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Lester H. Mitchell papers, 1920-1943
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Mitchell, Lester H.
- Title
- Lester H. Mitchell papers
- Dates
- 1920-1943 (inclusive)19201943
- Quantity
- .45 cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection Number
- 02393
- Summary
- Repository
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American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu - Access Restrictions
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Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
- Additional Reference Guides
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Additional Information
Finding aid available in repository.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Lester H. Mitchell was an irrigation adviser to the Secretary of the Interior and spent 41 years with the Bureau of Reclamation in the Interior Department. He was project manager of the Yellowstone, Riverton, and Shoshone projects and was responsible for much of the early homestead settlement in those areas. Mitchell also did educational work on water utilization and weed control in the arid west. He was also responsible for making a field survey and report on feasibility and soundness of the irrigation works and lands of Billings Bench Irrigation Association in Montana.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Lester H. Mitchell papers contain a collection of lantern slides with official photographs of the Shoshone Dam Reservoir, Electric Power Plant, and canyon, as well as various dam sites, Glacier National park, Yellowstone National Park, Zion National Park, Boulder Canyon, Bryce Canyon and more.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Copyright InformationThe researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Preferred Citation
Preferred CitationItem Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
ARTICLE: "The Shoshone Federal Irrigation Project" The Midwest Review, March 1927, March 1927Return to Top
Container(s): Box Subject Files, Folder Irr7-Shp
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Biographical sketch of Lester H Mitchell Seven sheetsReturn to Top
Container(s): Box Biographical Files, Folder B-M694-Lh
NEWSCLIPPING: "Lester H Mitchell, Aide for 41 Years In Interior Dept."Return to Top
Container(s): Box Biographical Files, Folder B-M694-Lh
PHOTOGRAPHS:Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | ||
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| Box | Folder | ||
| Photo Subject and Biographical Files | Lester H Mitchell - Photo taken about 1943 |
c. 1943 | |
| Photo Subject and Biographical Files | Lester H Mitchell - Photo taken in Washington, D C office of Bureau of Reclamation about 1940 |
c. 1940 | |
| Photo Subject and Biographical Files | Savage, Montana, Probably taken early 1920's/ Two photos |
early 1920's | |
| Photo Subject and Biographical Files | Lower Yellowstone Project Office - L H Mitchell |
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| Photo Subject and Biographical Files | Official Photographs of the Shoshone Dam Reservoir, Electric Power Plant and Canyon, made and sold by A C Lucien, Powell, Wyoming Thirteen Photographs |
LANTERN SLIDES (listed in order of appearance in cases):Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | |
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| Box | ||
| 1 | Mammoth Paint Pots |
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| 1 | Minidoka Crops - Irrigating potato's |
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| 1 | Soil Depth From Which Water Is Taken by Potatoes |
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| 1 | Harvesting Wheat |
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| 1 | Plowing Field |
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| 1 | Flooding Water |
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| 1 | Thinning Sugar Beets |
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| 1 | Rio Grande Crops - Long staple cotton |
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| 1 | Sugar Beet Crop |
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| 1 | Ground Erosion |
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| 1 | Caledonia Hotel and Bank Building |
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| 1 | Yakima Canal Morrison Canyon Siphon |
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| 1 | Set up for assembly at Babcock and Wilcox Co plant |
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| 1 | Umatilla Equipment - Hauling locomotive |
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| 1 | Outlet, Arizona spillway tunnel Boulder Dam |
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| 1 | Shoshone Dam and Power Plant |
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| 1 | Excelsior Redwood Co Eureka, California |
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| 1 | Boulder City, looking southeast |
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| 1 | Brick Falls Two Medicine River, Glacier Nat Park |
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| 1 | Boating on Mead Lake, Fortification Hill in Back |
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| 1 | Large pineapple plantation, Hawaii |
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| 1 | Sunset - At St Mary's Lake Glacier Nat Park, Mont |
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| 1 | N P Park Down the Canyon from Inspiration Pt |
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| 1 | Bryce Canyon, Utah |
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| 1 | Head of Lake McDonald Glacier Nat Park, Mont |
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| 1 | Shoshone Dam Site |
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| 1 | Minidoka Dam, America Falls |
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| 1 | Wawona Tunnel Tree, Mariposa Grove Cal |
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| 1 | Klamath Flume, Canal 'C' |
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| 1 | Flathead, St Marys Lake, Montana |
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| 1 | Unidentified Dam Site |
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| 1 | "Gov Todd" Mariposa Big Tree Grove, Cal |
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| 1 | Yellowstone, Red Rock - Great Falls |
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| 1 | Shoshone Dam, Comparison in height with capitol |
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| 1 | Old Faithful Inn - Interior of Office |
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| 1 | Crop Scene |
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| 1 | Boulder Canyon Dam, Taken immediately prior to diversion of Colorado River through diversion tunnels No 3 and 4 |
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| 1 | Sheep near Willow Creek Dam |
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| 1 | Yuma Crops, Cotton 74 bales on truck and trailer for Los Angeles |
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| 1 | Fort Peck Indians, Work on Popular River East Canal |
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| 1 | Salt River Culture - Cantaloupes |
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| 1 | Shoshone Crops, Great Northern Beans |
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| 1 | Colorado River Scenic Wind River Range, Wyo |
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| 1 | Sugar Beets |
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| 1 | North Platte Towns, Torrington, Wyo |
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| 1 | Up Old Faithful Inn from Beehive |
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| 1 | Boulder Canyon Dam - Form for radical inspection gallery |
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| 1 | Unidentified Dam |
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| 1 | Root Habits of Oats |
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| 1 | King Hill Ranch Home |
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| 1 | Home of L H Mitchell |
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| 1 | Feeding bear at Canyon |
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| 1 | Beet Field |
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| 1 | UP Fishing Cone Yellowstone Lake |
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| 1 | Excavation operations in deeper middle channel of foundation excavation |
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| 1 | Shoshone Apple crops |
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| 1 | Boulder Canyon - Looking downstream across structure |
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| 1 | Shoshone Stacking alfalfa |
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| 1 | Minidoka High School, Burley |
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| 1 | Shoshone Plum Crop |
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| 1 | Boise Dam - First Batch of concrete |
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| 1 | Boulder Canyon Looking down stream |
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| 1 | Irrigation of fields |
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| 1 | Colorado River Dam - Proposed Town site |
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| 1 | Grand Canyon from Pima Point |
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| 1 | Operating model, dam and power plant, looking downstream |
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| 1 | Concrete gun carriage in diversion tunnel Hoover dam |
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| 1 | Loss of lime through drainage |
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| 1 | Map of Colorado River Basin |
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| 1 | Boulder Canyon Machinery Southwalk Vertical roller |
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| 1 | Shoshone Home in Powell |
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| 1 | Redwood forest Humboldt county, California |
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| 1 | Strawberry Field under Irrigation |
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| 1 | Park Tourists and Bear |
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| 1 | Ft Peck, Indian Labor Camp |
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| 1 | One-Half of the Root System of A Mature Potato Plant |
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| 1 | Boulder dam as it will appear when completed |
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| 1 | Shoshone Beet dump, Powell |
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| 1 | Bryce Canyon, Cathedral Aisle |
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| 1 | Bryce Canyon, Pillars of Hercules from bottom of Canyon |
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| 1 | Babcock and Wilcox Co Plant |
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| 1 | North Platte - Whalen Dam |
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| 1 | Boulder Dam - Showing completed concrete pour |
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| 1 | Potatoes |
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| 1 | A reminder of days gone by |
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| 1 | Making topographic survey in Black Canyon - Nevada side |
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| 1 | Shoshone Farm Home |
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| 1 | Bucking Broncho |
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| 1 | Large City |
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| 1 | B - Conservation |
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| 1 | Shoshone Lake and Teton Mountains |
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| 1 | High scalers working in Arizona abutment |
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| 1 | Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park |
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| 1 | Zion Park, Mountain of the Sun |
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| 1 | Staging in Yosemite Valley, California |
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| 1 | Lovell, Wyoming |
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| 1 | Brome grass on left ditch bank - weeds on right ditch bank |
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| 1 | Shoshone Crops Raspberries |
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| 1 | Kern River Oil Fields near Bakersfield, Calif |
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| 1 | Yellowstone, six horse coachmen party |
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| 1 | Yellowstone Park |
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| 1 | Water hemlock along the shore of Sylvan Lake |
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| 1 | Bromegrass on right of way of a lateral |
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| 1 | Restoration of prehistoric moose |
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| 1 | Zion Park Mountain |
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| 1 | Boulder Canyon Dam Foundation Excavation |
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| 1 | Mountain Lake at base of Mt Whitney - near Kern River Canyon, California |
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| 1 | Grand Canyon - At feet of Teroweep - Colorado River |
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| 1 | Zion Park - Court of Patriarchs |
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| 1 | Unidentified ditch |
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| 1 | President Roosevelt Bolicates Boulder Dam |
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| 1 | Orghen (?) Dam |
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| 1 | Construction of Irrigation causeway near Modesto Calif |
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| 1 | Bryce Canyon - Magic City in middle |
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| 1 | Grand Canyon of the Colorado |
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| 1 | Field of Crops |
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| 1 | Yuma Laguna Day |
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| 1 | Zion Park - Sculpture Rim |
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| 1 | Castle Cape and Beehive Geyser |
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| 1 | Bridge at Grand Canyon |
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| 1 | Soil Depths from which water is taken by beets |
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| 1 | Sugar Beets |
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| 1 | Unidentified water |
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| 1 | John Day Valley and Strawberry Mountain |
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| 1 | Sleeping Valley Giant |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Dams -- West (U.S.)
- Flood dams and reservoirs -- West (U.S.)
- Natural resources -- Management -- West (U.S.)
- Water resources development -- West (U.S.)
Corporate Names
- United States Reclamation Service.
Geographical Names
- Boulder Canyon (Colo.)
- Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)
- Yellowstone National Park.
- Zion National Park (Utah)
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