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A black and white image of four miners standing with a mule.

A picture of Ike Wescott as a young man. He was the owner of Wescott Auto Co. in Caldwell, ID,

A ca 1956 image of Caldwell government employees looking at a map of the new Interstate going through the city. Looking left to right, the men are Larry Eldridge, Lee Finley, and Mel Lewis.

An image of Sarah Cox Levander when she was 18 years old. She arrived with the Cox wagon train when they stopped in Caldwell, ID to rest before going on to Oregon. When John Levander came to the wagon train, he and Sarah wed a few weeks later. Their…

A picture of Anderson Miller Cox as a young man. He arrived with his parents, Reuben Cox and Anna Naiper Cox, in the Dixie area in September of 1864. Cox wrote article for numerous newspapers and lived out his 98 years in the Caldwell area.

A 1929 image of Ora Mumford Cramer, a teacher at Caldwell High School and Lincoln School. Her husband was "Pop" Cramer who was a biology teacher in Caldwell High School in the 1950s.

Above is a painting of Lewis and Clark at a Native American camp during their trek across the United States.

An image of Bill Cowden who was the owner of an Implement Company in Caldwell, Idaho.

A ca 1905 image the following women: (standing left to right) Anna Cox Allen who is the granddaughter of Reuben Cox, daughter of Riley Cox; Sarah Johnston Cox, the wife of Riley and niece to the Johnston Bros.; (sitting left to right) Mary Ann Day…

An image of an early pioneer in the Marble Front Area, John Thomas.

A collage of 12 Caldwell businessmen. Turning towards the numbers listed on each photo; 1-Thomas Johnston (cattlemen one of the Johnston Bro), 2-Ralph Oakes (general store), 3-Miles Hinshaw (unknown), 4-Earl Boyes (hardware), 5-Elmer Clark (banking),…

Graduate of College of Idaho (C of I), Dr. Mary Shaw--later Dr. Mary Shorb--isolated vitamin B 12.

An image from 1918 of the Red Cross Fund Drive which sold war bonds to help the American efforts in WWI. The drive happened in front of Alexander's Men's Wear, a "one piece clothier" (south side of 700 block on Main St.). Also within this photo, the…

An image of the President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Carrie Chapman Catt.

Abigail Scott Duniway was a Northwestern feminist and a part of the women's suffrage movement.

Esther Morris was a suffragette from Wyoming who became the first woman to be the Justice of Peace.

A photo of Carrie Adell Strahorn, wife of Robert Strahorn.

Above is the President of the 1907 Forward Club, Mrs. W.A. Stone.

This collage shows the 1907 Forward Club officers. Seen at the very top of the collage is Callie Simpson, top left is Ida Dorman, top right is Miss Wood, center is Mrs. W.A. Stone (Mrs. A.K. Stone), lower left is Carrie Steunenberg, lower right is…

A color plate from Sarah Josepha Hale's Godey's Lady's Book ca 1867. This image gives insight into what the desired clothing for American women was around this time.