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John A. and Leah D. Widtsoe photograph collection, 1901-1954. (P0250). Utah State University. Special Collections & Archives Department.
The photograph of John A. Widtsoe that was in collection P0242 was transferred to this collection as 1:26.
Register completed by Peter F. Schmid, June 1998, and revised by Daniel Davis, December 2006.
John Andreas Widtsoe (1872-1952) moved from Norway to Logan in 1883 after his mother converted to the Mormon faith. Widtsoe graduated from the Brigham Young College in 1891 and attended Harvard University graduating with a degree in Chemistry in 1894. He became a professor at the Utah Agricultural College (now Utah State University) and after receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Goettingen in 1899, was named the Director of the Experiment Station in 1900. In 1905 he left Logan for Brigham Young University but he returned in 1907 to become the President of USU. In 1916 he resigned to become the president at the University of Utah. In 1921 he resigned that position and became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the LDS Church.
Arrangement: Topical.
This collection is comprised of twenty different photographs of farm home interiors, three portraits of Leah D. Widtsoe (1874-1965), wife of USU Experiment Station director and President John A. Widtsoe, and one of the first Women's Institute at Monroe, Utah. The prints are silver gelatin or collodion printing-out paper prints and silver gelatin developing-out paper prints, circa 1901-1954. Widtsoe was frequently misspelled as Widstoe.
Some of the farm home interior photographs were used in Leah D. Widtsoe's Labor saving devices for the farm home (Utah Agricultural College Experiment Station circular No. 7, 1912).
Some of these photographs were used in Leah D. Widtsoe's Labor Saving Devices for the Farm Home (Utah Agricultural College Experiment Station Circular No. 7, 1912). These photographs contain particularly good illustrations of period kitchens and wallpaper. Many of the photographs have several different printings of the same negative, and have been labeled "c. 2," "c. 3," etc. The silver gelatin developing-out paper prints are probably later printings of vintage negatives.