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Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during June 2022: Inventory of Minutes of the Board of Adjustment from Provo (Utah), 1926-1934 Inventory of Revised Ordinances from Provo (Utah). City Council, 1877-2022 Inventory of City Council meeting minutes from Taylorsville (Utah), 2010-2013 Inventory of Newspaper clippings from Taylorsville (Utah), 2011-2016 In …
There is a particular sense of connection to our history when we see a practice from the past that has lived on into the present, continuing to fulfill a function, but carrying with it a sense of continuity and a memory of where we have come from. When Archive staff members Heidi Steed and Alan Barnett recently visited Provo City …
While searching through Governor Spry’s correspondence records, Heidi found this colorful cartoon depicting a funny-dressed man with a cigarette in his mouth. “To the Cigarette Pimp” is handwritten below the man, who, presumably, is Governor Spry. On the back of the cartoon is an impassioned letter to the Governor begging him to take a harder stance against selling tobacco to anyone under the …
Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during May 2022: Inventory of Slide collection from Department of Cultural and Community Engagement. State Historic Preservation office., ca. 1962-1985 Inventory of Annual reports from Provo (Utah). Mayor, 1936-2022 In addition, the following were updated: Inventory of Land Use & Development Management Commission minutes …
We typically think of black and white or warm sepia-toned prints when we think of historical photographs. But color photography has been around long enough for color images to be considered historical as well. The Utah State Archives recently received a collection of over 30,000 35mm color slides from the Utah State Historic Preservation Office, a state agency that assists …
Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during April 2022: Inventory of Administrative records from Clarkston (Utah), 1933-1983 Inventory of Bond records from Clarkston (Utah), 1942-1967 Inventory of Cemetery records from Clarkston (Utah), 1891-2022 Inventory of Financial records from Clarkston (Utah), 1941-1984 Inventory of Land Use & Development Management Commission minutes …
Every year in April, students across the state, from grades 4-12, embark on a research project for Utah History Day, part of the larger National History Day contest. Students choose a historical topic related to the annual theme, and then conduct primary and secondary research in libraries, archives, and museums. The final projects are presented in one of five ways: an exhibit, …
This blog post was written by McKenzie Wood, a 2022 AS-L Outreach Intern at the Utah State Archives and Records Service. She is in her master’s program for Library and Information Science at St. John’s University in Queens, New York and is particularly interested in criminal justice. On September 9, 1891, Adolf F. Kohler was shot and killed by local …
Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during March 2022: Inventory of Council minutes from Clarkston (Utah), 1901-1925, 1938-1941, 1986-2019 Inventory of Prisoner card name index from State Prison, 1896-2002 In addition, the following were updated: Inventory of Alien enemy registration forms from Davis County (Utah). County Sheriff, 1940-1945 Inventory of …
I first encountered Caroline Pace while sorting through a box of records labeled ‘old stuff.’ Spanish Fork City had transferred the box to the State Archives with many other historical records. However, unlike the other meticulously identified records, this particular box was unruly. The box was full of hundreds of tightly rolled and folded pieces of paper that were difficult …
