J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections
Brigham Madsen photograph collection
P0107
3 box
1860-1945
The Brigham Madsen photograph collection contains photographs of freighting and historic freighting sites in the western United States, mostly in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. As well as, copies of photographs used as illustrations in various books on Western history written by Brigham Madsen.
English
Photographs of freighting and historic freighting sites in the Western United Staes (mostly Utah, Idaho and Montana) beginning about 1850 and continuing to the present. Also included are portraits of famous L.D.S. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Church members.
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.
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.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Manuscript materials were transferred to the Brigham Madsen papers (MS 0671).
See also the Brigham Madsen audio-visual collection (A0107).
See also the Brigham Madsen papers (ACCN 0072).
West (U.S.)--Photographs
Freight and freightage--West (U.S.)--History--Photographs
Transportation
Images
Ferrying, Freights, Railroad, Bridges, Houses and Miscellaneous Locations
Ferrying
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- 1-3: Ferryboats
Freight Lines
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- 3-9: Stage Lines
- 10-15: Freight wagons
- 16-18: Freight wagons hauling wool
- 19: Harry Rickard's Ferry
- 20: Prickley Pear Canyon
- 21-30: Montana
- 31: Stage, Fort Wallace
- 32: John Hailey and others, Idaho
Freight lines
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- 33-35: Western Freight trails
- 36-55: Freight Lines
- 56: U.S. Army escort wagon
Idaho
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- 57-64: Freight trail sites in Idaho
- 65-70: Fort Hall, Idaho
- 71: Contact print of Sho-Ban Indian
Manuscript materials
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- 72: Check Issued from Bank of Corinne
- 73: Broadside for a stage line
- 74: Stagecoach ticket
- 75-78 Freight Receipts
- 79-81: Freight correspondence
- 82: Copy of Freight shipment published in the Corinne Reporter July 14, 1871
Maps
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- 83: Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho and Montana (1865)
- 84: The new Northwest
- 85: Military routes, 1867
- 86: Bancroft's map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia
- 87: Bancroft's 1868-Idaho section
- 88: Holt Territory, Idaho
- 89-90: U. S. Western Territories and Pacific States, Rand McNally 1876
Montana
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- 91-107: Freight shipping in Montana
- 108-110: Freight in Virginia City, Montana
- 111-114: Freight in Fort Benton, Montana
- 115-121: Freight in Helena, Montana
- 122-124: Virginia City, Montana
- 125: Beaver Head's Rock
- 126-127: Helena, Montana
Portraits
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- 128: Brigham Young, circa 1850
- 129: Danial S. Tuttle, early Episcopal Bishop of Utah
- 130: Nat Stein-Wells Fargo agent at Virginia City, Montana
- 131: O. J. Salisbury
- 132: J. W. Guthrie (1830), mayor of Corinne, Utah
- 133: Patrick E. Corner, library has negative
Railroads
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- 134: Railroad at Marysville, Montana
- 135: Men working on Union Pacific R. R. (Railroad), circa 1868
- 136: Men working on central Pacific R. R. at Corinne, Utah, circa 1869
- 137: Wagons freighting supplies for construction of Union Pacific R. R.
- 138: Freight train
Stage Lines
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- 139-140: Yellowstone Park stages
- 141-143: Stages in Montana
Utah towns
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- 144: Salt Lake City 1868
- 145: Bear River City
- 146: Hampton's Ford
- 147: Willard City
- 148-153: Corinne, circa 1869
Frontier buildings
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- 154-157: Modern photos of Corinne, Utah
- 158: Modern photo of Bannock City, Montana
- 159: Modern photo of Nevada City, Montana
- 160-162: Modern photos of Virginia City, Montana
- 163: Modern photo of Bear River Crossing
- 164-165: Fort Hall, Idaho in 1849
- 166: Salt Lake City in 1859
- 167: Helena City, Montana
- 168-169: Monida, Montana
Bridges
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- 170: Bear River Crossing, 1871
- 171: Bridge near Helena, Montana
- 172: Bridge at Bear River Crossing
- 173: R. R. Bridge at Idaho Falls
- 174: Bridge
Indians
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- 175-179: Sho-Ban Indians at Fort Hall
- 180-181: Sho-Ban Tepees and Indians at Fort Hall
Portraits
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- 182: Wilber Sanders
- 183: Father P. J. De Smet, 1840
- 184-187: Portraits
Stages and wagons
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- 188: Wagon at Fort Benton, Montana
- 189: Wagon at Fort Canyon Ferry, Montana
- 190: Wagons at Dillon, Montana 1884
- 191: Wagons at Alder Gulch, Montana 1865
- 192-202: Wagons and stages
- 203: Officers of Second U.S. Infantry Camp Stotsenberg P. I. 1906
Western Scenery
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- 204: Modern photo- Red Rock Promentory, Red Rock Creek, Montana
- 205-206: Modern photo-Monida Pass, Montana
- 207: Great Salt Lake (Photo of 1885 drawing)
- 208: Modern photo-Marchel Lake, Idaho
- 209: Modern photo-Signal Peak
- 210: Modern photo-Bear River
- 211: Modern photo-Camas Creek, Idaho
- 212-213: Modern photos-Marsh Valley, Idaho
- 214: Snake River, 26 miles west of Fort Hall, 1871
- 215: Extinct Soda Springs Basin
- 216: Ruby River, Montana, 1868
- 217: Photo of drawing of freight hauling
- 218: Unidentified
Freighting Receipts
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- 219-222: Freighting receipts from Corinne, Utah without prints
- 223-228: Freighting correspondence without prints
- 229-230: Freighting receipts without prints
- 231: Freight correspondence with negative
- 232-236: Freight receipts for Utah and Montana with negatives
Folder Labeled "Corinne"
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- 237: Corinne, Utah, no print
- 238-242: Photos and negatives of Corinne, Utah
- 243: Wasatch Mountains, 1940s
- 244: Drawings of Mormon currency
- 245: Wagon train
- 246-247: Brigham Young
- 248: Daniel Hamner Wells
- 249: George Washington Hill, without print
- 250: Orsen Pratt with negative
- 251: Isaac Zundell, without print
- 252: Lorenzo Snow with negative
- 253: Ann Eliza Webb Young
- 254: Chinese portrait
- 255-257: Shoshoni Indian, Pocatello's Band
- 258: Fort Hall Indian woman, Blackfoot, Idaho. November 1933, no print
- 259: J. K. Trumbo's store in Salt Lake City, no print
- 260: J. K. Trumbo's opposition Co-op sign with negative
- 261: Salt Lake City Tabernacle, 1870 with negative
- 262: Fort Douglas, 1870 with negative
- 263-264: Salt Lake City, 1870s with negatives
- 265: First Train to Salt Lake City, 1870 with negative
- 266: Garfield steamer at Lake Point, Great Salt Lake, 1875, with negative
- 267: Utah Central R.R., Ogden junction, 1873, with negative
Halfway house Illustrations
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- 268: Brigham Young
- 269: Bear River Bridge
- 270: Mormon trail, Big Mountain
- 271: Fort Bridger (1849-1850)
- 272: Bridger's Ferry
- 273: Fort Hall
- 274: Fort Hall
- 275-278: Salt Lake City
Chief Pocatello Book
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- 279: City of Rocks
- 280: Massacre Rocks
- 281 Patrick E. Conner
- 282: Pocatello John
- 283: Pocatello Tom
- 284: Pocatello Pete
- 285: A memeber of the Shoshoni Pocatello Band
- 286-288: Pocatello Indians
- 289: "Snake Cheifs" A. J. Russell photo (1868-1870)
- 290: Paiutes-Baptisms
- 291: "Ration Day"-Fort Hall
North to Montana (Addendum)
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- With a few exceptions, the following images are copy prints. See the back of the prints for the location of the original photographs
- Images of the West circa, 1860, including Native American settlements, western towns, and landscapes from that era. Identified images of towns include; The Red Rock Stage Station (1895), Fort Owen-Montana, Corinne-Utah (1869), Bannack, Salt Lake City-Utah (1867), Helena-Montana (1874),Virginia City-Montana, Bear River-Utah, Fort Benton, Pollinger Station or Gaffney Station, and Whitehall Station
North to Montana (Preface) (Addendum)
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- 1: Early Fort Douglas by Charles Roscoe Savage
- 2-6: 1800s western landscape and Native Americans
- 7-8: Virginia City, Montana. 1864
- 9: Portrait of James Duane Doty
- 10: Image of a painting of the Pony Express Station at Deep Creek
- 11: Image of an 1840 Daguerreotype of Howard Ransom Egan
- 12: Soldiers at Camp Floyd
- 13: "Vigilante Headquarters" at Virginia City, Montana
Illustrations: A Forty-Niner in Utah (Addendum)
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- 1-2: Early Salt Lake City
- 3: Copy negatives of a book. "Preamble and Constitution of the Colony Guard." printed in 1849 by William J. Spence
Photos from Stansbury Book (Addendum)
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- 1: Image of an early map of north Great Salt Lake by the Weber mountains and river
- 2-3: Images of drawings of local plant life
- 4: Portrait of Captain Howard Stansbury
- 5: Portrait of Lt. John Williams Gunison
- 6: Image of unidentified painting
Addendum
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- 1-2: "Lathrop House" in Redwood City, California, and a plaque describing it
- 3: Early view of Stockton, Utah
- 4: Corinne, Utah in 1869
- 5-6: Unidentified
- 7: Walker House in Salt Lake City, Utah
- 8: Honerine Mine at Bauer, Utah in 1912
- 9: Brevet Major General Patrick Edward Connor
- 10: Salt Lake City in the 1860s
- 11: Camp Douglas, Utah in 1864
- 12: Brigham Young, 1863
- 13: Mrs Patrick Edward (Johanna) Connor
- 14: Daughter of General Connor
- 15: Camp Douglas, Utah in 1864
- 16: Captain Charles H. Hempstead
- 17: Corinne, Utah in 1870
- 18: Pioche, Nevada
- 19: Railroad steam engine named "Kate Connor" of the Sevier railroad, Utah
- 20: "Kate Connor" steamboat in the Bear River near Corinne, Utah
- 21: Brigadier General Patrick Edward Connor in 1865
- 22: Captain Patrick Edward Connor of the Stockton Blues with his son, Thomas Jefferson Connor in September, 1860
- 23: Connor octagonal home in Stockton, California
- 24: General Connor and Judge Blair in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1890
- 25: Brevet Major General Patrick Edward Connor
- 26: Image of a map showing the route of the Salt Lake, Sevier Valley and Pioche Railroad with locations of some of the mineral districts of Utah Territory in 1873
- 27: Map of western trails including areas occupied by Native American tribes
- 28-29: Unidentified maps
Miscellaneous (Addendum)
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- 1: Pat T. Ghee, Portrait of a Native American
- 2-5: United States Capitol Building
Autobiography Illustrations (Addendum)
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- 1: Henry Nisonger, Maternal Great Grandfather
- 2: Sarah Slusser Nisonger, Maternal Great Grandmother
- 3: James Crane, Paternal Great Grandfather
- 4: Elizabeth Stewart Crane, Paternal Great Grandmother
- 5: Carl Madsen group
- 7: Phoebe and Philip Hosea Cushing, Maternal Grandparents
- 8: Lydia Cushing, Mother, elementary school
- 9: Brigham and Lydia Madsen, parents wedding picture, 1913
- 10: Brigham and Lydia Madsen, Berkley, 1944
- 11: Dwaine with father and mother, Magna, Utah, 1915
- 12: Brigham Dwaine Madsen, Magna, Utah, 1915
- 13: B.D. Madsen and sister Annie, Magna, Utah.
- 14: Brigham Madsen and three children, B.D., Annie, Mack, Phyllis, Garfield Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho
- 15: Betty McAllister, University of Utah Graduate, 1938
- 16: B.D. Madsen, 8th birthday, 243 Park Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho
- 17: Lydia Madsen and Annie, 243 Park Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho
- 18: Brigham Madsen family picture prior to mission departure, 1934
- 19: B.D. Madsen, missionary in Bristol, Tennessee and Virginia, 1935
- 20: Betty McAllister, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1938
- 21: Betty M. Madsen, wedding gown, 1939
- 22: B.D. Madsen, wedding outfit, 1939
- 23: Ethel and Delos McAllister, Betty's parents
- 24: B.D. and Betty, Fulton Street apartment, 1941
- 25: Brigham Madsen family, Fulton Street apartment, 1942
- 26: B.D., Betty and Karen, McAllister home, Salt Lake City, 1943
- 27: Private B.D. Madsen, Camp Roberts, California, 1943
- 28: Private B.D. Madsen and Betty, Berkley, California, 1943
- 29: Corporal B.D. Madsen, Berkley, California, 1944
- 30: Lt. B.D. Madsen
- 31: Lt. Madsen, First training post, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1945
- 32: B.D. and Karen, first apartment, Columbia, Georgia, 1945
- 33: B.D., Betty and Karen-Officers housing, Ft. Benning, 1945
- 34: B.D.-new Ph.D., Brigham young University, 1948
- 35: B.D. and Betty Madsen, family picture, 1959
- 36: Madsen family picture, Steve's wedding, 1973
- 37: B.D. Madsen, Assitant Director of Training, Peace Corps, Washington D.C., 1964
- 38: B.D. Madsen and Betty, North to Montana Book, 1980
- 39: Proffesor B.D. Madsen, holding forth, University of Utah, 1986
- 40: Alvin Gittens portrait, Brigham D. Madsen, 1978
- 41: Betty Madsen in dress acquired at 1985 International Women's Conference, Nairobi, Kenya
Addendum
Brigham Madsen
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- 1: Studio portrait of Brigham Madsen, 1977
- 2: Polaroid of Brigham Madsen at a podium
Native Americans
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- 1: Studio portrait of an unidentified Native American in a cowboy hat
- 2: Photograph of drawing of Native American, "W. Edwards scalp" written in lower right hand corner
- 3: Studio portrait of Jack Tendoy. A member of the Shoshone and Bancock delegation to Washington from Lemhi and Ft. Hall Agencies, 1880, and one of the signers of the treaty of May 14, 1880. Photograph assumed to be by Charles M. Bell, Washington D.C., 1880
- 4: Indian travois
- 5: "Shivits Baptism." L.D.S. Church Archives photo
- 6: Shoshones on horseback with a Caucasian man, possibly a missionary, standing in the foreground. L.D.S. Church Archives photo
- 7: View of tepees. Photograph rights belong to the Smithsonian Institute, negative number 1667
- 8: Indian camp near a river
World War II-Men in Action
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- 1: Soldiers running down a street with two men laying on the road side
- 2: Soldier with a flame thrower
- 3: Soldiers marching with equipment through a valley
- 4: Soldiers charging up a hill
- 5: Two men loading a bazooka
- 6: Thirteen scenes of men in action in Germany and France
World War II-Germany
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- All photos by 3264 Signal Photo Co.
- 1: Inside view of the Flak Kasserne, Fourth Company
- 2: Inside view of the Sud Kasserne
- 3-4: Views of the wooden barracks in the paratroop camp, Buchenuhl, Germany
- 5: Gendarme Kasserne, Zirndorf, Germany Occupied by the 999th QM Salvage Collecting company
- 6: 3rd Army. The garage buildings part of a German Paratrooper camp
- 7: Aerial view of remains of 11 German Army Barracks east of Fahlenbach, Germany
- 8: 3rd Army. Exterior of main entrance to 98th General hospital in Munich, Germany
- 9: Long view of the Panzer Kasserne, Furth, Germany
- 10: Outside view of the Sud Kasserne
- 11: Interior views of the Inf. Kasserne, Furth, Germany
- 12: Lose view of the buildings in the Panzer Kasserne, Furth, Germany
World War II-Third Army Headquarters Bad Tolz, Germany
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- 1-4: Aerial views of the Third Army Headquarters. Brigham Madsen's office was in the upper right hand corner
World War II-Bayerische Zugspitzbahn
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- 1-3: Buildings and stations high in the Alps
World War II-Unidentified Parade
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- 1: Float pulled by horses
- 2: Crowds of people
- 3-8: Unidentified horsemen and floats
World War II-Brigham Madsen
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- 1-2: Faded photo of Brigham Madsen sitting in a chair
- 3-6: Faded portrait of Brigham Madsen
World War II-Miscellaneous
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- 1-2: T.J. Duyer Jr., Ft. Benning, Georgia, 1944
- 3: "Hungarian Band"
- 4: Empty bar
- 5: Men gathered around a car
- 6: "First page of a copy of what G-2 of the third U.S. Army describes as the marriage contract between Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun dated 29 April 1945. The Document was copied at Munich 29, December 1945. G-2 officials, who did not account where the document was found, said it was witnessed by Martin Bormann and Dr. Joseph Goebbels. They called attention to the fact that Eva Braun started to sign herself 'Eva B...' then added the final 'Hitler' and 'born Braun.' Munich, Germany
- 7: Group portrait of Madsen and unidentified staff gathered in an L.D.S. ward chapel, circa 1945
- 8: The Army Commander leaves the War Room at Nancy, France
World War II-"7th Army in Germany"
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- 1: Illustrated cover
- 2: Heidelberg, famous University town
- 3: Heidelberg, part of the castle ruins
- 4: Frankfurt on main, Cathedral
- 5: Bruchsal, Residence
- 6: Stuttgart, Schloplatz
- 7: Mannheim, Jesuiten-church
- 8: The Rhine near Mannheim
- 9: Castle ruins of Ehrenfels on the Rhine
- 10: Medieval architecture in Heilbronn
- 11: Spring in the countryside near Wiesbaden
- 12: Maulbronn, monastery founded 1146
- 13: Kassel, Residence
- 14: Sculpture
- 15: Ulm, highest cathedral in Germany
- 16: Dusk in the Jura mountains
- 17: Illustrated map
- 18: Illustrated cover
Early Western Settlers
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- 1: Twenty mule team boray wagon made in 1841
- 2: Horseman with a pack horse
- 3: White settlers gathered around three tepees. Oakland Museum photo
- 4: Railroad tracks. Looking south from Wirth Street
Postcard Collection
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European postards transferred to the Print and Journal postcard collection
Alamo Massacre" Site, Idaho
1987
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- 1-3: Views of the massacre site
- 4-5: Monument regarding the massacre
- 6: Snapshot of Madsen, Sterling McMurrin and Everet Cooley at the Alamo Massacre Monument
Bear River Massacre Site
1987
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- 1: Views of Battle Creek
- 2: Bear River crossing, 1871
Battle of Tongue River, Wyoming
1987
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- 1: Ft. Reno and Fort Connor site looking west from monument
- 2-3: Albino antelope near fort Reno Site, Wyoming
- 4: 3.5 miles south of Ft. Reno and Connor
- 5: Ft. Connor and Ft. Reno site looking east to Powder River
- 6: Site of Ft. McKinney looking toward west
- 7: Site of Ft. McKinney looking south
- 8: Tongue River and Connor Battlefield
- 9: Monument to the Tongue River Battle
- 10-11: Monument in City Park regarding Ft. Connor
Lathrop House, California
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- 1-8: Lathrop House, Redwood City, California. Photographs taken in 1987. This house is a good example of "Steamboat Gothic" architecture
Stockton, Utah and Steptoe's Military Camp
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- 1-4: Monument at site of Steptoe's military camp
- 5-14: Stockton, Utah
Pioche, Nevada
1987
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- 1-9: Views of Pioche, Nevada
- 10-12: One of the original water tanks for Pioche
- 13-15: Signs and monuments to Pioche
- 16: Pioche
Virgina City, Montana
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- 1: Harry Plummer, first U.S. gangster. Sheriff of two counties and head of fifty highwaymen at the same time. His gang committed a murder a day for 102 days. He was hanged in 1864
- 2: Scales exhibit at Virginia City Museum
- 3: Woman sitting on headstones
- 4: Collage about Virginia City
- 5: Monument at Virginia City
- 6: Railroad engine
"Brag Book"-Intermountain West
1968
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- All photographs copyrighted by Betty M. Madsen, 1968
- 1: Stage coach of Nevada City, Montana
- 2: Back Street of Nevada City
- 3: City Hall of Corrine, Utah
- 4: Canyon Lava, Idaho
- 5: Pleasant Valley, Idaho
- 6: Brownherd Rock, Montana
- 7: Grasshopper Creek near Bancock City, Montana
- 8: Bancock City, Montana
- 9: Church, Bancock City
- 10: Hotel and Saloon, Bancock City
- 11: Jail, Bancock City
- 12: Miner's Cabin, Bancock Ciy
- 13: Cemetery, Bancock City
Miscellaneous-Places
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- 1: Fort Hall Indian Reservation, original site of Old Fort Hall
- 2: Map of the Great Salt Lake showing numbered camp sites of the Stansbury Expedition
- 3: Oneida County Clerk Marriage Book A, page nine, marriage registry of Nils Anderson Just and Emma Thompson
- 4-5: Two unidentified portraits
- 6: City Book Store
- 7: Group of people in a wagon in front of a store
Miscellaneous-People and Things
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- 1: Snapshot of Alexander Sudar, member of the Polish-Amerindian Friendship Society, dressed in "Indian" garb and paddling a canoe
- 2: Vickie and Gaylon Caldwell, Christmas, 1996
- 3: Snapshot of Robert D. Anderson, M.D., author of The Book of Mormon as Autobiography
- 4-6: Kinya Mikani, former student of Madsen's, with his grandchildren
- 7-10: Chocolate lab
From Manuscript Correspondence
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- 1: 1997 Holiday card from "George and Camilla Smith Family"
- 2: 1998 Holiday Card from "George and Camilla Smith Family"
- 3: Unidentified man studying, 1993
- 4: "Almo Monument. June 1998"
- 5: Toddler on a couch, 1993
Oversize
General Photographs
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- 1: Concho, Oklahoma, 1954
- 2: A Blackfoot medicine pipe carrier
- 3: Bear River Massacre site, topographic map