According to another photography of a different undated newspaper titled “Treasure Trove of Photos Found in Basement of Tabor Building” written by Carol Roberts, the negatives and print photographs in this collection were found by the Lavigne Drug Group after they purchased the Tabor Building in the late 1970s and cleaned out the basement, discovering “photo negatives of pictures developed in the Tabor Building from 1933 to 1975.” Dale Lavigne, president of Lavigne Drug Group and now-owner of the Tabor Building is quoted as explaining that “Tabor had a developing studio in the basement of the Tabor Building.” According to the article, “when the building was purchased, they cleaned out the basement and his son Ron found the negatives, and stored them for safe keeping, but didn’t think much about them. Later, Lavigne was having a conversation with his cousin, Dick Magnuson, a longtime Wallace resident and local historian who had worked at Tabor’s as a high school student, helping develop film. He suggested to Lavigne that they donate the negatives to the University of Idaho in Moscow. Since these pictures span the years from 1933 to 1975, they are a continuation of the well-known Barnard-Stockbridge Collection, currently on file at the University of Idaho Library.”

According to Dale Lavigne, “the pictures are a history of what went on during that time period, when George Tabor or one of his employees went out and took pictures of events happening in the area.