UUM_Accn0544.xml Inventory of the League of Women Voters of Utah records League of Women Voters of Utah records Finding aid created by Julia Huddleston. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections

2012 (last modified: 2019)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-29. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections League of Women Voters of Utah records League of Women Voters of Utah ACCN 0544 48.5 linear feet 105 boxes 1948-2009 The League of Women Voters of Utah records (1948-2009) contain the administrative files of this non-partisan political organization, including correspondence, financial documents, meeting minutes, and national convention materials. This collection primarily consists of documents from the Salt Lake City chapter, with smaller amounts of information from chapters across the state and the the national league. English

The League of Women Voters of Utah was founded in 1951 and consists of chapters in Cache, Davis, Grand, Washington, and Weber counties and Salt Lake City and Cedar City. The League has focused on local issues such as the Jordan River Parkway, City-County unification, Salt Lake County master plan, as well as hosting candidate debates and registering voters.

The League of Women Voters of Utah records contain the administrative files of this non-partisan political organization, including correspondence, financial documents, meeting minutes, and national convention materials. This collection primarily consists of documents from the Salt Lake City chapter, with smaller amounts of information from chapters across the state and the national league.

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Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Donated by Irene Fisher in 1977.

Addenda donated by the League of Women Voters of Utah in 1995 and 2002, Nancy Melling in 1996 and Tina Hose in 2010.

Processed by Mark Jensen in 1997, Karen Carver in 2002, and Julia Huddleston in 2012.

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See also the League of Women's Voters of Salt Lake City photograph collection (P0129) and video tapes (A1066) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

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

 League of Women Voters of Utah--Archives Utah--Politics and government--Sources Women--Utah--Salt Lake City Political Campaigns--Utah--Archives Political planning--Utah--Citizen participation--Archives Elections--Utah--Archives Women--Utah--Salt Lake City--Societies and clubs--Archives Women--Political activity--Utah Women Civic Activism Clubs and Societies Minutes (Records) Business correspondence Annual reports Membership lists Financial records Magazines (Periodicals) Law Materials Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Interviews Administrative reports Official reports Conference materials By-laws Board of Directors Files Board Minutes and Agendas 1951-2008 1-7 Annual Reports and Annual Meeting Minutes 1952-2002 8-12 Correspondence 1968-1988 13 1-3 Action Alerts 1982-1988 13 4 Board of Directors Organizational Files 1959-1989 13 5-8 By-Laws and Chapter Orientation 1965-1972 13 9-10 Constitutional Revisions 1966 13 11 Convention Papers 1988 13 12 Convention Papers 1986-1987 14 1-2 Internship Paper, Renee Morita 1977 14 3 A History of the League Program 1949 14 4 Membership Handbook 1954-1980 14 5-6 Mrs. Eugene L. Bliss Presidential Files 1968-1972 14 7 Organizational Papers 1950s-1990s 14 8 Orientation 1958-1962 15 1 Position Papers 1952-1970 15 2-4 Public Relations 1952-1968 15 5-7 Speakers Bureau 1955-1970 15 8-10 General Materials Membership Information 1952-1989 16-17 National Program Notes 1961-1988 18 Local Chapter Planning and Continuing Responsibilities 1951-1993 19-23 Voter Services 1954-1985 24 Financial Materials Treasurer's Reports 1951-1982 25 Financial Information 1956-1985 26 Financial Ledgers 1961-1978 27 Disbursements 1972-1978 28-29 Receipts 1964-1979 30-31 Returned Checks 1973-1979 32-34 Audits 1953-1970 35 1 Budget Hearings 1962-1964 35 2 Equipment Inventory 1970-1973 35 3 Expenditures 1979 35 4 Finance Drive 1966 35 5 General Income 1975-1976 35 6 In-Kind Donations 1976-1979 35 7-9 Proposed Budget 1965-1967 35 10 Savings 1976-1979 35 11 Solid Waste Management Project (Billing) 1977 35 12 Publications The Salt Lake Voter 1952-1975 36 The Salt Lake Voter 1978-1990 37 The Salt Lake Voter 1987-1998 38 The Salt Lake Voter 1998-2006 39 The Utah Voter 1962-1994 40 The National Voter 1967-1994 41 Studies 1967-1994 42-48 General Materials Subject Files, City-County Unification 1958-1982 49-52 Subject Files, Jordan River Parkway 1971-1978 53-54 Binders 1-4 Correspondence 1973-1975 55 1-3 Laws 1973-1974 55 4-5 Legal Opinions 1973-1975 55 6 Jurisdiction and Zoning 1973 55 7 Lower River 1973-1975 55 8 Upper River 1973-1975 55 9 LWV Action Committee 1973-1975 55 10 Positions and Actions 55 11 Membership Materials 55 12 Interviews-- Notes 55 13 News Clippings 1990s 55 14 Planning and Zoning 55 15 Miscellaneous Papers 55 16 Rivers and Environmental Papers 55 17 Financing 1990s 55 18 News Clippings 55 19-20 Resumes and Address Lists 56 1 Correspondence 56 2 Salt Lake County Government Study Commission 1973-1975 56 3-13 Subject Files Ad Hoc Committee on Salt Lake Valley Government 1975 57 1 Air Pollution 1968-1972 57 2 Alliance for Progress 1965-1967 57 3 Ballot Issues 1980-1984 57 4 Basic Human Needs Poster Project 1988 57 5 Capital Improvements Study, Interview Notes 1984 57 6 "Challenges of the Future of Utah's Water Policies" 1980 57 7 Chamber of Commerce 1978 57 8 Child Abuse 1978-1980 57 9-10 "Choosing the President" 1968-1972 57 11 City Budget 160 1981 57 12 City Council Debates 1985 58 1 City-County 1968-1972 58 2 Community Planning and Zoning 58 3 Community Survey 1954-1955 58 4 Community Services Council 1974-1976 58 5 Conference on Families 1980 58 6 Congressional Correspondence 58 7 Consensus Building Kit 58 8 Constitutional Revision 1966-1986 58 9 County Budget 1968-1972 58 10 County Government Reports 58 11 County Government Task Force 58 12 Crime 1976 58 13 Debate Questions 59 1 Education 1960-1985 59 2-11 Elections, Advisory Board 1991 60 1 Elections 1972-1981 60 2 Electoral College 1968-1986 60 3 Environment, Energy and Pollution 1970 60 4-5 Environmental Quality, National 1977 60 6 Equal Rights Amendment and Women's Issues 1974-1976 60 7 "Excellence in Education" 1983 60 8 "Facts and Issues" 1968-1978 60 9 Flood Control 1966-1970 60 10-11 Forms of Government, City and County 1961-1963 61 1-2 Foreign Aid 1967-1968 61 3 The Freedom Agenda Project, Publications 1954-1955 61 4 Functional Consolidation 61 5 Government 1967-1968 61 6-7 Government Documents and Amendments 61 8 Health Care 1973-1993 61 9-10 Homelessness 1986-1987 62 1 Hoover Report 1949-1956 62 2 Housing 1989-1993 62 3-4 Human Resources 1968-1981 62 5 Hutchinson- Salter 1980 62 6 International Relations 62 7 Job Training Partnership Act 1987 62 8 Know Your County 1950-1973 62 9-13 Lake Valley City 1982 62 14 Land Use 1972-1973 63 1 Laws and Bonding 63 2 Law Enforcement Planning Agency 1973 63 3 Legislative Action 1956-1986 63 4-10 Local Government in Utah 1956 63 11-12 Local Government 1966-1980 64 1-5 Local and State Cooperative Study 64 6 Marital Property Study 1982 64 7 Master Plan for Salt Lake County 1985 64 8 McMannus Report 64 9 Mental Health 1984-1985 64 10 Metropolitan Problem in Salt Lake City Area 1959 65 1 Minorities and Police Services 1974-1976 65 2 National LWV 1972-1974 65 3 National Security and Criminal Justice 1985 65 4 Natural Resources, Water 1983 65 5 Neighborhood Development Act 65 6 Outside Reports 1974-1976 65 7 Pamphlets and Programs 65 8 Parks Study 1972-1975 65 9 Peggy Eble Notes 1986-1988 65 10 "People Power" , U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs 1980 66 1 Planning and Zoning 1954-1985 66 2-6 Police Service 1974 66 7-8 Political, Environmental, Social 67 1 Property Rights 67 2 Property Taxation and Conferences 67 3 Prospectus, A Planning Guide 1985 67 4 Race Problems 1966-1969 67 5-6 Recreation 1965-1968 67 7-9 "Report from the Hill" 1983-1989 68 1-2 Representative Government 1975 68 3 Salt Lake City and County Government Planning Report 1974 68 4 Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County Government Survey 1955 68 5 Salt Lake City Historical 1969 68 6 Salt Lake County 208 Water Quality Project 1977 68 7 Salt Lake County Civic Auditorium Complex 1961-1968 68 8 Salt Lake County Council of Governments Draft Water Quality Management Plan 1977 69 1 Salt Lake County Taxes 69 2 Salt Palace Expansion 1963 69 3-5 Schools and Education 1968-1972 69 6 Selected Reports 69 7 Service Districts 69 8-9 Solid Waste Recycling Project: The Paper Caper 1977 69 10 Special Purpose Districts 1980-1981 69 11 Speeches 70 1 State Government Study, Constitutional Amendments 1968-1970 70 2 State Land Use 1973-1983 70 3 State Reports 70 4 Sugarhouse 70 5 Security Ballot 1986 70 6 Summary and Analysis of the Detailed Recommendations of the Utah Little Hoover Commission 1966 70 7 Taxes 1968-1982 70 8-11 Tax Assessment Study 1962 71 1 Tax, Costs, Financing 71 2 "Time for Action" 1967-1968 71 3 Transportation 1974-1987 71 4-6 USA Today Election Teacher's Guide 1988 71 7 Transition Committee 1979 71 8 Urban County Notes 1979 71 9 Utah Common Cause 1986-1987 71 10 Utah Foundation Publications 1966 71 11 The Utah Independent 1977 71 12 Utego Speaker's Kit, Constitutional Amendments 1972 71 13 Water 1952-1987 71 14-16 Water 1952-1976 72 1-3 Welfare 1967-1970 72 4 Women's Issues 72 5 News Clippings 1964-2008 73-75 National International Relations 1965-1989 76 1 State League Kit, Party Precinct Participation 1967-1968 76 2 Voter Service Kit 1972 76 3 Voter Service Publications 1970s-1980s 76 4-5 International Relations 1988 76 6 Position Statements 1980-1984 76 7 Welfare Reform Publications 1981-1987 76 8 Lobby Corps 1983 76 9 National Conventions Denver 1988 77 1 Washington, D.C. 1990 77 2 Boston 1992 77 3 Washington, D.C. 1994 77 4 Chicago 1996 77 5 San Diego 1998 77 6 Salt Lake Branch, Administrative Files Statements of Position 1965-1988 78 1 Members Handbook 1981 78 2 Program Making 1981-1988 78 3 Board Minutes 1982-1993 78 4-7 Budget Committee 1982 78 8 Voter Registration Assistants 1982 78 9 Board Retreats 1983-1985 78 10 Calendar 1983-1984 79 1 Annual Reports 1983-1985 79 2-3 Treasurer Reports 1985-1992 79 4 Bylaws 1985-1989 79 5 Salt Lake Branch, Backup Disks 1965-1993 80 Issues I-15 State Street Corridor 1979-1995 81 1 Transportation 1984-1986 81 2 Salt Lake Valley Master Plan 1985 81 3 Transportation Growth Projections 1995-1996 81 4 Light Rail 1997 81 5 Pay Equity 1987 81 6 Senator Hatch's Women's Conference 1991-1992 81 7 Groundwater Education Notebook 1991-1994 82 1-3 Community Groundwater Education Program (Financial) 1991-1992 82 4 Wellhead and Aquifer Protection Conference 1993 82 5 Groundwater Protection Survey 1993 82 6 Groundwater Protection 1989-1994 83 Affiliate Groups 1966-1970 84 1 Salt Lake County Government) 1968-1984 84 2 Salt Lake City-County Consolidation News Clippings 1970s 84 3-4 Salt Lake City Commission 1975 84 5 Changing Salt Lake County Government 1997-1998 84 6 Debates 1991 84 7 League-Salt Lake City Corporation Correspondence 1991-1998 84 8 Pamphlets 84 9 Chapter Development Correspondence 1985-1998 85 1-2 Action Alerts 1991-1998 85 3 Chapter Development Materials 1988-1996 85 4-5 Crisis Control Kit 85 6 A Guide to Organizing New Leagues 1996 85 7 Handbook for Writing a Study in Utah 1983 86 1 In Touch 1990-1993 86 2 A Leader's Guide to the National Program 1990-1993 86 3 League Day at the Legislature 1986 86 4 Local Board Kit 1967-1968 86 5 Membership Procedures 1986-1996 86 6-7 National Convention 1998 86 8 Other Leagues 1993-1994 86 9 Prospectus: A Planning Guide for Local and State Leagues 1980-1982 86 10 Post-Board Summary 1989-1999 86 11 President's Mailings 1997-1999 86 12 President's Packet 1996-1998 87 1-2 Press Releases 1993-1998 87 3 Salt Lake Retreat 2006 87 4 General Materials Program Making 1971-2009 88 1-4 Unit Reports 1995-2000 88 5-8 Studies and Position Papers 1946-2006 89-90 State of the Community Luncheon 1992-1999 91 Elections and Candidates Guide to the Presidential Election 1988-1992 92 1 Ballots and Election Results 1991-1992 92 2 Elections, Attorney General 1992 92 3 Elections, Governor 1992 92 4 Elections 1994 92 5 Candidates 1994 92 6 Presidential Election 1996 93 1 Municipal Elections 1997 93 2 Presidential and Congressional Candidates 1998-1999 93 3-4 Elections 1998-2001 93 5-7 Elections, Auditor 2000 94 1 Elections, Attorney General 2000 94 2 Elections, Congress 2000 94 3 Elections, County Mayor 2000 94 4 Elections, Governor 2000 94 5 Elections, Senate 2000 94 6 Third Party Candidate 2000 94 7 Elections 2006 94 8 Campaign Finance Reform 1991-1997 94 9-11 Campaign Integrity, Kettering Foundation 1990-1993 94 12 Congressional Newsletters 1971-1973 94 13 Debates 1980-1984 94 14 Debates 1984-2000 95 1-6 Democrats 2005 95 7 Direct Election of the President 95 8 Early Projections 1983 95 9 Early Projections of Election Results 1983-1984 96 1 Electoral Reform 1996-2004 96 2 Electoral College 2000-2006 96 3 Face to Face: a Guide to League Sponsored Debates 1987-1992 96 4 Get Out the Vote 1996 96 5 Help America Vote Act 2002-2006 96 6 Istook Amendment, Lobbying 1995 96 7 Kids Voting 1996 96 8 Mock Elections 1996-2004 96 9-10 National Popular Vote, Study and Position 1983-1984 97 1 Proportional Voting 2000 97 2 Reapportionment 2001 97 3 Redistricting, Mary Wilson, LWV Conference 2006 97 4 Renew Democracy 1993-1996 97 5 Running for Elected Office 1997 97 6 Student-Parent Mock Election 1988-1992 97 7 Take Back the System 1991 97 8 Voter Information Pamphlets 1976-2002 97 9-12 Voter Registration 1988-1996 98 1-2 Voter Service 1988-2006 98 3-4 Health Care Reform Citizen's Voice for Citizen's Choice: Campaign for a Public Voice on Health Care 1991-2000 99 1 Health Care for All 1993-2000 99 2 Health Handouts 1993-1994 99 3 Health Care Materials 1991-1993 99 4 Health Care Reform 1993-1999 99 5-7 Health Care Reform 1993-1994 100 1 Health Care Coverage Pamphlet 2000 100 2 Health Policy Notes 1993-1998 100 3 National Health Care Information 1996-1998 100 4 Single Payer Health Care 1991-1993 100 5 Subject Files 100 Years, 100 Women 1995-1996 100 1-2 Arms Control 1982-1986 100 3 Bill of Rights Centennial 1990 100 4 Campaign Finance Reform 1997 100 5 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 1999 100 6 Constitutional Revisions Committee 1999 100 7 Constitutional Brochures 1986-1987 100 8 Corporate Accountability 1998-2001 100 9 D.C. Representation 1998 100 10 Family Planning Pamphlets 1996-2002 100 11 Global Warming 2002-2005 100 12 Hatch Patriot Act Hearing 2004 100 13 Immigration 2007 100 14 International Relations 1985-2006 102 1-2 Iraq 2002-2008 102 3-5 Judiciary 1991-2006 102 6 Loyalty and Security Brochures 1954-1967 102 7-8 Making Democracy Work 1996-1997 103 1-2 Military Policy and Defense Spending 1983-1986 103 3-6 National Security 1976-1987 103 7 Patriot Act 2002-2004 103 8 Reproductive Freedom News 1993-1996 103 9 Reproductive Freedom News 1993-1996 104 1 September 11th 2001-2003 104 2 Social Security 2001 104 3 "Taking National Security Issues to the Public" 1983-1988 104 4 Tax Group 2008 104 5 Trade 1955-2006 104 6-9 Trade 1974-1990 105 1-3 United Nations 1994-1998 105 4-5 U.S. Census Outreach 1990 105 6 U.S. Relationship with Developing Countries 1960-1995 105 7-11 Utah Legislation 2006-2009 105 12 Water and Irrigation 2007 105 13 Who's Who in Government 1992-1995 105 14 Zero Population Growth 1994-1995 105 15