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Families--history

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

Clarence A. Bolin , March 20, 2019

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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: March 20, 2019
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens

Clayne Baker , October 11, 2017 and October 23, 2017

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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 11, 2017 and October 23, 2017
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens

Clayne Chaumell , May 22, 2014

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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: May 22, 2014
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens

Compton Warehouse , February 24, 2012

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Glenn Compton discusses his family history, and how their business, Compton Transfer and Storage Company, began in 1902. He recounts what the four warehouse locations in downtown Boise were like in the 1940s and 1950s, and how the company expanded. Glenn also discusses his life growing up in Boise, and how the city has developed.

Dates: February 24, 2012
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 1: Boise Businesses

Cordelia and William Onweiler papers

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Identifier: MS 031
Scope and Contents This collection contains bumper stickers, photographs, and audiovisual materials from Bill and Cordelia Onweiler’s political and public service in Boise, Idaho during the 1950s-1970s. Special emphasis is placed on the development of Boise’s Greenbelt. The collection also includes a printed manuscript titled “Billy Goes to War” that Bill Onweiler wrote about his service in the United States National Guard during World War II. The collection contains digital reproductions of images and...
Dates: 1898-1970
Found in: Collections / Cordelia and William Onweiler papers

Corki Onweiler , July 25, 2014, August 8, 2014, September 10, 2014, and November 21, 2014

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Abstract In an interview with Brandi Burns on July 25, 2014, Cordelia “Corki” Onweiler discusses her childhood in Boise during the 1930s and 1940s, including her recollections from attending school at St. Teresa’s Academy, going to the Natatorium, her family’s business interest in The Mode Limited, and her first job at C.C. Anderson’s Department Store. She also discusses how she met her husband, their life together in the 1950s when he was serving on the Boise City Council and Idaho State...
Dates: July 25, 2014, August 8, 2014, September 10, 2014, and November 21, 2014
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 2: Boise City Departments / City Council

C.W. "Smile" Anderson , December 1, 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: December 1, 2011
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 1: Boise Businesses / Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company

Diane Sielaff-Winn, August 28, 2015

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Abstract Diane Sielaff-Winn completed her interview on August 28, 2015. She described her family’s history in the Vista Neighborhood and her childhood memories from the area. Sielaff-Winn also detailed what it was like during her teenage years going to South Junior High School and Borah High School. She described the many outdoor activities she and her family participated in and what kids did to occupy their summers in the 1970s and 80s. Sielaff-Winn paints a complete picture of what life was like...
Dates: August 28, 2015
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Vista Neighborhood

Dick and Shirley Graybeal , November 29, 2013

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Abstract In an interview with Angie Davis on November 29, 2013, Dick and Shirley Graybeal discuss growing up and raising their own family in the Boise Bench Neighborhood. Shirley describes her family’s move to Boise from Indianapolis in 1949, the house they moved into which was built by Everett Bechtel, working as an usher at Vista Theatre as a teenager, and some of the health complications she has experienced. Her parents opened Thriftway Furniture on Latah and Alpine, the store sold the first...
Dates: November 29, 2013
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Bench Neighborhood / Angie Davis Boise Bench History Project

Donna Day Jacobs , November 13, 2013

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Abstract

Donna Day Jacobs was interviewed on November 13, 2013. The purpose of the interview was to establish some of the Boise Bench History. Jacobs started the interview detailing her family’s history and settlement in Boise and Emmett from England. Just as Jacobs began discussing her life, the tape was cut short, with the interview only lasting a little over seven minutes.

Dates: November 13, 2013
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Bench Neighborhood / Angie Davis Boise Bench History Project

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