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Archives West provides access to descriptions of primary sources in the western United States, including correspondence, diaries or photographs. Digital reproductions of the materials are available in some cases.
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June 20, 2025 9:13 am
Jackie Biskupski papers, 2004-2020
University of Utah Libraries, Special CollectionsThe Jackie Biskupski papers (2004-2020) consist primarily of correspondence, project proposals, legislative material, and ephemera from Biskupski's time as the 35th Mayor of Salt Lake City. Biskupski was Salt Lake City's first openly gay mayor, and the second female mayor after Deedee Corradini. She served from 2016 to 2020.
June 19, 2025 1:57 pm
Mary Muir photograph collection, 1918-2015
University of Utah Libraries, Special CollectionsThe Mary Muir photograph collection contains copy prints, negatives, and slides related to Muir's writing and research into artist LeConte Stewart.
June 19, 2025 12:45 pm
Cristina Biaggi photograph collection, 1935-2013
University of Utah Libraries, Special CollectionsThe Cristina Biaggi photograph collection contains photographs of Cristina Biaggi throughout her life, with family and friends. The collection also contains photographs of the memorial of Marija Gimbutas and David Emerson Reiser.
June 18, 2025 8:24 am
Jane Post Andrews collection, 1900-1936
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and ArchivesSwimsuits and University of Idaho memorabilia from Jane Post Andrews.
June 18, 2025 7:19 am
Ethel Bennion herbarium collection, 1905
University of Utah Libraries, Special CollectionsThe Ethel Bennion herbarium collection (1905) consists of one volume of collected dried plant specimens. Each specimen is accompanied by a written plant description and classification. All plants were collected in Utah by Bennion in the following locations: University of Utah campus, Taylorsville, City Creek Canyon, and Cottonwood Canyon.
June 17, 2025 8:58 am
Gordon Gilkey Collection, 1968-2021
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research CenterGordon W. Gilkey (1912-2000) was a professor in the Art Department and the first dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State College (later Oregon State University), artist, and responsible for removing Nazi war art. The Gordon Gilkey Collection contains material primarily related to Gilkey’s work in the art world and establishing an Oregon Study Center at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Most of the material was not created by Gilkey but is about him.
June 17, 2025 8:34 am
OSU Promise Internship Program Collection, 1991-2017
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research CenterThe Oregon State University (OSU) Promise Internship Program Collection details the various operations of the Promise Internship Program from its foundation in 1992 until 2017. The program was designed to provide compensated and mentored professional, technical, and managerial work experience in local and state agencies for students from underrepresented communities. This collection is entirely digital and available upon request.
June 16, 2025 3:05 pm
The Idaho trials and Clarence Darrow, 1967
University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and ArchivesThis collection contains materials related to the conspiracy trials of the Western Federation of Miners for the murder of Frank Steunenburg, former governor of Idaho. James McParland, Harry Orchard, Big Bill Haywood, and Clarence Darrow were all important people in the trial.
June 16, 2025 2:58 pm
Bruno family scrapbooks and souvenir book, circa 1932-1980
Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryTwo scrapbooks and a souvenir book relating to Thaddeus B. Bruno (1907-1997) and Wanda Starr Bruno (later Wanda Alles, 1914-1984) of Portland, Oregon. The scrapbooks include photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. The souvenir book is for the beauty competition at the Century of Progress Exposition held in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, which Wanda Starr Bruno competed in. Thaddeus B. Bruno worked in real estate and Republican politics and was civically active; he and Wanda Starr Bruno were married from 1934 to 1944.
June 16, 2025 12:03 pm
Laramie Railroad Depot Association records, 2016
American Heritage Center, University of WyomingThe Laramie Railroad Depot Association, established in 2009 following the transfer of the historic depot from the Laramie Plains Museum, is dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich railroad heritage of Albany County. This collection contains oral history interviews and transcripts from the project “Tales from the Rails” which was conducted in 2016.
