Knowles Postcard collection
Content Description
This collection consists of more than 200 postcards depciting Idaho, Washington, and Oregon from the early 1900s through the 1980s. Some items are linen, chrome, and black and white photographs.
Dates
- Creation: 1909-1980
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
In 1995, Catherine and K. Johnson Knowles, along with their son Colin, inherited around 14,000 postcards from Mr. Knowles' mother, Joann Baxter Zeisel. Ms. Zeisel's mother and grandmother had originally collected them during their travels. About 10 years later, Mrs. Knowles decided to donate the postcards to public libraries, colleges, museums, and historical societies all over the United States. This collection is all those from Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Postcards showing scenes from Idaho, Washington and Oregon, some written and postmarked.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Knowles Postcard collection was donated to the University of Idaho Library by the Knowles Family in 2007.
Existence and Location of Copies
Some of the materials in this collection were digitized and added to the digital Northwest Historical Postcards Collection.
Processing Information
Individual postcards and postcard groups were placed into separate, numbered envelops.
Geographic
Topical
- Boise
- British Columbia
- Coeur d’Alene
- Colleges and Universities
- Corvallis
- Eugene
- Expeditions and Adventure
- Idaho
- Montana
- National Parks
- Olympia
- Oregon
- Pacific Northwest History
- Parks and Playgrounds
- Photographs
- Portland
- Postcard Industry
- Postcards
- Postcards as Art Material
- Salem
- Seattle
- Spokane
- Sports and Recreation
- Tacoma
- Transportation
- Vancouver (Wash.)
- Washington
- Washington (State)
- Title
- Guide to Knowles Postcard collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Sara Szobody.
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository