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The Dorothy Harvey papers (1902-2005) are a collection of material focusing on the Central Utah Project (CUP), a water resource development program to use Utah's alloted share of the Colorado River. Includes correspondence, Harvey's writing...
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This collection contains a draft of Gilmore's thesis on the Rogue River pioneer period, 1850-1862, completed by the author in 1952.; Biographical Note; Jesse Lee Gilmore was born in 1920. Gilmore was a Ph.D. student at the University of...
2024-04-27
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The Orson Winso Israelsen curriculum vitae (circa 1939) details Israelsen's educational and professional record. Israelsen (1887-1968) was a consulting engineer for various water projects in Utah.; Biographical Sketch; Orson Winso Israelsen was...
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The David W. Eckhoff papers (1870s-2001) contain materials on the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics and various Utah water projects, mainly the West Desert Pumping Project. Eckhoff, a civil engineer with degrees from various California...
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The Eileen Hallet Stone papers (2004-2007) contain research files, interview transcripts, and scripts related to the documentary Water is for Fightin'.; Biographical Sketch; Eileen Hallet Stone is a Utah-based journalist and oral historian. In...
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The Daniel McCool papers (1888-2008) contain correspondence, research files, published and unpublished articles, news clippings, legal documents, government publications, pamphlets, brochures, and interview transcripts. Daniel McCool has taught...
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The Clyde D. Gessel papers (1939-2002) contain correspondence, reports, scrapbooks and maps. While the majority of the collection deals with his work as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), there is a large portion that...
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The Powell Society was incorporated in 1969 in order to promote the general study of the canyons of the American West, the study of the Colorado River Basin, and the study of John Wesley Powell and his work, and also to facilitate the publication...
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The W. L. "Bud" Rusho papers (1605-2011) consist of journals, correspondence, articles, book reviews, interviews, manuscripts, poems, newspaper clippings, motion picture scripts, lectures, maps, papers, reports, memos, diaries, documents, minutes,...
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The National Reclamation Association records (1945-1946) consist mainly of correspondence to and from Ora Bundy, president of the association from 1944-1946.; Organizational History; The National Reclamation Association was organized in 1932 to...
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The Utah flood survey reports (1933) consist of two reports written as a result of serious floods in Utah in the 1920s and 1930s. They discuss watershed conditions, flood danger areas, the history of flooding, and give recommendations for flood...
2024-04-27
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The Preston Nutter Corporation records (1876-1981) document over one hundred years of ranching in Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. The records cover virtually every aspect of cattle ranching, from the buying, selling and shipping of cattle; to the...
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The Thomas Evans Jeremy papers (1847-1869) hold three documents. The first is a copy of a poem by Jeremy, "A Voice of the Prophet." The second is the trial proceedings of Ethan Pettit vs. Lorenzo Brower and Ezra Pettit, a case heard by the Church...
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The Burns Bench Irrigation Company stock certificate registry books (1887-1970) consist of microfilmed books maintained by the company. Burns Bench Irrigation Company is located in Jensen, Utah.; Organizational History; Burns Bench Irrigation...
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The Music Temple visitors registers (1938-1961) consists of notebooks, notepads, and miscellaneous scraps of paper upon which were written names and (usually) dates of members of river parties who stopped at Music Temple in Glen Canyon of the...
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The Green River Mining and Improvement Company records (1895-1896) consist of photocopies of documents from several companies formed in the late nineteenth century. Their purpose was to exploit the resources to be found in the area of the lower...
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The Green River photograph collection contains photographs of different views along the Green River taken by a photographer named Stark from Helper, Utah. Copies of four prints published in "A Canyon Voyage" by Frederick Dellenbaugh.; The Green...
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The Utah Flood Survey photograph collection photographs documenting flood damage in Utah in 1933.; Biographical Note; During the late 1920s and 1930s, Utah experienced a number of serious floods. The most disastrous occurred between Salt Lake City...
2024-04-27
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The Teton Dam Disaster photograph collection contains images of Teton Dam after the disaster and of downstream flood damage.; This collection consists of photos showing the damage to the area affected when the Teton Dam in southern Idaho broke in...
1976-04-27
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The Trenton Falls, New York photograph collection contains photographs of waterfalls at Trenton Falls, N.Y., dated 14 July 1896 on back.; The four photographs in this collection are views of the waterfalls at Trenton Falls, New York taken in...
1896-04-27
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The Davis County Flood photograph collection contains glass lantern slides taken by University of Utah geologist Frederick J. Pack in 1923 show destruction to landscape and houses wrought by the flood.; The ten photographs in this collection are...
2024-04-27
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These papers comprise Dr. Bishop's later career from 1992-2001.; Biographical Note; Bruce Bishop became a faculty member at USU in 1971, after having previously served in the U.S. Army. His main area of study was water resource allocation and...
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Contains the professional papers of Lyman S. Willardson.; Biographical Note; Lyman S. Willardson became professor of Agricultural and Irrigation Engineering at Utah State University in 1974. Previously, he served with the USDA Agricultural...
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Bear River Project materials include clippings;
transcripts of interviews with extension agents, politicians in Idaho and Utah
associated with water resource management, and others; minutes of several water related...
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This collection contains the general files of the Utah Water Research Laboratory.; Historical Note; The UWRL had its inception between 1949 and 1951. Engineering Professor Vaughan E.
Hansen first envisioned the facility at its present...
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