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Check out:
Idaho State
Historical Society
Beyond Boise
The Historical Museum
at St. Gertrude
Lemhi County
Historical Society
and Museum,
Salmon ID
Latah County
Historical Society
Nez Perce National
Historical Park
Lewis-Clark
Center for Arts
and History
Sun Valley
Center for the Arts
“Parading Main: Teaching Patriotism through Celebrations and Parades.”
Amber Beierle with Adele Thomsen. The eight-poster exhibit tells the story of Boise through downtown celebrations. Historian Beierle, MAHR, shows how Boiseans use parades to establish a sense of historical identity and assimilate immigrants. Historic photographs document the changing face of downtown. On display at the Boise Public Library in Summer 2007.
Sponsored by the Boise City Office of the Mayor and the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Boise State University. Jennele Estrada, historian. Adele Thomsen, designer. Todd Shallat, project director.
See the Statesman article.
The Idanha's Trial of the Century
In 1907 the nation’s attention turned to the turreted French Château hotel in Idaho’s capital city where newsmen anxiously followed the era’s most sensational trial. Labor boss Big Bill Haywood stood accused of hiring the assassin who had dynamited former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg outside his Caldwell home. The Idahna Hotel on Main Street became the trial’s pulsating heart. Red brick and sandstone, with marble steps, carved mahogany, intercom, telephones, and an electric elevator, the Idanha had boarded Stuenenberg’s killer and other colorful players: Clarence Darrow, the nation’s most celebrated defense attorney; James McParland, the century’s most famous detective; Harry Orchard, a notorious mass-murderer and hit-man for the labor bosses; and co-prosecutor William “The Lion” Borah, a future senator and presidential candidate who famously opposed the anti-radical Espionage Act in 1917.
"The Trial of the Century” is one of five photographic exhibits slated for the renovated hotel. Researched and designed by Amber Beierle and Adele Thomsen with Todd Shallat and Ken Howell. Sponsored by Parkland Company and Boise State University College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs.
The Haywood trial exposed two decades of violence and intimidation over working conditions in the Idaho mines.
The Idanha, said the Idaho Statesman, was “the acme of perfection” in 1901.
Check out the exhibit online.
The Great Mississippi Historical Gallery
and Archive
By Todd Shallat and Adele Thomsen. Presented by Mississippi River Commission History Center and Boise State University College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, 2000. Documents, timelines, maps, and more than 200 photographs explore the human remaking of the Mississippi. Original essays consider the many nontechnical factors — the politics, aesthetics, folklore, and cultural values — that shape engineering design.
http://www.mvd.usace.army.mil/MRC-History-Center/index.html
River in Time
Mural and frieze exhibit, history lounge, Room 192 of the Albertsons Library Building on the Boise State University Campus. Painted in 2002 by Karen Woods, the mural has seventeen 2-ft. by 2-ft. panels — each a painting of an image selected by a member of the history department, and each an icon or symbol of that scholar’s expertise. Images run the gamut from photographs to stained glass panels, art objects, and political posters. Hugging the top of the walls forming the history lounge, the mural takes the form of a frieze. Each canvas is hung against a scene depicting the banks of the Boise River.
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