Southern Slavic photograph collection, 1897-1947

Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places

• Description: Bingham Canyon

  • 1: Serbian Lodge Meeting Highland Boy, Phoenix, Bingham Canyon, Utah, circa 1908, with Joe Melich, owner of store and home in background, in center of picture with sword resting on shoulders. Nicholo Bogdonovich (later Bogden) standing to left of American flag. Center of Zorka Bogden; Midvale, Utah. Negative available
  • 2: Serbian Lodge Highland Boy, circa 1914. Negative available

  Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Castlegate

  • 3: Looking northwest from center of Castle Gate with "helper" engine on track in center of picture, circa 1925
  • 4: Flood damage at Castlegate, Utah, circa 1920-1930
  • 5: Flood damage at Castlegate, Utah in the 1920s
  • 6: Castlegate Railyards, 1920
  • 7-10: Castlegate, Utah, March, 1924, after the mine disaster. Negative available

  Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Funerals

  • 11: Pete Borich Funeral (Serbian)
  • 12: Funeral of Milan Thomas Slovenc funeral, Roman Catholic priest officiating, Helper area, in the early 1930s. Priest possibly Monseignor Rule. Negative available

  Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Helper

  • 13: Men posing with beer in Helper. circa 1922
  • 14: Helper Bakery; Helper, Utah, 1920
  • 15: Helper in the 1920s
  • 16: A. Dolinsky (left) and John Skerl in Dolinsky's bar in 1914 when Skerl worked there. Helper. Negative available
  • 17: Parade in Helper, July 4, 129?
  • 18: Looking at downtown Helper from southeast. Spring, 1934
  • 19: Helper in the late 1920s
  • 20: Helper Depot and Yards, 1920
  • 21: Helper School, 1928
  • 22: Helper, Utah Helper engine, D. & R.G. R.R, circa 1930
  • 23: Two Slovenian noncommissioned officers of the Imperial Austrian 78th Infantry Division, 90th Infantry Regt. Company 6, while home on leave in 1915 en route to the Italian front. Person on left unidentified, Nitsola Chesnik (right). Helper, Utah
  • 24: First Grade School Student Body in Helper, 1895(?)
  • 25: Slovenian Second Lieutenant (Unterleutnant) Infantry Regiment, Carpathian Front, 1916, while home on leave, February 1916. Anton Chesnik. Imperial Austrian Army. Helper, Utah
  • 26: Helper City Band, circa 1935
  • 27: John Vieta (behind counter), Barney Vieta (holding glove),person in back unidentified, Luke Carmoni, Rudy Rebol(leaning agaist cash register). Vieta Store in Helper, 1930. Negative available
  • 28: John Grigorc, shoemaker in Helper from 1921-1933(?). Negative available
  • 29: John Skerl inside the Mutual Mercantile Co. in Helper, 1925. Negative available
  • 30: Mrs. John Skerl (right), with daughter, 1920. Negative available
  • 31: Employees of the Mutual Mercantile Company during inventory of 1925. John Skerl (fourth from left) pictured as well. Negative available

  Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Midvale

  • 32: Sweti Sava Church in Midvale, about 1922; similar to the church of the same name in Sacramento, California

  Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Miners

  • 33: Miners' children in Kenilworth, 1938. Negative available
  • 34: Coal miners at the end of their shift, 1926. Negative available
  • 35: Constructing coke ovens (Carbon Co.), circa 1900

  Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: People

  • 36: John Duroskovic and family, 1916, after arrival back in Salt Lake City from national convention, Crotion Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Negative available
  • 37: Slovenian Lodge Meeting in Standardville in 1932. Negative available
  • 38: Picnic, circa 1933, miners and families
  • 39: Storrs Bakery Delivery Truck, circa 1924
  • 40-41: Parade near Riverside Park
  • 42: Miners' children, early 1920s
  • 43-44: Group outside Helper, Utah. (No.43 Negative available)
  • 45: Interior of Millerich Hall, in Spring Glen in 1930, People not identified. Negative available
  • 46: Party Group with beer keg
  • 47: Unidentified group of men

  Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Price

  • 48: Locomotive at Price depot, 1916
  • 49: Price Railroad Station in the 1920s
  • 50: John Skerl in front of his rented home in Price in 1918, Automobile is 1917 Buick. Negative available
  • 51: Standardville, Utah, 1904
  • 52: Price, Utah in the 1920s
  • 53: Savoy Hotel under construction ?? Price, Utah
  • 54: Tavern in Price or Helper, circa 1924

  Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Spring Canyon

  • 55: Derailment, Spring Canyon, 1947
  • 56: Storr's Bakery, Storrs, Spring Canyon, west of Helper, 1921
  • 57: Child by auto, Spring Canyon, Utah, 1929
  • 58: Elegante Delivery truck and driver, Spring Canyon, Utah, 1926

  Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Sunnyside

  • 59: Girls in old car at Sunnyside, Utah, 1930
  • 60: Andersen Family Homestead, Clearcreek, Utah, 1904
  • 61: Miners' housing at Sunnyside. Picture published in Utah Historical Quarterly
  • 62: Payday in Sunnyside, Utah, 1897. (Purportedly, Butch Cassidy robbed this particular payroll, hence the empty "paybucket" in center of picture)

  Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Weddings

  • 63: Double wedding of Manda and Rosa Brjakovich to two Tomsic brothers. Priest is Father Giovanni, behind whom is Mr. and Mrs. John Skerl, 1918. Negative available
  • 64: Serbian wedding, Midvale, Utah, circa 1924. Bride-Anitsa Dragosavac, Kum-Rade Chanak, Groom-Rade Marinbovich, Kuma-Anitsa Chanak, Negative available
  • 65-72: Unidentified wedding
  • 73: Charter Obiilich i Dusan Sub-Assembly, Serb National Federation. Negative only

  Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Austria-Hungary (Addendum)

  • 74: South Slav Officer, January 1916
  • 75: Slovenes in Imperial Army, Feruary 1915

  Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Bingham, Utah (Addendum)

  • 76: Serbian Lodge Meeting, 1912
  • 77: Serbian Lodge Meeting, 1908

  Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Bingham Canyon, Utah (Addendum)

  • 78: Serbian Lodge Meeting, 1908

  Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Calabria, Italy (Addendum)

  • 79: Family ready to emigrate, 1913

  Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Carbon County, Utah (Addendum)

  • 80: Slav Miners, 1919
  • 81: Coal Miners, 1910
  • 82: Picnic, 1938
  • 83: Payday with out payroll, circa 1890-1900
  • 84-85: A Mormon homestead, circa 1900
  • 86: Immigration Children, circa 1925
  • 87: Italian Family portrait, undated

  Container: Box 1, Folder 17
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Castle Gate, Utah (Addendum)

  • 88: Building the coking ovens, circa 1900
  • 89-91: Castle Gate Disaster, 1924
  • 92: Coke Ovens, crica 1924
  • 93: Croat Funeral, circa 1936
  • 94: Castle Gate, undated

  Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Helper, Utah (Addendum)

  • 95: First school children in Helper, 1890s
  • 96: Parade, 1910
  • 97: Oldest building in Helper, undated
  • 98: Train Arriving, undated
  • 99: Welcome to Helper, 1934
  • 100: Helper Main Street, circa 1914
  • 101: Railroad yards, undated
  • 102: The Baker, 1923
  • 103: Helper Dentral School, 1925
  • 104: Croatian Wedding, 1920
  • 105: City band of Helper, 1932
  • 106: Italian Store, 1932
  • 107: Dolinsky's Bar and Saloon, circa 1914
  • 108-109: Mutual Mercantile Co., circa 1924
  • 110: Italian Wedding, 1925
  • 111: Immigrant's child, 1929
  • 112: Helper Engine and Crew circa, 1924
  • 113: The Shoemaker, circa 1928
  • 114: A Slovenian double wedding, undated

  Container: Box 1, Folder 19
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Midvale, Utah (Addendum)

  • 115: Serbian church, 1920
  • 116: Serb funeral, circa 1934
  • 117: John Dunoskovich and family, 1916
  • 118: Serbian Orthodox church, circa 1921
  • 119: Serbian Wedding, circa 1923
  • 120: Baptism, circa 1919
  • 121: Immigrant children, circa 1915

  Container: Box 1, Folder 20
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Price, Utah (Addendum)

  • 122: Price, circa 1918
  • 123-132: Carbon County strike, 1933
  • 133-134: Price, circa 1918
  • 135: Building the Savoy Hotel, undated
  • 136: Railroad Depot, undated
  • 137: Price, circa 1918
  • 138: Mother and child, circa 1916
  • 139: John Skerl and Children, summer 1918
  • 139a: Group photo, wedding party?, undated

  Container: Box 1, Folder 21
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Spring Canyon, Utah (Addendum)

  • 140: Coal Camp, 1910
  • 141: Train Derailment, circa 1946
  • 142: Prohibition in Carbon County, circa 1924
  • 143: Elegante's Delivery Truck, circa 1924
  • 144: Girls in car, undated

  Container: Box 1, Folder 22
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Spring Glen, Utah (Addendum)

  • 145: Millerich Hall, circa 1919

  Container: Box 1, Folder 23
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Standardville, Utah (Addendum)

  • 146: Standardville, 1914
  • 147-148: Slovenian Lodge Meeting, 1922

  Container: Box 1, Folder 24
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Storrs, Utah (Addendum)

  • 149: Bakery, circa 1925
  • 150: Bakery, circa 1930
  • 151: Delivery Truck, 1925

  Container: Box 1, Folder 25
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Sunnyside , Utah (Addendum)

  • 152: Flood Damage, undated
  • 153: Sunnyside, Utah, circa 1904
  • 154: Flood Damage, undated
  • 155: Power plant and crew, circa 1924

  Container: Box 1, Folder 26
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: No place listed (Addendum)

  • 156: George Zagorich funeral, Serbian, undated

  Container: Box 1, Folder 27
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places
• Description: Oversize (Folder 12)

  • 66: Sons of Italy celebrating Columbus Day
  • 67: SSCU 15th National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1936. (right side), Negative available
  • 68: SSCU 15th National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio, September 1936. (left side), Negative available
  • 69: Serbian Volunteers, Sussex, N.B. circa 1914. Negative available
  • 70: Serbian Volunteers, Sussex, N.B. circa 1914. Negative available
  • 71: Serbian Volunteers, Sussex, N.B. circa 1914. Negative available
  • 72: Serbian Volunteers, Sussex, N.B. circa 1914. Negative available

  Container: Box 2
  Location: Utah's South Slav community photographs of individuals, groups, meetings, families, events, and places