UUM_P0740.xml Luretta Young photograph collection Young (Luretta) photograph collection Finding aid created by Mary Ann Curtis J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections

2000 (last modified: 2018, 2025)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-11-13. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Luretta Young photograph collection Young, Luretta, 1899-1988 P0740 .25 linear feet 1 archives box 4 items 1960-1979 The Luretta Young photograph collection consists of images of the presidencies, council and members of the Wasatch BPW during the 1970s. English

Luretta Adeline Wagner Young (1899-1988) was born on 26 September 1899, in Woodstock, Illinois. She trained as a teacher at the Northern Illinois Normal School in DeKalb and taught elementary school in Illinois and Utah. In 1926 she married Rawlins Byrns Young, with whom she had two sons and three daughters. In addition to teaching, Young also worked as an inventory control clerk, a ten-key operator, an enumerator for the U.S. Census Bureau, a cashier, and as the head bookkeeper for the Salt Lake County Assessor's office.

Young was active in the Democratic Party and had a lifelong interest in politics. She also served on various committees in such organizations as the Utah Women's Conservation Council, the League of Women Voters, and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, the Wasatch Business and Professional Women, the Friends of the Earth, the AFL-CIO, and the Utah Association of Retired Public Employees. After the death of Rawlins Young, Sr., in 1966, Luretta traveled and immersed herself in various causes while continuing to record the activities of the Young family. She died in Salt Lake City on 27 March 1988.

Luretta Young was a teacher, bookkeeper, and was active in Utah politics and the AFL-CIO. She was a member of the League of Women Voters, the Veterans of Foreign War Auxiliary, the Wasatch Business and Professional Women, the Women's State Legislative Council, and various other professional and fraternal organizations. Young was interested in civil rights issues and in environmental protection and women's rights. This collection includes photographs of the presidencies, council and members of the Wasatch BPW during the 1970s.

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See aso the Luretta Young papers (ACCN 1060) located in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

 Wasatch Business and Professional Women--Photographs Utah Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs--Photographs Women--Utah--Societies and clubs--Photographs Women Clubs and Societies color photographs Group portraits Wasatch BPW 1 1 1: Conservation Council, 1978-1979. Back Row is Virginia Picht; Seated, far right is Luretta Young. 2: Officers of BPW, 1975. Far left is Nellie Jack. Second from left is Luretta Young. 3: Wasatch BPW members, 1975. Luretta Young is located on the top row, third from the right. 4: Wasatch BPW. Luretta Young is located on the second row, far left.