Digital Memories

[Terry Abraham <tabraham@UIDAHO.EDU>]

{Apologies for cross posting}

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 Idaho Test Oath," the 1888
publication of a legal argument supporting the right of members of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to hold office in territorial
Idaho. Appealed unsuccessfully to the United States Supreme Court, a
similar measure was incorporated into the new Idaho State Constitution and
not repealed for ninety-two years. 

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 1500 entries from around the world. 



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