Entries from Lyman Wilbur's daily diary covering the Wilburs' 1958 trip to Afghanistan and the days leading up to the trip. These entries describe the trip documented by the photos in this collection.
L to R: BJC cheerleaders Jerry Hill, Virginia Oliason, Joan Edwards, and Don Urry cheering the BJC football team at the 1949 Potato Bowl in Bakersfield, California, the college's first bowl appearance. Caption from yearbook: "The entire student...
Boise State University;Construction equipment;Ground breaking ceremonies;
L to R: State Senator E.D. Baird, architect Frank Hummel, BJC trustee J. J. Chapman, and BJC President Eugene Chaffee standing by a steam shovel during ground breaking ceremonies for the Administration Building, March 1940.
Boise State University; Student government; Cornerstone laying
Laying the old Student Union cornerstone in November 1941. L to R: student body vice president Tom Collins and student body president Bill Hillman. See also 1942 Les Bois yearbook p. 82 for them lifting the stone.
Letterhead from Robert W. Limbert's taxidermy shop located at 123 S. 11th Street in Boise, Idaho. Limbert's partner was patternmaker E.C. Eckert from 1915-1918.
Looking north, the destruction looms from the Sonna Department Building fire. The sign from "Hotel Boise" stands above the pit, with the foothills in the background.
New faculty for the 1956-57 school year at Boise Junior College. Left to right: Donald E. Morgan, Kenneth V. Lottick, Joanna Demeyer, Ray Lewis, Everett D. Baker, Mildred Swackhammer, Ward Hower, Leonard Shapiro, Gordon R. Ross, and William E....
New faculty for the 1960-61 school year at Boise Junior College. Seated, left to right: Ruth H. Smith, Margaret Allison, Elma Tharp Miller, Bernice Ditlow, and James R. Wolfe. Standing, left to right: J. Calvin Emerson, Carl German, Ralph...
New faculty for the 1963-64 school year at Boise Junior College. Front row, left to right: Nancy S. Davidson, Clareene Wharry, Nancy L. Fleming, Robert B. Sylvester, Donald J. Sieber, E.B. Casteel. Middle row: Nelson E. Reeves (at far left),...
New faculty for the 1964-65 school year at Boise Junior College. Standing at the top of the stairs is Tom Canavan, then descending the stairs (from right to left below him) are Ira Ralph Telford, Donald Oakes, Jerrold O. Dugger, Jerry Young, Ellis...
On stage, a group looks at a man with an umbrella that reads "Side by Side." Back row, L to R: Jerry Schraeder, Gordon Eichmann, Katie Stein, Fred Norman, Jim Watkinson. Front row: Bitsy Quinn, and others.
Oriented from the front to the rear of the store, this picture was taken of the interior of the Montgomery Ward store the day after the fire. The interior has been destroyed, with only the steel girders remaining standing.
Fire prevention--Study and teaching; Fire fighters; Fire engines; Fire stations; Fire departments--Uniforms;
Participants of the Idaho State Fire School pose with fire engines in front of the fire station on S. 16th Street. Book caption: "All of Boise's fire equipment was lined up in 1951 for this historic picture. The department was proud of these...
Pep band group photo with director John Best. First row: B. Carringer, S. Brashears, W. Azcuenaga, B. Crowley, C. Shanahan, B. Baker, K. Ripley. Second row: S. Daly, R. Mamerow, J. Eberle, B. Steele, B. Johnson, D. McGuire, S. Stevens. Third...
R.F. Barnette, and an unidentified man, pose with a hand saw next to a downed Elm tree, near the corner of 13th and Hays streets in the North end of Boise.
