UUS_P0007.xml Guide to the Maxwell D. Cohn photograph collection1880-1950 Cohn (Maxwell D.) photograph collection1880-1950 Finding aid created by Camille Gooch Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
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UUS_P0007 Cohn, Maxwell David, 1881-1965. Maxwell D. Cohn photograph collection 1880-1950 bulk 1901-1902 2 boxes 1.5 linear ft. Mainly photographs taken by Cohn while attending the Agricultural College of Utah in Logan, Utah between 1901 and 1902, images of friends and relatives, and outdoor scenes from his families ranch near Arimo, Idaho. The collection contains a variety of images of the ACU including class-room scenes, cadet activities, scenic shots, and social events. Other photographs of interest are of Logan Canyon (Logan, Utah), the Hercules Power Company (Logan, Utah), and Salt Lake City, Utah. Also contains family photographs not taken by Cohn. Collection materials are in English. Restrictions

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Maxwell D. Cohn photograph collection, 1880-1950. (P0007). Utah State University. Special Collections & Archives Department.

Given to Bernice Hirschman Tumen, who donated them to USU Special Collections.

Register completed by Camille Gooch, February 2001.

Biographical Note

Maxwell D. Cohn was born on December 10, 1881, in Malad, Idaho. Maxwell was the son of Meyers and Sarah Gumpert Cohn, both of German origin, who migrated to the United States in their late teenage years. Records show that Maxwell attended Utah Agricultural College in 1901 and 1902 under the classification of Special Student. Cohn loved to hunt and fish and this is reflected in the many outdoor photographs of the collection. Maxwell took care of the family ranch in Idaho and was involved with the Idaho Cattlemen's Association (serving as president between 1935 and 1940) and the National Cattlemen's Association. After selling the ranch, he became superintendent of the Lava Hot Springs resort. He died, having never married, on September 5, 1965, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Photographs arranged numerically by assigned image number.

The Maxwell D. Cohn collection consists mainly of photographs Cohn took while he was attending the Agricultural College of Utah in Logan, Utah between 1901 and 1902. These images (some of which were probably not taken by him) are excellent early illustrations of class-room scenes, cadet activities, scenic shots, and social events at the ACU. Most of the other photographs date from 1895 to 1905 and are of friends and relatives, Logan Canyon, the Hercules Power Company, Salt Lake City, and outdoor scenes from his family’s ranch near Arimo, Idaho.

Researcher note: Some of the photographs have faded but most are in good condition. Photographs 3:01:01-3:09:04 are located in box 2 (there is no box 3).

Images Cohn, Maxwell David, 1881-1965. Agricultural College of Utah--Pictorial works. Utah State University--History--Pictorial works. Hercules Power Company (Logan, Utah) College students--Utah--Logan--Photographs. Logan Canyon (Utah)--Pictorial works. Arimo (Idaho)--Pictorial works. Container List 1 Album 1 undated 01:01 A man at a train depot in Arimo, Idaho (Utah-Idaho Northern?), with a bicycle rigged with an outrigger to ride on the rails undated 01:02-1:25 Cohn and friends undated 01:26 Sarah Godwin Brown Goodwin at her desk at the library in Old Main undated 01:27 Cohn and friends with bicycle undated 01:28-01:35 Cohn and friends undated 01:36 Coeds in chemistry class undated 01:37. Cohn, in his cadet uniform, standing on the stage of the chapel in Old Main undated 01:38-01:44 Cohn and friends undated 01:45-01:46 Jerome Cohn undated 01:47 Bernice Hirschman, niece of Max Cohn, at one year old, at 318 2nd Ave., Salt Lake City undated 01:48-01:51 Cohn and friends undated 01:52 Bernett Oppenheimer and Bernice Hirschman in Salt Lake City undated 01:53-01:56 Cohn and friends undated 01:57. Bernice Hirschman undated 01:58-01:66. Friends undated 01:67. Men at a mountain camp undated 01:68. Building construction, Continental Block in Salt Lake City? undated 01:69-01:70 Ranch scenes, one man on horseback undated 01:71 Three men fording a river on horseback undated 01:72 Stacking hay, probably at Arimo undated 01:73 Man with a violin undated 01:74 Stacking hay, probably at Arimo undated 01:75 The Cathedral of the Madeleine, under construction, South Temple, Salt Lake City undated 01:76 Construction of the Sullivan Building, Main and South Temple, Salt Lake City undated

Part of the Temple visible in background. Streetcar in foreground.

 01:77 Jerome Cohn on horseback undated 01:78 Jerome and Max Cohn in office in Oneida, Idaho undated 01:79 One-room schoolhouse? undated 01:80 Shearing a sheep, Arimo? undated 01:81 Two men riding a bucking horse, camp in background undated 01:82 Men on wagons undated 01:83 Room interior undated 01:84 Construction work on the Sullivan Building, Main and South Temple, Salt Lake City. Brigham Young Monument visible in background undated 01:85 A man shaping metal? undated 01:86 Cadets at attention, west side of Old Main (Main not visible) undated 01:87 Group of boys skinny-dipping, probably in the Logan River, Logan Canyon undated 01:88 Cohn and friend undated 01:89 View in Logan Canyon? undated 01:90 Cohn and friend undated 01:91 Cohn undated 01:92 Horse and cart, hired hands at the Cohn Ranch in Oneida undated 01:93 Friends undated 01:94 Coeds walking south across Center St. in Logan, Budge Block in background undated 1 Album 2 undated 02:01 View of the Utah Agricultural College looking southeast, Old Main complete except for tower 1901 02:02-05 Views of a river and gorge, probably the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River undated 02:06 Views in canyon, probably near the Cohn Ranch at Arimo, Idaho, including old outbuildings undated 02:07-02:08 Campsites, including tents and a covered wagon, location unknown (Arimo?) undated 02:09 People at the teller windows of the College Bank in Old Main undated 02:10-02:13 Effie Nebeker and girlfriends, relaxing in what is probably the Caine house, which stood at 100 E. 200 N. Logan undated 02:14 College students by the stream at the mouth of Logan Canyon undated

The trestle of the Hercules Power Co. canal is just visible in the background. Photo is in an envelope outside of the album.

 02:15 Students in a football scrimmage on field east of Old Main undated

The east side of the north wing of Old Main and the experimental barn are visible.

 02:16 View of the stream, looking up Logan Canyon undated 02:17 A camp with covered wagons, probably near the Cohn Ranch at Arimo, Idaho undated 02:18 View east about 1/4 mile up Logan Canyon, showing Hercules Power Co. canal and trestle partially complete undated 02:19 Students, including Cohn in cadet dress, at the College Bank in Old Main undated 02:20 Cohn standing at the end of the partially completed Hercules Power Co. canal up Logan Canyon undated 02:21 View of the U.A.C. looking southeast, Old Main complete except for the tower undated 02:22-02:23 Stacking hay at the Cohn Ranch, Arimo undated 02:24 A street scene, so faded that it is impossible to positively identify undated 02:25-02:26 A fishing party in Logan Canyon, and a large string of trout displayed undated 02:27 A group of cadets in an engineering class, posed some sort of model undated 02:28 Students posed next to a bridge in Logan Canyon undated 02:29-02:30 Students, including Cohn, picnicking in Logan Canyon undated 02:31 A woman posed in a backyard undated 02:32 A camp and a herd of sheep, could be up Logan or Blacksmith Fork Canyons undated 02:33 A party in a wagon next to the stream in Logan Canyon undated 02:34 Students, including Cohn, in a mathematics class undated 02:35 Group portrait of Cohn and other students undated 02:36 Unidentified students, in the Caine home? undated 02:37 Max D. Cohn posed in front of an American flag undated 02:38 Herd of sheep and shepherd on a hillside. undated 02:39 A family group picnicking by a stream undated 02:40 A stenography and typewriting class, including Cohn undated 02:41 Casual shot of Cohn in front of a classroom undated 02:42 A couple of bicyclists in front of the Logan Train Depot undated 02:43-02:45 Unidentified groups of students undated 02:46 A ranch scene, probably Hardware Ranch undated 02:47 View of experimental farm land looking east toward the Bear River Range, just north of entrance to Logan Canyon undated 02:48 Students examining plants in a botany class undated 02:49 Corralled sheep, Arimo? undated 02:50 Stacking hay, Arimo undated 02:51 Faded photo of sheep grazing undated 02:52 Ranchers standing before a cabin, Arimo? undated 02:53 Unidentified canyon view undated 02:54 View looking upstream, Logan Canyon undated 02:55 Stuffed bear which was kept in the museum in Old Main undated 02:56 Group of coeds relaxing at home undated 02:57-02:58 Group of students relaxing outdoors undated 02:59 Men by stream in Logan Canyon undated 02:60 Portrait, Max D. Cohen undated 02:61 View looking up Logan Canyon, showing Hercules Power Co. canal undated 02:62 Ranch scene, Arimo? undated 02:63 Portrait, group of cadets including Cohn undated 02:65 Portrait, unidentified student undated 02:66 A horse and wagon, schoolchildren in front of a one-room school house undated 02:67 Cadets at attention, east side of Old Main undated 02:68 A fishing party camped by stream, Logan Canyon? undated 02:69 Unidentified students shaking hands, residences on interior of...? undated 02:70 Portrait, three coeds in fancy hats undated 02:71 Portrait, casual group of students undated 02:72 Family at their campsite in Logan Canyon undated 02:73 Unidentified mountain view undated 02:74 Sheep at the U.A.C. farm undated 02:75-02:79 Casual groups of students, both inside and out undated 02:80 View of the stream in Logan Canyon undated 02:81 An officer of Military Science undated 02:82 Unidentified portrait undated 02:83 Coeds in a cooking class undated 02:84 View of a tree down in the street, Logan? undated 02:85-02:88 Casual group of students undated 02:89 View of alfalfa? field bordered by lombardy poplars, north Logan? undated 02:90 View in unidentified canyon undated 02:91 Farmer mowing alfalfa with two-horse mower undated 02:92 View of the south side of the Logan Mormon Temple undated 02:93 Coed at the window of the College Bank in Old Main undated 02:94 Unidentified student undated 02:95-02:96 Cohn with another student undated 02:97 View of Logan looking west from College Hill includes Logan Temple, Wellsville Mountains in the background undated 02:98 Members of the Utah Legislature arriving in carriages, front of Old Main undated 02:99 View of Logan looking west/southwest from College Hill undated 02:100 Flume of the Logan-Smithfield canal, mouth of Logan Canyon undated 02:101 Board room? in Old Main undated 02:102 Librarian Sarah Godwin Brown Goodwyn in the library in Old Main undated 02:103 View of hay harvesting just south of Logan Cemetery, looking east toward the Bear River Mountains undated 02:104 Students at religious exercises in the chapel in Old Main undated 02:105 A group of students with surveying equipment. North of campus undated 02:106 Group of students at the head of the Logan-Smithfield canal flume undated 02:107 The end of the Hercules Power Co. canal, Logan Canyon undated 02:108 Cohn with other students undated 02:109 Street scene, Malad? undated 02:110 Too faded to identify undated 02:111 Unidentified residence undated 02:112 Residence of Sarah Godwin Brown Goodwin undated 02:113 View looking up Logan Canyon, the Hercules Power Co. canal undated 02:114 A theater minstrel company undated 02:115 View of a farm, home and barn, north Logan? undated 02:116 A man in a two-horse buggy undated 02:117 Too faded to identify undated 02:118 Two men hiking, unidentified peak undated 02:119 View looking east toward mouth of Logan Canyon, taken from College Hill just east of campus undated 02:120 View of stream and rock in Logan Canyon undated 02:121 Missing undated 2 1 Loose photographs undated 3:01:01 Two men and three women, all holding guns, standing in sagebrush at the foot of a hill undated 3:01:02 Max D. Cohn kneeling in front of a woman. The woman has her foot on top of Cohn's knee and is holding a gun undated 3:01:03 Man sitting in a chair next to a window undated 3:01:04 Max D. Cohn with another man and four women posing in front of a doorway. Trees in the background 1910 3:01:05 Max. D. Cohn (on right) with another man and two women, trees and brush in the background undated 3:01:06 Cohn with three other men and two women posing in the brush in 1910, shrubbery in the background 1910 2 2 Loose photographs undated 3:02:01 Woman sitting in a chair, reading a book. Photograph taken by M.D. Cohn on 1901 March 24 3:02:02 Five women, three sitting down and two standing behind them. Photograph taken by Cohn in 1901 February 3:02:03 Group of students standing in front of the school in Logan, Utah. Max Cohn at upper left 1901 January 21 3:02:04 Group photo of the officers of the A.C. Cadets taken in Logan, Utah. Max Cohn at upper left corner 1901 2 3 Loose photographs undated 3:03:01 Snapshot of two women in dark dresses, one woman wearing glasses in Logan 1901 December 18 3:03:02 Mabel Ormsby (?) standing in front of a doorway. Taken in 1901 January 3:03:03 Four women sitting on a bed, two in front and two in back undated 3:03:04 Max Cohn sitting next to a woman wearing a light colored dress and glasses, piano in the background undated 3:03:05 Woman sitting down on a couch holding a piece of paper in her hand undated 3:03:06 Emma Cohn with three women and one man posing on the porch. Taken in Logan, Utah 1897 June 12 3:03:07 Woman with long hair, holding a brush in her hand, standing in front of a shed (washing shed ?) 1902 2 4 Loose photographs undated 3:04:01 Max Cohn's school friends. Taken in Logan, Utah 1901 3:04:02 A.C.U. chemistry class. Max Cohn in upper left corner 1903 April 3:04:03 A.C.U. chemistry class. Max Cohn in upper left corner 1903 April 2 5 Loose photographs undated 3:05:01 Portrait of Max Cohn as a young man. Taken in Salt Lake City, Utah undated 3:05:02 Portrait of a woman with a dress and hat on. Taken at Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah undated 3:05:03 Portrait of a woman wearing a hat and a light colored blouse. Taken at Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah undated 3:05:04 Portrait of Ethel ? wearing a light colored dress and holding a bouquet of roses upside down. Taken by B. Wrensted in Pocatello, Idaho undated 3:05:05 Portrait of a woman in a light colored dress, facing to the side of the image. Taken by Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah 1902 May 3:05:06 Portrait of Dr. Dave Henderson by Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah undated 3:05:07 Portrait of E.S.S. (?) Fry, school teacher of Max Cohn. Taken by Silliman in Three Rivers, Michigan, on 1902 February 23 3:05:08 Three women, one in a wedding dress holding hands with the other woman wearing a black jacket and hat, while the third woman is standing behind them holding a book. Taken in Logan, Utah on 1901 January 20 2 6 Loose photographs undated 3:06:01 Cabinet portrait of William M. Howell taken by H Drewery in Ogden, Utah undated 3:06:02 Cabinet portrait of a woman and a young girl with her arms wrapped around the woman's neck. Taken by Gasberg in Ogden, Utah undated 3:06:03 Cabinet portrait of Fry (?), a school friend of Cohn taken by Centrol Artistico in Manilla. Taken in 1899 October 3:06:04 Cabinet portrait of Miss Hansen (?) taken by H.J. White of Ogden, Utah undated 3:06:05 Cabinet portrait of a man wearing a suit and holding a rolled up piece of paper that is tied with bows. Taken by Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah undated 2 7 Loose photographs undated 3:07:01 Tintype of a man wearing a suit and hat undated 3:07:02 Tintype of Joe at age 7 2 8 Loose photographs undated 3:08:01 Cartes-de-visite of Phil Margetts and his ghost undated 3:08:02 Cartes-de-visite of Phil Margetts and his ghost undated 3:08:03 Cartes-de-visite of Daniel W. Price in uniform undated 3:08:04 Cartes-de-visite of Otto Rupp taken by G.M. Groh and Bro. in Sheboygan, Wisconsin undated 3:08:05 Cartes-de-visite of a woman, friend of Emma Cohen undated 3:08:06 Cartes-de-visite of Deseret Bank taken by C.R. Savage in Salt Lake City, Utah undated 2 9 Loose photographs undated 3:09:01 Election card of Myers Cohn when he was running for county commissioner 1924 3:09:02 Portrait of Myers Cohn wearing a dark suit and tie at age 82 1926 3:09:03 Portrait of Max D. Cohn wearing a light suit and tie. Taken when he ran unsuccessfully for congress in 1942 3:09:04 Max. D. Cohn laying in front of a bed of flowers growing on a hillside at Lava Hot Springs, Idaho in 1941