Preserve an Object

The Museum gratefully accepts donations of artifacts and documents that have an historical connection to Bonner County. We also encourage you to contribute your family history related to Bonner County, which can take the form of an interview with a family elder, family documents, photographs, or a written history.

For more information regarding donations, ask about our donation guidelines. Before you bring in your valued history, you will be asked to fill out our Temporary Custody Receipt and bring it in for review.

If you have a photograph or document of historical interest, but would rather not donate it, we have the equipment to make copies so that your original can be returned to you.

Wish List

Below is a wish list of items we would love to add to our collection. This list is by no means exhaustive:

  • Sandpoint/Bonner County Directories from 1915, 1917-1922, 1924-1925, 1927-1947, 1949, 1951-1955, 1957-1958, 1960-1963, 1973, 1994, 2015, 2019, 2020 

  • Sandpoint High School Monticolas (yearbooks) from 1916-1919 (may be called the White Pine Song Book), 1925-1928, 1952, 1954-1946, 1959, 1961, 1969, 1992-1993, 1995, 1997, 2000-2022

  • Any issues of the Priest River High School yearbook, Clark Fork High School yearbook, or Lake Pend Oreille High School yearbook

  • Book: A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska by Edward L. Affleck

  • Book: One Inch Above the Water by Jim Payne

  • DVD: The Nell Shipman Collection Vol. 1: The Girl from God's Country

  • Photograph of the Sandpoint Interurban Railway crossing Sand Creek on its own bridge

  • Clothing and textiles from all time periods of Bonner County History

  • SunIce Ski Wear

Bequests

Please contact your Certified Public Accountant for information about making a bequest to the Historical Society.