Online Collections
Here are a few of the digitized and online collections in the Latah County Historical Society collection.
View the pieces in the LCHS Art Collection, linked below.
The oral histories linked below are available through the University of Idaho Library Digital Collections. These digitized audio recordings together with their indexes and transcripts provide over 300 detailed recollections of life from the early 20th century. These oral histories were first conducted and collected in the mid-1970s by the Latah County Historical Society
Digitized Photos
Some of our photos can be found at Google Arts & Culture, linked below. We also have a number of photos of unidentified people. Please browse and see if you can help us identify them.
Native American Collections
Before white settlers, Latah County was home to the Nimiipuu, Coeur d'Alene, and Palus peoples. LCHS only has a few items related to the native history of Latah County.
Adair Collection
Ione Adair grew up in Moscow in the historic home at 110 S. Adams Street, known by most as the McConnell Mansion. She enjoyed adventure and as a young woman attempted to establish a homestead claim in northern Idaho, near present-day Avery. She was there in the summer of 1910 when an enormous wildfire erupted. Her journal and letters home from that time period provide valuable insight into her experiences as a woman in a frontier space as well as with the "Big Blowup" that changed forest management throughout the nation.
Lieuallen Diary
his is a diary kept by William Lieuallen, brother of Almon Asbury Lieuallen, as he and his party moved west from Missouri to Washington Territory. This record is held in the Latah County Historical Society Archives under SC 1992-59.
