A. Russell Mortensen photograph collection

Overview of the Collection

Collector: Mortensen, A. Russell(Arlington Russell)
Title: A. Russell Mortensen photograph collection
Dates: 1850-1920 (inclusive)
18501920
Quantity: 2 boxes
Collection Number: P0201
Summary: The A. Russell Mortensen photograph collection contains primarily photographs of scenes from the American West. Includes some stills from television westerns and some portraits of A. Russell Mortensen at various public functions.
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 Description

Mortensen is a historian and writer of western history. He is a former director of the Utah State Historical Society and is a past editor of the American West magazine. His collection consists of photographs he has used and collected for articles on Western history and cover such topics as prominent people, Alaskan history and towns, covered wagons, sod houses, the depression years, Kansas history, mining, railroads, windmills, and portraits of other Western writers such as Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto. Also included is a small collection of postcards from abroad.

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Use of the Collection

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.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Collection is arranged alphabetically by topic and contains one addendum.

Separated Materials

Audio-visual materials were transferred to the A. Russell Mortensen audio-visual collection (A0417).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: American West Publishing Company
  - Photograph number 1-2: Mortenson with leaders of American West Publishing Company
  Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Alamo
  - Photograph number 3-6: 2 prints, one taken in 1849, and 2 drawings of the Alamo, the first United States Fort established in Texas.
  Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Alaska, Klondike Gold Rush
  - Photograph number 7-16: Cities
  - Photograph number 17-21: Buildings
  - Photograph number 22-31: People
  - Photograph number 32-33: Treadwell Operations
  - Photograph number 34: Gold Nuggetts
  - Photograph number 35-38: Scaling Mountains
  - Photograph number 39-52: Boats, Ships
  Dates: 1898
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 3-5
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Avalanches
  - Photograph number 53-54: Destruction caused by avalanches
  Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Barbed Wire
  - Photograph number 55-60: Inventors
  - Photograph number 61-71: Wire
  Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Buffalo
  - Photograph number 72-75: Buffalo Hunting
  Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Cable Cars
  - Photograph number 76: San Francisco Cable Car
  - Photograph number 77: Drawing of a cable track
  Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: California
  - Photograph number 78-79: Views of early California
  Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: California Missions
  - Photograph number 80-81: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
  - Photograph number 82-84: Restored Mission Buildings
  Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Canada
  - Photograph number 85-90: Cyprus Hills, Saskatchewan
  Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Cattle
  - Photograph number 91-93: Cattle Drive
  Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Colorado
  - Photograph number 94-95: Cartoons, Posters concerning union strikes
  - Photograph number 96: Fort Garland, Colo.
  - Photograph number 97-98: Miscellaneous
  Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Colorado Skiing
  - Photograph number 99-101: Skiing
  - Photograph number 102: Dogsled
  Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Covered Wagons
  - Photograph number 103-107: Wagon trains, dating from 1867
  Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Custer, Armstrong and Elizabeth
  - Photograph number 108: Portrait of Custer
  - Photograph number 109: Social Gathering with Custer Family circa 1874
  - Photograph number 110-112: Manuscript written by Elizabeth Custer
  Container: Box 1, Folder 17
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Depression
  - Photograph number 113-115: Dwellings
  - Photograph number 116-126: People
  Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Desert
  - Photograph number 127-131: Vegetation
  - Photograph number 132-134: Lanscape
  Container: Box 1, Folder 19
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Dime Novels and Magazines
  - Photograph number 135-142: Title Pages
  Container: Box 1, Folder 20
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Fort Vancouver
  - Photograph number 143: Painting from 1840s
  Container: Box 1, Folder 21
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Frewen, Moreton
  - Photograph number 144-145: Portraits
  - Photograph number 146: Birthplace
  - Photograph number 147: Card from President Theodore Roosevelt
  Container: Box 1, Folder 22
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Fur Trade
  - Photograph number 148-149: Fur records
  Container: Box 1, Folder 23
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Hawaii
  - Photograph number 150-153: Copies of a lease agreement
  Container: Box 1, Folder 24
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Homes, Sod, Logs
  - Photograph number 154-160: Sod Homes circa 1880-1890 Kansas
  - Photograph number 161-162: Log Homes
  Container: Box 1, Folder 25
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Indians
  - Photograph number 163-172: Portraits from "The Last of the Buffalo Indians." By John C. Ewers.
  - Photograph number 173: Indian farm in Delaware reservation, Kansas
  Container: Box 1, Folder 26
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Kansas
  - Photograph number 174: Stagecoach
  - Photograph number 175-179: Communities
  - Photograph number 180: Army
  - Photograph number 181: Steamboat
  - Photograph number 182-186: People
  - Photograph number 187-190: Buildings
  Dates: Circa 1870
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Kansas, present day
  - Photograph number 191-208: Buildings
  - Photograph number 209-212: Landscape
  - Photograph number 213-215: Agriculture
  - Photograph number 216-224: Industry
  - Photograph number 225-232: Monuments
  - Photograph number 233-240: Miscellaneous
  Container: Box 2, Folder 2-3
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Maps
  - Photograph number 241-243: Various Maps
  Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Mark Twain Stories
  - Photograph number 244-246: Reprints of 1860s published stories
  Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Mining
  - Photograph number 247-254: Miners
  - Photograph number 255-260: Towns
  - Photograph number 261-265: Mining Papers
  Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Mining, Eureka, Nevada
  - Photograph number 266-267: Equipment
  - Photograph number 268-273: Operations
  - Photograph number 274-277: Town and buildings
  Container: Box 2, Folder 7
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Movie Westerns
  - Photograph number 278-280: Actors
  Container: Box 2, Folder 8
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: O'Sullivan, Timothy
  - Photograph number 281-284: O'Sullivan and others
  - Photograph number 285-286: Expedition camps
  - Photograph number 287-289: Landscape
  - Photograph number 290: Indians
  - Photograph number 291: Observatory in Ogden
  Container: Box 2, Folder 9
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Photography
  - Photograph number 292: Early photography, Alexander Gardner, traveling in Kansas with his mobile dark room.
  Container: Box 2, Folder 10
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Portraits
  - Photograph number 293-294: William F. Cody
  - Photograph number 295: Colonel John S. Ford
  - Photograph number 296-297: Wallace Stegner
  - Photograph number 298-299: Peter Skene Ogden
  - Photograph number 300-301: James Bowie
  - Photograph number 302-305: Bernard DeVoto
  - Photograph number 306: Senator William E. Borah
  - Photograph number 307: General Crook
  - Photograph number 308: Richard Henry Dana
  - Photograph number 309: Henry A. Boller
  - Photograph number 310: Mrs. J. J. Brown, Molly Tobin Margaret
  - Photograph number 311: Major John Owen
  - Photograph number 312-319: Miscellaneous
  Container: Box 2, Folder 11
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Railroads
  - Photograph number 320-325: Locomotives and cars
  - Photograph number 326-331: Workers
  Container: Box 2, Folder 12
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Redwoods
  - Photograph number 332-341: Trees, circa 1900
  Container: Box 2, Folder 13
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Salt Lake City, Utah
  - Photograph number 342: ZCMI circa 1900
  Container: Box 2, Folder 14
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Spanish Boarderlands
  - Photograph number 343: San Xavier Mission, Tuscan, Arizona
  - Photograph number 344: Cartridge box used by Spanish
  - Photograph number 345-352: Negatives of interior, exterior views of Spanish churches
  Container: Box 2, Folder 15
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Television Westerns
  - Photograph number 353-361: "Gunsmoke"
  - Photograph number 362-366: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
  - Photograph number 367-369: "Rawhide"
  - Photograph number 370: "Bonanza"
  - Photograph number 371-381: Movies
  Container: Box 2, Folder 16
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Utah
  - Photograph number 382: Grave of Elijah Averett, killed in Indian campaigns in 1866
  - Photograph number 383: John Wetherill's initials of rock near Hole-in-the-Rock trail
  - Photograph number 384-386: Miscellaneous
  Container: Box 2, Folder 17
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Utah Historical Society and Bishop Dwyer
  - Photograph number 387-391: Utah Historical Society and Bishop Dwyer (1952)
  Dates: 1952
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 18
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Windmills
  - Photograph number 392-398: Views of various types of windmills used in farming
  Container: Box 2, Folder 19
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Miscellaneous
  - Photograph number 399: Ross Browne cartoon
  Container: Box 2, Folder 20
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Miscellaneous artwork
  - Photograph number 400-415: Artwork
  - Photograph number 416: Bicentenial Histories
  Container: Box 2, Folder 21
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Mortensen
  - Photograph number 417-421: Mortensen with Colleagues
  Container: Box 2, Folder 22
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Miscellaneous Photos (Addendum)
  - Photograph number 422: Speaking with a young man (political setting)
  - Photograph number 423: Caricature
  - Photograph number 424: Washington D. C., October 6, 1975, National Park Service (NPS): Soviet delegation on historic preservation and tourism visits under joint US/USSR Environtmental Agreement. Left to Right: Georgii P. Krutenko (facing in background), Mark A. Orlov, Mrs. Mortensen, Lee H. Nelson and Mr. Russell Mortenson.
  Container: Box 2, Folder 23
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Russian Postcards (Addendum)
  - Photograph number 425-538: Postcards of a number of places in Russia
  Container: Box 2, Folder 24
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns
- Description: Miscellaneous (Addendum)
  - Photograph number 539: Catholic leader
  - Photograph number 540: A. Russell Mortensen
  - Photograph number 541: 1974, Annual Meeting for State Historic Preservation Officers. Russell Dickerson, Roy A. Taylor, A. L. Honeycutt, A. R. Mortensen
  - Photograph number 542: Ernest Allan Connally and A. R. Mortenson, 1973
  - Photograph number 543: Mortenson with Mrs. Donald Spicer, President General, in Washington D. C., 1973
  - Photograph number 544: Mortensen elected President AASLH. Photograph taken in the Portrait Gallery, Washington D. C.
  Container: Box 2, Folder 25
  
  Location: Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns

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Subject Terms

Western television programs

Geographical Names

West (U.S.)--History--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

Photographic prints--1849-1952
Television stills--1948-1952

A. Russell Mortensen photograph collection, 1850-1920

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Separated Materials

Detailed Description of the Collection

Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns

Scenes from the American West and stills from television Westerns

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Geographical Names

Form or Genre Terms