List of Photograph Collections
I often get asked by students for research ideas in our photograph collections. Here are a few thoughts for specific photograph collections.
P0537 Frank Kelsey – Documents the development of the aviation industry in Utah.
P0364 Logan Boy Scouts – Gives insight into the surprisingly dangerous activities of a typical Boy Scout Troop from the 1920s includes feeding beers in Yellowstone.
P0602 Albert Potter – Includes some of the earliest photographs of the Cache National Forest.
P0473 Charles Batten – Batten was an industry consultant (he described himself as a libertarian environmentalist) including sequenced photos of forest recovery after logging.
P0129/P0566/P0565/P0603/P0613/P0639 – A variety of Western travel albums documenting the obligatory family trip to Yellowstone National Park. Shows the changes in tourism from the 1890s to the 1950s.
P0375 John Suiter – Suiter is a professional photographer who visually documents how wilderness experiences affected the Beat Poetry movement.
P0369 Utah Wilderness Association – Documents environmental activism from fringe to mainstream in the 1960s to its demise in the 1980s.
P0330/P0383/P0427/P0470/P0472 – High altitude aerial photos are taken every 10 years or so and as such can give a time-lapse vision of changes in land-use patterns (loss of wetland, loss of agricultural land) over time.
P0360/P0318/P0319 & P0542 – William Hopkins and Dolph Andrus collections document the growth of outdoor tourism and national parks in Utah in 1910s to the 1930s.
P0620 - W. Eugene Smith was one of the best-known photographers of post-WWII America. He is credited with creating the photo essay in Life magazine in the 1950s.
P0468 – Vanez T. Wilson was the first superintendent of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.
P0577 – Walter Lehrman took some of the first images of the Beat Poets in the 1950s.
P0011 – Charles Ellis Johnson led something of a dual life as both unofficial LDS Church photographer and purveyor of risqué stereo-views
P0625 – Fabiola Nevarez was a Latinx art student at USU who documented Latinx protests in Utah in 2006.
