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DIGITAL MEMORIES: Early Day Mule Packing
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Special Collections and Archives
at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in its
series of "Digital Memories." Digital Memories focuses on historic
artifacts, documents, photographs, and books from the holdings of Special
Collections and Archives. This is a changing showcase of highlights from
our collections.
A photograph of men packing a mule illustrates the impact of early day
pack trains, an essential mode of transportation to remote Idaho mines and
mining communitites. Securely attaching bulky products and commodities to
the backs of mules and horses was widely recognized as an art.
"Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/.
Previous editions
include eastern music about Idaho, early outdoor recreation, and an
unrecorded Thoreau manuscript. Also at this site is information about
Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions
and inventories, and a link to a massive geographical guide to
repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over
5000 entries from around the world.
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