 7, 2023
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens / Chinese History in Greater Boise Collection

William "Bill" Perkins , October 2, 2011

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Dates: October 2, 2011
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 1: Boise Businesses / Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company

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