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This collection contains materials pertaining to the life and work of the poet and artist Ernesto Edwards, including correspondence, original artworks, journals, and performance documents.

Abstract The Ernesto Edwards photograph collection consists of 269 photographs and negatives mostly originating from the 1960s and 1970s. Photographs from this collection document recreational trips to Utah, Yosemite National Park, and to the California Bay area. Other images display Beat art paintings and popular figures such as painters Nemi Frost, Tom Field and Russel Fitzgerald, poets Marylin Hackerm, Tom McNeil, Lewis Ellingham, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and Joanne Kyger. The collection...

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25 color slides taken by France in the summer of 1953 of a crash site. The C-46 military transport plane crashed in Franklin County, north of Beaver Mountain, on January 7, 1953. Images include broken trees, overviews of the site, engines, part of the tail with France, and pieces of the plane. A women and another man appear in the images.

Abstract The Frank Kelsey collection consists of 2,532 images related to the history of aviation in Utah. Included are images of Kelsey's years of designing, building, and flying gliders, publicity photos for the Kemp-Kelsey Airservice (and later the Ellis-Kelsey Airservice at the Salt Lake Municipal Airport), airplanes (especially Beechcraft) from the 1930s-1970s, the University of Utah Glider club, cloud seeding, and wind and hail damage to airplanes. Also included are images that Kelsey collected...

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Hedwig Gäbler joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved from Germany to the United States in the 1920s. Many of the letters are from her fiance, friends, and relatives who remained in Germany in the period leading up to and during World War II.

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In the Spring of 2019, Utah State Unviersity students from the English 6720 Oral History and Fieldwork class interviewed eight professionals about their connections to the food culture of Cache Valley. The interviewees shared stories of their families, traditions, and professional lives. Taken together, their words offer a beautiful illustration of the nuanced and complex ways that food sharing nourishes us all.

Abstract The Great Salt Lake Wetlands History Project is a joint effort of Utah State University (USU), Weber State University, Westminster College, and the University of Utah. The project’s aim was to gather oral histories, photographs of material culture and wetlands culture, and records to document the fascinating history of the Great Salt Lake wetlands (GSLW) and the people who work and play along its shores and marshes as well as to enhance the existing GSLW collections at the four institutions....

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This photograph album contains over 400 images from Zane Grey’s 1922 Rainbow Bridge trip in Arizona and Utah

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Primarily slides of Utah, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado, as well as Australia and New Zealand from Lincoln Ellison's forestry work.

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A collection of papers and other items pertaining to Floyd D. Hansen, an early pioneer of aviation in Cache Valley. Hansen was instrumental in establishing the Logan-Cache Airport and served as aiport manager from 1948 to 1972.