Fire fighters; Fire stations; Horse-drawn vehicles; Horses; Fire departments--Uniforms;
Five firemen sit in front of the engine bay of Fire Station No. 2 in the North End neighborhood, with the horse team, the "Nasty Blacks," behind them. From left to right: George Lindsay, John Stewart, Jim Lindsay, Bill Barts, and John Mitchell.
Roach, William Francis, 1891-1973; Police; Badges;
Police badge worn by Doc Roach when he was in the Boise Police Department, the only motorcycle officer. The badge has an eagle on the top and a star in the middle. The wording around the star reads "2 Special 2 Police Boise-Idaho." The badge is...
Roach, William Francis, 1891-1973; Fire engines; Fire fighters; Firehouse dogs; Fire stations; Horse-drawn vehicles; Horses; Fire departments--Uniforms;
Photograph of Boise Fire Station #2 in Boise's North End neighborhood, including the horse team the "Nasty Blacks" named Bird and King. On the carriage seat are Doc Roach and Captain Jasper Lindsay. Standing on the engine is Hoseman Bill Cates,...
Poem by Nell Shipman, in her own hand, to painter Charles H. Austin Ayers ("Carlos"). Shipman's reference to "prison days" in the last line probably refers to the bad times during her last months in Idaho (crushing debt, dissolving relationship,...
Telegram from Amelia Earhart (in Burbank, California) to Nell Shipman (in Roscoe, California) asking Shipman to phone her. Shipman worked for Earhart's husband, George Palmer Putnam, in New York in 1934 and 1935, developing stories for him when he...
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938; Authors, American--19th century--Biography;Frontier and pioneer life in literature; West (U.S.) in literature; West (U.S.)--Intellectual life;
Members of the newly formed Golden Z's attend a tea party in their honor with the local Zonta International club;, which which the Golden Zs were affiliated. Boise Junior College was the first junior college to form a chapter club of Zonta...
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,...
Boise State University; Student government; Radio stations
Marlyss Fairchild, 1982-83 ASBSU President, speaking at an ASBSU Senate hearing regarding university radio station KBSU. To Fairchild's right is David Taylor, Vice-President of Student Affairs, and to her left is Robert Boren, professor and chair...
Boise State University; Student government; Rhodes scholars;
Boise State University student body president Michael Hoffman speaking at the annual student recognition banquet after receiving an award. Hoffman became Boise State's first Rhodes Scholar and later a movie director.
Award-winning students at the 1978 Student Recognition banquet at Boise State University. From the top, clockwise: Wilfred Roy, Mike Hoffman, Christine Rudd, Steve Robertson.
