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Archives West provides access to descriptions of primary sources in the western United States, including correspondence, diaries or photographs. Digital reproductions of the materials are available in some cases.
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September 25, 2024 9:30 am
UI Department of Soil and Water Systems Publications, 1917-1994
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and ArchivesInformation from the 20th century about Idaho and Western soil. Including federal and state studies.
September 24, 2024 4:29 pm
Fred Cox collection, 1964-2013
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and ArchivesHistorical documents regarding Priest Lake, especially the Upper Priest Lake and the Thorofare.
September 24, 2024 9:07 am
Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryBlank ballot for use in the Granite Precinct of Grant County, Oregon, for the election of Oregon's Electoral College members for the 1900 United States presidential election. Republican William McKinley (1843-1901) won the presidential election both nationally and in Oregon.
September 23, 2024 1:37 pm
Daniel L. O'Hern Scrapbook, 1900-1949
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special CollectionsThis collection features one scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and a limited amount of correspondence related to the life and professional accomplishments of Montana attorney and judge Daniel O’Hern from 1900-1949.
September 23, 2024 1:37 pm
Jane Greenough Green Collection about the Thomas L. Greenough Family, 1897-1998
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special CollectionsThis collection features newspaper clippings, correspondence, genealogical research, and miscellaneous materials related to Thomas L. Greenough, a prominent Missoula-based capitalist with railroad, mining, and banking interests in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and his descendants as collected by his granddaughter Jane Greenough Green.
September 23, 2024 1:37 pm
K. Ross Toole Archives Panoramic Photograph Collection, circa 1875-1970s
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special CollectionsThe K. Ross Toole Archives Panoramic Photograph Collection consists primarily of oversized panoramic prints from around Montana. The images span the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries and were captured by various photographers. Most of the photographs are set in Missoula or other areas in Western Montana, and notable subjects include Civilian Conservation Corp members, infantry soldiers, and the University of Montana.
September 23, 2024 1:37 pm
Hubert Gwinn and Edith Merrifield Gwinn Photographs, circa 1907-1921
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special CollectionsThe Hubert Gwinn and Edith Merrifield Gwinn Photographs contain images of Missoula, Montana, the University of Montana, and its environs. The photographs provide a view into what the university campus and the town of Missoula, Montana looked like in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
September 23, 2024 1:37 pm
Mayhew Yale Foster Collection of Greenough Park Photographs, circa 1890-1919
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special CollectionsThis collection contains 14 photonegative copies of Greenough Park and its environs in Missoula, Montana. The images were captured between 1890s and 1910s.
September 23, 2024 1:27 pm
Robert Hall digital video collection, 1970-1971
University of Utah Libraries, Special CollectionsThe Robert Hall digital video collection consists of digital files transferred from film of home movies taken during the Vietnam War. This collection is digital only.
September 21, 2024 5:09 pm
Thomas Edmund Dewey photographs, 1948
University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University ArchivesThomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) was governor of New York and ran for president in 1944 and 1948, losing to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the first race and, famously, to Harry S. Truman in the second. The collection consists of 20 snapshots of Thomas Dewey visiting Central Oregon during his presidential campaign of 1948.