Are We There Yet?
Are We There Yet?
- Creator: Belinda Isley
- Date: 2013
- Location: Boise City Hall, 1st Floor, Arts & History, Work Room, On top of shelving unit
- Types: collages (visual works)
- Materials: mixed media, paper (fiber product)
- Collection: Visual Chronicle Collection
Consider how the earliest modes of transportation --the horse, the wagon train, the stagecoach -- contrast with today’s modern air travel. We have arrived as a technologically advanced society, even as we symbolically ask ourselves, “Are we there yet?” Idaho State Historical Society photographs and map: Girl sitting in the moon at White City Park; the Idaho Stage about 1900; group of men at the City Shoeing Shop located at 6th and Main taken around 1906; two women at Payette Dam in 1906; 1914 Indian Motorcycle at Idaho City; conductor for the Street Railroad, holding a copy of the 1915 Interurban Railway rule book; automobile & airplane racing at Boise Fairgrounds, 1915; boating Idaho’s lakes about 1890; goat cart with Idaho children; Idaho Territory, hand drawn and colored map by LaFayette Cartee in 1873. Artist’s collection of memorabilia: Antique letter written by Boise woman, 1916; antique Idaho and other Idaho related stamps (Lincoln, Oregon Trail, Chief Joseph); Basque boy; authentic engraved bonds from the Territory and state of Idaho; Chinese lucky ‘money;’ bicycle boy date unknown; real Boise tokens; antique clock face and speedometer; copy of a letter from one of Boise’s first mail flights in 1926.
