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W. Stewart Gardiner audio-visual collection, 1939-1970

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Gardiner, W. Stewart (William Stewart)
Title
W. Stewart Gardiner audio-visual collection
Dates
1939-1970 (inclusive)
Quantity
40 8mm film
1 vhs
Collection Number
A0588
Summary
The W. Stewart Gardiner audio-visual collection consists of home movies related to his career as a river runner, as well as the Gardiner family in outdoor recreation settings. Click here to view digitized materials from the collection or visit ArchivesSpace for a container level list of digitized materials.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Audio-visual materials can be fragile and require specialized equipment to play back. For this reason, access to audio-visual materials is provided through digital copies, and it might take longer to provide access to items that are not yet digitized. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

W. Stewart ("Stu") Gardiner (1915-1997) was an early twentieth-century river runner, specializing in Utah's Green River. Further information on Gardiner can be found in an interview found in Accn 814, as well as in the book If We Had a Boat: Green River Runners, by Roy Webb.

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Content Description

The W. Stewart Gardiner audio-visual collection (1939-1970) consists of 40 8mm films and 1 VHS tape with home movies concerning Gardiner's career as a river runner, as well as other outdoor recreation activities by the Gardiner family, such as skiing, fishing, and hunting. Includes footage of Gardiner river running Lodore Canyon and Green River with Zee Grant in the late 1930s.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

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.

Preferred Citation

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

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Collection is arranged by format.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Dee Gardiner in 2000.

Processing Note

Processed by Special Collections staff in 2025.

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Separated Materials

See also the ACCN 1801 W. Stewart Gardiner papers in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections and the P0814 W. Stewart Gardiner photograph collection in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Related Materials

Forms part of the River Running Archives (S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archives).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Skiing, Jumps, Chase

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:15:46, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 1
  • Description: Granite Creek, Tetons - kids fishing, Uintas - swimming and fishing

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:10:52, color, no sound
    Dates: 1959
    Container: Reel 2
  • Description: Kids at Henefer

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:16:54, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1961
    Container: Reel 3
  • Description: Kayaks in Lake - Don and Rick, Little Hole, Desolation - Deer Head

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:15:53, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1956
    Container: Reel 4
  • Description: River Trip - Max Waddoups, Desolation

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:17:42, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 5
  • Description: Float Trip - 2 explores - Glen Canyon

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:16:17, color, no sound
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Reel 6
  • Description: Salmon River

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:17:51, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1970
    Container: Reel 7
  • Description: Avalanche (lots of powder) at Brighton

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:16:29, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1958
    Container: Reel 8
  • Description: Surveying Cottonwood Wash

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:16:09, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1962
    Container: Reel 9
  • Description: Echo Road Floading

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:12:42, color, no sound
    Dates: 1950-1960
    Container: Reel 10
  • Description: Alaska

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:16:05, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1964
    Container: Reel 11
  • Description: Great Salt Lake, Strawberry Reservoir, Squaw Valley

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:12:41, color, no sound
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Reel 12
  • Description: Mesa Verde - Southern Utah

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:14:48, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1970
    Container: Reel 13
  • Description: Sun Valley and Rodeo

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:17:24, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1970
    Container: Reel 14
  • Description: Sheep and Rodeo

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:14:46, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1970
    Container: Reel 15
  • Description: Deer hunt, Henefer footbal, Yellowstone National Park

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:18:23, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1951
    Container: Reel 16
  • Description: Skiing - Races

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:15:58, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 17
  • Description: Foldboat Holidays - Marsh Creek, Weber, Snake, Green, Fish Lake, Sailing on Great Salt Lake

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:19:40, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1961
    Container: Reel 18
  • Description: Lodore, Whirlpool Canyons of Green River, Middle Fork of Salmon, Grandaddy Lakes, wood-cutting

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:21:20, color, no sound
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Reel 19
  • Description: Rabbit hunt, Mount Majestic, Mount Millicent, Mount Baldy, Solitude, Green River, Desolation

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:25:31, color, no sound
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Reel 20
  • Description: Road

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:33:03, color, no sound

    Date determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1964
    Container: Reel 21
  • Description: Cub Scout Hike, Skiing, Explorer - Tracy, Yampa

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:30:47, color, no sound
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Reel 22
  • Description: Lodore Canyon, Green River - with Zee Grant

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:16:49, color, no sound
    Dates: 1939
    Container: Reel 23
  • Description: Middle Fork of Salmon River

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:12:12, color, no sound
    Dates: 1941
    Container: Reel 24
  • Description: Skiing at Brighton, ski circus

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:16:22, color, no sound
    Dates: 1946-1947
    Container: Reel 25
  • Description: Rafting, fishing, fly into Indian Creek

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:19:05, color, no sound
    Dates: 1950-1959
    Container: Reel 26
  • Description: Winter Camp, Weber, Hoback, Explores "59"

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:11:29, color, no sound
    Dates: 1959
    Container: Reel 27
  • Description: Cutter Race, Skiing at Brighton

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:19:23, color, no sound
    Dates: 1958
    Container: Reel 28
  • Description: Kayak - Pheasant hunt, Don and Rick skiing, Scout trip

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:09:03, color, no sound
    Dates: 1958
    Container: Reel 29
  • Description: Green River, Ashley Falls, Biking at Brighton

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:23:16, color, no sound
    Dates: 1958
    Container: Reel 30
  • Description: Truck in River, Dee 1 year old in Henefer

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:02:07, color, no sound
    Dates: 1954
    Container: Reel 31
  • Description: Truck in River, Dee 1 year old in Henefer part 2

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:04:09, color, no sound
    Dates: 1954
    Container: Reel 32
  • Description: Paint stripper, lot, pheasant hunt

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:02:33, color, no sound
    Dates: 1954
    Container: Reel 33
  • Description: Kids skiing at Brighton

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:04:11, color, no sound
    Dates: 1954
    Container: Reel 34
  • Description: Short clip of North Naoma

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:00:09, color, no sound
    Dates: 1942
    Container: Reel 35
  • Description: East Canyon and Great Salt Lake boat races

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:04:44, color, no sound
    Dates: 1942
    Container: Reel 36
  • Description: Mom and Dad (Navy)

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:04:10, color, no sound
    Dates: 1940-1949
    Container: Reel 37
  • Description: Farmington, Utah and the Uintas

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:02:20, color, no sound
    Dates: 1942
    Container: Reel 38
  • Description: Broken film - Snow avalanches, Dad's kayak "Sea Gar."

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:04:47, color, no sound

    Date was determined by film edge code.

    Dates: 1968
    Container: Reel 39
  • Description: Broken film - Snow avalanches, Dad's kayak "Sea Gar." part 2

    8mm (photographic film size)
    00:01:54, color, no sound

    Date was determined by film edge code. The date might be closer to item #39 instead.

    Dates: 1959
    Container: Reel 40
  • Description: Footage of River-Running with Narration by Dee Gardiner

    VHS
    00:57:43, color, sound
    Dates: 1940-1950
    Container: Cassette 41

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Subject Terms

  • Fishing
  • Outdoor recreation--Utah
  • Rafting (Sports)--Green River (Wyo.-Utah)--Sources

Personal Names

  • Gardiner, W. Stewart (William Stewart)

Geographical Names

  • Green River (Utah)

Form or Genre Terms

  • Moving images
  • home movies

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Gardiner, W. Stewart (William Stewart) (fmo)

Finding aid written by Special Collections staff.
2025

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