Brigham Madsen photograph collection

Brigham Madsen photograph collection, 1860-1945

Overview of the Collection

Title: Brigham Madsen photograph collection
Dates: 1860-1945 (inclusive)
18601945
Quantity: 3 boxes
Collection Number: P0107
Summary: The Brigham Madsen photograph collection contains photographs of freighting and historic freighting sites in the western United States, mostly in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. As well as, copies of photographs used as illustrations in various books on Western history written by Brigham Madsen.
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

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Photographs of freighting and historic freighting sites in the Western United Staes (mostly Utah, Idaho and Montana) beginning about 1850 and continuing to the present. Also included are portraits of famous L.D.S. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Church members.

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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

Separated Materials

Manuscript materials were transferred to the Brigham Madsen papers (MS 0671).

Related Materials

See also the Brigham Madsen audio-visual collection (A0107).

See also the Brigham Madsen papers (ACCN 0072).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Ferrying, Freights, Railroad, Bridges, Houses and Miscellaneous LocationsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description
Box	Folder
1	1	Ferrying 1-3: Ferryboats
1	2	Freight Lines 3-9: Stage Lines 10-15: Freight wagons 16-18: Freight wagons hauling wool 19: Harry Rickard's Ferry 20: Prickley Pear Canyon 21-30: Montana 31: Stage, Fort Wallace 32: John Hailey and others, Idaho
1	3	Freight lines 33-35: Western Freight trails 36-55: Freight Lines 56: U.S. Army escort wagon
1	4	Idaho 57-64: Freight trail sites in Idaho 65-70: Fort Hall, Idaho 71: Contact print of Sho-Ban Indian
1	5	Manuscript materials 72: Check Issued from Bank of Corinne 73: Broadside for a stage line 74: Stagecoach ticket 75-78 Freight Receipts 79-81: Freight correspondence 82: Copy of Freight shipment published in the Corinne Reporter July 14, 1871
1	6	Maps 83: Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho and Montana (1865) 84: The new Northwest 85: Military routes, 1867 86: Bancroft's map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia 87: Bancroft's 1868-Idaho section 88: Holt Territory, Idaho 89-90: U. S. Western Territories and Pacific States, Rand McNally 1876
1	7	Montana 91-107: Freight shipping in Montana 108-110: Freight in Virginia City, Montana 111-114: Freight in Fort Benton, Montana 115-121: Freight in Helena, Montana 122-124: Virginia City, Montana 125: Beaver Head's Rock 126-127: Helena, Montana
1	8	Portraits 128: Brigham Young, circa 1850 129: Danial S. Tuttle, early Episcopal Bishop of Utah 130: Nat Stein-Wells Fargo agent at Virginia City, Montana 131: O. J. Salisbury 132: J. W. Guthrie (1830), mayor of Corinne, Utah 133: Patrick E. Corner, library has negative
1	9	Railroads 134: Railroad at Marysville, Montana 135: Men working on Union Pacific R. R. (Railroad), circa 1868 136: Men working on central Pacific R. R. at Corinne, Utah, circa 1869 137: Wagons freighting supplies for construction of Union Pacific R. R. 138: Freight train
1	10	Stage Lines 139-140: Yellowstone Park stages 141-143: Stages in Montana
1	11	Utah towns 144: Salt Lake City 1868 145: Bear River City 146: Hampton's Ford 147: Willard City 148-153: Corinne, circa 1869
1	12	Frontier buildings 154-157: Modern photos of Corinne, Utah 158: Modern photo of Bannock City, Montana 159: Modern photo of Nevada City, Montana 160-162: Modern photos of Virginia City, Montana 163: Modern photo of Bear River Crossing 164-165: Fort Hall, Idaho in 1849 166: Salt Lake City in 1859 167: Helena City, Montana 168-169: Monida, Montana
1	13	Bridges 170: Bear River Crossing, 1871 171: Bridge near Helena, Montana 172: Bridge at Bear River Crossing 173: R. R. Bridge at Idaho Falls 174: Bridge
1	14	Indians 175-179: Sho-Ban Indians at Fort Hall 180-181: Sho-Ban Tepees and Indians at Fort Hall
1	15	Portraits 182: Wilber Sanders 183: Father P. J. De Smet, 1840 184-187: Portraits
1	16	Stages and wagons 188: Wagon at Fort Benton, Montana 189: Wagon at Fort Canyon Ferry, Montana 190: Wagons at Dillon, Montana 1884 191: Wagons at Alder Gulch, Montana 1865 192-202: Wagons and stages 203: Officers of Second U.S. Infantry Camp Stotsenberg P. I. 1906
1	17	Western Scenery 204: Modern photo- Red Rock Promentory, Red Rock Creek, Montana 205-206: Modern photo-Monida Pass, Montana 207: Great Salt Lake (Photo of 1885 drawing) 208: Modern photo-Marchel Lake, Idaho 209: Modern photo-Signal Peak 210: Modern photo-Bear River 211: Modern photo-Camas Creek, Idaho 212-213: Modern photos-Marsh Valley, Idaho 214: Snake River, 26 miles west of Fort Hall, 1871 215: Extinct Soda Springs Basin 216: Ruby River, Montana, 1868 217: Photo of drawing of freight hauling 218: Unidentified
1	18	Freighting Receipts 219-222: Freighting receipts from Corinne, Utah without prints 223-228: Freighting correspondence without prints 229-230: Freighting receipts without prints 231: Freight correspondence with negative 232-236: Freight receipts for Utah and Montana with negatives
1	19	Folder Labeled "Corinne" 237: Corinne, Utah, no print 238-242: Photos and negatives of Corinne, Utah 243: Wasatch Mountains, 1940s 244: Drawings of Mormon currency 245: Wagon train 246-247: Brigham Young 248: Daniel Hamner Wells 249: George Washington Hill, without print 250: Orsen Pratt with negative 251: Isaac Zundell, without print 252: Lorenzo Snow with negative 253: Ann Eliza Webb Young 254: Chinese portrait 255-257: Shoshoni Indian, Pocatello's Band 258: Fort Hall Indian woman, Blackfoot, Idaho. November 1933, no print 259: J. K. Trumbo's store in Salt Lake City, no print 260: J. K. Trumbo's opposition Co-op sign with negative 261: Salt Lake City Tabernacle, 1870 with negative 262: Fort Douglas, 1870 with negative 263-264: Salt Lake City, 1870s with negatives 265: First Train to Salt Lake City, 1870 with negative 266: Garfield steamer at Lake Point, Great Salt Lake, 1875, with negative 267: Utah Central R.R., Ogden junction, 1873, with negative
1	20	Halfway house Illustrations 268: Brigham Young 269: Bear River Bridge 270: Mormon trail, Big Mountain 271: Fort Bridger (1849-1850) 272: Bridger's Ferry 273: Fort Hall 274: Fort Hall 275-278: Salt Lake City
1	21	Chief Pocatello Book 279: City of Rocks 280: Massacre Rocks 281 Patrick E. Conner 282: Pocatello John 283: Pocatello Tom 284: Pocatello Pete 285: A memeber of the Shoshoni Pocatello Band 286-288: Pocatello Indians 289: "Snake Cheifs" A. J. Russell photo (1868-1870) 290: Paiutes-Baptisms 291: "Ration Day"-Fort Hall
1	22	North to Montana (Addendum) With a few exceptions, the following images are copy prints. See the back of the prints for the location of the original photographs Images of the West circa, 1860, including Native American settlements, western towns, and landscapes from that era. Identified images of towns include; The Red Rock Stage Station (1895), Fort Owen-Montana, Corinne-Utah (1869), Bannack, Salt Lake City-Utah (1867), Helena-Montana (1874),Virginia City-Montana, Bear River-Utah, Fort Benton, Pollinger Station or Gaffney Station, and Whitehall Station
1	23	North to Montana (Preface) (Addendum) 1: Early Fort Douglas by Charles Roscoe Savage 2-6: 1800s western landscape and Native Americans 7-8: Virginia City, Montana. 1864 9: Portrait of James Duane Doty 10: Image of a painting of the Pony Express Station at Deep Creek 11: Image of an 1840 Daguerreotype of Howard Ransom Egan 12: Soldiers at Camp Floyd 13: "Vigilante Headquarters" at Virginia City, Montana
1	24	Illustrations: A Forty-Niner in Utah (Addendum) 1-2: Early Salt Lake City 3: Copy negatives of a book. "Preamble and Constitution of the Colony Guard." printed in 1849 by William J. Spence
1	25	Photos from Stansbury Book (Addendum) 1: Image of an early map of north Great Salt Lake by the Weber mountains and river 2-3: Images of drawings of local plant life 4: Portrait of Captain Howard Stansbury 5: Portrait of Lt. John Williams Gunison 6: Image of unidentified painting
1	26	Addendum 1-2: "Lathrop House" in Redwood City, California, and a plaque describing it 3: Early view of Stockton, Utah 4: Corinne, Utah in 1869 5-6: Unidentified 7: Walker House in Salt Lake City, Utah 8: Honerine Mine at Bauer, Utah in 1912 9: Brevet Major General Patrick Edward Connor 10: Salt Lake City in the 1860s 11: Camp Douglas, Utah in 1864 12: Brigham Young, 1863 13: Mrs Patrick Edward (Johanna) Connor 14: Daughter of General Connor 15: Camp Douglas, Utah in 1864 16: Captain Charles H. Hempstead 17: Corinne, Utah in 1870 18: Pioche, Nevada 19: Railroad steam engine named "Kate Connor" of the Sevier railroad, Utah 20: "Kate Connor" steamboat in the Bear River near Corinne, Utah 21: Brigadier General Patrick Edward Connor in 1865 22: Captain Patrick Edward Connor of the Stockton Blues with his son, Thomas Jefferson Connor in September, 1860 23: Connor octagonal home in Stockton, California 24: General Connor and Judge Blair in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1890 25: Brevet Major General Patrick Edward Connor 26: Image of a map showing the route of the Salt Lake, Sevier Valley and Pioche Railroad with locations of some of the mineral districts of Utah Territory in 1873 27: Map of western trails including areas occupied by Native American tribes 28-29: Unidentified maps
1	27	Miscellaneous (Addendum) 1: Pat T. Ghee, Portrait of a Native American 2-5: United States Capitol Building
1	28	Autobiography Illustrations (Addendum) 1: Henry Nisonger, Maternal Great Grandfather 2: Sarah Slusser Nisonger, Maternal Great Grandmother 3: James Crane, Paternal Great Grandfather 4: Elizabeth Stewart Crane, Paternal Great Grandmother 5: Carl Madsen group 7: Phoebe and Philip Hosea Cushing, Maternal Grandparents 8: Lydia Cushing, Mother, elementary school 9: Brigham and Lydia Madsen, parents wedding picture, 1913 10: Brigham and Lydia Madsen, Berkley, 1944 11: Dwaine with father and mother, Magna, Utah, 1915 12: Brigham Dwaine Madsen, Magna, Utah, 1915 13: B.D. Madsen and sister Annie, Magna, Utah. 14: Brigham Madsen and three children, B.D., Annie, Mack, Phyllis, Garfield Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho 15: Betty McAllister, University of Utah Graduate, 1938 16: B.D. Madsen, 8th birthday, 243 Park Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho 17: Lydia Madsen and Annie, 243 Park Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho 18: Brigham Madsen family picture prior to mission departure, 1934 19: B.D. Madsen, missionary in Bristol, Tennessee and Virginia, 1935 20: Betty McAllister, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1938 21: Betty M. Madsen, wedding gown, 1939 22: B.D. Madsen, wedding outfit, 1939 23: Ethel and Delos McAllister, Betty's parents 24: B.D. and Betty, Fulton Street apartment, 1941 25: Brigham Madsen family, Fulton Street apartment, 1942 26: B.D., Betty and Karen, McAllister home, Salt Lake City, 1943 27: Private B.D. Madsen, Camp Roberts, California, 1943 28: Private B.D. Madsen and Betty, Berkley, California, 1943 29: Corporal B.D. Madsen, Berkley, California, 1944 30: Lt. B.D. Madsen 31: Lt. Madsen, First training post, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1945 32: B.D. and Karen, first apartment, Columbia, Georgia, 1945 33: B.D., Betty and Karen-Officers housing, Ft. Benning, 1945 34: B.D.-new Ph.D., Brigham young University, 1948 35: B.D. and Betty Madsen, family picture, 1959 36: Madsen family picture, Steve's wedding, 1973 37: B.D. Madsen, Assitant Director of Training, Peace Corps, Washington D.C., 1964 38: B.D. Madsen and Betty, North to Montana Book, 1980 39: Proffesor B.D. Madsen, holding forth, University of Utah, 1986 40: Alvin Gittens portrait, Brigham D. Madsen, 1978 41: Betty Madsen in dress acquired at 1985 International Women's Conference, Nairobi, Kenya

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Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	1	Brigham Madsen 1: Studio portrait of Brigham Madsen, 1977 2: Polaroid of Brigham Madsen at a podium
2	2	Native Americans 1: Studio portrait of an unidentified Native American in a cowboy hat 2: Photograph of drawing of Native American, "W. Edwards scalp" written in lower right hand corner 3: Studio portrait of Jack Tendoy. A member of the Shoshone and Bancock delegation to Washington from Lemhi and Ft. Hall Agencies, 1880, and one of the signers of the treaty of May 14, 1880. Photograph assumed to be by Charles M. Bell, Washington D.C., 1880 4: Indian travois 5: "Shivits Baptism." L.D.S. Church Archives photo 6: Shoshones on horseback with a Caucasian man, possibly a missionary, standing in the foreground. L.D.S. Church Archives photo 7: View of tepees. Photograph rights belong to the Smithsonian Institute, negative number 1667 8: Indian camp near a river
2	3	World War II-Men in Action 1: Soldiers running down a street with two men laying on the road side 2: Soldier with a flame thrower 3: Soldiers marching with equipment through a valley 4: Soldiers charging up a hill 5: Two men loading a bazooka 6: Thirteen scenes of men in action in Germany and France
2	4	World War II-Germany All photos by 3264 Signal Photo Co. 1: Inside view of the Flak Kasserne, Fourth Company 2: Inside view of the Sud Kasserne 3-4: Views of the wooden barracks in the paratroop camp, Buchenuhl, Germany 5: Gendarme Kasserne, Zirndorf, Germany Occupied by the 999th QM Salvage Collecting company 6: 3rd Army. The garage buildings part of a German Paratrooper camp 7: Aerial view of remains of 11 German Army Barracks east of Fahlenbach, Germany 8: 3rd Army. Exterior of main entrance to 98th General hospital in Munich, Germany 9: Long view of the Panzer Kasserne, Furth, Germany 10: Outside view of the Sud Kasserne 11: Interior views of the Inf. Kasserne, Furth, Germany 12: Lose view of the buildings in the Panzer Kasserne, Furth, Germany
2	5	World War II-Third Army Headquarters Bad Tolz, Germany 1-4: Aerial views of the Third Army Headquarters. Brigham Madsen's office was in the upper right hand corner
2	6	World War II-Bayerische Zugspitzbahn 1: Docking tram. (Postcard) 2-5: Buildings and stations covered in snow. (Postcard) 6: Tram (Postcard) 7-9: Buildings and stations high in the Alps
2	7	World War II-Unidentified Parade 1: Float pulled by horses 2: Crowds of people 3-8: Unidentified horsemen and floats
2	8	World War II-Brigham Madsen 1-2: Faded photo of Brigham Madsen sitting in a chair 3-6: Faded portrait of Brigham Madsen
2	9	World War II-Miscellaneous 1-2: T.J. Duyer Jr., Ft. Benning, Georgia, 1944 3: "Hungarian Band" 4: Empty bar 5: Men gathered around a car 6: "First page of a copy of what G-2 of the third U.S. Army describes as the marriage contract between Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun dated 29 April 1945. The Document was copied at Munich 29, December 1945. G-2 officials, who did not account where the document was found, said it was witnessed by Martin Bormann and Dr. Joseph Goebbels. They called attention to the fact that Eva Braun started to sign herself 'Eva B...' then added the final 'Hitler' and 'born Braun.' Munich, Germany 7: Group portrait of Madsen and unidentified staff gathered in an L.D.S. ward chapel, circa 1945 8: The Army Commander leaves the War Room at Nancy, France
2	10	World War II-"7th Army in Germany" 1: Illustrated cover 2: Heidelberg, famous University town 3: Heidelberg, part of the castle ruins 4: Frankfurt on main, Cathedral 5: Bruchsal, Residence 6: Stuttgart, Schloplatz 7: Mannheim, Jesuiten-church 8: The Rhine near Mannheim 9: Castle ruins of Ehrenfels on the Rhine 10: Medieval architecture in Heilbronn 11: Spring in the countryside near Wiesbaden 12: Maulbronn, monastery founded 1146 13: Kassel, Residence 14: Sculpture 15: Ulm, highest cathedral in Germany 16: Dusk in the Jura mountains 17: Illustrated map 18: Illustrated cover
2	11	Early Western Settlers 1: Twenty mule team boray wagon made in 1841 2: Horseman with a pack horse 3: White settlers gathered around three tepees. Oakland Museum photo 4: Railroad tracks. Looking south from Wirth Street
2	12	Postcard Collection 1: Paris, Place de la Bastille 2: Paris, place de l'Opera 3: Paris, The Triumphal Arch 4: Paris, Notre Dame Cathedral 5: Paris, Champs-Elysees Avenue 6: Nutcracker 7-11: Alpine scenery 12-18: Alpine scenery dated March 23, 1946 19: Oberammergau 20: Rathaus in Munich, Germany 21: Twin spires of the Church of Our Lady 22: Mount Kreuzeck 23: Wendelstein Mt 24: Scneeferhaus Hotel, where the Third Army Ski Students satyed 25-26: Tram 27: Berchtesgaden with Watzmann Mt. In background 28: Hohenschwangau Castle 29: Linderhof Castle 30: Neuschwanstein Castle 31: Beautiful Lake Riessersee near Garmisch 32: Partenkirchen with Zugspitz mountain in the background 33: Herrenchiemsee Castle 34: Royal Lake near Berchtesgaden
2	13	Alamo Massacre" Site, Idaho 1-3: Views of the massacre site 4-5: Monument regarding the massacre 6: Snapshot of Madsen, Sterling McMurrin and Everet Cooley at the Alamo Massacre Monument	1987
2	14	Bear River Massacre Site 1: Views of Battle Creek 2: Bear River crossing, 1871	1987
2	15	Battle of Tongue River, Wyoming 1: Ft. Reno and Fort Connor site looking west from monument 2-3: Albino antelope near fort Reno Site, Wyoming 4: 3.5 miles south of Ft. Reno and Connor 5: Ft. Connor and Ft. Reno site looking east to Powder River 6: Site of Ft. McKinney looking toward west 7: Site of Ft. McKinney looking south 8: Tongue River and Connor Battlefield 9: Monument to the Tongue River Battle 10-11: Monument in City Park regarding Ft. Connor	1987
2	16	Lathrop House, California 1-8: Lathrop House, Redwood City, California. Photographs taken in 1987. This house is a good example of "Steamboat Gothic" architecture
2	17	Stockton, Utah and Steptoe's Military Camp 1-4: Monument at site of Steptoe's military camp 5-14: Stockton, Utah
2	18	Pioche, Nevada 1-9: Views of Pioche, Nevada 10-12: One of the original water tanks for Pioche 13-15: Signs and monuments to Pioche 16: Pioche	1987
2	19	Virgina City, Montana 1: Harry Plummer, first U.S. gangster. Sheriff of two counties and head of fifty highwaymen at the same time. His gang committed a murder a day for 102 days. He was hanged in 1864 2: Scales exhibit at Virginia City Museum 3: Woman sitting on headstones 4: Collage about Virginia City 5: Monument at Virginia City 6: Railroad engine
2	20	"Brag Book"-Intermountain West All photographs copyrighted by Betty M. Madsen, 1968 1: Stage coach of Nevada City, Montana 2: Back Street of Nevada City 3: City Hall of Corrine, Utah 4: Canyon Lava, Idaho 5: Pleasant Valley, Idaho 6: Brownherd Rock, Montana 7: Grasshopper Creek near Bancock City, Montana 8: Bancock City, Montana 9: Church, Bancock City 10: Hotel and Saloon, Bancock City 11: Jail, Bancock City 12: Miner's Cabin, Bancock Ciy 13: Cemetery, Bancock City	1968
2	21	Miscellaneous-Places 1: Fort Hall Indian Reservation, original site of Old Fort Hall 2: Map of the Great Salt Lake showing numbered camp sites of the Stansbury Expedition 3: Oneida County Clerk Marriage Book A, page nine, marriage registry of Nils Anderson Just and Emma Thompson 4-5: Two unidentified portraits 6: City Book Store 7: Group of people in a wagon in front of a store
2	22	Miscellaneous-People and Things 1: Snapshot of Alexander Sudar, member of the Polish-Amerindian Friendship Society, dressed in "Indian" garb and paddling a canoe 2: Vickie and Gaylon Caldwell, Christmas, 1996 3: Snapshot of Robert D. Anderson, M.D., author of The Book of Mormon as Autobiography 4-6: Kinya Mikani, former student of Madsen's, with his grandchildren 7-10: Chocolate lab
2	23	From Manuscript Correspondence 1: 1997 Holiday card from "George and Camilla Smith Family" 2: 1998 Holiday Card from "George and Camilla Smith Family" 3: Unidentified man studying, 1993 4: "Almo Monument. June 1998" 5: Toddler on a couch, 1993

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Container(s)		Description
Box	Folder
3	1	General Photographs 1: Concho, Oklahoma, 1954 2: A Blackfoot medicine pipe carrier 3: Bear River Massacre site, topographic map

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