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Digital Memories



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Digital Memories: Nez Perces Indian War Series '77

        April 2001

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.

The most recent addition to the series is the "Nez Perces Indian War
Series '77," which provides information about an important resource for
the study of Idaho history of which only fragments are known. The passage
of time is known to obliterate or conceal much historical documentation.
Occasionally, however, knowledge of items merely needs to be
recontextualized or newly perceived. It is hoped that proves to be the
case here.

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, on
the Big Blow-Up of 1910, the design competition for the Memorial Steps, a
letter from depression-era Kooskia, and Earl Larrison and the Sir Walter
Scott Collection are also available.  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
4500 entries from around the world.

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Terry Abraham   Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>

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