This report dated May 1982 identifies water resource development opportunities on the Bear River below Cutler Dam in Box Elder County. Data provided supplements that of previous reports and covers various alternative reservoir storage projects and...
Water resources development -- Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)
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) --...
Lincoln Ellison's journal and field notes containing sketches, observations, and descriptions of different plants, animals and some constelations that interested him. Also contains some poetry, short stories, and addresses; Handwritten on p. 2 of...
Ellison's journal and field notes containing sketches, observations, and descriptions of different plants, animals and some constelations that interest him; First entry dated Nov. 29, 1925 and last entry dated Jan. 30, 1927; Address written on...
Contains materials dealing with the Ellison family's trip to Australia from 1951 to 1952 so that Lincoln could perform his ecological research. Primarily includes the diary of Lincoln Ellison's containing his field notes, personal observations, and...
Postcard with portrait of John Muir that reads "Muir Woods Nat'l Monument named in honor of John Muir Apr. 21, 1838-Dec. 24, 1914" addressed to Lincoln Ellison, Ogden, Utah, U.S. Forest Sta. Also includes a letter written by Ellison to his wife and...
Two receipts for excess baggage fees paid while traveling by railroad from Los Angeles to New Orleans. First receipt from Illinois Central System, Southern Pacific Lines, Gulf Coast Lines and the second from the New Orleans Transfer Co., Inc. both...
This file contains newspaper clippings about the avalanche that killed Lincoln Ellison, him getting his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, and posthumously winning a Distinguished Service Award from the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and...
Ellison, Lincoln, 1908-; Ellison, Lincoln, 1908--Death and burial; Avalanches--Utah--Snow Basin;
Lincoln Ellison's journal and field notes written while spending the summers of 1928 and 1929 working for the Forest Service at the Priest River Experiment Station in Idaho and the Jornada Range Reserve in New Mexico respectively, however, most...
Ellison, Lincoln, 1908- --Travel; Nature observation; Wildlife watching; Ellison, Lincoln, 1908- --Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.;Ellison, Lincoln, 1908- --Diaries; Priest River Experiment Station (Priest River, Idaho); Jornada Range Reserve (N.M.);
This report is about the history and culture of Grouse Creek, Utah as it was captured and documented in a cultural survey conducted during July 1985 by a team of folklorists, architectural historians, and historians. The purpose of the survey was...
Material culture -- Utah -- Grouse Creek; Folklore -- Utah -- Grouse Creek; Architecture -- Utah -- Grouse Creek; Historic preservation -- Utah -- Grouse Creek; Grouse Creek (Utah) -- History, Local; Grouse Creek (Utah) -- Social life and customs
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;
Signed on September 24, 1957 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, this document ordered all persons who were obstructing school attendance in Little Rock, particularly at Central High School, to "cease and desist." It authorized deployment of the...
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock; School integration -- Law and legislation
This Editorial Research Report entitled "Mixed Marriage" was written by Helen B. Shaffer in 1961. It examines marriages that cross racial, ethnic and religious lines including their frequency as reported in various parts of the U.S., state laws...
Marriage law -- United States -- History; Interracial marriage -- United States -- History; Intermarriage -- United States -- History; Interfaith marriage -- United States -- History; Interethnic marriage -- United States -- History
This excerpt from the Congressional Record from the 85th Congress, August 18, 1958 obstensibly discusses the nomination of W. Wilson White for Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil rights. Several senators such as Thurmond, Eastland,...
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock; School integration -- Law and legislation
The year 1969 was a watershed year for student activism at Utah State University. The Vietnam War brought student protests and a moratorium. On the lighter side, student protesters successfully scuttled a proposal to change the name of their...
Chapter 30 from the Family pocket-book and compleat family cook written by Sarah Harrison and published in 1748 (4th ed.) is entitled: Physical receipts: or Directions for preparing all Sorts of Medicines, both for external and internal...
Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800; Recipes -- Early works to 1800; Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800
The Practical American Cookery and Domestic Economy book contains recipes for cooking, gardening, and medicinal purposes. The portion of the book that is shown represents the medicinal part of the book (pages 387-421). The medicinal section is...
Traditional medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Nutrition -- History -- 19th century; Digestion -- History -- 19th century; Cookery, American -- History -- 19th century
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;...
Four interview transcripts conducted by Folklore student and registered nurse Virginia Gilbert who collected home remedies and folk medicine from five people (one couple and three individuals) from Wellsville/Mendon, Utah area. All interviewees...
Traditional medicine -- Utah -- Wellsville; Older people -- Utah -- Wellsville -- Interviews