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.
In April 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps was
established as a
New Deal program that changed the face of Idaho and brought thousands of
eastern youths to Idaho's forests and prairies.
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 include
Senator Borah's bid for the presidency, Sir Walter Scott's Heart of the
Midlothian, Idaho's non-laureate Poet, and the introduction of airplanes
for fire spotting. 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 5000 entries from around
the world.
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Terry Abraham Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>