This Autobiography of Angus Taylor Wright is a transcription made from the holograph manuscript in the possession of Mr. Wright's daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Griffiths, Logan, Utah. by Utah State University Library, Special Collections, March 7,...
Windmill on Peter Peterson farm in Petersboro, Utah, August 3, 1910. Sign attached to top of windmill states "The Aermotor Chicago!" Several farm buildings are clustered at the foot of the windmill and mounds of hay are visible in the...
Windmills--Utah--Petersboro--History--Pictorial works; Peterson Ranch (Petersboro, Utah)--History--Pictorial works
Winery and brewery owned by John Newman Barker in Willard, Utah. This photograph is from a glass copy negative made by Compton in 1904, the original photograph was taken by Jens C. Gasberg of Brigham City;
History of Water Resources Development in the Bear River Basin of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming by R. Scott Wrenn. M.S. thesis by R. Scott Wrenn, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in History, Utah...
Water resources development--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho); Water-supply--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)--Management; Water quality management--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho);
Mendon Relief Society leadership, 1940's, standing outside the old school house. Pictured (from left to right): Ethel Walker, Lizzy Barrett, Ellen Ladle, and Ada Walker.
Walker, Ethel Sorensen, 1888-1975; Barrett, Elizabeth Ann Stumpf, 1888-1985; Ladle, Nancy Ellen Hunt, 1889-1966; Walker, Ada Plowman, 1898-1987; Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)--Utah--Mendon; Mormon women--Utah--Mendon;
Lund Hall, just after construction. Built as Women's Dormitory, 1937, as WPA Project 1045-2-D. Named for Anton H. Lund, author of 1888 Act establishing Agricultural College of Utah. Used as Women's Dorm until Fall 1966. Used 1966-1980 as dormitory...
Utah State University -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State University. Lund Hall -- Pictorial works; Utah State University -- Students -- Housing -- Pictorial works; Utah State University. Women's Dormitory -- Pictorial works; Utah State...
Lund Hall, circa 1938, just after construction. Built as Women's Dormitory, 1937, as WPA Project 1045-2-D. Named for Anton H. Lund, author of 1888 Act establishing Agricultural College of Utah. Used as Women's Dorm until Fall 1966. Used from...
Utah State University -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State University. Lund Hall -- Pictorial works; Utah State Agricultural College -- History -- Pictorial works; Utah State University -- Students -- Housing -- Pictorial works
Historical Record of Mendon, 1857-1919 by Isaac Sorensen. In this handwritten account, Sorensen chronicles events in Mendon, Utah, many of which he witnessed firsthand. Isaac Sorensen was born on February 24, 1840, in Sjaelland, Denmark. He...
Sorensen, Isaac, 1840-1922; Mormon pioneers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Mendon (Utah)--History;
Diary of Ralph Smith covering his life from Jan. 1846 to 1896 (parts written retrospectively) with emphasis on his activities as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and living in Logan, Utah. Also includes transcripts of...
Smith, Ralph, 1835-1914--Diaries; Mormons--Utah--Logan--Diaries; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Utah--Logan--History--19th century; Mormon Church--Utah--Logan--History--19th century; Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and...
Handwritten journal of Ralph Smith, dated February 9th, 1878 to 1897. The journal also ncludes newspaper clippings and lists of Smith's progenitors. Blank pages not scanned.
Smith, Ralph, 1835-1914--Diaries; Mormons--Utah--Logan--Diaries; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Utah--Logan--History--19th century; Mormon Church--Utah--Logan--History--19th century; Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and...
The journal of Thomas Sleight (1833-1918) A Pioneer of Bear Lake Valley [Covering the Period 1857 to 1918]. A typewritten transcription from the original. Edited by Ira N. Hayward. Volume VII Joel E. Ricks Collection of Transcriptions. The...
Sleight, Thomas, 1833-1918; Paris (Idaho)--History; Bear Lake Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Diaries; Biographies; Frontier and pioneer life--Idaho; Pioneers--Biography--Idaho; Sleight, Marianna Reynolds; Sleight, Mary Matilda Wixom, 1853-;
Gravemarker with portrait of the deceased under glass and a cross design. Inscription is written in Slovenian. Translation is "Here lies wife Agnes Galicic, Born 1886, Died 1927, May She Rest In Peace." Language and translation information for...
This panoramic view of the same cemetery shown in 230507 includes two similar markers for women who likely were sisters. A shadow obscures the last part of the inscription on the marker at the right. A circular design ornaments the top of each...
Gravemarker with relief carving of two clasped hands within aperture created by open drapery. To sides is ivy and flower design. Beneath age information is an inscription too small to be read in this view.
Gravemarker with harp design overlaid with the word "conductor" followed by text indicating deceased was a member of the 42nd U.S. Infantry Band. Inscription is faded in parts; dates verified via church records. Image has darkened midtones.
Gravemarker engraved with battle axe, three chain links containing initials F L T (Odd Fellows emblem meaning "Friendship, Love, and Truth"), all-seeing eye, fasces (a bundle of rods), hand with heart on palm. Image contrast has been adjusted.
Gravemarker for twin daughters. Marker is carved to look like two stones joined together, with a name on each side. Above each name is a carved dove in flight holding what appears to be a rosebud. Image has been darkened.
Political cartoon depicting J. Bracken Lee opposing unconsitutional taxation with the text "Atta boy! We hope you Bracken his noggin." Cartoon drawn by C.D. Batchelor.
Political cartoons; Lee, J. Bracken (Joseph Bracken), 1899-1996;
Philip Andrew Paskett's journal records his life in the Grouse Creek area of Box Elder County, Utah. The entries average about two per year. In addition to the journal, this item includes: A little history of James Pope Paskett, "Love your...
Paskett, Phillip Andrew, 1852-1935; Paskett, James Pope; Shaw, William; Kimball, Samuel H.; Snow, Oliver G.; Cooke, B. F.; Paskett, Emma Richins; Minnesota (Ship); Central Pacific Railroad Company; Utah. Constitutional Convention (1895); Deseret...
Priesthood gathering in Mendon in the old schoolhouse, 1940's. Pictured is: (1st row, left to right) Edgar Sorensen, Oliver Taylor, L.K. Wood, Claud Sorensen, Edgar Hancock, Ed Clawson (Stake President), [unnamed], [unnamed],[unnamed],[unnamed],...
Mormon men--Utah--Mendon; Priesthood--Mormon Church; Priesthood--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Sorensen, Edgar L., 1919-; Taylor, Oliver, 1893-1988; Wood, L.K. (Linden Kimball), 1887-1967; Sorensen, Claud Afton, 1897-1986; Hancock,...
Mary Ann Weston Maughan's midwife records for 1853-1892. Each entry includes the child's name, parents' names, and date of birth. Some entries also include a death date for the child. Maughan included entries for the births of her children with...
Midwifery -- Utah -- Tooele County; Midwifery -- Utah -- Cache County; Registers of births, etc. -- Utah -- Tooele County; Registers of births, etc. -- Utah -- Cache County
Article relates the history of The Salt Lake Sanitarian, "a monthly journal of medicine and surgery." This short-lived journal was founded in April 1888 by Milford Bard Shipp and two of his four wives, Maggie C. Shipp and Dr. Ellis R. Shipp, all...
Medicine -- Utah -- Salt Lake Valley -- History -- 19th century; Salt Lake Sanitarium; Shipp, Ellis Reynolds, 1847-1939; Shipp, M. B., (M. Bard); Shipp, Maggie C. (Margaret Curtis), 1849-1926; Surgery -- Periodicals -- History -- 19th century;...
Meeting minutes of county officials for Cache County, Utah spanning 1878 to 1891. Minutes document all offical business for the county including establishing of school and irrigation districts, building roads, bridges, and county facilities,...
Maughan, Peter, 1811-1871; Preston, William Bowker, b. 1830; Cache County (Utah) -- Records and correspondence; Cache County (Utah) -- History -- Sources; Logan (Utah) -- History -- Sources; Hyrum (Utah) -- History -- Sources; Paradise (Utah) --...
Marriage laws in Utah involving "mixed" marriages evolved to suit the changing attitudes toward civil rights. According to Utah law in 1888, among other restrictrions, marriage was "prohibited and declared void" if it involved "a negro and a white...
Marriage law -- Utah -- History; Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Utah -- History;
The Cache County Township Plat book contains handwritten registration information for townships 8 - 15 in Cache County, Utah. For each township and range unit, ledger entries provide plat numbers, the names of the people to whom they are...
Landowners--Utah--Cache County--Maps; Land titles--Registration and transfer--Utah--Cache County--Maps; Real property--Utah--Cache County--Maps
Transcript of the writings and journal of Kumen Jones. Inluded are family histories of Jones' parents, siblings, wives and children, as well as reminiscences about missionary work, farming and settlement in southern Utah and religious musings. ...
Jones, Kumen, 1856-1942--Biography; Pioneers--Biography--Utah; Missions--San Juan County; Polygamy; Bluff (Utah); Blanding (Utah); Cedar City (Utah); Navajo Indian Reservation; Navajo Indians; Indians of North America; Jones, Mary Nielson,...
Logan and Richmond Irrigation Company minutes, 1878-1893. Holograph. Contains by-laws and financial records. By-laws of the Logan and Northern Irrigation Company in envelope.
Irrigation -- Utah -- Cache County -- History; Irrigation -- Utah -- Logan River -- History; Logan and Richmond Irrigation Company
Elmer and Selma Hancock home, Mendon Photograph probably taken between 1930 and 1960. Information card accompanying photograph identifies this as a photograph taken by Mendon school teacher Jennie Richards.
Photograph of Special Interest Group, Mendon, UT, in the 1930's or 1940's. Photograph includes (bottom row, left to right) Retta Hiibner, Fern Baker, Clara Muir, [unidentified first name] Baker; Ada Walker, Lottie (Charlotte) Richards, (second...
Hiibner, Retta Copen, 1886-1957; Muir, Clara Hutchinson, 1911-1993; Richards, Charlotte Barrett Baker, 1885-1980; Copen, Hazel, 1894-1987; Barrett, Elizabeth Ann Stumpf, 1888-1985; Bird, Pearl H., 1902-1986; Walker, Ethel Sorensen, 1888-1975;...
Biography of Francis Wilson Gunnell with a brief mention of his parents and grandparents' birth and death information. Also included is a list of the birth and death dates of his five wives: Polly Ann Edwards Gunnell, Sarah Elizabeth Bickmore...
Gunnell, Francis W. (Francis Wilson), 1831-1889; Owen, Mary Walters, 1828-1888; Gunnell, Francis C. E. (Francis Christopher Edwards), 1853-1926; Gunnell, Sarah Ann Owen, 1854-1923; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Cache Valley (Utah and...
Back of Valison Tanner headstone in Grouse Creek, Utah cemetery, July 16, 1985. Inscription reads: ""His children, Lester, born & died May 8, 1888; David Ralph, Apr. 25, 1889, Valison; June 12, 1891; Olive, Nov. 23, 1896."" One black and white...
Grouse Creek (Utah) -- Pictorial works; Cemeteries -- Pictorial works; Sepulchral monuments -- Pictorial works; Tanner family -- Tombs -- Pictorial works
Private journal of Henry Ballard, 1841-1904. 106 pages. There are no pages 16-26.
Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Mormon pioneers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries; Mormon pioneers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Mormon cities and towns--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Logan...
This item includes the transcription for the journal of Henry Ballard (1852-1885). It is Volume I of the Joel E. Ricks Collection of Transcriptions. Published by the Library of the Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, Utah, in 1955. ...
Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Mormon pioneers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries; Mormon pioneers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Mormon cities and towns--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Logan...
Journal of John Clarke Dowdle, 1844-1908. A typewritten transcription from the original. Original is in the possession of the Dowdle Family. Transcript includes Book I (1844 to Nov. 27, 1896), Book II (Jan. 27, 1897 to Feb. 11, 1907), and Book...
Dowdle, John Clark, 1836-1913; Dowdle, Mary Ann Chandler, 1847-1882; Dowdle, Orpha Warner, 1833-1913; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History--19th century;...
The journal of John Clark Dowdle (Dec. 16, 1836, to [blank]) Covering the period 1844 to June 29, 1894. A typwritten transcription from the original. Original in the possession of the Dowdle Family. Volume VIII Joel E. Ricks Collection of...
Dowdle, John Clark, 1836-1913; Dowdle, Mary Ann Chandler, 1847-1882; Dowdle, Orpha Warner, 1833-1913; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History--19th century;...
View west, the 'Devil's Chair', rock on the left, is about 1/8 mile up Logan Canyon. 1880s. Cache D.U.P. Collection. Black and white photograph (8 x 10 in) mounted on board;
Devil's Chair Rock (Cache County, Utah)--Photographs; Rocks--Utah--Logan Canyon--Photographs;
View west, the 'Devil's Chair', rock on the left, is about 1/8 mile up Logan Canyon. 1880s. Cache D.U.P. Collection. Black and white photograph (8 x 10 in) mounted on board.
Devil's Chair Rock (Cache County, Utah)--Photographs; Rocks--Utah--Logan Canyon--Photographs;
Transcription of James Sherlock Cantwell's pioneer diary, 1813-1885, edited by Blair R. Holmes and continued by his son, James Cantwell, to 1917. Begun in 1869 as an autobiography, Cantwell continued it as a daily journal, making note of common...
Cantwell, James Sherlock, 1813-1887; Mormon pioneers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries; Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Mormons--Diaries; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries; Cache Valley (Utah and...
James Sherlock Cantwell's pioneer diary, 1813-1885, edited by Blair R. Holmes and continued by his son, James Cantwell, to 1917. Begun in 1869 as an autobiography, Cantwell continued it as a daily journal, making note of common occurrences in a...
Cantwell, James Sherlock, 1813-1887; Mormon pioneers--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries; Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Mormons--Diaries; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries; Cache Valley (Utah and...
Autobiographical account of Goudy E. Hogan, from 1837 to 1880. Included in this account is the immigration of the Hogan family from Norway to America, their conversion to Mormonism while in America, the death of Joseph Smith, settling the Utah...
Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Hogan, Goudy E., 1829-1898; Frontier and pioneer life--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History--19th century; Diaries--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho); Richmond (Utah)--History;...
The Butterflies of North America. First series by William H. Edwards. With: Synopsis of North American butterflies by William H. Edwards. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. The original contains green half calf binding over dark maroon cloth;...
Mendon Primary Board, ca. 1900 including: (top row, left to right) Bertha Sorensen Buist, Jane Richards Hughes, Rachel Cooley, Edmer Whitney, Amanda Sweeten, Agnes Richards, Sybil Jensen, (bottom row, left to right) Mary (Molly) Richards...
Boat on river with four passengers, passing underneath bridge. Photograph taken by W. L. Peterson. One black and white photograph (6.5 x 10 inches) mounted on board.
Row boat on undisclosed river, carrying several passengers. A couple of the passengers in the front are women, one seated at the prow wearing a poke bonnet. Date of photograph is not known. Photograph taken by W. L. Peterson. One black and...
The Nibley Family photograph collection consists of images of C.W. Nibley and his family during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There are also some photos of the Hatch family (from the Joseph Hatch and Florence Nibley line), and two VHS tapes...
Photograph of Governor J. Bracken Lee giving his inaugural address, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 7, 1949. Heber Bennion, Jr., Utah Secretary of State, and his wife Vera Weiler Bennion can be seen in the back.
Bennion, Heber, Jr., 1888-1968; Bennion, Vera Weiler, 1891-1980; Lee, J. Bracken (Joseph Bracken), 1899-1996; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Photographs; Governors--Inaugurations;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired from the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired from the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired by the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
A close up view of the leather strap attached to a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired by the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974; ;
A close up view of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired by the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired by the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired by the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired by the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired from the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
A close up view of the leather strap attached to a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired by the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974; ;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired by the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;
View of a large Basque sheep bell made in France, which belonged to a sheepherder from Spain and used on sheep in Morgan County. Acquired from the Utah Woolgrowers at their annual meeting in 1974;