Alexander Simplot Papers and Drawings, 1866-1911
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Part 1 (Mss 624, PH 1202-PH 1207, PH 3490-PH 3493, PH 3599): Original Collection, 1916-1956
Physical Description: 7.2 cubic feet (18 archives boxes), 201 photographs, 121 negatives, 396 transparencies, 12 postcard drawings, 1 booklet, and approximately 50 pieces of ephemera 
Mss 624
Series: Correspondence
Box   1
1936 - 1940/1942, S
Box   2
1940/1942, S - 1943
Box   3
1944 - 1947/1948, J
Box   4
1947/1948, K - 1951
Box   5
1952 - 1955, L
Box   6
1955, M - 1956; clippings; photographs
Series: Subject File
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Box   7
Alumni - University of Wisconsin Class of 1913
Box   7
Arctic, 1955
Box   7
Association of Co-operative Marketing
Box   7
Bar calendars, 1954-1956
Box   7
Brotherhood Week
Box   7
Canada trips, 1950-1952
Box   8
Cooperative materials
Box   8
Certificates
Box   8
Friends
Box   8
Hospital
Box   8
Income tax returns
Box   9
Income tax returns (continued)
Box   9
Induction speeches
Box   9
Life history
Box   9
Log from Canada trip
Box   9
McCarthy document, Campaign for Supreme Court, 1941
Box   9
Memorials
Box   9
Northern State Trust Company
Personal
Box   9
1919-1942
Box   10
1942-1954
Box   11
undated
Box   11
Legislation involving judges
Box   11
Photographs
Box   12
Political activities, 1926-1932
Press clippings
Box   12
1936-1944
Box   13
1944-1947
Box   14
1949-1954
Box   14
Receipts and bills
Box   15
Receipts and bills (continued)
Box   15
Reisner, Ensworth, sermons
Box   15
Speech for Christmas, 1954
Box   15-18
Supreme Court 1941 campaign materials
Box   18
Supreme Court 1941 election material
World War I military service
PH 1202
Folder   1
France, 1917-1919
Physical Description: Approximately 50 pieces of ephemera 
Scope and Content Note: Miscellaneous ephemera pertaining to Reis' service in France during the first World War, 1917-1919. Included are railroad and other tickets, passes, orders, German propaganda leaflets, ration coupons, a compressed hydrogen label, social invitations, and other items.
PH 1203
Album, circa 1917
Physical Description: 9 photographs (1 album) 
Scope and Content Note: An album of photographs and hand-lettered data concerning the equipment of a (French?) military observation balloon company, circa 1917.
PH 1204
Folder   1
Germany military, circa 1916-1918
Physical Description: 72 photographs 
Scope and Content Note: German military and related photographs of World War I trench warfare, field operations, observation balloons, ruins, soldier groups (some humorous), Kaiser Wilhelm II, General von Hindenburg, and other scenes, about 1916-1918. These were apparently printed in Coblenz during the U.S. occupation.
PH 1205
Folder   1
Aerial photographs, 1916-1919
Physical Description: 37 photographs and 1 booklet 
Scope and Content Note: French and U.S. military observation aerial photographs, made in France and on the Rhine River during the first World War, 1916-1919, and a booklet: "Interpretation et utilisation des photographies aeriennes." Images show the ground establishment at fortress Ehrenbreitstein; oblique views from a balloon above Ehrenbreitstein, 1919; and some views apparently near St. Hilaire. One photograph is of a parachute and burning observation balloon falling.
PH 1206
Folder   1
German civilians, circa 1918
Physical Description: 4 photographs 
Scope and Content Note: Portrait groups of German civilians (men, women, and children), about 1918. These portraits, apparently by a German local photographer in a rural community, are made probably in an effort to conserve materials. With the aid of a wooden frame and a two-stage background of French army blankets, six persons pose at once, three standing and three seated. The six portraits are later to be cut apart along the lines of the six-part frame.
PH 1207
Folder   1
German postcards, 1917
Physical Description: 12 postcards 
Scope and Content Note: German postcards showing humorous caricatures of German army life during the first World War, 1917, from drawings by A. Behrend.
PH 3490
Glass plate negatives
Physical Description: Approximately 120 negatives (2 negative boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: A collection of glass plate negatives, (9x17 cm and 5x7 inches) both originals and copies, relating to World War I, 1917-1919, of mixed origin, assembled by Major, later Judge Alvin Reis, some probably exposed by Reis; some are originals, some copies. Some plates are of German origin. Subjects consist of U.S. and French army field operations, terrain, ruins, observation blimps and balloons.
PH 3491
Transparencies, circa 1916-1919
Physical Description: Approximately 200 transparencies 
Scope and Content Note: Transparencies, glass mounted (3 1/4 x 4 inches) about half of which are identified by manuscript labels in French. Assembled by Major, later Judge, Alvin Reis, some probably exposed by Reis; some are originals, some copies. Views of the front, field operations, aircraft, captive airships (blimps) and observation balloons (Major Reis' specialty), terrain, devastation, dead horses and fortifications. Some corresponding negatives are in PH 3490.
PH 3492
Folder   1
Military observation, 1917-1918
Physical Description: 39 photographs and 1 negative 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs of blimps and balloons used for military observation during World War I, 1917-1918. Included are images of craft in preparation on ground and aloft, crews, winches and other equipment, occasional airplanes, and one dirigible airship in flight.
PH 3493
Folder   1
U.S. army photographs, 1918-1919
Physical Description: 40 photographs 
Scope and Content Note: Aerial and ground U.S. Army photographs of terrain, monuments, fortifications, aircraft, and other scenes at Coblenz, Mainz, Koln, Verdun, and Luxembourg during World War I, 1918-1919.
PH 3599
Trip to Northwest Territories, Canada, 1955
Physical Description: 196 transparencies (35 mm) 
Scope and Content Note: 35 mm color transparencies of a trip taken by Reis to the Northwest Territories of Canada in 1955. Included are images of Eskimos, tundra, fishing, caribou, and a whaling expedition. There is a partial container list consisting of a slide list, copies of notes made by the donor, and a hand-drawn map.
Magazine   1
Slide No.   1
Map, western Canada
Magazine   1
Slide No.   2
Wikiak - Arctic OC
Magazine   1
Slide No.   3
Great Bear, July 4th
Magazine   1
Slide No.   4
Sunburst Yellowknife
Magazine   1
Slide No.   5
Bear, from plane, July
Magazine   1
Slide No.   6
Gunbarrel Inlet, plane
Magazine   1
Slide No.   7
Midnight Sun - Coppermine
Magazine   1
Slide No.   8
Eeina - Arctic Ocean
Magazine   1
Slide No.   9
Eskimo Bulletin
Magazine   1
Slide No.   10
Great Slave Trout
Magazine   1
Slide No.   11
Sled and char
Magazine   1
Slide No.   12
Having electric razor
Magazine   1
Slide No.   13
Bear, ice cracking
Magazine   1
Slide No.   14
Rowdy, Hidden Lake
Magazine   1
Slide No.   15
Arctic Grayling
Magazine   1
Slide No.   16
Caribou swimming
Magazine   1
Slide No.   17
Caribou running
Magazine   1
Slide No.   18
Inlet, ice on right
Magazine   1
Slide No.   19
July 15th, Latitude 65
Magazine   1
Slide No.   20
Oojumut, stuck in ice
Magazine   1
Slide No.   21
Oojumut and John
Magazine   1
Slide No.   22
Bleak, really stuck
Magazine   1
Slide No.   23
Lady
Magazine   1
Slide No.   24
Eskimo boy
Magazine   1
Slide No.   25
Snow, mid-July
Magazine   1
Slide No.   26
Drying fish, Eskimo girl
Magazine   1
Slide No.   27
Iceberg, mid-July
Magazine   1
Slide No.   28
My Mountie in hood
Magazine   1
Slide No.   29
Friendly dog
Magazine   1
Slide No.   30
Dogfood, Eskimo kids
Magazine   1
Slide No.   31
White whale, Bert Boxer
Magazine   1
Slide No.   32
Eeina, barren lands
Magazine   1
Slide No.   33
Midnight sun
Magazine   1
Slide No.   34
Sun dogs
Magazine   1
Slide No.   35
Caribou in sun
Magazine   1
Slide No.   36
Northern Lights
Magazine   2
Slide No.   37
Eskimo girls
Magazine   2
Slide No.   38
Nellie Kanovak
Magazine   2
Slide No.   39
Mother in calico
Magazine   2
Slide No.   40
Seals' skin boat, cigarette
Magazine   2
Slide No.   41
Woodpile for 20 families
Magazine   2
Slide No.   42
Husky dogs
Magazine   2
Slide No.   43
Kashook and family
Magazine   2
Slide No.   44
Mosquitos
Magazine   2
Slide No.   45
My friend, her stick
Magazine   2
Slide No.   46
Fur house
Magazine   2
Slide No.   47
The primitive lady
Magazine   2
Slide No.   48
Eskimo bodies in Caribou
Magazine   2
Slide No.   49
Bearded seals
Magazine   2
Slide No.   50
Eskimo ice cream
Magazine   2
Slide No.   51
Gray trout - Slave
Magazine   2
Slide No.   52
Brown trout - Slave
Magazine   2
Slide No.   53
Trout from the rocks
Magazine   2
Slide No.   54
Snow Drift Rapids
Magazine   2
Slide No.   55
Graying out of the rapids
Magazine   2
Slide No.   56
String of trout
Magazine   2
Slide No.   57
Dog boat on the Slave
Magazine   2
Slide No.   58
Small trout, Hidden Lake
Magazine   2
Slide No.   59
July ice
Magazine   2
Slide No.   60
Eskimos in hoods
Magazine   2
Slide No.   61
Pals in Iceland
Magazine   2
Slide No.   62
Canadian Mountie canoe
Magazine   2
Slide No.   63
Snowspot
Magazine   2
Slide No.   64
Snow Mountain police
Magazine   2
Slide No.   65
M.P. (Mounted Police)
Magazine   2
Slide No.   66
Have an ice lollypop
Magazine   2
Slide No.   67
Friendly puppies snow
Magazine   2
Slide No.   68
Caribou snow line
Magazine   2
Slide No.   69
Slave trout
Magazine   2
Slide No.   70
Three twenties - ice
Magazine   2
Slide No.   71
Plane - Midnight sun
Magazine   2
Slide No.   72
Sun and moon
Magazine   3
Slide No.   73
Moses
Magazine   3
Slide No.   74
Della
Magazine   3
Slide No.   75
Cradle baskets
Magazine   3
Slide No.   76
Moses and catch
Magazine   3
Slide No.   77
A young Cree
Magazine   3
Slide No.   78
Kichingima
Magazine   3
Slide No.   79
Ouesquebichiga
Magazine   3
Slide No.   80
Menassi
Magazine   3
Slide No.   81
My plane leaves me
Magazine   3
Slide No.   82
Cameron River
Magazine   3
Slide No.   83
Herring
Magazine   3
Slide No.   84
Chiefs - Slaveys. Dogribs
Magazine   3
Slide No.   85
Don, Yellowknife Indian
Magazine   3
Slide No.   86
Yellowknife girl
Magazine   3
Slide No.   87
Kathleen
Magazine   3
Slide No.   88
Slavey village
Magazine   3
Slide No.   89
A tiny Dogrib
Magazine   3
Slide No.   90
Grandpa
Magazine   3
Slide No.   91
Chief Abasca (Chipewyans)
Magazine   3
Slide No.   92
Chipewyan women
Magazine   3
Slide No.   93
Hudson's Bay Post
Magazine   3
Slide No.   94
Talthelei Narrows
Magazine   3
Slide No.   95
Caught clean
Magazine   3
Slide No.   96
Factor's child (white)
Magazine   3
Slide No.   97
Mother and "peekin"
Magazine   3
Slide No.   99
Trout
Magazine   3
Slide No.   100
Chipewyan cleaning
Magazine   3
Slide No.   102
Embracing a trout
Magazine   3
Slide No.   103
Inconnu
Magazine   3
Slide No.   104
Little Chipewyan man
Magazine   3
Slide No.   105
Bear breeds
Magazine   3
Slide No.   106
Indian village
Magazine   3
Slide No.   107
Chipewyan church
Magazine   3
Slide No.   108
Nearer my God to Thee
Magazine   1
Notes by donor, map