Donald James Angus (1887-1966) was born in Wisconsin. A self-educated electrical engineer, Angus owned the Esterline-Angus Company of Indianapolis, Indiana and worked and taught at Michigan Agricultural College in Lansing, Michigan. Angus traveled throught the Southwest, South, and Mexico and documented his trips in photographs and film.
The D. J. Angus home movies (1932) consist of 16 short films taken on a vacation to the desert Southwest. Angus' footage includes scenes of notable parks and landmarks in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Materials are arranged chronologically.
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.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the D. J. Angus video collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Multimedia Archivist.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Donated by Grand Valley State University in 2011.
Processed by Grand Valley State University.
See also the D. J. Angus photograph and film collection (RHC-4) at Grand Valley State University.