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Of possible interest to several people on this list. Please forgive any duplication. Cindy Mediavilla cmediavi@ucla.edu *********** 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 "Welcome to Minidoka," a letter from one World War II internee to another describing first impressions of the War Relocation Center at Hunt, Idaho. The Minidoka center eventually housed 9400 people, primarily U.S. citizens who happened to be of Japanese descent. 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 Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a nearly comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 2300 entries from around the world. +++ +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Terry Abraham Special Collections U of Idaho tabraham@uidaho.edu | +-----------<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>----------+
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