Collections

Agricultural Experiment & UI Extension Publications

A collaboration between the Library and University of Idaho Extension, the University of Idaho Extension and Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station Publications collection features over 2000 publications that serve as the primary source for practical, research-based information on Idaho agriculture, forestry, gardening, family and consumer sciences, and other to links.

The Argonaut

The Argonaut is the newspaper of the University of Idaho. We hold historical copies from 1898-2010

Barnard-Stockbridge Photograph Collection

The Barnard-Stockbridge Collection exhibits over 1000 photographs, selected from over 200,000 nitrocellulose and glass plate negatives, taken by Nellie Stockbridge and T. N. Barnard during the years 1894-1964. The photos depict various aspects of life in the Wallace/Kellogg mining area.

The Big Burn Collection

The Big Burn Collection is an online exhibit of materials related to the ‘Big Burn’ fires of 1910 that devastated much of Northern Idaho and Northwest Montana. The collection includes photographs, documents, first-person accounts, and oral histories pertaining to the fires and the local and national responses to them.

Donald R. Theophilus Boxing Photograph Collection

A digital collection comprised of 52 photographs of boxers and boxing teams from the University of Idaho

Ray Brown Collection

A small collection of the photographs and awards of Ray Brown, a renowned jazz double bassist and cellist.

Bunker Hill Labor Collection

The Bunker Hill Labor History Collection is 463 letters of correspondence between the mangers and owners of the Bunker Hill Mine & Sullivan M. & C. Co.

Idaho Civilian Conservation Corps

A collection of maps, images, and documents pertinent to the history of the CCC in Idaho representing the research discoveries of Patricia Hart and Ivar Nelson, who spent over two years travelling across the state to find and scan materials related to the CCC.

Mark Brooks Calnon Collection

The Mark Brooks Calnon Collection consists of estate materials from 2nd. Lt. Mark Brooks Calnon, including memorabilia relating to his experiences in World War II as a pilot and prisoner of war. The collection includes photographs, documents, an oral history (audio/video/transcript), and a copy of Calnon’s book, Some Lived, Some Died It Was Understood. The collection was put together by Journalism and Mass Media Professor Denise Bennett as part of a Seed Grant funded project.

UI Campus Photograph Collection

The University of Idaho Campus Photograph Collection contains over 3000 historical photographs of the UI Campus from 1889 to the present.

Chatcolab Northwest Leadership Lab

The Chatcolab Northwest Leadership Laboratory has been running each summer since 1949. Chatcolab offers a unique opportunity to build leadership by engaging in the creative planning and then sharing of a recreational experience. This collection of packets was donated by Bob Carver to the University of Idaho Library and digitized by the digital initatives unit in 2017.

Columbia River Basin Project - PNW Dam Construction

Digitized photographs pertaining to the Columbia Basin Project. Special emphasis is placed on the construction of Grand Coulee Dam, the canal systems of Central Washington, and numerous other dams in the Inland Northwest.

Digital Scholarship Collection

Website records of past digital scholarship at the University of Idaho

Dworshak Dam Collection

Digitized photographs and documents pertaining to the planning, development and construction of the Dworshak Dam, featuring documents and photographs detailing both the legislative and physical development of the dam.

Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Photo Archive

The Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Photo Archive contains photographs related to or depicting the establishment of two Forest Service Experimental Forests in north Idaho, Priest River and Deception Creek, and the Savenac Nursery in Montana.

Family Tree Collection, a Potlatch Forests, Inc. Newsletter

The Family Tree was a newsletter published by Potlatch Forests, Inc. for their employees from 1936 - 1952. The newsletter covers local (Potlatch area) and national events, with a special focus on issues pertaining to Potlatch Forests and its loggers and other employees.

Leonard Feather Jazz Collection

The Leonard Feather Collection includes a variety of materials that document and describe the Jazz scene during the middle of the twentieth century. Feather was born in London in 1914 and moved to New York City in 1939. He was a journalist, producer, composer and jazz critic. The collection contains- photos, notebooks, sketches, scores, correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, notes and financial papers.

Finding Aids (EAD)

Finding Aids are guides to the physical collections held by the Library’s Special Collections & Archives Department. All material mentioned in these guides can be read or examined by request. See here for more information about accessing these materials.

Stanton Gilbert Fisher Collection

Writings and memorabilia of Stanton Gilbert Fisher, pioneer and Nez Perce War scout, 1840-1915. Most of the documents are Nez Perce War collectibles, such as maps, photographs and accounts of the war and its participants. The rest of the papers are personal materials related to Fisher, including autobiographical materials as well as the correspondence and census records of several of his family members.

Idaho Football Covers Collection

The Idaho Vandals Football Historical Game day Program Covers Collection consists of over 50 years worth of game day program covers (1908-1967) produced for football contests that took place all over the country.

Idaho Forest Wildlife and Range Experiment Station Collection

Over 200 documents and reports created by faculty in the UI Foestry Department of the College of Natural Resources, 1954 to the present

The Idaho Forester Collection

The Idaho Forester was published annually from 1917 - 1997 by the University of Idaho’s forestry program. The journal combines research articles, UI program activities information, and analysis of the forest products industry, formerly the dominant industry in Northern Idaho. The collection was developed with the support of a Project Ceres Grant from the Center for Research Libraries and the United States Agricultural Information Network.

Fugue Literary Journal Collection

Fugue is the official literary journal of the University of Idaho’s English Department.

Gem of the Mountains Digital Yearbook Collection

The Gem of the Mountains was the official yearbook of the University of Idaho from 1903 to 2004.

Dizzy Gillespie Collection

This collection was assembled by Special Collections and Archives of the University of Idaho Library with materials donated by Mrs. Gillespie. The collection contains fifteen items that belonged to the artist.

Al Grey -Rosalie Soladar Memorial Collection

Al Grey was a jazz trombonist and bandleader. Rosalie Soladar was his companion and personal manager. Materials in this collection span most of Grey’s career after their partnership. The digital collection includes photographs and images of awards and ephemera

Guided Reading Library

The Guided Reading Library is a digital collection of short books created by students in the University of Idaho’s College of Education. This library is directed by Margaret Vaughn, in collaboration with the Digital Inititiaves department of the University of Idaho Library.

Hist Photo - Historical Photograph Database

A Special Collections & Archives Historical Photograph Database

Lionel Hampton Library Collection

The materials in the Lionel Hampton collection span most of his musical career, 1926–2002, with the bulk of the collection dating 1940–1990. The digital collection includes photographs, arrangements, and images of awards and ephemera.

Robert E. Higgins Collection

A collection of photographs by Robert E. Higgins, a professor of plant science at the University of Idaho from 1946 to 1999. During his lifetime, Professor Higgins’ photographs were accepted in over 70 juried international salons, and he had one-artist exhibitions in Idaho, Washington, and California.

Institutional Repository

Research articles and other documents produced by individuals and entities from the University of Idaho.

Idaho Cities & Towns

The 1083 historical photographs in the Idaho Cities & Towns collection document Idaho cities and towns from the mid 1800s to the end of the twentieth century.

Idaho Forestry Research Collection

Documents and images from miscellaneous collections pertaining to the history of forestry in Idaho

Idaho Historical Aerial Photographs

The Idaho Historical Aerial Photographs are a collection of both oblique and vertical historic air photos ranging from 1927 to the 1980s.

Idaho Historical Maps

A small collection of large maps that depict the Coeur D’Alene mining region, covering areas of Montana and Idaho (Shoshone County). These maps come from the Bunker Hill Mining Company Records, 1887-1984, a manuscript collection held by the University of Idaho Library’s Special Collections & Archives department.

Idaho Snow Loads

This resources relates to the report ‘Ground and Roof Snow Loads for Idaho,’ which was released in 1986 by the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho. To read the report and it’s appendices, click on the cover. To use the map, click on the map. This map has been made possible by several years of nonfunded work. We respectfully request that if you use this map or report for commercial purposes, you purchase a pdf/map (information at top right) or donate to the University of Idaho Library.

Idaho Supreme Court Record & Briefs

A collection of Idaho Supreme Court briefs, transcripts and other documents from January 2010 to the present.

Idaho Waters Digital Library

The Idaho Waters Digital Library provides access to information resources relating to water issues in key Idaho river basins. The collection presently includes scientific and technical reports, with an emphasis on Idaho Water Resources Research Institute reports and publications. Documents can be browsed by Location, Date, and Subject Term by using the tabs above. The database can also be queried extensively using the Table feature.

This project would not have been possible without the grant support of the United States Geological Survey, the administrative support of the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute, the metadata & digitization work of Warren Bromley-Vogel, and the conceptual efforts of Jodi Haire.

Edward John Iddings Lantern Slides, 1927

Edward John Iddings was the Dean of the College of Agriculture at UI from 1915 to 1946. These slides depict agricultural and university-related scenes from Idaho, as well as images from Iddings’ travels.

Intermountain Forestry Cooperative

A collection of reports, studies, and documents published by the Intermountain Forest Tree Nutrition Cooperative (IFTNC), a research cooperative composed of public and private forestry organizations that is located administratively in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Idaho.

Kooskia Internment Camp Scrapbook

The Kooskia Internment Camp Scrapbook documents the sights, tasks, scenes, and events of Japanese men detained during the camp’s two years or operation (May 1943 - May 1945). The camp was located in a remote area of north central Idaho, 30 miles from the town of Kooskia; it was administered by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Latah County Oral Histories

In the mid 1970s, the Latah County Historical Society collected over 300 oral histories from local Northern Idaho residents who grew up in Idaho during the early part of the 20th century. The Latah County Oral History Project produced one of the largest collections of oral histories in the Pacific Northwest. A copy of the transcripts and cassette recordings was donated to the University of Idaho Library in 1987. Those items were digitized and uploaded into our database in 2013.

Latah County Common Heritage Collection

The Latah County Common Heritage Collection came about through the funding of an National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Common Heritage Grant awarded to the University of Idaho Library in 2016. The materials in this collection were collected via community digitization days held in Moscow and Potlatch in 2016 and 2017.

Latah County Historical Society Photograph Collection

Photographs from the collection of the Latah County Historical Society

Kyle Laughlin Photographs

The images of the Kyle Laughlin Photograph Collection, taken from 1931 to 1979, depict Idaho’s natural scenery and historic sites, as well as personal moments from Kyle Laughlin’s life. Laughlin was a Moscow, Idaho resident and businessman for 56 years; he owned several businesses, including a photo shop, an appliance store, and a television/cable company.

Lewiston Orchards Life Newsletter

Lewiston Orchards Life was a newsletter published in Lewiston, Idaho during the early 1900s. The newsletter covers the residential and horticultural lives of those living in the Lewiston Orchards area, which is now a residential neighborhood.

The Map Room

The Map Room is an interactive Google map application that allows users to browse over 8000 images on a digital map. Use the drop down menus and search box at the top of each map to further refine your browsing.

McCall Public Library Collection

A collection of family history-related items form the McCall Public Library

Lee Morse Collection

Lee Morse was an American singer and songwriter. The collection includes mainly photographs and sound recordings.

Nez Perce Collection

The Nez Perce Historical Portrait Collection includes nearly 600 photographs of individuals and groups from the Nez Perce/Nimíipuu tribe. Most photographs were taken during the first half of the 20th century. Much of the collection is comprised of studio photographs that have been taken of both individuals and families.

Ott Historical Photograph Collection

Clifford M. Ott donated this broad collection of historical photographs in 1992. Ott was an avid amateur photographer who amassed over 10,000 slides, prints, and negatives spanning the years from 1883 to 1990. The digital collection represents a selection from Ott’s whole collection, which he compiled into eleven albums containing a total of over 1,800 images of Moscow and surrounding Latah County and used to educate local citizens.

Northwest Historical Postcards Collection

This digital collection of over 800 postcards comes from the historical photograph collections of the University of Idaho Library’s Special Collections & Archives. The postcards range in date from the 1890s to the 1980s.

Potlatch Lumber Company Photograph Collection

A collection of overr 1500 photographs from the Potlatch Lumber Company.

Potlatch Historical Society Collection

Potlatch Historical Society Collection Depicting life in and around Potlatch, Idaho from 1880 to 1998

Priest Lake Historical Photograph Collection

A digital collection comprised of 380 historical photographs of Priest Lake, Idaho and the surrounding area. The images span the years 1880 to 1950, documenting the area’s waters, boats, buildings, landscape and people.

Psychiana Digital Collection

Materials from the Frank B. Robinson Papers documenting Psychiana, a religion popular in the 1930s and 40s

Journal of Rangeland Applications

The Journal of Rangeland Applications (ISSN- 2331-5512) is devoted to bridging the gap between scientific research and the application of science needed to make wise land management decisions.

Rangeland Center Collection

The Rangeland Center collection is a repository of information created by University of Idaho researchers related to topics in rangeland ecology and management. Subject areas include ecology of rangelands, grazing management, invasive plants, fire ecology, and more.

Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness History Project

This collection represents the digital objects of the Selway-Bitterrot Wilderness History Project, which is an NEH funded exploration into the human aspects of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.

C. H. Shattuck, Idaho Lantern Slides, 1904-1910

Charles Houston Shattuck was a professor in the College of Agriculture (now Natural Resources) who initiated ‘Arboretum Hill’ (now known as the Charles Houston Shattuck Arboretum). These early twentieth century slides depict the University of Idaho, as well as the wilderness of Idaho and Idaho residents’ attempts at domesticating it.

Maynard A. Fosberg Soil Monolith Collection

A collection of soil monoliths originally collected by professor Maynard A. Fosberg

Stonebraker Photograph Collection

A digital collection comprised of 540 historical photographs taken by William Allen Stonebraker at the turn of the century and into the 1920s and 1930s documenting the Salmon River, the Frank Church-River of No Return, the Chamberlain Basin, and the Thunder Mountain Gold Rush.

Taylor Ranch Log Book Collection

The nine log books in this collection detail daily events from 1997 to 2010 recounted by those living and working at the Taylor Wilderness Research Station. In addition to describing the routine research and maintenance task, the logs also provide wildlife sightings and firsthand accounts of harrowing events, such as the dramatic forest fire and evacuation of the year 2000.

The Theodore Roosevelt Collection

A collection of photographs from the University of Idaho Historical Photographs Collection commemorating the 100th anniversary of President’s Roosevelt’s historic visit to the University of Idaho campus in 1911.

Theses and Dissertation Database (ETDs)

A searchable database of cataloged records for over 10,00 theses and dissertations published from 1909 to 2011. This database was most recently updated in June of 2015.

Turning of the Wheel Collection - Humanities Colloquium 2011-2012

University of Idaho Historical Photos

A variety of photographs from several photographic collections held by Special Collections & Archives that depict scenes from the University of Idaho’s past. Includes portraits of past professors and alumni, as well as photos of buildings and events.

VIVO

VIVO is a research-focused discovery tool that enables collaboration among scholars across all disciplines. The system allows users to browse or search information on University people, departments, courses, grants, and publications.

Vandal Video Collection

The Vandal Video Collection is a collection of 160+ digitized 16mm Film reels that were scouting videos for both football and basketball games..

Carleton Watkins Mine Interiors Collection

Among the riches of the historical photograph collections of the University of Idaho Library is an oversize portfolio of eighty original Carleton E. Watkins photographs. Long considered lost, these photographs of the interior of the Anaconda Mines in Butte, Montana, were taken in 1890. They show early hard-rock mining techniques, equipment, and men deep underground.

Joe Williams Collection

Joe Williams was a vocalist who began singing professionally in the late 1930’s. He worked with the big bands of Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton and Count Basie; it was with Basie that Williams had his first recording hits. Williams won many awards and professional recognition. In the 1980’s he had a recurring role (as “Grandpa Al”) on TV’s The Cosby Show. He died in Las Vegas on March 29, 1999.