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Palouse Hills Farm Museum Project records

 Collection — Carton: oversize plots
Identifier: MG 108

Content Description

This archival group contains the material written and collected by those involved with planning the Palouse Hills Living History Farm. It consists of twenty-six typed reports dealing with various aspects of rural life in the Palouse from 1890 to 1915, twenty-two sets of cassette tapes (thirty-eight tapes in all) and typed transcripts of seven of those sets which are oral history interviews with Palouse area residents. There are also eight books dealing with farm animals, three 4-H clothing bulletins, maps of the proposed farm, and material for a living history summer course taught at the university.

This group also contains many brochures on living history sites in the United States and many newspaper clippings about the University Museum's farm project. Another very interesting series in this group is the large number of photographs, both period and contemporary, of farming methods, fashion, domestic architecture, and household furnishings. These photographs are either in the typed reports or in the two file boxes of photographs. Some were taken by persons associated with the living farm museum project, others were obtained from the University of Idaho, Washington State University, Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Idaho Historical Society, or from one of several private collections.

Dates

  • Creation: 1971-1981

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

The Palouse Hills Farm Museum was a project put on by the Unveristy of Idaho. The purpose was to interpret the traditions of farming life within the Palouse region. Research was done on other such living history sites throughout the United States. However, this project never materialized with a final product.

Extent

6 linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Reports, maps, and photographs relating to the planning of the proposed Palouse Hills Living History Farm Museum.

Arrangement

Material in this group was left in the basic subject arrangement in which it was received by the University of Idaho Museum, although occasionally small sections were grouped with similar subject matter in order to make a more usable unit.

Title
Guide to Palouse Hills Farm Museum Project records
Status
Completed
Author
Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen, updated by Sara Szobody in 2022.
Date
1982
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Repository Details

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