An informative booklet for citizens of Boise, Idaho and surrounding areas. The booklet was intended to assist individuals connect with services available to them.
Construction of Redfish Lake Lodge, looking west. Large logs lie on the ground next to the building in process. An addition to the existing Lake Hotel, Robert W. Limbert envisioned the lodge as a two-story log-cabin style lodge.
An unknown man in wool chaps (left) standing with George Washington Blackman (right), who was was said to be the first African-American resident of Custer County and one of the carpenters hired to work on Redfish Lodge. Both men stand in front of a...
The Finger of Fate remains a landmark of the Sawtooth Mountains, with an altitude of 9,775 feet. Limbert's Redfish Lake Lodge brochure caption reads "Finger of Fate...9 miles from Lodge...one of the many freaks of nature found close to the lodge."
Building construction; Log buildings; Trees; Hotels
Two carpenters saw wood in front of Robert W. Limbert's new addition to the Lake Hotel in 1928, which was about halfway completed. The original lake hotel is on the left of the new addition, which Limbert envisioned as a two-story log-cabin style...
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...
The existing dock at Redfish Lake Lodge before Robert W. Limbert improved it in 1928. The photograph is taken from the shore of the lodge, with the Sawtooth Mountains in the background.
Authored by Robert Limbert, this sixteen page promotional brochure describes Redfish Lake Lodge as the ideal place for sportsmen, hunters, horseback riders, naturalists, and anyone who wants to partake in all the back country has to offer. Includes...
Cover illustration of "Lionhead Lodge," Lloyd Peters' memoir of his experiences as part of Nell Shipman's company in Spokane, Washington, and at her movie camp, Lionhead Lodge, at Priest Lake, Idaho, 1922-1924. The book was first published in...
The existing dock on Redfish Lake juts out from the shore where the main lodge sits. Robert W. Limbert later improved the dock in 1931. The Sawtooth Mountains sit in the background.
Caption from brochure: "Robert W. Limbert with an "honest fish story" about Salmon caught in the Salmon River." The brochure advertised the splendors of Redfish Lake Lodge.
