Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers, 1902-2010

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Snyder, Horace Sylvester, 1912-2010
Title
Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers
Dates
1902-2010 (inclusive)
Quantity
5 linear feet, (6 boxes)
Collection Number
ACCN 3000
Summary
The Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers (1902-2010) contain the personal and professional papers of Horace Sylvester Snyder (1912-2010) a professional photographer, and his father, Horace Greeley Snyder (1873-1951), the owner of multiple mines in the American West. The collection contains biographical information and correspondence of extended family members within the Snyder and Sylvester families.
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

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Horace Sylvester Snyder (1912-2010) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he received his high school and undergraduate education. He attended the University of Louisville Medical School for a short time, but returned back to Utah to support his family at the height of the Great Depression. He married Chelta Moss in 1938, and their marriage lasted 62 years until her death. At a young age, Snyder acquired a camera and soon became an accomplished photographer, and used the skill to support his family as a portrait photographer with multiple studio locations. Much of his photography is marked by his passion for rodeos and the idea of the American cowboy. After World War II, in which he served, Snyder became an irrigation engineer and started his own company, Snyder Distributing Company. He died in 2010.

Horace S. Snyder's father, Horace Greeley Snyder (1873-1951) was born in Wanship, Utah. He was the twenty-ninth of thirty-five children of his father, George Gideon Snyder, and the ninth of eleven children born to his mother, Caroline Kilfoyle, the fourth polygamous wife of George Gideon. George had six wives and had migrated from Canada to Nauvoo, Illinois, before joining the Latter Day Saint pioneers in Utah. Horace was a mine inspector, prospector, and developed a large amount of land into mines and mining communities. He died in 1951.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers (1902-2010) contain personal and professional correspondence of Horace Greeley and Horace Sylvester Snyder, family history materials, mining information and reports, mine claims and deeds, ledgers, diaries, and news clippings.

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

Arranged first by creator, then chronologically.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Carleen Jimenez in 2017.

Donated by Carleen Jimenez and Greg Snyder in 2018.

Processing Note

Processed by Braxton Utley in 2017.

Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2020.

Separated Materials

Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Horace Sylvester Snyder materials and family historyReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Personal correspondence
1937-1998
1 2
Scrapbook
Contains a scrapbook relating to Horace S. Snyder's younger years.
1913-1940
1 3
Memories of the Early Years autobiography
1 4
Autobiographical stories
Contains collected short autobiographical stories.
1 5
High School Years autobiography
1937-1998
1 6
The Years of 1935-1938 autobiography
1 7
GYP
1 8
Certificates of importance
Contains certificates relevant to Horace Sylvester Snyder's life, such as Selective Service, religious certificates, and his high school diploma.
1 9
A Portrait of My Father
A biography of Horace Sylvester Snyder written by his daughter, Carleen Snyder Jimenez.
1 10
Education materials
Contains materials relating to Snyder's education at the University of Utah and the University of Louisville Medical School.
1 11
John Stryker
1948
1 12
Professional materials
1 13
Horace S. Snyder obituary
2010
1 14
Snyderville
1 15
George Gideon Snyder (1819-1887)
1 16
Joshua W. Sylvester (1843-1925)
Includes a personal account of the Black Hawk War.
1 17
Hadava (Ada) Sylvester Snyder (1875-1970)
1 18
Agnes Sylvester
1 19
Joshua Benjamin Sylvester (1872-1930)
1 20
Althea Sylvester Howe (1876-1951)
1 21
Arthur Franklin Sylvester (1884-1935)
1 22
Christine Eliza Sylvester (1866-1918)
1 23
James William Snyder (1874-1934)
1 24
Walter and Elizabeth Sylvester Jensen
1 25
Miscellanous Sylvester family
1 26
Life history of Caroline Carlsen Engborg Christensen Sylvester

Horace Greeley Snyder personal and professional materialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
Correspondence
1933-1937
2 2-3
Correspondence
1938
2 4
Correspondence
1939-1940
2 5-11
Correspondence
1941
2 12
Correspondence
1942-1949
2 13
Correspondence
1950-1951
2 14
Correspondence
2 15
Biography and obituary
2 16
American Mine
Contains correspondence and reports on the American Mine in Hachita, Grant County, New Mexico.
1941
2 17
Arizona-New Mexico mines
Contains the General Report on Mine Examination Trip to Arizona and New Mexico between the dates of January and February 1941. The report includes details on more than a dozen mining properties centralized in eastern Arizona and New Mexico.
1941
2 18
Castro Mining Group
Includes the Report on the Castro Mining Group located in the Oquirrh Range, West Mining District, Salt Lake County, more familiarly known as Bingham, twenty-five miles southwest of Salt Lake City's 1913 city limits. It includes ten claims comprising 66.14 acres at the head of Bear Gulch and on the eastern slope of Castro Gulch. U.S. Survey Number 3744 and 5024.
1913
2 19
Copper Acres Group
Includes the Report on the Copper Acres Group, a collection of claims located thirty miles northwest from Battle Mountain and fifteen miles south of Golconda, Humboldt County, Nevada.
2 20
Eureka, Nevada mines
Includes the Articles of Incorporation of the Eureka Tonapah Consolidated Mining Company which owned mining claims in Eureka County, Nevada. Included is the Report on the Windfall Mine in Eureka, Nevada by the Windfall Mining and Milling Company, the predecessor of the aforementioned incorporated company.
1941-1948
2 21
Kaibab Copper Mine
Contains correspondence and information relating to the Kaibab Copper Mine near Jacobs Lake, Arizona, in Kaibab National Forest.
1942
2 22
Piute mines
Contains correspondence and reports regarding the Piute Mines at the north end of the Kingston Mountains near Inyo County, California. The mining property is twenty miles east of Tecopa.
1949
2 23
Tintic mines
Contains correspondence and reports relating to the Tintic Mining properties and the Tintic Standard Mining Company. The relevant mining properties are in the North Tintic Mining District or nearly five miles north of the town of Eureka, Utah.
1939-1946
3 1
Tooele County mines
Contains claim information for mines located within Tooele County, Utah.
1946
3 2
Miscellaneous mine reports
3 3
Assay reports
3 4
Notices of location
3 5
Claim public notices
3 6
Mining deeds
3 7
Lease and options agreements
3 8
Quit claim deeds
3 9
Stock certificates
3 10
Miscellaneous mining information
3 11
Personal notes
3 12
Receipts
3 13
Bills and statements
3 14
Diaries
1942-1946
3 15
Ledgers

General materialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
4 1
Ledgers
4 2
Rodeo publications
1946-2010
4 3
LifeMagazine
April 18, 1955
4 4
From Lode to Dust
1973
4 5
Miscellaneous publications
4 6
News clippings
4 7
Maps
4 8
Maps
4 9
General materials
5
Travel expense books
1934-1944
6
"A Day in the Life of a Cowboy," photo essay by Horace S. Snyder

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Latter Day Saint pioneers--Archives
  • Mines and Mineral Resources
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Arizona
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--California
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--California--Inyo County
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Nevada
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Nevada--Battle Mountain Mining District
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Nevada--Eureka Mining District
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--New Mexico
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--New Mexico--Hachita
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Utah
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Utah--Bingham Mining District
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Utah--Tintic Mining District
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Utah--Tooele County
  • Polygamy--Utah--Sources
  • Prospecting--West (U.S.)--Sources

Personal Names

  • Snyder, Horace Greeley, 1873-1952--Archives
  • Snyder, Horace Sylvester, 1912-2010--Archives

Family Names

  • Snyder family

Form or Genre Terms

  • Account books
  • Albums (Books)
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Certificates
  • Claims
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Correspondence
  • Deeds
  • Diaries
  • Family histories
  • Maps
  • Records (Documents)
  • Scrapbooks
  • Technical reports