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Anderson Photograph Studio archive, 1940-1975
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Anderson Photograph Studio (Preston, Idaho)
- Title
- Anderson Photograph Studio archive
- Dates
- 1940-1975 (inclusive)19401975
- Quantity
- 2 boxes (186 items), (1 linear ft. )
- Collection Number
- UUS_P0252
- Summary
- Collection of photographs taken in the late 1940s to 1975 by Anderson Photograph Studio. Most are photographs taken around Preston, Idaho and Franklin County, Idaho. Subjects include various Preston High School groups and activities; civic, church, and social groups; a man-hunt from the 1960's; boy scouts; individual portraits; and various buildings and facilities such as the Franklin County Courthouse, Franklin Café, Mountain Bell building, O.K. Tire Shop, California Packing Company, and sugar beet factories.
- Repository
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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu - Access Restrictions
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Restrictions
Open to public research.
- Languages
- English.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Studio located in Preston, Idaho.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Anderson Studio photograph collection consists of 186 mostly unidentified images. These black-and-white photos date from the 1940s to the early 1970s and, with a few exceptions, were taken in and around Preston, Idaho. Included are images of agriculture, Preston High School activities, individual portraits, a man-hunt from the 1960s, accidents, the Preston sugar beet factory, boy scouts, civic and LDS Church groups, and Preston businesses.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Anderson Photograph Studio archive must be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Anderson Photograph Studio archive, 1940-1975. (P0252). Utah State University. Special Collections & Archives Department.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Photographs , undatedReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box | ||
1 | 1:001-012: Automobile accidents, fires, and train wrecks |
1945-1965 |
1 | 1:07:
Train wreck
|
undated |
1 | 1:013-017: Preston High School graduation groups including |
1962 |
1 | 1:17:
Preston High School Graduation
|
1962 |
1 | 1:018-024: Preston High School theatre
productions |
undated |
1 | 1:025-026: Preston High School chorus |
undated |
1 | 1:027: Preston High School basketball including team of |
1963 |
1 | 1:028-037: Preston High School football |
undated |
1 | 1:038-039: Preston High School reunion groups, classes of
1931 and 1944 |
undated |
1 | 1:040-045: Miscellaneous portraits |
undated |
1 | 1:046: Open casket funderal for an infant |
undated |
1 | 1:047-048: Bean crops: a stringing machine and a school group
visiting a bean farm |
undated |
1 | 1:049-078: Miscellaneous adult groups, including the Lions
Club, men receiving Utah Power and Light safety awards, women cooking, LDS Church
and civic groups. Some are undoubtedly educators |
undated |
1 | 1:079: Five fishermen with a large catch, probably
salmon |
undated |
1 | 1:080-084:
Pictures of a manhunt and two captured men (one of
whom is African-American) and a cache of guns. Also a photograph of a First
Security Bank of Idaho vault that appears to have been blown open, perhaps the
cause of the manhunt
|
1965 |
1 | 1:085-088: Ceremony for the "Parking Meters Last Rites" on
the steps of the Franklin County Court House |
1956 |
1 | 1:089-092: Boy Scout (Explorer Scouts) activities, Troop
137 |
undated |
1 | 1:093-097: Interiors and exteriors of Preston sugar beet
factory including the Lime Kiln, Franklin County Sugar Co |
undated |
1 | 1:098-099: Man in a wheelchair, also using an iron
lung[?] |
undated |
1 | 1:100-101: Irrigation canal and diversion dam, probably on
the Bear River |
undated |
1 | 1:102-166: Copy prints of historic photographs, including
several of Grace, Idaho around the turn of the century. Includes store interiors,
family group portraits, basketball, wagons, early automobiles, dam building, civic
groups, homes, bands, football, salmon, agriculture, and the Providence Ward
School from |
1902 |
1 | 1:167: Aerial view of Preston |
1948 |
1 | 1:168: View of the Franklin County Court
House |
undated |
1 | 1:169: View of the Franklin Café |
undated |
1 | 1:170: A Massey-Ferguson store |
undated |
1 | 1:171: Preston 4th Ward church under demolition |
1963 |
1 | 1:172-173: Interiors of an auto garage |
undated |
1 | 1:174: A Massey-Ferguson store |
undated |
1 | 1:175: Mountain Bell telephone building |
undated |
1 | 1:176: View looking east in Logan, Utah, from west part
of city toward mouth of Logan Canyon showing the O.K. Tire Shop in the
foreground |
undated |
1 | 1:177-186: Miscellaneous scenes including Weston Canyon,
agriculture, what appears to be a power station and a mining operation in the
mountains |
undated |
2 | 2:01-02: Preston High School graduation groups |
undated |
2 | 2:03: Preston High School chorus |
undated |
2 | 2:04-06: Miss Franklin County and attendants |
1962 |
2 | 2:07: Wedding portrait |
undated |
2 | 2:08: California Packing Co. plant |
undated |
2 | 2:09-10: Sugar beet factory views |
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Corporate Names
- Anderson Photograph Studio (Preston, Idaho)
- Franklin County Courthouse (Preston, Idaho)--Photographs.
- Preston High School (Preston, Idaho)--Photographs.
- Utah State University. Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. (contributor)
Geographical Names
- Franklin County (Idaho)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs.
- Franklin County (Idaho)--Photographs.
- Grace (Idaho)--Photographs.
- Preston (Idaho)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs.
- Preston (Idaho)--Photographs.
- Preston (Idaho)--Social life and customs--Photographs.