|
|
UI Home |
|
Search |
News of Special Collections and Archives
Digital Memories: Indian Post Office on Lolo TrailDecember 1998 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "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. The most recent addition to the series is "Indian Post Office on Lolo Trail, August 8, 1951," a color photograph of an Idaho historic site by Moscow photographer Kyle E. Laughlin. The image is part of approximately 13,000 negatives and slides, as well as prints, scrapbooks, journals and notes pertaining to Laughlin's interest in the natural history of the Northwest, his special passion for wildflowers, and a chronicle of the lives of family and friends. This important collection is housed in the Historical Photograph Collection of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library where the reading room has been named after Kyle and Marguerite Laughlin. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a massive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 3000 entries from around the world. +++ Digital Memories: The CubeOctober 1998 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "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. The most recent addition to the series is "The Cube," featuring sample questions and answers from the University of Idaho Library's iconoclastic suggestion box. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 2900 entries from around the world. +++ Digital Memories: Babylonian Clay TabletAugust 1998 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "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. The most recent addition to the series is "Babylonian Clay Tablet," featuring an example of the earliest item in the library's collection; a representation of the power and longevity of the written word. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 2800 entries from around the world. +++ Digital Memories: Homer Pound and IdahoJune 1998 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "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. The most recent addition to the series is "Homer Pound and Idaho," featuring a letter from Ezra Pound's father remembering the grandeur of Idaho's mountains. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 2700 entries from around the world. +++ Expanded Access to Special Collections MaterialsMayl 1998 The Department of Special Collections and Archives in the University of Idaho Library, in response to a number of requests, announces the availability of selected books from Special Collections for evening use. Application for such use must be made in Special Collections and each request will be evaluated on a case by case basis. Certain books, because of their fragility, age, or value are not eligible for consideration. Books will be checked out through Special Collections one half-hour before closing, and will then be made available at the reference desk after 5pm. They must be returned to Reference before the desk is closed for the evening. Other restrictions may apply. Photocopying, in some cases is permissible, but in each case the book must be handled with extreme care, as it is the library's permanent copy. Special Collections at the University of Idaho Library include the 16,000 volumes of Idaho and Pacific Northwest history in the Day-Northwest Collection, the Idaho state documents collection of over 10,000 items, over 100,000 images in the Historical Photograph Collection, and historical manuscripts relating to records of mining, lumbering, and insurance companies; banks, hospitals, and orphanages; personal papers of judges, doctors, lawyers, and journalists; and the University Archives. All are located in Special Collections and Archives which is open from Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, except university holidays. Summer hours may vary. For more information about Special Collections at the University of Idaho Library see <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. +++ Digital Memories: Library CatsApril 1998 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "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. The most recent addition to the series is "Library Cats," featuring a reminiscence, and a photograph, of the library's experiment with keeping pussycats to control mice. Mice are a problem because they destroy library materials, but cats cause problems as well. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 2500 entries from around the world. +++ UI Given Bunker Hill Mine's Records Spanning Nearly a CenturyMarch 1998 The University of Idaho recently received records from one of Idaho's oldest and largest mining companies: the Bunker Hill Company and its successor the Pintlar Corporation. Nearly 600 cubic feet of company history, from its inception in the early 1900s to its final days in the 1990s, are now in the UI Library's Special Collection Department. The records were transferred to the UI from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA, in cooperation with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare's Division of Environmental Quality, acquired the records as part of its ongoing efforts to clean up the Kellogg Superfund site. As a result of decades of hazardous emissions from the Bunker Hill smelter, the site has been characterized by the EPA as one of the largest and most complex hazardous waste sites in the nation. Remediation work still continues. "This is a major collection for the university and the state," says UI Special Collections Librarian Terry Abraham. "The company's records will not only provide an historical record of the mine and smelter for historians and students, but will also provide important documents for future remediation." The records cover Bunker Hill's history from 1916 to its closure in 1981. Additional documents exist for the remediation efforts that continue into the 1990s. Volumes of reports, corporate papers, engineering sketches, records of cleanup attempts and photographs are stored in boxes waiting for funds to organize, inventory and process them. The processing must be completed before the records can be made available to researchers. Abraham estimates it will cost the UI approximately $250,000 and will take several years to finalize the project once funds are gained. "It's very difficult to get grant money for this kind of activity," Abraham says. "We'll need to rely on private donations to accomplish this." The UI already has an extensive collection of northern Idaho mining company records, such as the Day Mines Collection. The new Bunker Hill Collection will add considerably to the university's trove of Idaho's history. +++ John Hancock Callender PapersJanuary 1998 The University of Idaho Library announces the availability on the World Wide Web of inventories of newly processed gifts of personal papers. Recently added are the professional and personal correspondence and other papers of prominent architect and educator John Hancock Callender. They can be found at <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/>. John Hancock Callender was born in Kansas City, Missouri on January 18, 1908, the son of Alonzo Lee and Lola (Hancock) Callender. He was educated in the public schools of Kansas City before attending Yale University where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and from which he graduated with a B.A. degree in English in 1928. He then continued at Yale for two more years studying design. From 1935 to 1939 he attended New York University from which he graduated with a B.Arch. In 1931 he went to work for the Housing Research Division of John B. Pierce Foundation researching the living habits of families, and designing and superintending the construction of low cost housing. He was an early advocate of prefabricated housing. During his military service, 1943-1945, he was a consulting architect for the National Housing Agency, Staff Army Engineers, and supervised the remodeling of laboratories for the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. Following the war he was in private practice, specializing in private residences, before joining the faculty of Columbia University where he taught from 1953-1954. He then taught at Princeton University 1963-1973, and the Pratt Institute, 1970-1972. During the 1967/68 academic year he was visiting professor at Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. He was the author of several books and many articles, and was the editor of Time saver standards for architectural design data, a standard reference for architects. He held membership in the American Institute of Architects, serving as chairman of the small home committee from 1948 to 1950. He married Mary Carnwath on August 5, 1933; they had one daughter, Janet. He died of cancer in Lansdale, Pa., March 30, 1995. The papers of John Hancock Callender were donated to the University of Idaho Library by his widow, Mary Carnwath, through the efforts of Gifford Pierce, professor of architecture at the University of Idaho. The records of John H. Callender span the years 1911 to 1990, with the bulk of the material covering the decades of the 1940s and 1950s. Included in the records are professional papers such as articles by and about Callender and the homes he designed, and scrapbooks and other personal material. Series one is composed of papers relating to his professional career. Included are books and articles by Callender, articles about houses he designed, photographs and blueprints for several houses, and greeting cards which he designed. The second series, Personal Papers, contains diplomas, military records, academic notebooks, personal photographs, two Yale University publications and two scrapbooks of his year at Cheng Kung University, one containing photographs, the other invitations and other mementos. The historical manuscripts at the University of Idaho Library are supplemented by the 16,000 volumes of Idaho and Pacific Northwest history in the Day-Northwest Collection, the Idaho state documents collection of over 10,000 items, over 100,000 images in the Historical Photograph Collection, and other records of mining, lumbering, and insurance companies; banks, hospitals, and orphanages; personal papers of judges, doctors, lawyers, and journalists; and the University Archives. All are located in Special Collections and Archives which is open from Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, except university holidays. Summer hours may vary. For more information about Special Collections at the University of Idaho Library see <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. +++ Digital Memories: Boise InterurbanJanuary 1998 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "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. The most recent addition to the series is "Boise Interurban," featuring a promotional booklet for the Boise & Interurban Railway Co. Ltd. promoting commuter convenience for Caldwell, Nampa, and Boise. This effort is being replicated today by those seeking solutions to the impact of the automobile on the fragile western landscape. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 2500 entries from around the world. +++ Agnes Crawford Schuldt PapersJanuary 1998 The University of Idaho Library announces the availability on the World Wide Web of inventories of newly processed gifts of personal papers. They include the professional and personal correspondence and other papers of University of Idaho music professor Agnes Crawford Schuldt. They can be found at < http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/>. Agnes Eunice Crawford Schuldt was born in Pontiac, Michigan, July 5, 1902, the daughter of William Alfred and Sue Archer Crawford. At the age of five or six the she moved with her family to Syracuse, New York where she began her piano studies at age 8. She graduated from Syracuse University with a B.Mus. in 1924. She then studied piano performance in New York City with Ernest Hutcheson for a year before returning to Syracuse for her master's degree which she received in 1927. After her graduation she accepted a position at the University of Idaho where she remained for three years; following her first year she spent the summer in Paris studying with Nadia Boulanger. She then taught at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, from 1930 to 1932. On July 2, 1932 she married University of Idaho English professor Lester Schuldt at Maplewood, New Jersey. They returned to Moscow and she began giving private piano lessons since University policy would not allow two salaries to go to the same family. Following her husband's death in 1939 she left for a year of study with Harold Bauer in New York, then taught at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia for a year before joining the Red Cross. During World War II she was recreation director with the Red Cross, first at a station hospital in Camp Livingston, Louisiana, then North Africa in and finally Europe (Italy and France) where her job was to find occupation for soldiers whose injuries might keep them in hospital for extended periods. She organized hillbilly quartets, leather-tooling classes, and taught square knotting of belts. When the war ended, she became the Red Cross representative at the Veteran's Psychiatric Hospital at Canandaigua, New York. While at the hospital she received a telegram saying a position in the University of Idaho's music faculty had opened and she returned to the University of Idaho in 1946 where she taught piano and music history until her retirement in 1967. She took a sabbatical in England in the spring of 1958 where she studied early 17th century music at Oxford University. After her retirement she was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle for four years. While there she developed interdisciplinary courses combining history, music, art, and science, and also published related articles. For many years she served as the faculty advisor to the college chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota International Fraternity for Women in Music. She was a member of the American Musicological Society, the American Association of University Professors, International Music Society, International Society for the Study of Time, and the academic honor societies of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Alpha Iota, and Phi Kappa Lambda. She was also a member of the Moscow Fine Arts Club, Pleiades, Ballet Folk of Moscow Guild, and from 1980 to 1983 served on the Idaho Commission on the Arts. In addition to her music she was an avid gardener; in June 1987 she was named a Moscow Centennial Gardner. In 1974 she received the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 1986 she established a perpetual endowment fund to be used to support the University of Idaho School of Music library in recognition of which the library was named for her. She died in Moscow on February 26, 1996. The papers of Agnes C. Schuldt span the years 1903 to 1996, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1927 to 1995. Included in the records are papers related to her teaching, personal papers including her work with the Red Cross during World War II, correspondence, and photographs. The historical manuscripts at the University of Idaho Library are supplemented by the 16,000 volumes of Idaho and Pacific Northwest history in the Day-Northwest Collection, the Idaho state documents collection of over 10,000 items, over 100,000 images in the Historical Photograph Collection, and other records of mining, lumbering, and insurance companies; banks, hospitals, and orphanages; personal papers of judges, doctors, lawyers, and journalists; and the University Archives. All are located in Special Collections and Archives which is open from Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, except university holidays. Summer hours may vary. For more information about Special Collections at the University of Idaho Library see <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. +++ |
