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This collection consists of professional papers related to O. Guy Cardon and Guy N. Cardon and their family business, the Bluebird Candy Company and associated restaurant.

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Twenty one studio portraits of the Crockwell and Bassett families (most taken either by C.W. Carter or Crockwell himself), a printed 1890 souvenir album with albertypes of the Comstock mining region, and two additional photographs of Nevada mining locales.

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This collection consists of 25 cyanotype photographs of the Elkoro gold mill located in Jarbidge, Nevada in 1913.

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Following the Civil War, Frank Godfrey moved West in search of work. This collection contains letters to his parents in which he talks about his travels.

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This collection contains the notes, photos, drafts, and research gathered in preparation for former USU student Lisa Godfrey's MA thesis, "Mining the Colorado Plateau: The Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970." The thesis is an examination of a mining community in southwestern Colorado and was prepared as part of an application to designate the area as a national historic site.

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This collection contains cassette recordings and transcriptions from interviews collected by Paul Ganster, faculty member of the History and Geography Department at Utah State University. He conducted the interviews with Hispanic residents of Lark, Utah, in 1978.

Abstract The Mary M. Marks photograph collection consists of approximately 301 glass plate negatives (with modern paper prints) and 24 prints without negatives. The images are from the Oro Grande Placer Mine and the Gold Pan Mining Company on the Blue and Snake Rivers in Colorado and include mining pits, dredges, flumes, ditches, and surveying/engineering parties. Other images are of railroad depots and homes in Summit County Colorado (Breckenridge and Dillon). Also included are images of Mary, her...

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This diary documents the experience of Albert G. Peyton from his time working odd jobs in Missouri, to his trip on the first transcontinental railroad to Eureka, Nevada, where he worked chopping wood and loading coal.

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This collection contains materials collected by Susan Sunada, a photojournalist for the Deseret News who also did a lot of research about Japanese American immigrants to the United States.