Collection Timeline

1904 to 2000

1904
The 1904 women's basketball team. From (l to r) Clara Stockwell, Aliter Adair, Nellie Woods, Mabel Smith, Mattie Stockwell, Florence Smith, Dorothy Bovill, Edna Woods (child in front).
Gwen, Dorothy, Mrs. Bovill, and others standing in front of a new house at Warren Meadows.
Bovill home with trees in the distance.
Three cabins, including Boehl's Cabin, located on Breakfast Creek in a forest.

1905
Dirt Road leading into the town of Bovill.
Meadow near west end of Pine Street with houses in the distance.
Mr. and Mrs. Bovill, their daughters, guests, and pets siting on the front porch of their store.
Interior of the Bovill Store with goods stocked behind the counter.
Bovill family pose for a family portrait with their dog in front of a cabin. Pictured: Charlotte and Hugh Bovill, Gwen and Dorothy

1906
A receipt for the purchase of a homestead.

1907
A view of Bovill's Main Street lined with stores.
A view of downtown Bovill on Main Street, including a hotel and a block of stores.

1908
Bovill Hotel before the store (on right) was added on to it. Tamaki Cabin on the left.

1910
Women stand on the front porch of the Bovill Hotel, surrounded by trees.
Interior view of the Bovill Hotel Parlor.
Men working in the Chapin Cedar Pole Yard, surrounded by logs.
Fire in the Bovill Chapin Cedar Pole Yard.
People stand with horses in front of George Palmer's Horse Doctor Barn. Charlie Sanderson is man with moustache in front of door, Tillie Pelton is second from right. Bill O'Meara is on extreme right.
Interior view of the Bovill Hotel Parlor.
Men pose for a picture on a machine in the pole yard. Bill Melow (operator), Fred Wallen, Wandke, Heidke, Betty Helmier.
Peter Johnson and his son standing outside his store.
People stand at the Washington, Idaho, and Montana Rail Road Depot while the train waits.
Potlatch Co. Headquarters with railroad tracks running through it and covered in logs.
Two young girls riding horses outside a group of houses.
The Bovill Hotel surrounded by trees and with people out front.

1912
Slabtown located one mile north of Bovill, covered in houses and trees.

1913
Students standing out in front of the Bovill School.
The Bovill Opera House.

1914
A view of Main Street in Bovill, lined with stores.
A view of the business section of Bovill.
Hobb's Cabin on Little Meadow, surrounded by trees.
rubble from buildings damaged by Bovill fire
Bovill Hospital surrounded by trees and snow.
Students stand outside the Bovill Public School with a teacher standing on the stairs.
Bovill Catholic Church and a resident's house.
Bovill High School students at Oakey Hall. Front row: Kneeland Parker, Frank Hollenbeck, Joe Evans, Myrtle Benscotter, Inez Harvey, Helen Smith, Marie Jagelow 2nd row: Myrtle Bailey, Violet Higgins, Gladys Miller, Myrtle Bechtol, Nora Porter, Grace Hayes, Jessie Coffey 3rd row: Alan Woolsey, Willard Tarbox, Wallace Boll, Orvel Anderson, Hazel Cunningham, Roberta Tarbox, Miss Buzzel (teacher) 4th row: Clay Anderson, Bill Dajkamp, Charlie Albrecht, Merle Denevan, Marie Benscotter, Floyd Higgins, Ann David, Harry Alt

1915
Bovill Main Street, lined with stores, before the fire of 1914.
Bovill Main Street, lined with stores and with some snow on the ground.
Bovill Main Street, lined with stores, before the fire of 1914.
Bovill Main Street with people standing at the entrances of the stores.
Horses pulling a carriage with a family on it outside the J.P. Harless Livery Stable.
A couple from Lewiston sits next to the fireplace and Dorothy and Gwen sit by the hearth in living room of the Bovill Hotel.

1916
Map of Bovill indicating where the Bovill Ranch is located.

1917
Bovill residents stand near a car on the side of the road between Bovill and Hog Meadow. From (l to r) Okia Hall, unknown, Mrs. R. C. Witty, Mrs. Hall, Lee Witty.
Mr. and Mrs. Bovill, Gwen, and Dorothy pose for a picture with some drummers (traveling salesmen).

1918
View of the Bovill meadow with a split rail fence in the left corner and Abe's Butte in the distance.
Railroad tracks with water tank and warehouse in the distance.
Lift fork moving hay into Bovill's main barn.
Two men moving hay at the Bovill ranch.
A truck drives on the street in Bovill's residential area.
Potlatch Co. horses in the pasture with barns and trees in the distance.
Two horses stand outside a barn located in a meadow surrounded by trees.
Two women with two little girls stand on the bridge on Pioneer road at Potlatch Creek.

1920
Ten women pose for a picture on the porch of a house with a couple of children. back row (l to r)- Mrs. Conners, Mrs. Gunderman, Mrs. Albrech, Mrs. O. I. Rue middle row: Mrs. Connely, Mrs. Denevan, ?, child ?, Mrs. Ault front row: Mrs. Tony Peterson, Mrs. Gertrude L. Witty, Mrs. Harless Donor: Lorraine Witty Best

1923
The Bovill Ladies Club at the Macabee Convention at Coeur d'Alene, ID. Front, l to r: Mabel White, Maud Frick, June Clark Hanson, Anna Hays, Laura Chilton, Esther Chilton, Louise Hale, Lizette Miller Munsch, Nellie Smith, Kate Wallen Back row, l to r: Maud Greenwood, Orpha Chrystal, May Denevon, ?, Wingarde, Lori Boll, Edith Bailey, Mae Tarbox, Emma Galloway

1926
House on Cedar View Dairy Ranch at Bovill.
Warren Cabin at the Meadow, surrounded by trees.
Warren Cabin surrounded by trees and bushes.

1927
Bovill's new power pole being raised by a Ford truck.
A road lined with Bovill's new electric utility poles and trees.
The Electric Utility Pole Crew working on the side of the road. Left to Right: Herman Schupfer (sitting on tailgate), Tony Eichner, Axel Burklund, Roy Wells, Fred Fonholtz

1928
Bovill's public school.
The Bovill High School basketball team. (left to right) back row: Junior Crystal, Earl Alden, Tomie Groh, Mu Click (coach) Kenneth Bolls front row: Lee Witty, Glen Tarbox, Robert Waldron, Muriel Hays The team lost only 1 game all season.
Bovill Main Street with people lining the street, standing in front of the stores.
Working street in front of the school, where men are working on horses with dogs and children are crossing.
H. Schupfer and Phil Johns, part of WWP (likely Washington Water Power company), siting atop an 80-foot pole, while helping put up electric utility poles.

1930
The Civilian Conservation Corp CO.245, CAMP F141, with trees in the distant.
The Civilian Conservation Corp CO.245, CAMP F141, surrounded by tree stumps.
The Pest House view of flooding.
A crowd of people watch as elk that were relocated from Yellowstone Park are unloaded at the train station in Bovill, ID.
Elk that were relocated from Yellowstone Park are gathered in a pen in Bovill, ID.

1931
The old house on the far right was where the Miller family lived from 1929 to 1932.
Miller farm on the east fork of the Potlatch River, looking across Little Meadow.

1933
May Queen and court of Bovill Grade School.
Bovill's third and fourth grades students.
Electric crew in a boat during the Bovill flood of 1933.
View of the city of Bovill from the highway with houses and trees in the background.
Aerial view of Bovill.
Aerial view of Bovill.
Map of Little Meadow. A is Hobbs Cabin, B is Winton logging camp and latter Miller farm buildings, C is trace of former road into meadows, and X means grades of old logging railroad lines.
A group of women stand in front of the drug store on Main St. in Bovill. L to R: Della Crawford (druggist), Mrs. Dave Ellison (owner of the Spokane Hotel), Mrs. Charles White, Mrs. Carlton Stockwell and Mrs. R. T. Witty.
The city of Bovill behind a group of trees.
The Warren Cabin surrounded by trees.
The interior view of a Bovill dentist's office.
A Bovill house with a child and a dog sitting on the front porch.
A group of Bovill houses surrounded by trees and covered in snow.
The Golden Rule Drugstore next door to pool hall.
The Bovill Opera House.

1936
The Bovill High School football team.
The Bovill High School football team.
Bovill's fifth and sixth grade students.
W.S. Miller home on Potlatch East Fork near Bovill.
Bovill's two-story outhouse.
The Bovill Hotel with trees in the distant.

1946
Bovill's grade school students standing outside the school. The teacher was Phyllis Cox Nelson.
Bovill's sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.

1947
Bovill's grade school students standing outside the school.
Bovill's sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.
Students pose for a picture on a platform during graduation. Second from left is Loette Nelson, youngest sister of Dawn (Don) Nelson.
Students sit on a platform during graduation. Second from left is Loette Nelson, youngest sister of Dawn (Don) Nelson.

1948
Bovill High School basketball team.
Bovill's sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. First row (l to r): Gary O'Keefe, Clifford Harp, Russell Barnes, Leonard Hunderhich. Second row (l to r): Wilma Vigue, Helen Johnson, Mahine Dawson, Rebecca Brady, Jeanne Smith, Marion Eller. Third row (l to r): Billy Musch, Manley Waldon, Alvie Estes, Don Vigue, Ronnie Black, Dannah Steel, Dallace Kellom. Fourth row (l to r): Rose Estes, Loiuse Ingnam, Frances Crane, Clara Court, Darlene White, Loett Nelson, Klea Crane, Marilyn Hays, Miss. Cox.

1949
Bovill's sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.

1957
Bovill's grade school students standing outside the school.
Bovill's grade school students standing outside the school.

1958
Bovill's grade school students, grades 1-8.

1959
Bovill's sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.
Bovill teacher, Phyllis Cox Nelson, poses for a picture in front of cupboards with a notebook in hand.
Bovill teacher, Phyllis Cox Nelson smiles for a picture.
Bovill's first and second grade students.
Bovill's sixth, seventh, and eight grade students.
Bovill's grade school students, grades 1-8.

1978
Bovill's Historical Museum that is now the opera house.

1980
Bovill Cemetery gate and headstones with trees in the distance.
A Bovill family stands in a store surrounded by merchandise.
The Bovill mayor, Jimi Kai Noel, stands outside the Bovill Historical Museum.

1990
Jessica Paterek holds Jared Staniford, who is waving a flag, during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration.
Billy Sanderson, a Bovill resident, participating in Centennial Proclamation Relay during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration.
A woman speaking on a stage during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration, while others sit behind her.
People stand outside, looking at something, during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration.
Two women work on a quilt during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration.
A man works on a quilt during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration.
A woman speaking on a stage during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration, while others sit behind her.
An audience listens to a speaker on a stage during Bovill's Statehood Day while children play in the front.
Two women speaking on a stage while others sit behind them.
Bovill residents working on the centennial quilt during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration.
Bovill residents attend the Statehood Day celebration.
Gary Eggers, Bovill's mayor, speaking on stage during Statehood Day celebration. Behind him are (l to r): Mary Reed of Moscow; Norma Dobler, featured speaker and former representative and senator; Jerry Brown, mayor of Kendrick; Harold Freeman, Juliaetta mayor; Marie Vogel, Troy mayor; Marie Scharnhorst, Genesee rep; Carol Reynolds, Potlatch rep.
Harold Freeman, Juliaetta's mayor, speaking on stage during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration. Behind him are (l to r): Mary Reed of Moscow; Norma Dobler, featured speaker and former representative and senator; Jerry Brown, mayor of Kendrick; Gary Egger, Bovill mayor; Marie Vogel, Troy mayor; Marie Scharnhorst, Genesee rep; Carol Reynolds, Potlatch rep.
Carol Reynolds speaks on a stage during Bovill's Statehood Day celebration, while others sit in the backround of the stage.
Bovill residents attend the Statehood Day celebration.
Bovill residents attend Bovill's Statehood Day celebration.
View of flooding during flood season, with mountains in the distant.
The Warren Cabin, located next to the Bovill Hotel, surrounded by trees.
Women put away books in the Bovill Library when it was co-shared with City Hall.
Karen Eggers reading a magazine at the Bovill Library, which was in the back of City Hall where the old jail cells were.
Diane Becker, the first supervisor at the Bovill Library and city clerk, helps children during story time.
The Bovill Community Library in City Hall.
The Bovill Community Library in City Hall.

1993
Bovill's first state bank, with cars parked on the street outside.
Cars parked on the street outside of Bovill's first state bank.
Bovill's Hotel surrounded by trees and with a little snow on the ground.
Bovill's hospital with trees surrounding it and cars parked off to the side.
Bovill's Opera House (formerly Bovill Historical Museum) with snow on the ground around it.
Bovill's Opera House with trees in the distance.
Bovill's Opera House with snow on the ground around it.

1995
Bovill's hospital with trees surrounding it and cars parked off to the side.

2000
Students eating lunch in the Bovill gymnasium and cafeteria.
Bovill's brick gymnasium with cars parked in front of it.
Kidstown by third grade at the Bovill school.
Children playing with what looks like fake money during Kidstown at Bovill's third grade.
Children playing in a classroom during Kidstown at Bovill's third grade.
Children painting during Kidstown at Bovill's third grade.