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This collection consists of 89 photograph negatives from Lewis Franklin Biggs, taken during a survey conducted by the United States Geological Survey between 1904-1912 in the states of California, Nevada, Utah, and Washington D.C.

Abstract The Gisbert Bossard/Max Florence Collection consists of about 60 glass lantern slides and 56 black and white images used by Max Florence for a series of lectures he delivered in New York City in 1911. Included in the images are rare interiors of the Salt Lake Mormon Temple taken by Gisbert Ludolf Gerhart Bossard. Bossard was a Swiss convert to Mormonism who fell out with the church in 1911 and took these pictures as a form of revenge. He gave the images to Max Florence who tried to sell them...

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This collection documents the life of Royce S. Bringhurst, a Bennion, Utah native who went on to become a strawberry pomologist at the University of California at Davis. It includes material from his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, military service in WWII, pomology career, and retirement prior to his death in November of 2005.

Abstract The Chamber of Commerce Photograph and Film Collection consists of three boxes with five 16mm motion picture reels, as well as prints and newspaper articles mostly originating from the 1950s. Photographs from this collection document social and public events,organizational meetings and buildings. Numerous photographs feature the 1939 and 1940 Pioneer Day and Independence Day parades organized in Cache Valley. Other images display Cache Chamber of Commerce’s presidents from 1970 to 2001. Four...

Abstract Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Documenting and preserving their stories is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). In May 2015, USU’s FFA and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, hosted a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Field school students worked to document Cache Valley’s recent refugee communities. This collection, Folk Coll...

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The Hal Cannon collection: A Life of Fieldwork and Creative Endeavors spans 55-years of ethnographic collecting and creative works by folklorist and musician Hal Cannon. The collection contains 26 boxes and three series: fieldwork, creative endeavors, and purchased materials.

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Containing a field journal, photographs, and negatives, this collection pertains to the life and career of Carroll H. Wegemann.

Abstract The Daryl Chase Photograph Collection Addendum adds 138 photographs to the Daryl Chase Photograph Collection, P0131. These photographs are primarily from Daryl Chase’s tenure as Utah State Agricultural College President, 1954-1968, and mainly consist of photographs involving his promotion and appreciation for agriculture. Included among the photographs are pictures of Daryl Chase’s 1964 trip to Bolivia, University gatherings at the President’s home, and images of farm equipment likely taken...

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The Climate Challenge digital collection is a small but important oral history effort that presents 19 voices of Utah State University climate scientists (2018), Northern Utah and Northern Idaho climate activists (2021), and people engaged in land restoration efforts in the Intermountain West. The goal of the effort is to document the experiences of these three groups to add to the growing scholarship about the human side of climate scholarship, awareness, and land restoration efforts.

Abstract The Clyde Eddy collection contains 14 photographs, a postcard and documents relating to Clyde Eddy’s 1927 expedition down the Colorado River. The 14 photographs depict Clyde Eddy, their boats the Dellenbagh and Coronado, and the crew which was made up of Robert H. Weatherhead, John H. Marshall, Frederick L. Felton, Edward L. Holt, Vincent F. Callaway, Robert F. Bartl, Vincent F. Carey, O.A. Seager, W. Gordon Adger, Bradley-Camera Man, Parley Galloway-River Guide, and McGregory. Two of the...