Sunstone Foundation photograph collection, circa 1975

Overview of the Collection

Title
Sunstone Foundation photograph collection
Dates
circa 1975 (inclusive)
Quantity
.25 linear feet, (1 archives box)  :  85 items
Collection Number
P0307
Summary
The Sunstone Foundation photograph collection contains photographs of officials of the LDS Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), LDS Church buildings, and scenes in Salt Lake City. This collection also includes photographs of the end of the Vietnamese Conflict in 1975.
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

Most of the items in this collection are copy-prints, not original items

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.

Separated Materials

Manuscript materials were transferred to the Sunstone Foundation records (ACCN 0932).

Audio-visual materials were transferred to the Sunstone Foundation audio-visual collection (A0370).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

LDS temples, buildings and individuals, WWII refugees, booksReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
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Individuals
  • Photograph number 1: John F. Bennett
  • Photograph number 2: Robert F. Bohn
  • Photograph number 3: Marian R. Boyer
  • Photograph number 4: Phillip Harward
  • Photograph number 5: Barbara B. Smith
  • Photograph number 6: Shirley W. Thomas
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Chaim Potok
  • Photograph number 7-15: Chaim Potok
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LDS temples and buildings
  • Photograph number 16: Drawing of Nauvoo Temple
  • Photograph number 17: Sunstone from the Nauvoo Temple
  • Photograph number 18: Salt Lake Tabernacle under construction
  • Photograph number 19: Temple Square under construction
  • Photograph number 20: Lion House and Beehive House
  • Photograph number 21: Salt Lake Temple Annex Building
  • Photograph number 22: Endowment House, Temple Block, Salt Lake
  • Photograph number 23: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Chicago, Illinois
  • Photograph number 24: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints unknown location
  • Photograph number 25: Salt Lake City Street Scene
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LDS individuals and groups
  • Photograph number 26 Black Woman and child in Salt Lake City
  • Photograph number 27 Pioneers of 1847 at the Pioneer Jubilee
  • Photograph number 28: Unidentified group photo of early Utahns
  • Photograph number 29: Wm Carter plowing at home in St. George, Utah
  • Photograph number 30-31: Unidentified group photos of early Utahns
  • Photograph number 32: Early Church leaders, among them: George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith
  • Photograph number 33: Men in Prison clothing around 1890
  • Photograph number 34: Unidentified group photo of early Utahns, in a field
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Book covers
  • Photograph number 35: "If You're Mad, Spit! And Other Aids to Coping", Ben F. Mortensen
  • Photograph number 36: "Influence: What It Is and How to Use It", Kenneth L. Higbee, Ph.D., and Larry C. Jensen, Ph.D.
  • Photograph number 37: "Will the 'Saints' go Marching In?" Floyd McElveen
  • Photograph number 38: "Commitment to Care", Dean Turner
  • Photograph number 39: "The Mormon Papers: Are the Mormon Scriptures Reliable?" Harry L. Ropp
  • Photograph number 40: "The Promised Messiah: The First Coming of Christ", Bruce R. McConkie
  • Photograph number 41: "The Highest In Us", Truman G. Madsen
  • Photograph number 42: "Christ and the Inner Life", Truman G. Madsen
  • Photograph number 43: "Moses: Man of Miracles", Mark E. Peterson
  • Photograph number 44: "Mormon in Motion", Edward L. Hart
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Photographs relating to Vietnam and refugees
  • Photograph number 45: May 5, 1975, Hong Kong: More than 1,500 South Vietnamese refugees are housed in this mini tent-city setting up inside the British Army camp at Sekkong in the new territories here May 5. The refugees, among the 4,500 rescued from a sinking ship 100 miles off coast of Vietnam on Friday night, were brought by a Danish freighter to Hong Kong Sunday evening.
  • Photograph number 46: April 28, 1975, Tent City, Guam: Aerial view shows part of the tent city here 4/27 where more than 20,000 Vietnamese refugees are living after fleeing from the embattled country of South Vietnam.
  • Photograph number 47: April 6, 1975 Vung Tau, South Vietnam: A Vietnamese child is lowered to the east area of a U.S. LST named "Boohung-Pioneer" here April 6th. The child was with a group of refugees that were evacuated from Cam Ranh Bay by U.S. Navy Vessels.
  • Photograph number 48: April 29, 1975, Saigon: Air America helicopter crewman helps evacuees up ladder to top of Saigon building April 29. This evacuation site is one of many in downtown area from which Americans and foreign nationals are being evacuated to waiting navy ships off coast.
  • Photograph number 49: April 6, 1975 Vung Tau, South. South Vietnamese soldiers check the papers of refugees from Cam Ranh Bay here April 6th as they arrive aboard the U.S. Navy LCVP "Sixty-nine".
  • Photograph number 50: March 17, 1975, Children in ruins along Highway 22 on the way northwest to Tay Ninh from Saigon.
  • Photograph number 51: April 26, 1975 Agana, Guam: South Vietnamese refugees relax inside the chapel of Anderson Airforce Base here April 25th. After an exhausted evacuation journey from the war torn country of Vietnam. More than 25,000 refugees have arrived at this Pacific Island of Guam in the past few days and they have made the facilities overwhelmed.
  • Photograph number 52: Camp Pendleton, California: Full House...with more than 18,000 refugees in camp waiting to be processed, the "no vacancy" sign has gone up. It takes more than 200 cooks to prepare 45,000 meals a day served at the camp that is filled to capacity. Some 25,000 refugees have been processed but there are between 60,000 and 100,000 evacuees backed up in the pipeline in across the Pacific.
  • Photograph number 53: April 29, 1975, Oceanside, California: Part of the first group of South Vietnamese refugees to arrive at Camp Pendleton, a sprawling Marine Corps Training Base in southern California, get used to their surroundings in a quonset hut shortly after their arrival in the United States. As they arrived in several plane loads, word came from Saigon that it had fallen to Northern Vietnamese forces.
  • Photograph number 54: Vietnamese refugee children are evacuated by net at port of Da Nang after being evacuated March 24th by navy boat from area north of Dan Nang. Communist troops and tanks swept over Tam Ky province capital south of Da Nang in a four hour blitzkrieg, cutting South Vietnam in two.
  • Photograph number 55: Nha Trang, S. Vietnam: An American official punches a man in the face trying to break him free from the doorway of an airplane already over loaded with refugees seeking to flee Nha Trang, April 1. The man was trying to board the evacuation plane. Nha Trang was overrun by Communist troops after this plane left.
  • Photograph number 56: April 9 1975, Vung Tau, S. Vietnam: Vietnamese refugees rush onshore upon arrival at a beach here April 8th by means of private boats. Thousands of refugees form the abandoned cities at the north poured into this once resort city at the coast of Vietnam about 60 miles Southeast of Saigon.
  • Photograph number 57: April 27, 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam: Residents of a housing area that was hit by a communist rocket early April 27th tramp through the rubble of their homes looking for belongings. Communist rockets hit Saigon for the first time in three and a half years killing 6 and wounding 22 persons.
  • Photograph number 58: April 4 1975, Fleeing advancing North Vietnamese forces, refugees arrive in Tuy Hoa area March 28. From Pleiku, Kontum and areas of Phu Bon, they were given rice and other foods as volunteers. Tuy Hoa proved no refuge as it was reported lost to the North Vietnamese April 2.
  • Photograph number 59: March 28 1975, South Vietnam: A helicopter lands in the background as a woman covers her eyes. Military helicopters have been airlifting soldiers and civilians to safety here from Pleiku, Phu Bon and Kon Tum.
  • Photograph number 60: May 15, 1975, South Vietnamese refugees form long chow lines a mess tents in "Little Saigon" area on the north end of Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps Training Base that is serving as a refugee processing center May 7. The original optimistic timetable for moving refugees from Vietnam to Cambodia through this processing center was being revised May 13. Security checks and the hung for sponsors contributed to the delays.
  • Photograph number 61: March 26 1975, Hue, South Vietnam: A navy boat pulls away from the dock at Thuan: a beach some six and a half miles from Hue loaded with troops and civilians as communist troops took over the old imperial capital.
  • Photograph number 62: April 14, 1975, Xuan Loc, South Vietnam, refugees hang on for dear life as they attempt to board a giant Chinook helicopter as it was taking off here April 14th following a supply drop to troops fighting along Highway One, some 38 miles northeast of Saigon.
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General
  • Photograph number 63: David O. Mckay
  • Photograph number 64: Grasshoppers
  • Photograph number 65: Unidentified group of four outdoors
  • Photograph number 66: Passengers outside a train
  • Photograph number 67-68: Unidentified, perhaps also Vietnam (see folder 6)
  • Photograph number 69: Two men at a table inside with a flag over the window behind them.
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Proof sheets from Sunstone Symposium
  • Photograph number 70-75: Proof sheets from 1981 Sunstone Symposium
1981
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Negatives
  • Photograph number 76-79: Brigham Young University, 1911
  • Photograph number 80: Brigham Young University, class of 1894
  • Photograph number 81: Brigham Young University, 1911
  • Photograph number 82: Henry Peterson, photo of a book page with his image on it.
  • Photograph number 83: G. H. Brimhall, photo of a book page with his image on it.
  • Photograph number 84: Joseph Peterson, photo of a book page with his image on it.
  • Photograph number 85: Ralph Chamberlin, photo of a book page with his image on it.

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Latter Day Saint churches--History--Photographs
  • Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Photographs

Geographical Names

  • Salt Lake City (Utah)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

  • Exterior views
  • Photographic prints--1870-1981
  • Portrait photographs