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Families--history

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

Jim Collier , December 6, 2017 and August 20, 2019

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Abstract Haley Noble conducted this interview on December 6th, 2017, with Jim Collier in Boise, Idaho as part of the Citizens of Boise oral history project. Jim Collier, who was the owner of Lemp’s Apothecary in downtown Boise from 1968 to 1989, shares his memories of working there as a pharmacist. He discusses the various responsibilities he had after gaining ownership in 1968, such as managing the deliveries of prescriptions to people in the area, record keeping, and the pharmaceutical contracts he...
Dates: December 6, 2017 and August 20, 2019
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens

Jim Collier , February 24, 2018

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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: February 24, 2018
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Highlands Neighborhood

Joe Jordan , September 18, 2011

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Joe Jordan started working for Morrison-Knudsen right after finishing his military service in the Army. In 1955 he went to work on the Brownlee and Oxbow in the Hells Canyon. Afterwards he went to work for Bechtel and then back to M-K to work on the Colombian coal project, called Cerrajon. Jordan then worked for International Engineering Company, an M-K company. Jordan worked on many international projects. IECo, of San Francisco, planed and offered engineering services to many countries.

Dates: September 18, 2011
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 1: Boise Businesses / Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company

Joe Simunich, March 15, 2014

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Abstract Joe Simunich, son of Eastern European immigrants. His father (Mike Simunich) worked for Boise-Payette lumber company and bought many acres of land in the Central Bench. Joe went to Franklin School from the first grade through his junior year, then transferred to St. Teresa’s his senior year. Joe’s father owned a 15-acre farm near Franklin and Garden and moved several homes there from Barber after the sawmill closed around 1935 or 1938. Joe talks about his father and mother, their...
Dates: March 15, 2014
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Central Bench Neighborhood Association History Project

Juanita Hogg , October 21, 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: October 21, 2014
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens

Katheryn and Edmond Fong, February 22, 2023

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Abstract Travis Jeffres conducted this remote interview on February 22, 2023, with Katheryn and Edmond Fong as part of the Documenting Chinese History in Greater Boise through Oral History project. Katheryn and Edmond Fong, children of Harry Fong, offer their memories of Boise’s Chinese population, Boise’s Chinatown, and growing up in Boise as Chinese Americans. Their father, Harry Fong, arrived in Boise from China in 1911 and quickly became an indispensable figure in the community. He worked as an...
Dates: February 22, 2023
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens / Chinese History in Greater Boise Collection

Kathryn Lavala , May 2, 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 2, 2014
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 3: Citizens

Kathy Skov, July 30, 2015

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Abstract Kathy Skov gave her interview on July 30, 2015. In it she detailed her life growing up in the Vista Neighborhood and her family’s involvement in the Methodist Church. She recalled always being in church from a very young age and what it was like in the 1940s and 50s. Skov also described the many community outreach efforts that have taken shape over the last twenty years. Additionally, she discussed growing up going to Whitney Elementary, South Junior High School and Borah High School. She...
Dates: July 30, 2015
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Vista Neighborhood

Kay Sielaff, August 27, 2015

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Abstract Kay Sielaff’s interview was completed on August 25, 2015. In the interview she detailed what life was like growing up in the Vista neighborhood, her family’s history, and how she raised her family in the same neighborhood. She was the first graduating class from Borah High School in 1959 and discussed the various jobs and activities she did in junior high and high school. Sielaff also recalled her childhood activities. The interview also comprised of her father’s jobs as a carpenter and how...
Dates: August 27, 2015
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Vista Neighborhood

Keith Hartley, April 16, 2014

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Keith Hartley moved to Boise with his family in 1966 to work for the Miller-Stephan’s Cadillac dealership located on Orchard and Cole. He discusses living on the Boise Bench and the development of the area.

Dates: April 16, 2014
Found in: Collections / MS 075, Oral History Program collection / Series 6: Neighborhoods / Bench Neighborhood

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