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The Coeur d'Alene Mining District is blessed with a wealth of resources in relation to historical photography. This resouce may, of course, one day become useful means for enhancing our ability to show and tell our history in a National Heritage Area.
"The Barnard-Stockbridge Collection is one of the major
resources for the study of over ninety years of activities in the famed
Silver Valley of northern Idaho's panhandle. Gold mines gave way to
silver mines as T.N. Barnard, pupil of
plains photographer L .A. Huffman, set up his studio in Wallace in the
1880's. Later, his assistant, one-eyed Nellie
Stockbridge, and successor owner of the Barnard Studio, continued
to take photographs until the 1960's" (historical
photography web page, University of Idaho Library).
A superb combination of
eloquent photographs and insightful historical prose. This
large-format book allows for excellent renderings of the
Barnard-Stockbridge images.
A wonderful collection of newly
published historical photographs, drawn from images contributed by both
local institutions and local citizens.
Both libraries maintain folders
of historical photographs.
Useful collection
of photographic images and reproductions of newspaper articles and
documents associated with the Big Burn.
A significan collection of images
of the Great 1910 Fiire, maintained in a series of binders in the
library's archive.
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