Descriptive Summary
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-8248
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
UUS_P0133
Snell,
Heber Cyrus, 1883-1974.
Heber C. Snell photograph collection
1909-1973
1909-1940
2 boxes
1.25 linear ft.
The Heber Snell Photograph collection consists of 16
portraits and snapshots of Heber Snell and his colleagues from 1909 until the 1960s.
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Heber C. Snell photograph collection must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Heber C. Snell photograph collection, 1909-1973. (P0133). Utah State University. Special
Collections & Archives Department.
Photographs removed from the Heber C. Snell papers, 1899-1974 (COLL MSS 32).
Register completed by Peter Schmid, June 1997, and revised by Daniel Davis, July 2006.
Biographical Note
Dr. Heber Cyrus Snell was born on January 16, 1883 in Spanish Fork to Rufus P. and Ellen
C. Snell. He married Hedwig E. Stauffer on September 6, 1905 in the Logan LDS Temple.
Hedwig died on June 8, 1945 in Pocatello and he then married Phoebe Linford Rees on June
23, 1947. He died on February 1, 1974 in Logan. At his death he had four living children
and seventeen grandchildren.
Dr. Snell served an LDS mission in Chicago and attended Brigham Young University
graduating in 1912. He served as principal of the San Luis Academy in Manassa, Colorado
and the Big Horn Academy in Cowley, Wyoming and as superintendent of schools in Lovell,
Wyoming. Dr. Snell graduated from the University of Utah with the M.S. degree and
received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. He was a teacher of psychology
and education at Snow College and the director of the LDS Institute of Religion at Idaho
State University. In 1945 he joined the faculty of the Logan LDS Institute of Religion.
He was the author of three books: Ancient Israel: Its Story and
Meaning, Through the Years, and Gospel References.
Arrangement: Topical.
The Heber Snell Photograph collection consists of 16 portraits and snapshots of Heber
Snell and his colleagues from 1909 until the 1960s. These photographs were donated to
Special Collections & Archives in 1971 and 1976 as part of the Heber Snell
Manuscript Collection MS 32.
Heber C. Snell papers COLL MS 32
Images
Snell, Heber
Cyrus, 1883-1974--Photographs.
Snell family--Photographs.
Institute of
Religion (Pocatello, Idaho)--Photographs.
Brigham
Young University--Students--Photographs.
Mormons--Idaho--Pocatello--Photographs.
Container List
1
1
1:01:01
Portrait, Heber C. Snell. Photograph by Hy.
Hercher, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1909
1
2
1:02:01
Portrait, Heber C. Snell upon graduation from
Brigham Young University. Photograph by Larson & Nygreen, Provo, Utah
1912
1
3
1:03:01
Group portrait, Heber C. Snell with J.T. Dewsnup,
T.G. Jackson, B.S. Tippetts, Nephi K. Nelson, Leo W. Pack, James Clive[?], Joseph
T. Lloyd, William B. Lowry, T.W. Abbott, E. Chamberlain, J.H. Kofoed, A.H.
Woodruff, George H. Barney, and Henry Chamberlain
undated
1
4
1:04:01
Portrait, Heber C. Snell upon graduation from the
University of Utah. Photograph by TaDell Studio, Salt Lake City, Utah
1914
1
5
1:05:01
Portrait, George Alden Snell (brother of H.C.
Snell)
1940-1949
1
6
1:06:01-02
Snapshots, Heber C. Snell with friends
1910-1919
1
6
1:06:03
Snapshot, Heber C. Snell upon graduation from the
University of Chicago
1939
1
6
1:06:04
Snapshot, Heber C. Snell and wife, Hedwig, in
Chicago
1939
1
6
1:06:05-06
Heber C. Snell
1950
1
6
1:06:07
Snell and others at the dedication of the LDS
Institute of Religion at Pocatello, Idaho
1965
1
6
1:06:08
Snell giving the sermon at the funeral of Joseph
Anderson in a Richfield, Utah chapel
1960-1969
1
6
1:06:09
Color snapshot, Heber C. Snell in Logan, Utah with
second wife Phoebe and sons and daughters Esmond, Vesta Francis, Loree, and
Hillman
1973
2
2:01
Group portrait, Heber C. Snell, faculty, and part
of the student body of the San Luis Academy in Manassa, Colorado
1913-1914
2
2:02
Group portrait, the White and Blue staff at
Brigham Young University: Olive Maben, John Russon, Ethel Smith, King, A.G.
Ashman, Earl J. Glade, Clarence Jacobs, Joseph K. Nichols, Heber G. Snell, Thetha
Hardy, and Roy Gardner. Photograph by The Anderson & Larson Studio, Provo,
Utah
1907-1908