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The daybooks of Christiansen are a daily log of his activities as an assistant forest ranger in the Uinta Forest. There are fifteen books in total covering a six-year period from 1915 to 1921. Each book accounts for one to two months of work. Some of the subject matters that are mentioned in the books are timber sales, grazing leases, road building, fighting forest fires, and reseeding projects. Christiansen spent a great deal of his time in the field, primarily working out of the Salt Creek Ranger Station; many of the entries were noted from the Salt Creek area. Of particular interest are the commentaries concerning Forest Service philosophy and of Christiansen's philosophy of conservation.
This collection includes 234 boxes of working papers and nearly 1,000 architectural drawings spanning the period 1892-2005. Most deal with projects in Utah and southern Idaho, but some cover projects in other Western states, particularly California. The drawings are arranged into series that reflect the original filing system used by Architectural Design West PC. Drawings are labeled with numbers 1000-5000 and 7000-9000 and are also listed alphabetically within these number ranges. The firm's working files are organized by the type of project (e.g., churches, commercial, schools, public buildings, universities, etc.) and are cross-referenced to the associated drawings. The working files include a variety of documents ranging from construction permits to sub-contractor agreements to paint and carpet samples.
The papers of Austin E. and Alta S. Fife cover primarily the personal lives and correspondence of this prolific husband and wife research team who were the founders of the Fife Folklore Collection at Utah State University.
This collection consists of sixty-eight boxes containing documents relating to the Becker Brewing and Malting Company (BBMC), its successor companies, and members of the Becker family. The collection documents economic activity nationwide, especially throughout the American West.
Letters, documents, and one diary that chronicle Loose's life from the 1840s through 1904
This collection consists of over one-hundred bound manuscripts which cover a wide array of historical topics.
Mostly publications produced by Brigham Young College, the Alumni Association, and the student body. Manuscript record group includes register of studies (1888-1891); minutes of general theology, missionary, and priesthood meetings (1889-1892); Dept. of Biology equipment and herbarium inventories; minutes of Brigham Young College Athletic Association meetings (1895-1907); minutes of student literary and social groups, including the Beacon Light Society (1900-1905), Phae Polo Lyceum (1896-1900), Philomathic Literary Society (1903-1904), Webster Literary and Debating Society (1916-1917); and the reminiscences of the Class of 1904.
Primary and secondary source documents dealing with the Cache National Forest.
The collection contains the papers from the George H. Champ and Frederick P. Champ families. These papers include Frederick P. Champ's college correspondence, material from St. John's Episcopal Church of Logan, and financial and personal records from Frances, Frederick, George, Winton, and Mary Champ.
This collection contains two diaries kept by Charles H. Bridges, Jr. during his Latter-day Saints' mission in Samoa, a journal with Bridge's Samoan language notes and studies, an 1892 Deseret News article discussing Bridges' work in Samoa, and a family group sheet with Bridge's family's genealogical information.
Diary (1839-1877) with biographical sketches of wives, prison diary (1889) with lists of and letters from prisoners sentenced under the Edmunds Act, missionary diary and sermons (1898), and genealogical information.
Documents, records, correspondence, articles, memoirs, and research gathered by Maria S. Ellsworth while researching her biography of Ida F. Hunt Udall, called Mormon Odyssey : The story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife. Includes Ida F. Hunt Udall's journal, birthday book, and ledger, and correspondence, memoirs, etc. of David K. and Ida F. Hunt Udall, with some research and files on Pearl Udall, Rudger Clawson, Joseph Nelson, and Stewart Udall.
This collection consists of one diary written by E. LaRetta Gibbons during her missionary travels for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the years 1933-1934.
This collection contains the World War II correspondence of Edward A. Ferguson spanning the period of 1943 to 1946. This correspondence consists of approximately 300 letters of outgoing correspondence and 6 letters of incoming correspondence. Includes descriptions of kamikaze attacks.
The Elizabeth Pickett Tolman diary offers a remarkably intimate look into the life of a plural wife in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
This one-box collection consists primarily of correspondence sent to Ernest Johnson's mother, Sophia, after his death.
This collection consists of a handwritten record ledger containing autobiographical sketches of Francis W. Gunnell and Francis C. E. Gunnell as well as a biographical sketch of Sarah Walters Gascott Owens Gunnell written by Francis C.E. Gunnell. The account written by Francis W. Gunnell was written sometime after 1860, and the Francis C.E. Gunnell account was written around 1925.
This digital collection features pieces from the larger Frances Winton Champ Music Collection housed in the Merrill-Cazier Library’s Special Collections and Archives.
This collection contains 1,068 architectural drawings of Fred W. Hodgson from 1920 to roughly 1929. They include various buildings such as schools, churches, jails and private homes.
Family and business correspondence, business records, and investment reports. Much of business correspondence concerns the Utah Mortgage Loan Corp.; significant personal correspondents include the Champ family, George D. Preston and family, J. Wylie Brown, and several politicians in the western U.S. Also includes materials from Champ's many organizational memberships, including the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Mortgage Bankers Association of America, Logan Chamber of Commerce, Logan Rotary Club, and the Cache Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
The Gary Milton Smith Collection consists of papers collected and/or written by him. The papers cover roughly the time period between 1965 and 1988. The Smith papers included newspaper clippings, articles, letters to and from various organization or government offices, and transcripts for documentary films in which Smith took part. The music and lyrics for his songs are also among Smith's papers. There are résumés and financial records from both Smith's personal and business (Windsinger Enterprise) life. Manuals and employee information from his work in the National Forest Service and the military are also included in these papers. The collection also contains cassette tapes with recorded interviews, radio programs, telephone conversation, etc. The Smith collection is notable for the documentation on environment issues from Smith's life such as Kaiparowits, the Salmon River Wilderness Area, and the Escalante Wilderness Area. There is also documentation on wildlife access for disabled persons. Smith's papers also provide information on life in Cache Valley, especially on religious issues. His papers include general religious information from the area, as well as religious freedom issues and religious discrimination cases.
