HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: On March 12, 1907, the Idaho State Historical Society became a state agency by legislative act. A legislative act that same day adopted a state flag with the name of the state on a blue field. The legislature specified that the adjutant general should prescribe the dimensions and colors of the lettering, as well as supervise the formal construction of the flag. The first state flag that was created is now preserved in the State Historical Society. The most famous snowstorm in American history began as a torrential rainstorm in New York on March 11, 1888, and turned to snow the next day. The storm continued unabated for the next 36 hours. The National Weather Service estimated that forty inches covered New York and New Jersey and fifty inches of snow fell in Connecticut. Winds blew up to 48 miles and hour, creating snow drifts forty to fifty feet high. It caused more than 400 deaths. The resulting transportation crisis led to the creation of the New York subway. Authorized by legislative act of March 12, 1947, the Idaho State Archives became a division of the Idaho State Historical Society. The transfer of important territorial records to the Society commenced in 1952. Stored for a generation in a large cabinet in a statehouse carpenter's shop—the files had been identified in a 1939 historical records survey project and had previously been available for only occasional research. Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany on March 12, 1945. She was 15. The design for the Great Seal of the State of Idaho was adopted by the first state legislature on March 14, 1891. Designed by Emma Edwards Green, it is the only state seal designed by a woman. One of the most beautiful and impressive state seals, the original painting is in the collections held by the Idaho State Historical Society.