This 157-box collection contains the personal and professional papers of Gary B. Hansen. Series I-IX consist largely of articles, correspondence, essays, and reports collected during Hansen's career and travels as a labor scholar. Series X includes articles, correspondence, and typescripts amassed over the course of Hansen's correspondence with China advocate and Utah native Helen Foster Snow. Series XI is composed of materials gathered during WWI by Hansen's relatives, Lt. Clarence J. Hansen and Ruth Hansen Bruerton, and Series XII includes a number of historical papers that represent the lives and work of Hansen's maternal grandparents, Joseph Barker and Frances Alice Chadwick. Series XIII contains records and writings from Gary Hansen's service at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and Tooele Army Ordnance Depot in Utah from 1957 to 1959. Series XIV consists of materials related to Robert and Nellie Barker Gardner, who is the sister of Lena Barker Hansen, Gary B. Hansen’s mother. Finally, Series XV contains a copy of Gary B. Hansen's autobiography, Adventures of a Million Miler. More detailed series descriptions can be found under each heading in the inventory.

Special thanks to Dr. Gary B. Hansen for his contribution to the Biographical and Series notes.

Researcher Note:

Those seeking additional information on worker cooperatives in Utah should see the Joseph A. Geddes Papers (Mss Coll 75) and the Leonard J. Arrington Historical Archives.