UUM_Acc0540 Guide to the Utah Museum of Natural History records 1948-1987 Utah Museum of Natural History records Finding aid created by Christian Herman University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Acc0540 Utah Museum of Natural History Utah Museum of Natural History records 1948-1984 1963-1976 3.25 linear feet The Utah Museum of Natural History opened on the University of Utah campus in 1969 in compliance with legislation passed by the 1963 Utah State Legislature designating the University as the location for the State Museum of Natural History. This collection contains administrative materials recording the initial planning and early operation of the museum including administrative documents, correspondence, and exhibit files. There is also some material related to the earlier University Museum of Anthropology which existed from 1948-1967. Material in English. Historical Note

In 1963, the Utah State Legislature passed a bill that provided for the creation of a State Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Utah for the purpose of ...maintaining a centralized display of the many objects of natural science which could support and encourage local and municipal museums throughout Utah(S.B. No. 18). The University of Utah Board of Regents designated the George Thomas Building as the Museum's campus location in 1964. The Utah Museum of Natural History opened in 1969 featuring exhibits of Utah's anthropological, biological, and geological make-up. The Museum's first director was Dr. Jesse D. Jennings, professor of anthropology. The first curator of exhibits was Don V. Hague, who later took over as museum director following the retirement of Dr. Jennings in 1973 and remained director until he retired in 1991. The Museum remained in the George Thomas Building until 2011 when it was relocated to the Rio Tinto Center, located in the University of Utah's Research Park, and renamed the Natural History Museum of Utah.

This collection contains administrative materials documenting the years of planning prior to the opening of the museum as well as the first fifteen years of the museum's operation. The alphabetical subject files contain materials pertaining to a wide variety of subjects including but not limited to budget and activity reports, film scripts, newsletters, fundraising and grant proposals, and information on facility renovations and exhibit construction. The collection also includes a great deal of official correspondence from Dr. Jesse D. Jennings and Don V. Hague. The exhibit files contain descriptions, drawn plans, and photographs of exhibits from two major exhibit series as well as many temporary exhibits shown at the museum. While the majority of the collection pertains to the Utah Museum of Natural History, there is some material covering the earlier University Museum of Anthropology (1948-1967) which was later incorporated into the new museum's Hall of Man exhibit.

The collection is divided into the following three series: 1. Alphabetical Subject Files 2. Chronological Files, and 3. Exhibit Files. The First series is arranged alphabetically. The second series is arranged alphabetically by type and chronologically thereunder. The third series is further divided into the following three subseries: 1. Indian, Trapper-Trader, and Explorer in Utah, 1776-1847, 2. Science in Everyday Life, and 3. Temporary Files. Each subseries is arranged alphabetically with the exception of exhibit files which are arranged according to exhibit numbers that previously existed in the original material.

Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

the material in this collection was retrieved at the former Utah Museum of Natural History (George Thomas Building) in 2012. It was never accessioned into the Records Center.

Processed by Christian Herman in 2012.

Nine envelopes containing photographs and negatives and approximately twenty loose photographs and negatives were sent to multimedia archives in November of 2012

Acc0038 - University of Deseret. Museum register and miscellaneous articles inventory, 1879-1891

Acc0499 - Department of Anthropology records, 1937-1997

Initial Citation: Utah Museum of Natural History records, Acc. 540, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 540

 Natural history--Catalogs and collections--Utah Anthropology Archaeology Colleges and Universities 1 Alphabetical Subject Files 1/1 Academic Vice President - Groundwork 1963-1968 1/2 Acknowledgement Letters - Groundwork 1966-1970 1/3 Activity Reports - Groundwork 1965-1970 1/4 American Association of Museums 1951-1976 1/5 American Association for State and Local History 1969-1975 1/6 Annual Reports 1967 September 15-1968 June 1 1969 October-1970 October 1/7 Brochure 4168 undated 1/8 Budget 1966-1968 1/9 Bulletin 1967 1/10 Central Museum Laboratory 1948-1957 1963 1/11 Charles E. Merrill Trust - Correspondence 1973-1974 1/12 Collecting Permits - Wildlife Specimens 1972-1974 1/13 Corporate Fundraising 1968 1/14 Dinosaur Laboratory 1971-1972 1/15 Display Cases - Miscellaneous Companies 1966-1970 1/16 Display Cases - Perkins Engineering 1967-1969 1/17 Elevator Installation - George Thomas Building 1970 1/18 Film Script and correspondenceFrozen Moments in Time 1967-1969 1/19 Film Scripts - State Board of Education and University of Utah Instructional TV undated 1/20 Film Scripts - Suggested Scripts 1967 1969 undated 1/21 Fish Specimen Collection 1978 1/22 Gurnee Freze-Dri Taxidermy - Correspondence 1967-1974 1/23 Grant Application - Salt Lake School District 1966-1967 1/24 Grant Proposals 1966-1967 2/1 Habitat Group Walls Construction 1968 2/2 Junior League of Salt Lake City 1968 2/3 Junior Science Academy of the Utah Natural History Museum 1971-1972 2/4 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1966-1975 2/5 Museum of Anthropology 1949-1950 2/6 Museum of Anthropology - Exhibits and Plans circa 1948-1949 1969 2/7 National Foundation for Junior Museums - Correspondence 1955-1957 2/8 National Foundations - Correspondence 1964-1967 2/9 News Clippings 1959 1976 1979 2/10 Organizational Charter Concepts - Utah Museum of Natural History 1958-1970 2/11 Outreach Teaching Kits 1986-1987 2/12 Personnel Correspondence 1966-1968 2/13 Remodeling - George Thomas Building 1966-1971 2/14 Public Relations - Fundraising 1968-1971 2/15 Supervision and Administrative Role Descriptions undated 2/16 Tele-Story Stations Script circa 1979 2/17 United States. Forest Service - Proposal for an Interpretive Trailer Display 1970 2/18 Utah Natural History 1971-1974 2 Chronological Office Files 2/19-22 to 3/1-3 Chronological Files - Don V. Hague 1972-1975 3/4 Chronological File - Jesse D. Jennings 1972-1973 3/5-8 Chronological Files - Miscellaneous 1972-1976 3/9 Date File - Don V. Hague 1971-1972 3/10-12 Date Files - Miscellaneous 1969-1972 3/13-15 to 4/1-3 Reading Files - Jesse D. Jennings 1969-1972 3 Exhibit Files 1 Indian, Trapper-Trader, and Explorer in Utah, 1776-1847 4/4 Contact Proofs for Case Graphics 1976 4/5 Correspondence - Objects and Case Graphics 1975-1976 4/6 Dimensions and Materials 1976 4/7 Exhibit 1a - <emph render="italic">Miera y Pacho</emph> Map 1976 4/8 Exhibit 1b - Trail Tools and Clothing of Escalante and Dominquez 1976 4/9 Exhibit 2 - Forager Indian Artifacts circa 1976 4/10 Exhibit 3 - Mounted Indian: Mobile and Self-Sufficient Unit 1976 4/11 Exhibit 3a - Mounted Indian Horseman circa 1976 4/12 Exhibit 4 - Buffalo and Buckskin circa 1976 4/13 Exhibit 5 - Trapper circa 1976 4/14 Exhibit 6 - In Search of the Furs circa 1976 4/15 Exhibit 7 - Mountain Medicine 1976 4/16 Exhibit 9 - The Beaver Hat circa 1976 4/17 Exhibit 11 - Rendezvous 1974-1977 4/18 Exhibit 12 - Guns, Trinkets, and Trade Beads circa 1976 4/19 Exhibit 13 - The Pathfinder and His Guide circa 1976 4/20 Exhibit 14 - Mapmakers Charted the Way circa 1976 4/21 Exhibit 16 - The Great Salt Lake circa 1976 4/22 Exhibit Guide 1976 April 28 4/23 Exhibit Labels - Drafts circa 1976 4/24 Exhibit Planning circa 1976 4/25 Exhibit Promotion 1976 4/26 Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania - W. J. Young Surveyor's Transit and Wooden Tripod 1976-1977 4/27 Miscellaneous Records 1976 4/28 Registrar's Materials - Loans 1976 4/29 Tora Nelson - Correspondence 1975-1976 2 Science in Everyday Life 4/30 Exhibit 1 - Processing of Oil 1967-1969 4/31 Exhibit 3 - Water Resources in Utah 1967 4/32 Exhibit 4 - Utah's Ancient Lakes and Streams 1968 4/33 Exhibit 6 - Copper, the Everlasting Metal 1968 4/34 Exhibit 7 - In Utah, These Are the Things That Make Iron and Steel 1969 4/35 Exhibit 8 - Nature's Look-alikes 1967 4/36 Exhibit 10 - Weather Forecasting circa 1968 4/37 Exhibit 11 - Rain or Shine 1968 4/38 Exhibit 12 - Insects Versus Man 1968 4/39 Exhibit 13 - Conserving Utah's Resources 1968 5/1 Exhibit 14 - Pesticides 1969 5/2> Exhibit 15 - Computers and Medicine 1970 5/3 Exhibit 16 - Protecting Your Health 1967 5/4 Exhibit 17 - When Man Leaves the Earth 1969 5/5 Exhibit 18 - The Plus Side of Atomic Power 1967-1968 5/6 Exhibit 19 - Cybernetics 1969 5/7 Exhibit 20 - Unearthing Man's Past in Utah 1969 5/8 Exhibit 21 - Tomorrow's Billions 1968 5/9 Exhibit 22 - Ancient Man's Market Basket circa 1968 5/10 Exhibit 24 - The Hammer and the Cutting Edge circa 1968 5/11 Exhibit 25 - The Shape of Natural Things 1967-1969 5/12 Exhibit 68-1 - Utah State Fair 1967-1968 5/13 Loan Requests 1967 1974 5/14 Miscellaneous 1967-1970 5/15 National Science Fund - Correspondence 1964 1971 5/16 National Science Fund - Environment 1970-1972 3 Temporary Exhibits 5/17 Batik: Unique Indonesian Textile Art 1980-1981 5/18 The Beauty of Nature 1981 5/19 Diamond - From Rough to Finished 1980-1981 5/20 Ecology in Action 1982-1984 5/21 Fossil Tortoise circa 1982 5/22 Gold and Silver - Nature's Standard of Elegance 1983 5/23 The Hatch: Nature's Bounty for Fish 1983 5/24 Historical Mining Images - A Photographic Essay of Park City Mines 1980 5/25 Home: Portraits of the Utah Navajo - Photographs by Bruce Hucko 1983 5/26 The Insect World 1978-1979 5/27 Jade - The Stone of Heaven 1982 5/28 Made in Utah: The Polynesian Quilt Exhibit 1983 5/29 Fourth Mary M. Atwater Weaver's Guild Exposition - Origins 1979 6/1 Fifth Mary M. Atwater Weaver's Guild Exposition - Keep Me Warm One Night 1980-1981 6/2 Sixth Mary M. Atwater Weaver's Guild - Function to Fantasy 1983 6/3 The Monarch - A Milkweed Butterfly 1982 6/4 Montana Historical Society - Loaned Guns 1975-1976 6/5 New Acquisitions 1980-1984 6/6 Pending Traveling Exhibits - Correspondence 1974-1979 6/7 The Raptors of Utah 1982 6/8 Rock and Mineral Eggs 1984 6/9 The Samuel M. Barlow Collection 1980 6/10 Three Centuries of Navajo Weaving 1980 6/11 Wild Flight - Wildlife Paintings by Turk Evans 1979 6/12 A Woman's Work: Hand-Bound Books 1984