Sonia Johnson photograph collection, 1979-1981

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Johnson, Sonia
Title
Sonia Johnson photograph collection
Dates
1979-1981 (inclusive)
Quantity
54 photographic prints
Collection Number
P0099
Summary
The Sonia Johnson photograph collection contains photographs and slides of Equal Rights Amendment demonstrations in Salt Lake City and elsewhere. Also in the collection are photographs taken from television of the excommunication trial of Sonia Johnson as well as some miscellaneous photographs.
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 Sonia Johnson collection contains photographs of various ERA demonstrations, especially those demonstrations related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (L.D.S.) Photographs taken of a television broadcast relating to the excommunication trial of Sonia Johnson from the L.D.S. Church and images of friends and associates of Johnson are also included in the collection.

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

Processing Note

Processed by Mary Ann Curtis in 2001

Separated Materials

Audio-visual materials were transferred to the Sonia Johnson audio-visual collection (A0099).

Manuscript materials were transferred to the Sonia Johnson papers (MS 0287).

Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

ERA Demonstrations, Excommunication Trial, Friends and MiscellaneousReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
ERA Demonstrations
  • 1: Posse in Salt Lake City Pioneer Day Parade carrying ERA YES balloons handed out by MERA, July 24, 1980
  • 2-5: Women holding signs at an ERA demonstration against the L.D.S. Church at the Hill Cumorah
  • 6: Banner flying in Chicago, Illinois, March 1980
  • 7: Banner flying above the demonstrations at the Hill Cumorah, Summer 1980
1 2
Excommunication Trial
  • 8-9: Channel 4 News Center
  • 10-11: Channel 4 News anchor Barbara Allen
  • 12-13: Channel 4 News anchor Max Robinson
  • 14: Salt Lake City L.D.S. Temple
  • 15: Channel 4 News anchor Susan Campbell
  • 16: Bishop Jeffrey Willis
  • 17-21: Sonia Johnson
  • 22-26: Miscellaneous images from the Channel 4 news broadcast about the L.D.S. excommunication trial of Sonia Johnson
 1 January 1979
1 3
People
  • 27: Founding mothers of Mormons for ERA (MERA), October 1978. Top row Left to Right: Teddie Wood, Maida Withers. Bottom row Left to Right: Sonia Johnson, Hazel Rigby
  • 28-30: Richard T. Johnson at K.V.N.U. Radio, Logan, Utah
1 4
Demonstrations and Picket Lines
  • 31-35: ERA demonstration at the L.D.S. Oakland Temple in California
  • 36: Women holding a sign, "You can't excommunicate equality, Mormons for ERA"
  • 37: "Picketers in front of Eatontown Mormon Ward"
  • 38: "Woman in front, Joyce Tortorece, was an ERA missionary in Utah last year"
  • 39: "Picketers from Central Monmouth, Middlesex County and Essex County NOW Chapters"
  • 40-41: ERA YES balloons seen at Salt Lake City's 24th of July Pioneer Day Parade
  • 42: "A group of women putting the banner on 'Lady Liberty'"
  • 43: A woman climbing a ladder to put a banner on a statue
  • 44: A banner naming the unratified states circling the bottom of a statue
  • 45: Demonstrators singing about equal rights
1 5
Friends and Acquaintances
  • 46: Dorothy Sainz on a two day bicycle ride from Tucson to Phoenix, April 1982
  • 47: Dorothy Sainz backpacking in the Phoenix mountains
  • 48-49: Dorothy Sainz performing at a folk festival in San Antonio, Texas, Spring 1981
  • 50: Home of Dorothy Sainz in the desert near Benson, Arizona, 40 miles from Tucson
  • 51: Unidentified group of musicians
  • 52: Kathy Spagnola and "Politely Rude" performing
1 6
Miscellaneous
  • 53: View of a destroyed factory. "From 700 wine tables a day to this"
  • 54: Workers cleaning up debris, March 12, 1979

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Equal rights amendments--United States
  • Feminism--United States
  • Latter Day Saint churches--Political activity
  • Latter Day Saint women--United States
  • Women's rights--United States

Corporate Names

  • Mormons for E.R.A.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographic prints--1978-1980
  • Photographic prints--Color--1978-1980
  • Portrait photographs--1978-1980
  • Slides--Color--1978-1980

Finding aid prepared by Mary Ann Curtis.
2001

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