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Craigmont Vollmer photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: PG 148

Content Description

A collection of about 130 items. The biggest part of the collection is family photos from the Carley and Stanford family. The collection is also filled with serval images relating to roads and railways that were in the area at the time.

Historical landscape, farming, railroad photos, postcards of the road between Lewiston and Grangevillee. Also a few school report cards.

Dates

  • Creation: 1894-1920

Biographical / Historical

In 1890 Idaho was declared a part of the United States of America, at that time the population was 88,548. Many families came to the west to have land and homestead off it in hopes of raising children that would be a part of a growing community. John Herman Stanford and his wife Mary Jane Nelson did just this. They moved to Idaho in 1888 with their children, where they began their new life. They began to farm and homestead from the land. The family started a long lineage who have still to this day stayed not only in the pacific northwest but in Idaho as well.

Donated by Tina Cutler, whose great grandfather homesteaded there in 1903. Also sent genealogical information stored on digital drive.

Extent

1 Cubic Feet (1 archival document box plus one oversized portrait (16x20))

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Early photos from settlers in the Craigmont/Vollmer area.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials received from Tina Culter in 2021 (MA 2021-29).”

Title
Guide to Craigmont Vollmer photograph collection
Status
Completed
Author
Finding Aid prepared by Bailey Gannon
Date
2024
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository