Boise State University;Football;Coaches (Athletics);Horses
Idaho Governor Cecil D. Andrus sits astride the Boise State mascot "Big Blue" after proclaiming Wednesday, September 12 as Bronco Day in the State of Idaho. Others are (from left) Dr. John B. Barnes, president of Boise State;Lee Scott, president...
Interior view of Robert W. Limbert's taxidermy shop. Furniture includes wicker seats, desk, table, and bookcase. The framed pictures on the back wall include photographs taken at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The storage space...
John Strieff of the circulation department checking out a book to a library patron. This is one of the first photos of the new circulation desk after the library was remodeled in 1993-95.
Joseph A. Albertson, founder of the Albertson's grocery chain (seated), is presented the first lifetime membership in the Bronco Athletic Association after pledging $200,000 from the Joseph A. and Kathryn B. Albertson Foundation toward the...
City planning; Municipal government; Urban renewal; Shopping centers;
Letters to and from Senator Len Jordan regarding the City of Boise city council, chamber of commerce, application for funding of an urban renewal project. The project seemed to be approved but no funds were available for the project in 1969.
Nell Shipman with her twins, Daphne Anne and Charles Douglas Ayers. They were born in Spain in 1926, scarcely a month after Shipman and Charles Austin Ayers arrived there for a year-and-a-half sojourn.
Nell Shipman's California drivers license, issued in 1929, not long after her return to the state. She originally signed it "Nell Shipman Ayers." Many years later she added "Locke," in recognition of her partnership with Amerigo Serrao, who was...
Boise State University; Broncos; Homecomings; Mascots
One of Boise Junior College's early traditions was the burning of the bronco, nicknamed Elmer. BJC president Eugene Chaffee described Elmer in his book An Idea Grows: A History of Boise College(page 47): "He began as a wooden or paper mache...
Oregon anti-gay activist and chairman of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, Lon Mabon, comes to Boise and pledges to put an anti-gay initiative on Idaho's 1994 ballot.
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.
Pre-game or post-game festivities? Included in the picture are Charles O. Brown (left) and Clyde Potter (second from right). Potter was longtime business manager of Boise Junior College;Brown retired as head of building and grounds in 1967 after...
Boise State University;Parachutists;Medical personnel;Police;
President of the Sky-Diving Club, Wally Benton, lying on the football field after a failed attempt to land his parachute during the opening ceremonies for the new Bronco Stadium. Dyke Nally, Director of the Student Union, kneels at left.
Boise State University;Parachutists;Medical personnel;Police;
President of the Sky-Diving Club, Wally Benton, lying on the football field as medical personnel respond after his failed attempt to land his parachute on the field during the opening ceremonies for the new Bronco Stadium.
A 1:15 minute quadrille sett, which is a series of square dances called "figures" or "changes" done one after another with only a brief pause in between, by the same groups of dancers with the same partners, and with a different for each change....
Recommendations for revitalizing downtown Boise made by the Urban Lands Institute Panel, commissioned by the City of Boise Planning adn Development Committee.
Representative Glen Wegner, left, and Senator Jordan, after the Senator's announcement that he would retire. Wegner announced that he would run for his seat.
Robert W. Limbert stands on top of a large rock with his camera, looking out at the cliffs. Limbert visited these petroglyphs, located "on the road from Nampa to Givens Hot Springs" after Doc Hisom showed him Kodak prints that he took of the area...
