Given the thumbs-up to select a digitizing project to do herself, Annie
Gaines headed into the bowels of the University of Idaho Library last
fall. “I was wandering around,” she says, “and I found this small but great collection of postcards.” They’ve
trickled in over the years. Some were mounted, but most were in two
shoebox-sized containers – about 830 in all, most scenes from the
Pacific Northwest, the oldest from the 1890s.
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