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Northern Utah Mormon Food Storage Fieldwork collection, 1975-2002
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Utah State University, Special Collections and Archives
- Title
- Northern Utah Mormon Food Storage Fieldwork collection
- Dates
- 1975-2002 (inclusive)19752002
- Quantity
- 5 boxes, (4 linear feet)
- Collection Number
- UUS_Folk Coll 59
- Summary
- This collection represents interviews and documentary photographs regarding Mormon food storage activities carried out by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Cache Valley, Utah, during 1992-2002.
- 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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No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
This collection represents interviews and documentary photographs regarding Mormon food storage activities carried out by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Cache Valley, Utah, during 1992–2002. The collection includes information surrounding key aspects of this foodways tradition, including gardening, food processing, food storage systems, food storage usage, and beliefs surrounding the Church members’ food preservation practices.
The collection stems from Randy Williams’s (USU Fife Folklore Archives Curator and folklorist) research on the belief attitudes surrounding the Church of Jesus Christ members’ food storage activities. Williams writes, “foodways are a conduit of culture used to teach and perpetuate group identity and values. Ripe with semiotic meaning and functions, foodways are often used to express a group’s collectively held beliefs (think eggs used for Christian Easter celebrations, roasted lamb shank bone during the Jewish Passover Seder, or dates to break fasting during the Muslim commemoration of Ramadan). Because folk ideas reflect a group’s ‘traditional notions’ about their place in the world, folk ideas contain their ‘underlying assumptions’ and serve as the ‘building blocks’ used to construct the group’s worldview.” For many members of the Church of Jesus Christ, the belief in and practice of food storage conceptualizes their millennial worldview.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
Cassette Tapes
Images, slides, prints
Fieldnotes
Ephemera
Restrictions on Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Northern Utah Mormon food storage fieldwork collection must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Preferred Citation
Initial Citation: UUS_Folk Coll 59; Northern Utah Mormon Food Storage Fieldwork collection; Fife Folklore Archives, Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations:USU_Folk Coll 59, USUSCA.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Collection arranged by interview chronologically by date and year.
Preservation Note
Materials in this collection include interview media (sound), transcript and associated materials, such as photographs, slides, and curriculum vitae, etc.
Custodial History
After the deposit of interview materials by the collector (interviewer) and/or interviewee, Utah State University Special Collections become the custodian of the material.
Acquisition Information
This collection was acquired by Randy Williams (USU Fife Folklore Curator and folklorist). The collection represents interviews and documentary photographs related to William's fieldwork.
Processing Note
Processed in December of 2019
Related Materials
Folk Collection 17: The Jay Anderson Foodways Collection donated by folklorist Jay Anderson. The collection includes historic cookbooks.
Folk Collection 17a - Foodways Collection includes books on foodways purchased by USU Libraries.
Folk Collection 17b The Jay Anderson Foodways Research Collection.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Cassette TapesReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box | ||
1 | Tape 1: Side A and B:
Boyd and Phyllis Smart - water storage container (1 of 4) [Click to access]
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2002 September 02 |
Tape 2: Side A part 1:
Julie Osborne - food storage room in newly constructed home (2 of 2) [Click to access]
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1995 June 29 | |
Tape 2: Side A part 3:
Boyd and Phyllis Smart - water storage container (4 of 4) [Click to access]
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1995 June 29 | |
Tape 2: Side B:
Sarah N. looking at papers [Click to access]
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1995 June 30 | |
Tape 2: Side A part 2:
Canal near the Williams family residence [Click to access]
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1995 June 29 |
SlidesReturn to Top
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Item 75:
Irrigated crops [Click to access]
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Item 93:
Sarah N. children [Click to access]
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Fieldwork and WritingReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
3 | 1 | 1995 June 30 | |
3 | 2 | 1995 June 29 | |
3 | 3 | 1995 June 29 | |
3 | 4 | 1995 June 29 | |
3 | 5 | 2002 September 09 | |
3 | 6 | Transcript of interview with Virginia Carlson Parker; September 13, 2002 |
2002 September 13 |
3 | 7 | Transcript of interview with Jerry A. Wilson; September 13, 2002 |
2002 September 13 |
3 | 8 | Transcript of interview with Cari D. Storwold; April 4, 1995 |
1995 April 04 |
3 | 9 | Transcript of interview with Julie Huppi; 1991 |
1991 |
3 | 10 | Summary of interview with Reva Wallis with obituary |
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3 | 11 | Interview with Roma Freeman; 1991 |
1991 |
3 | 12 | Interview with Ruth Allen Skidmore; 1991 |
1991 |
3 | 13 | Interview with Ann Gardner; 1991 |
1991 |
3 | 14 | Interview with Lucille Campbell; 1991 |
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3 | 15 | Interview with Brent Bastian; 1991 |
1991 |
3 | 16 | Interview with Edna Griffiths Thompson; 1991 |
1991 |
3 | 17 | Interview with Lisa Hales McBride; 1991 |
1991 |
3 | 18 | Interview with Joyce Johnson Stuart; 1992 |
1992 |
3 | 19 | Interview with Barbara Walker; December 16, 1992 |
1992 December 16 |
3 | 20 | Release Forms for Interviews |
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3 | 21 | 2002 Food Storage Survey with releases |
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3 | 22 | Various Notes by Randy Williams; 1992 |
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3 | 23 | 1992 Food Storage Minimums |
1992 |
3 | 24 | Recipes from various wards in Logan, UT |
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3 | 25 | Food Storage ephemera |
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3 | 26 | lds.org search results for food storage |
2002 |
3 | 27 | Graduate School Paper, "Food Storage and Narrative", March 1993 |
1993 March 23 |
3 | 28 | Presentation for Folklore Society of Utah and Governor's Conference of History; 1992 |
1995 October |
3 | 29 | 1993 Fife Concerence Paper, "Prepare Ye, Prepare Ye For That Which Is To Come": Temporal Practices, Yet Spiritual Beliefs of Mormons |
1993 January 08 |
3 | 30 | 1995 Fife Conference Presentation |
1995 |
3 | 31 | Shaping Papers for Randy Williams' essays and presentations |
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3 | 32 | American Folklore Society Paper 2002 |
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3 | 33 | Journal of American Folklore Submission (not accepted) |
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3 | 34 | "Food Storage: A Performance of Mormon Worldview", 22 December 2016 version for "This is the Plate" |
2002 December 16 |
Fieldwork, 1937-2002Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
4 | 1 | USU Student Collection, Mormon anecdote about the Teton Dam Disaster and food storage |
1981 |
4 | 2 | Newspaper Clippings |
1992 |
4 | 3 | Online queries |
2002 |
4 | 4 | Journal articles (up to 1993 in prep for 1993 authored paper) |
1945-1987 |
4 | 5 | Literature produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on food storage |
1937-2002 |
4 | 6 | Daughters of Utah Pioneers materials on foodways |
2002 |
4 | 7 | Online foodways research from lds.org |
2002 |
4 | 8 | Online foodways research from lds.org |
2002 |
5 | 1 | Online foodways research from lds.org |
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5 | 2 | Online foodways research from lds.org |
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5 | 3 | Online foodways research from Deseret News archive |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Tillage--Utah--Photographs
- Irrigation--North Logan(Utah)--Photographs
- Dwellings--Utah--Photographs
- Folklore--Utah
- Food--Storage--Utah--Photographs
- Oral history--Utah
- Vegetable gardening--Utah--Photographs
- Water--Storage--Utah--Photographs
- Weeds--Control--Utah--Photographs
Personal Names
- Osborne, Julie, Interviews
- Albrechtson, Rulon, Interviews
- Balls, Kendall, Interviews
- Draxler, Marilyn, Interviews
- Gates, Ora, Interviews
- Larson, Doxie, Interviews
- Mays, Debbie, Interviews
- Skidmore, Ruth, Interviews
- Skidmore, William, Interviews
- Thompson, Edna, Interviews
- Thompson, Lili, Interviews
- Williams, Fragne, Interviews
Corporate Names
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Daughters of Utah Pioneers