The David Lane Wright photo collection consists of 750 images (686 black and white, 50 color, and 14 postcards) that, collectively, document the life of Wright from 1947 until 1966. Included are images of athletics at Utah State University, family and friends, USO and USAF activities, and glamour portraits of dancers/actresses. Of particular interest are high quality snapshots of Saigon that document street life in that city including children, businesses, transportation, and restaurants. Most of the photographs were removed from an original photograph album because of the high level of acidity in the paper. Captions and some of the inscriptions are copied exactly as they appear in the album inside of quotation marks, with additional information enclosed in brackets. There are quite a few duplicates scattered throughout the collection.

Box 1 photographs in folders 1-23 were removed from a photograph album. Folders 1-16 consist of photos from his college years. Folders 17-20 are Wright's USAF photographs. Folders 21-22 are also of his college years. Folders 26-36 contain photographs taken during tour in Vietnam, 1965-1966. Photographs taken in Hong Kong are in folder 37.

Box 2 consists of, in part, both color and black and white snapshots, removed from Wright's Journal number 5. They are listed in order of appearance and the journal page number is also noted. Also included in the box are duplicates of Vietnam photos removed from MS 39 and added to the photo collection on 1/14/04. Some photos have inscriptions on the back. Because of the adhesive used to attach the photos to the album, the difficulty in deciefering the writing, and the sometimes lengthy inscriptions, however, not all of the information can be recorded here. Please see individual photos for any additional information. The portions included are enclosed in quotation marks and the spelling and punctuation are as it appears on the original.

Box 4 mostly includes photographs and negatives of family members and friends of David Wright from the 1940s to the 1960s. There are some photographs from David’s time as a teacher in Bennington and Downey Idaho, and a few from a ship he was on when he was serving in the military. Box 5 contains some VCR and reel-to-reel tapes that show scenes of his family. One of the VCR tapes is a production of a play that he wrote called “Still the Mountain Wind”, which was put on in Rexburg, Idaho in 1995.