Housing developments; City planning; Municipal government; Urban renewal;
A project plan to revitalize Block 44, the area bounded by 8th, 9th Bannock, and Idaho streets. This plan focuses on bringing retail shops to this block.
Roach, William Francis, 1891-1973; Fire fighters; Fire engines; Fire stations; Fire departments--Uniforms; Horse-drawn vehicles; Horses; Fire chiefs; Fire departments--Officials and employees;
A 1912 composite picture of the Boise Fire Department. The four fire stations in Boise at pictured, one in each corner. Upper left: Central Station (6th and Idaho); upper right: Combination Station No. 3 (16th and Ressequie); bottom right:...
T.Y. Johnston, M-K Afghanistan project manager, poses on top of a culvert in a section of the Boghra canal system, possibly near Shagai Manda. Each concrete feature constructed on the canal system was numbered for maintenance purposes.
Boise State University; Fraternities & sororities; Trees; Homecomings
The Esquires and other students and faculty gather at the dedication of Anne Donnelley's tree in the Queen's Grove at Boise Junior College. Located next to the old Health Science Building, the Queen's Grove honored each year's Homecoming Queen.
Two students participating in Welcome Week at Boise State University. They are using oversize boxing gloves to to knock each other down in an inflated ring.
The Driscoll Hall team participating in "Anything Goes," a dormitory competition sponsored by Morrison Hall during Homecoming week at Boise State University. Each dorm had a 4 person coed team which competed in a variety of stunts for a trophy....
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...
The Driscoll Hall team participating in the "Anything Goes" a dormitory competition sponsored by Morrison Hall during Homecoming. Each dorm had a 4 person, coed, team which competed in a variety of stunts for a trophy. The event was held in on the...
Dyke Nally from the Alumni Association and Bob Madden from the Bronco Athletic Association hold credit cards that have logos from each organization printed on them.
Three contestants in the "Anything Goes (almost)" games. A Morrison Hall sponsored Homecoming event held on the baseball field, coed groups from each college dormitory competed in three events: "the pie factory", "Milkman", and "Day at the Office"....
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....
Five men gather around a table watching a card game of solitaire in retired miner Doc Hisom's cabin near Melba. From left to right: Doc Hisom, Ad Santel, Oscar Jenkins, Wladek Zbyszko (dealing cards), and Robert Limbert. Another photo of the same...
Retired miner Doc Hisom entertains guests in his Lava Rock cabin near Melba, Idaho. Five men play instruments and dance to the music inside the cabin, from left to right: Doc Hisom, Ad Santel, Oscar Jenkins, Wladek Zbyszko, and Robert Limbert.
An example of the ten tent cabins that Robert W. Limbert built around Redfish Lake Lodge. Limbert described the tent cabins as made of "heavy buff canvas each which measure 9x12 feet, with boarded sides making a standard tourist camp." A tourist...
