Southern Slavic photograph collection, 1897-1947

Overview of the Collection

Title
Southern Slavic photograph collection
Dates
1897-1947 (inclusive)
Quantity
153 photographs
Collection Number
P0028
Summary
Southern Slavic photograph collection
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The South Slavic photograph collection consists of photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places associated with Utah's South Slav community. Many of these are, perforce, photographs of mines, miners, and mining scenes, since many of the South Slav community members came to Utah to work in the mines. Also included are photographs of children, weddings, funerals, stores, conventions, lodge meetings, and other subjects.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Collection is arranged topically. Addendum (consisting of 81 images) is arranged alphabetically according to the location and images are entitled "Southern Slavs Immigration."

Processing Note

Processed by Drew Ross in 1994.

Separated Materials

Manuscript materials were transferred to the South Slavic Archives Papers, (ACCN 357).

Related Materials

See also, Utah Greek Oral Histories Audiovisual Collection, (A0004) in Special Collections.

See also, Utah Greek Oral Histories Audiovisual Collection, (A0086 )in Special Collections.

See also, Greek Archives Audiovisual Collection, (A0140) in Special Collections.

See also, South Slavic Oral History ACCN, (1502) in Special Collections.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and placesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
1 1
Bingham Canyon
  • 1: Serbian Lodge Meeting Highland Boy, Phoenix, Bingham Canyon, Utah, circa 1908, with Joe Melich, owner of store and home in background, in center of picture with sword resting on shoulders. Nicholo Bogdonovich (later Bogden) standing to left of American flag. Center of Zorka Bogden; Midvale, Utah. Negative available
  • 2: Serbian Lodge Highland Boy, circa 1914. Negative available
1 2
Castlegate
  • 3: Looking northwest from center of Castle Gate with "helper" engine on track in center of picture, circa 1925
  • 4: Flood damage at Castlegate, Utah, circa 1920-1930
  • 5: Flood damage at Castlegate, Utah in the 1920s
  • 6: Castlegate Railyards, 1920
  • 7-10: Castlegate, Utah, March, 1924, after the mine disaster. Negative available
1 3
Funerals
  • 11: Pete Borich Funeral (Serbian)
  • 12: Funeral of Milan Thomas Slovenc funeral, Roman Catholic priest officiating, Helper area, in the early 1930s. Priest possibly Monseignor Rule. Negative available
1 4
Helper
  • 13: Men posing with beer in Helper. circa 1922
  • 14: Helper Bakery; Helper, Utah, 1920
  • 15: Helper in the 1920s
  • 16: A. Dolinsky (left) and John Skerl in Dolinsky's bar in 1914 when Skerl worked there. Helper. Negative available
  • 17: Parade in Helper, July 4, 129?
  • 18: Looking at downtown Helper from southeast. Spring, 1934
  • 19: Helper in the late 1920s
  • 20: Helper Depot and Yards, 1920
  • 21: Helper School, 1928
  • 22: Helper, Utah Helper engine, D. & R.G. R.R, circa 1930
  • 23: Two Slovenian noncommissioned officers of the Imperial Austrian 78th Infantry Division, 90th Infantry Regt. Company 6, while home on leave in 1915 en route to the Italian front. Person on left unidentified, Nitsola Chesnik (right). Helper, Utah
  • 24: First Grade School Student Body in Helper, 1895(?)
  • 25: Slovenian Second Lieutenant (Unterleutnant) Infantry Regiment, Carpathian Front, 1916, while home on leave, February 1916. Anton Chesnik. Imperial Austrian Army. Helper, Utah
  • 26: Helper City Band, circa 1935
  • 27: John Vieta (behind counter), Barney Vieta (holding glove),person in back unidentified, Luke Carmoni, Rudy Rebol(leaning agaist cash register). Vieta Store in Helper, 1930. Negative available
  • 28: John Grigorc, shoemaker in Helper from 1921-1933(?). Negative available
  • 29: John Skerl inside the Mutual Mercantile Co. in Helper, 1925. Negative available
  • 30: Mrs. John Skerl (right), with daughter, 1920. Negative available
  • 31: Employees of the Mutual Mercantile Company during inventory of 1925. John Skerl (fourth from left) pictured as well. Negative available
1 5
Midvale
  • 32: Sweti Sava Church in Midvale, about 1922; similar to the church of the same name in Sacramento, California
1 6
Miners
  • 33: Miners' children in Kenilworth, 1938. Negative available
  • 34: Coal miners at the end of their shift, 1926. Negative available
  • 35: Constructing coke ovens (Carbon Co.), circa 1900
1 7
People
  • 36: John Duroskovic and family, 1916, after arrival back in Salt Lake City from national convention, Crotion Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Negative available
  • 37: Slovenian Lodge Meeting in Standardville in 1932. Negative available
  • 38: Picnic, circa 1933, miners and families
  • 39: Storrs Bakery Delivery Truck, circa 1924
  • 40-41: Parade near Riverside Park
  • 42: Miners' children, early 1920s
  • 43-44: Group outside Helper, Utah. (No.43 Negative available)
  • 45: Interior of Millerich Hall, in Spring Glen in 1930, People not identified. Negative available
  • 46: Party Group with beer keg
  • 47: Unidentified group of men
1 8
Price
  • 48: Locomotive at Price depot, 1916
  • 49: Price Railroad Station in the 1920s
  • 50: John Skerl in front of his rented home in Price in 1918, Automobile is 1917 Buick. Negative available
  • 51: Standardville, Utah, 1904
  • 52: Price, Utah in the 1920s
  • 53: Savoy Hotel under construction ?? Price, Utah
  • 54: Tavern in Price or Helper, circa 1924
1 9
Spring Canyon
  • 55: Derailment, Spring Canyon, 1947
  • 56: Storr's Bakery, Storrs, Spring Canyon, west of Helper, 1921
  • 57: Child by auto, Spring Canyon, Utah, 1929
  • 58: Elegante Delivery truck and driver, Spring Canyon, Utah, 1926
1 10
Sunnyside
  • 59: Girls in old car at Sunnyside, Utah, 1930
  • 60: Andersen Family Homestead, Clearcreek, Utah, 1904
  • 61: Miners' housing at Sunnyside. Picture published in Utah Historical Quarterly
  • 62: Payday in Sunnyside, Utah, 1897. (Purportedly, Butch Cassidy robbed this particular payroll, hence the empty "paybucket" in center of picture)
1 11
Weddings
  • 63: Double wedding of Manda and Rosa Brjakovich to two Tomsic brothers. Priest is Father Giovanni, behind whom is Mr. and Mrs. John Skerl, 1918. Negative available
  • 64: Serbian wedding, Midvale, Utah, circa 1924. Bride-Anitsa Dragosavac, Kum-Rade Chanak, Groom-Rade Marinbovich, Kuma-Anitsa Chanak, Negative available
  • 65-72: Unidentified wedding
  • 73: Charter Obiilich i Dusan Sub-Assembly, Serb National Federation. Negative only
1 13
Austria-Hungary (Addendum)
  • 74: South Slav Officer, January 1916
  • 75: Slovenes in Imperial Army, Feruary 1915
1 14
Bingham, Utah (Addendum)
  • 76: Serbian Lodge Meeting, 1912
  • 77: Serbian Lodge Meeting, 1908
1 15
Bingham Canyon, Utah (Addendum)
  • 78: Serbian Lodge Meeting, 1908
1 16
Calabria, Italy (Addendum)
  • 79: Family ready to emigrate, 1913
1 17
Carbon County, Utah (Addendum)
  • 80: Slav Miners, 1919
  • 81: Coal Miners, 1910
  • 82: Picnic, 1938
  • 83: Payday with out payroll, circa 1890-1900
  • 84-85: A Mormon homestead, circa 1900
  • 86: Immigration Children, circa 1925
  • 87: Italian Family portrait, undated
1 18
Castle Gate, Utah (Addendum)
  • 88: Building the coking ovens, circa 1900
  • 89-91: Castle Gate Disaster, 1924
  • 92: Coke Ovens, crica 1924
  • 93: Croat Funeral, circa 1936
  • 94: Castle Gate, undated
1 19
Helper, Utah (Addendum)
  • 95: First school children in Helper, 1890s
  • 96: Parade, 1910
  • 97: Oldest building in Helper, undated
  • 98: Train Arriving, undated
  • 99: Welcome to Helper, 1934
  • 100: Helper Main Street, circa 1914
  • 101: Railroad yards, undated
  • 102: The Baker, 1923
  • 103: Helper Dentral School, 1925
  • 104: Croatian Wedding, 1920
  • 105: City band of Helper, 1932
  • 106: Italian Store, 1932
  • 107: Dolinsky's Bar and Saloon, circa 1914
  • 108-109: Mutual Mercantile Co., circa 1924
  • 110: Italian Wedding, 1925
  • 111: Immigrant's child, 1929
  • 112: Helper Engine and Crew circa, 1924
  • 113: The Shoemaker, circa 1928
  • 114: A Slovenian double wedding, undated
1 20
Midvale, Utah (Addendum)
  • 115: Serbian church, 1920
  • 116: Serb funeral, circa 1934
  • 117: John Dunoskovich and family, 1916
  • 118: Serbian Orthodox church, circa 1921
  • 119: Serbian Wedding, circa 1923
  • 120: Baptism, circa 1919
  • 121: Immigrant children, circa 1915
1 21
Price, Utah (Addendum)
  • 122: Price, circa 1918
  • 123-132: Carbon County strike, 1933
  • 133-134: Price, circa 1918
  • 135: Building the Savoy Hotel, undated
  • 136: Railroad Depot, undated
  • 137: Price, circa 1918
  • 138: Mother and child, circa 1916
  • 139: John Skerl and Children, summer 1918
  • 139a: Group photo, wedding party?, undated
1 22
Spring Canyon, Utah (Addendum)
  • 140: Coal Camp, 1910
  • 141: Train Derailment, circa 1946
  • 142: Prohibition in Carbon County, circa 1924
  • 143: Elegante's Delivery Truck, circa 1924
  • 144: Girls in car, undated
1 23
Spring Glen, Utah (Addendum)
  • 145: Millerich Hall, circa 1919
1 24
Standardville, Utah (Addendum)
  • 146: Standardville, 1914
  • 147-148: Slovenian Lodge Meeting, 1922
1 25
Storrs, Utah (Addendum)
  • 149: Bakery, circa 1925
  • 150: Bakery, circa 1930
  • 151: Delivery Truck, 1925
1 26
Sunnyside , Utah (Addendum)
  • 152: Flood Damage, undated
  • 153: Sunnyside, Utah, circa 1904
  • 154: Flood Damage, undated
  • 155: Power plant and crew, circa 1924
1 27
No place listed (Addendum)
  • 156: George Zagorich funeral, Serbian, undated
2
Oversize (Folder 12)
  • 66: Sons of Italy celebrating Columbus Day
  • 67: SSCU 15th National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1936. (right side), Negative available
  • 68: SSCU 15th National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1936. (left side), Negative available
  • 69: Serbian Volunteers, Sussex, N.B. circa 1914. Negative available
  • 70: Serbian Volunteers, Sussex, N.B. circa 1914. Negative available
  • 71: Serbian Volunteers, Sussex, N.B. circa 1914. Negative available
  • 72: Serbian Volunteers, Sussex, N.B. circa 1914. Negative available

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Croatian Americans--Utah--Photographs
  • Slavic Americans--Utah--Photographs
  • Slavs--Utah--Photographs

Geographical Names

  • Carbon County (Utah)--History--Photographs
  • Helper (Utah)--History--Photographs
  • Price (Utah)--History--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

  • Group portraits--1890-1946
  • Photographic prints--1890-1946
  • Portrait photographs--1890-1946

Finding aid prepared by Mary Ann Curtis.
2004

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