Collection Timeline

1886 to 1980

1886
Amos Whiteley as a child with his parents outside their home

1900
Looking west on Idaho Street.

1902
Shot inside Meridian School.

1904
Children playing outside Meridian Grade School

1907
Picture of the MHS football team.
Inside the exchange bank, the picture shows the teller's cage and three gentleman.

1910
Outside shot of a home
Car in the middle of a field with five people. One outside the car, two up front, two in back.
Shot of people outside Hedges mercantile, Idaho St.

1913
Pictures taken in 1913-1914 of two class grades at a Meridian grade school.

1915
Man in horse drawn buggy

1917
Earl Rambo, Frank Hudson, Etta Hudson, and Lissa Cleek posing for a picture

1919
Reproduction of the Daly brothers.

1920
Storefront of local hardware store
Ida & E. 2nd Street scene
View of store fronts off Main & Broadway. M.M. Louderbough & Son and Gamble Store.
Slightly obscured view of a building, truck, and men working on the second floor
Two pictures of the exchange bank on E. 2nd & Broadway and a sale with a crowd
Sale happening in town
Parade for Memorial Day at the cemetery
The Corner of Broadway
Car in the middle of a field with five people. One outside the car, two up front, two in back.
Broadway & E. 1st (Service Station) and E. 1st & Idaho (Hotel).
Close up shot of the service station, Broadway & E. 1st (Main St.), blacksmith shop in the back.
View of Meridian across a railroad track. Hayden Pharmacy is seen in the background.

1923
Young woman, Dorothy, posing for a photo. Burns Studio operated in Idaho from 1919-2013.

1930
Earl Rambo driving wagon through hills. Earl lived from 1895-1958 so we estimage this image dates from 1930.
Outside the Ada County Dairymen's Association
Shot outside the creamery, showing a horse in the background
Workers constructing an addition to the creamery

1933
Small oil company in Meridian
Car outside Biddles grocery store

1934
Challenge Butter Creamery Stack
Outside of Meridian Creamery
Worker outside Meridian Creamery
The new smoke stack for the creamery
Man exiting the side of the Meridian Creamery
Men working at the creamery
Copy of the new smoke stack
Exterior shot of the creamery
Men working on the basement for Alice's house
Making the new boiler room for the creamery
Picture taken at the creamery.
Three men pose in front the the old boiler at the Meridian Creamery.
View of the smoke stack with Challenger logo.

1936
View inside the cemetery

1937
Outside of the Meridian Creamery

1940
View of the Meridian Cemetery
Copy of the ladies working on a quilt.
Another copy of the ladies working on a quilt.
Horse Drawn Wagon on its way to Yellowstone. Telephone pole indicates a slightly later time period - perhaps a reenactment?
Picture of the old grain silo.

1945
Mr. Matthews posing by a movie poster.
Picture of Swede Boice in 1945.

1946
Young woman outside storefront with dog
Photograph of Swede Boice in front of a bus

1947
Two women get their photo taken
Storefront of Meridian Drug Center

1950
Parade float of Idaho for University of Idaho.
3 older friends who are posing for a photo, one of them being Catherine Harris.
Ladies from the Occident Club having tea.

1956
Board members posing for their picture.

1958
City officials all together, councilmen, police, and fire.
Board members (including Herald Cox) posing with Dairy Show derby hats.

1960
Catherine Harris poses as she's 101 years old.

1971
Meridian Mayor Dan Storey & Librarian Nang Soze.

1980
Color image of a large group of Meridian residents - occasion is unknown. Names were updated in 1989.