The Wilbur tour group travels along side a Boghra canal in a Willys station wagon. The Boghra canal system already existed in Afghanistan before Morrison-Knudsen arrived in 1946. M-K was hired to upgrade the system to handle the constant flow of...
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944; Authors, American--19th century--Biography; Authors, American--20th century--Biography; West (U.S.) in literature
Caption from newspaper: "A smoke-eater for more than 29 years, William F. "Doc" Roach is shown as he inspects the alarm tape at Boise's Central fire station."
Boise State University;Dance parties;Victory celebrations;
Yearbook caption reads "Cranston and Qualls, Gibbons and Thompson, Coffin and Reed, Feeney and Griffin, numbered among Boise J. C.'s elite at fall-term victory dance."
Boise State University; football; Group portraits;
Boise Junior College football team, 1946. Row 1: Gail Porritt, Earl Naylor, Harry Kendall, Bill Brassfield, Ray Koll, Frank Blacker, Don Newman, Bob Curtis, Max Reinecker. Row 2: Harry Jacoby, coach, Dallas Jackson, Claude Girdner, Don Miller,...
West, Jessamyn--Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature--United States--History--20th century; Quakers in literature; California in literature
Field trip notebook of Edward F. Rhodenbaugh, mostly in Idaho locations. Note: blank pages were not included in the digital copy, but included in the pagination.
Irrigation; Canals; Shepherds; Sheep; International agricultural assistance;
An Afghan shepherd waters his sheep in a canal. The first phase of Morrison-Knudsen's 1946 contract with the royal government of Afghanistan was mostly funded by Afghanistan's export of a curly type of sheep wool called Caracul.
Irrigation; Canals; International agricultural assistance;
Ted Y. Johnston, M-K: Afghanistan project manager, on top of a concrete culvert, part of the Boghra canal system. Ted Y. Johnston was an American from Fresno, California. He joined M-K in 1946 as a manager of the California highway division. In...
