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Newell Hart photographs, 1880-1990

Overview of the Collection

Title
Newell Hart photographs
Dates
1880-1990 (inclusive)
Quantity
3 boxes, (2.5 linear ft.)
Collection Number
UUS_P0251
Summary
Photographs and negatives mainly from Franklin County, Idaho from the 1880s to the 1960s. These photos consist of people, buildings, and events in and around Preston, Idaho, many of which are original albumen and collodion prints.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to public research.

Languages
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
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Biographical Note

Newell Hart (1913-1983) was a Preston native and local historian. He served an LDS mission in Minnesota and Montana and founded the Hart Music Comany in Preston in 1939. He edited and published the Cache Valley Newsletter and was a frequent contributor to the The Preston Citizen. His books include Home Town Album, Bear River Massacre, Cache Valley Dance Halls, and Hometown Sketchbook. He was instrumental in the restoration of the Oneida Stake Academy in the 1970s. In 1977 he was awarded a certificate of Commendation for his outstanding contributions to the history of Southeastern Idaho and Northern Utah.

In 1938 he married Ruth Cuttler and the couple would have four children.

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Content Description

The Newell Hart photograph collection consists of 200+ images mostly from Franklin County, Idaho from the 1880s to the 1960s. Hart collected some of these images for his published photographic history, Home Town Album. These photoss consist of people, buildings, and events in and around Preston, Idaho, many of which are original albumen and collodion prints. Other images appear to be items he picked up at random or photos that came from the Anderson Studio in Preston and include Preston High School students and activities, classroom scenes, athletics, family snapshots, the Franklin County Courthouse, Monument Valley, Scandinavian postcards, and Central and South American cities. Some of the high school photos were cut out in the shape of letters.

Includes albumen prints and silver gelatin or collodion printing-out papers, 30 x 34.5 and smaller.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Permission to publish material from the Newell Hart photographs must be obtained from the Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Newell Hart photographs, 1880-1970. (P0251). Utah State University. Special Collections & Archives Department.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in numeric sequence according to Box and Item

Acquisition Information

Donated by Ruth Hart in 1984.

Processing Note

Register completed by Peter Schmid, June 1998, and revised by Daniel Davis, December 2003.

Related Materials

Newell Hart papers (CAINE COLL MS 3)

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Numeric Order, undated

    • Description: 1:01:01: The Cherryville band at the first Idaho Day. Franklin, Idaho
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:01:02: Peter Jorgensen, Mark Jorgensen and Brian Wilcox with beet topper invented by C.J. Jensen,
      Dates: 1913
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:01:03: Preston Opera House
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:02: Miss Blenda Peterson, Preston telephone operator. Photograph by Frank Marsh Photo & View Artist
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:03: Blenda Peterson
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:04: William M. Daines, Hugh S. Geddes, and Junius C. Jensen, first bishopric of the Preston Second Ward
      Dates: 1902
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:05: Cabinet card photograph, young men playing cards in a studio set-up. Photograph by Elijah Cutler, Traveling Photographer
      Dates: 1890-1899
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:06: Anderson Lumber on north Main Street, Preston. Photograph by Lea Bevins, Photo Artist
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:07: Interior of Anderson Lumber Company with LaVal and Daniel Crawford. Preston, Idaho
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:08: Oregon Shortline Railroad Engine 203 at Preston
      Dates: 1899
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:09: Cabinet card wedding portrait of Lee and Mary R. Howell
      Dates: 1903
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:10: Cabinet card portrait, Fred Bosworth and son
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:11: Gus Peterson, father of E.G. Peterson
      Dates: 1910-1919
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:12: Cabinet card portrait, William Lowe Young. Photograph by Frank Marsh, Photo & View Artist
      Dates: 1890-1899
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:13: Unidentified Clifton residents
      Dates: 1913
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:14: Unidentified Clifton residents
      Dates: 1916
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:15: Lafe Hendersons threshing outfit
      Dates: 1910-1919
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:16: The Silver Cornet Band in Clifton
      Dates: 1913
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:17: Oneida County Courthouse, Malad
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:18: Real photo postcard, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Baker at Pocatello's semi-centennial celebration
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:19: Unknown School, probably in Idaho
      Dates: 1890-1899
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:20: Leah and Lila McQueen, Cub River
      Dates: 1913
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:21: Ern Porter's WPA crew building Preston High School's first football stadium
      Dates: 1930-1939
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:22: Charlie Pinson with bike and his electricians rig
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:23: Charlie Pinson and Leonard Hillstead in a 4th of July parade in Preston
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:24: Exterior view of Webster Groceries, Franklin
      Dates: 1890-1899
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:25: Boxer "Battling (Boga) Lamoreaux,"
      Dates: 1925-1929
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:26: Mabel Chatterton, Prestons first telephone operator
      Dates: 1903
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:27: Margaret Ann Davis Kershaw at son's grave, Preston cemetery
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:28: Grace Smith
      Dates: 1920-1929
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:29: O.L. Packer house, Preston
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:30: Portrait, Jim Geddes, Hugh S. Geddes, and unidentified man
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:31: N.T. Wigren & Son blacksmith shop, unknown location
      Dates: 1890-1899
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:32: Unidentified boat dock
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:33: Cabinet portrait, Sadie Eames Tippets. Photograph by Elijah Cutler, Photograph and Color Artist
      Dates: 1890-1899
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:34: Professor C.J. Engars with All-Girl Orchestra, including Maggie Merrill, Jennie Waver, Edna Packer, Kirrie Benson, and Elizabeth Kershaw
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:35: Telephone operator Arlene Wilkenson Hampton, Franklin, Idaho
      Dates: 1912
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:36: Middleweight boxer Jack Barger
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:37: Kirrie Benson, Mac McIntosh, Myra Weaver, and Amos Bishop and others lounging at Cub River
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:38: UPRR Inter-Ocean grain elevator at Preston train station
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:39: Prestons Main Street looking north showing United States Tires and Peterborg-Nash Motor Company
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:40: "Coyote Pete," boy with coyote
      Dates: 1910-1919
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:41: Preston's Main Street looking south showing William Thornton No.9 Drugs and Preston Implement Company
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:42: The 1924 Hokmah Club, Preston High School
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:43-47: Historic homes in Preston. Photographs by Gene Anderson
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:48-53: Miscellaneous snapshots from Nephi L. Larsen, including a sheep camp and the N.L. Larsen body shop
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:54-69: Miscellaneous Preston High School photographs, mostly athletics including football, track & field, tennis and basketball
      Dates: 1920-1939
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:70: Cherryville Band in a parade, probably in Preston
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:71: Group of men dressed as Indians in an early July 24 celebration
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:72: The Oneida Stake Academy, Preston,
      Dates: 1910-1919
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:73: Weaver family portrait, four women
      Dates: 1880-1889
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:74: Portrait, Whitehead family including Joe and Florence Whitehead, Annie Monson Whitehead, Dave Lewis, Annie Whitehead Lewis Gilbert. Photograph by N. Degn, Preston, ID
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: 1:75: Threshing in Cherryville
      Dates: 1880-1889
      Container: Box 1
  • Thomas O. Nelson WWII-Era photographs given to Newell Hart by Blair Seamons in, April 1977

    Container: Box 1

  • Oversize, undated

    Container: Box 2

    • Description: 2:01: World War I draftees from Franklin County
      Dates: 1917
    • Description: 2:02: Father and son outing of the Oneida Stake Academy at Willow Flat
      Dates: 1924
    • Description: 2:03: Group portrait of LDS Great Britain Mission members
      Dates: 1910
    • Description: 2:04: Oneida Stake Academy class
      Dates: June 1898
  • Miscellaneous, undated

    • Description: 3:01:01-3:01:09: Franklin County Courthouse photos taken during its construction in
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
    • Description: 3:02:01: Female instructor with children
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
    • Description: 3:02:02: Female instructor with children
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:03: Man dribbling basketball
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:04: High school students examining papers
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:05: Male and female typing instructors at desk
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:06: Students outside school in snow
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:07: Male high school student in darkroom
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:08: Male high school student opening door for female student

      duplicate of 3:02:19.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:09: Group of high school music students
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:10: Classroom scene
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:11: Two male high school students
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:12: Male and female typing instructors with typewriters
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:13: Two female high school students sewing
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:14: High school students playing basketball.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:15: High school band practice
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:16: Trainer with high school athlete
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:17: Female high school graduate
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:18: Male and female high school students talking
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:19: Male high school student opening door for female student

      duplicate of 3:02:08.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:20: Two female high school students
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:21: Female instructor with children
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:22: High school band students
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:23: Male and female students talking
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:24: Man sitting on small scooter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:25: Female instructor at desk
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:26: Male high school drawing students
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:27: Young girl with tricycle
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:28: High school students looking at photographs
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:29: Couple posed outside home in the snow
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:30: Young woman holding baby
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:31: Two men and young woman
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:32: Color photograph of two men and two women beside lake
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:33: Young girl kneeling in front of house
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:34: Young man with map instructing children.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:35: Two girls
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:36: Young boy and girl, "Shirley & Billy."
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:37: Woman reading Life magazine, "This one was taken in Ninas and Waynes place."
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:38: Two women with baby standing next to car
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:39: Man and woman with baby
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:40: Partial photograph of woman holding two babies
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:41: Boys skiing
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:42: Three young men in suits
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:43: Downtown Preston in snow
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:44: Boys crossing bridge in snow
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:45: Young woman
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:46: High school students talking
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:47: Two women (one with crutches) and one man with three dogs
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:48: Group of people sitting on porch
      Dates: 1915
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:49: Partial photograph of man and woman with crutches
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:50: Young man and woman standing outside home
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:51: Women and children on the beach
      Dates: 1920-1929
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:52: Women and children on the beach
      Dates: 1920-1929
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:53: Woman with child, "Jennie and Gay."
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:54: Women and children on the beach
      Dates: 1920-1929
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:55: Young woman
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:56: Young football players
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:57: Young man cooking on open fire
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:58: Three young women
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:59: Young man opening door
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:60: Young men and women at a formal dinner
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:61: Drama production
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:62: Young man in bed
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:63: High School band
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:64: High School band
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:65: High School basketball game
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:66: Young men outside school
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:67: High school football game
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:68: High school football game
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:69: Football player
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:70: High school typing class
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:71: High school Chemistry(?) class
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:72: Students in library
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:73: Classroom scene
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:74: Classroom scene
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:75: Young woman with luggage standing outside car
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:76: Man with two students talking on telephone
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:77: Young man fishing
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:78: High school band
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:79: Man and woman holding branches
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:80: Female students in costume
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:81: Two women, "Momma & Aunt Maggie,"
      Dates: 1920-1929
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:02:82: Unknown building, probably not in Preston
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
    • Description: 3:03:01-3:03:16: Images of the "Official Advertising Car - Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce - Carlsbad Caverns" with two girls and a man taken in Monument Valley and surrounding area (including rock formations and arches) in Arizona and Utah
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box 3, Folder 3
    • Description: 3:04:01: E.L. "Dick" Romney
      Dates: 1930-1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
    • Description: 3:04:02: Clyde Dartan, E.L. Romney, and Homer C. Sharmer
      Dates: 1917
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
    • Description: 3:04:03: Ernest Lowell Romney
      Dates: 1917
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
    • Description: 3:05: Postcards from Norway, Ekebergbanen
      Dates: 1918
      Container: Box 3, Folder 5
    • Description: 3:06:01: Three women, "Daniel" written on verso side
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 3:06:02: Young woman with baby standing next to "Drop Films Here" box
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 3:06:03: Newly-built home
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 3:06:04: Concrete bridge
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 3:06:05: 4x5 black and white negative of home
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 3:06:06: Preston High School under construction, negative
      Dates: August 3rd, 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 3:06:07: Preston High School under construction, negative
      Dates: August 3rd, 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:06:08: Preston Sr. High School under construction, negative
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:06:09: Preston Sr. High School under construction, negative
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:06:10: Franklin County Court House under construction, negative
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:06:11: Franklin County Court House under construction, negative
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:06:12: Franklin County Court House under construction, negative
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:06:13: Franklin County Court House under construction, negative
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:06:14: Franklin County Court House under construction, negative
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:06:15: Unidentified man, negative
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
    • Description: 03:07:01: Newell Hart on a roof with video camera
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
    • Description: 03:07:02: Three workers on drill platform
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
    • Description: 03:07:03: Aerial view of Bear River [?]
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
    • Description: 03:07:04-05: Riverside view, Bear River [?]
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7

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Subject Terms

  • Agricultural implements--Idaho--Franklin County.

Geographical Names

  • Franklin County (Idaho)--History--Photographs.
  • Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah)--Photographs.
  • Preston (Idaho)--History--Photographs.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Albumen prints.
  • Collodion prints.
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