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- Machine Shop at Bryant Motor Co., Boise, Idaho, 1914 -
- October 12, 1964
- Collections - Artifact
Machine Shop at Bryant Motor Co., Boise, Idaho, 1914
- China Gate Restaurant Sign, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, 2004 - In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.
- 2004
- Collections - Artifact
China Gate Restaurant Sign, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, 2004
In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.
- The Dog House, Smelterville, Idaho, 1935-1950 - Photographic cards like this one, with their glued-on labels, were a preliminary step taken by Dexter Press before producing postcards for small-business owners to mail or hand out to customers. The owner of this roadside food establishment, located in an early 20th-century mining area of northern Idaho, proudly boasted its air conditioning and car-service features.
- 1935-1950
- Collections - Artifact
The Dog House, Smelterville, Idaho, 1935-1950
Photographic cards like this one, with their glued-on labels, were a preliminary step taken by Dexter Press before producing postcards for small-business owners to mail or hand out to customers. The owner of this roadside food establishment, located in an early 20th-century mining area of northern Idaho, proudly boasted its air conditioning and car-service features.
- Sketch of 1843 Wagon Train at Fort Hall, Idaho -
- 1838
- Collections - Artifact
Sketch of 1843 Wagon Train at Fort Hall, Idaho
- Evel Knievel X-2 Sky-Cycle Toy, 1976-1978 -
- 1976-1978
- Collections - Artifact
Evel Knievel X-2 Sky-Cycle Toy, 1976-1978
- Envelope Sent by Air Mail to Henry Ford from Idaho for National Air Mail Week, May 1938 - Twenty years after the first regularly scheduled U.S. air mail service was established, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Postmaster General James A. Farley sponsored National Air Mail Week in 1938. Part celebration and part advertising, the event promoted the pricier service during the Great Depression. Cities throughout the country created their own special mail cachets and cancellations to mark the occasion.
- May 20, 1938
- Collections - Artifact
Envelope Sent by Air Mail to Henry Ford from Idaho for National Air Mail Week, May 1938
Twenty years after the first regularly scheduled U.S. air mail service was established, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Postmaster General James A. Farley sponsored National Air Mail Week in 1938. Part celebration and part advertising, the event promoted the pricier service during the Great Depression. Cities throughout the country created their own special mail cachets and cancellations to mark the occasion.
- Idaho License Plate from 1964-65 New York World's Fair - Visitors to the Ford Motor Company pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair could ride on the Magic Skyway. Late model Ford convertibles traveled along a track in and out of the pavilion -- winding through exhibits and providing spectacular views. Each automobile sported a license plate, like this one, from one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia.
- 1964-1965
- Collections - Artifact
Idaho License Plate from 1964-65 New York World's Fair
Visitors to the Ford Motor Company pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair could ride on the Magic Skyway. Late model Ford convertibles traveled along a track in and out of the pavilion -- winding through exhibits and providing spectacular views. Each automobile sported a license plate, like this one, from one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia.
- Machine Shop at Bryant Motor Co., Boise, Idaho, 1914 -
- October 12, 1964
- Collections - Artifact
Machine Shop at Bryant Motor Co., Boise, Idaho, 1914
- Envelope Sent from M. Nakata at Minidoka Japanese Internment Camp to Marjorie Konishi at Heart Mountain Camp, 1943 - During World War II, the War Relocation Authority removed and unjustly incarcerated more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in War Relocation Camps. Entire communities were shipped to one of ten camps in remote areas of the West. Fourteen-year-old Marjorie Konishi, held at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, camp, received this from M. Nakata, living at Minidoka internment camp in Idaho.
- December 01, 1943
- Collections - Artifact
Envelope Sent from M. Nakata at Minidoka Japanese Internment Camp to Marjorie Konishi at Heart Mountain Camp, 1943
During World War II, the War Relocation Authority removed and unjustly incarcerated more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in War Relocation Camps. Entire communities were shipped to one of ten camps in remote areas of the West. Fourteen-year-old Marjorie Konishi, held at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, camp, received this from M. Nakata, living at Minidoka internment camp in Idaho.
- Amana Radarange Microwave Oven, 1975 - Amana's Radarange, introduced in 1967, was the first compact microwave oven made for home use. By 1975, when Ed and Flo Harper bought this Radarange as a family Christmas gift, sales of microwave ovens outpaced gas ovens for the first time. The convenient, time-saving microwave oven was becoming a practical necessity for a fast-paced world. People had less time to devote to cooking.
- 1975
- Collections - Artifact
Amana Radarange Microwave Oven, 1975
Amana's Radarange, introduced in 1967, was the first compact microwave oven made for home use. By 1975, when Ed and Flo Harper bought this Radarange as a family Christmas gift, sales of microwave ovens outpaced gas ovens for the first time. The convenient, time-saving microwave oven was becoming a practical necessity for a fast-paced world. People had less time to devote to cooking.