Descriptive Summary
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-8248
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
UUS_P0332
Oliver,
A. Ray, b. 1884
A. Ray Oliver photograph collection
1898-1964
1 box
.5 linear ft.
This collection consists of 50 images that are glued
onto the verso side of an 168 page autobiography of A. Ray Oliver entitled, "One Pin
Head." The images range from 1898-1964 and document the life of Oliver including
education, travel, family, career, and retirement.
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Copyright
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 A. Ray Oliver photograph collection must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
A. Ray Oliver photograph collection, 1898-1964. (P0332). Utah State University. Special
Collections & Archives Department.
Aquisition information is unknown
Register completed by Daniel Davis, September 2007.
Biographical Note
A. Ray Oliver was born on September 8, 1884 in Spring Creek, Missouri. In 1900 he moved
to Provo, Utah to work for the Telluride Power Company. Oliver spent time working in
Provo, Telluride, Logan, and Niagra Falls. In 1907 he attended the University of
Missouri where he played football. He graduated in 1910 with a degree in engineering and
received a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell in 1911. After
graduation Oliver continued to work for the Telluride Power Company (later changed to
Utah Power and Light) in a variety of capacities including electrical engineer and power
plant supervisor in Hyrum and Olmstead, Utah. In 1920 he moved to California to work for
the Goodyear Rubber Company. In 1923 he and his family moved to Chicago where he worked
as an account collector until 1933. In 1933 they moved back to St. Charles where Oliver
worked as a civil engineer for the Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) and the Defense
Housing Administration. In 1914 Lola Castlio and Oliver were married in St. Charles,
Missouri and the couple had two children (Ray Jr. and Lola). After Lola's death in 1945
Oliver was remarried to Ludine Lilian in 1946.
Arrangement: Topical.
This collection consists of 50 images that are glued onto the verso side of an 168 page
autobiography of A. Ray Oliver entitled, "One Pin Head." The images range from 1898-1964
and document the life of Oliver including education, travel, family, career, and
retirement.
Images
Oliver, A.
Ray, b. 1884
Container List
1
1
1:01
Oliver Plantation - Fayetteville,
Arkansas
undated
1
1
1:02
Automobile
1898
1
1
1:03
Win, Ray, and George Oliver, May Ann Enyart
Oliver
1898
1
1
1:04
Mary Ann Enyart Oliver
1910
1
1
1:05
View of Telluride and surrounding
mountains
undated
1
1
1:06
Gambling hall in Telluride
undated
1
2
2:01
One mile of electrical cable loaded on fifty
burros in Telluride headed for the mines
undated
1
2
2:02
Burros in downtown Telluride dragging timber for
the props in the mines
undated
1
2
2:03
Downtown Telluride in winter
undated
1
2
2:04
Junious Gordon examines one of the earliest dial
telephones at a museum
undated
1
2
2:05
A bear killed by A. Ray Oliver
undated
1
2
2:06
Dr. Schurman(?) and Oliver on top of Mt.
Timpanogos
1908
1
2
2:07
Lola Castlio swimming at Saltair on the Great Salt
Lake
1908
1
3
3:01
Coach Roper and football team on Rollins Field,
University of Missouri
Fall 1909
1
3
3:02
Lola in the dress she wore to the Senior Ball,
University of Missouri
1910
1
3
3:03
A. Ray Oliver, University of Missouri
1910
1
3
3:04
Lola in pasture in front of her birthplace in
Howell
Summer 1910
1
3
3:05
Steinmetz Club, Univeristy of Missouri
1910
1
3
3:06
Southeast corner of room of Andy Anderson and
Oliver, Telluride House, Cornell University
1910-1911
1
3
3:07
Hyrum Power Plant
September 1955
1
3
3:08
The first electric stove in Utah
Fall 1913
1
3
3:09
The first electric washing machine in Utah
Fall 1913
1
3
3:10
The first electric washing machine in Utah
Fall 1913
1
3
3:11
The first electric washing machine in Utah
Fall 1913
1
4
4:01
Electric washing machine
undated
1
4
4:02
Ray Oliver in front of Riverdale power house
September 1955
1
4
4:03
Superintendent's house at Riverdale, Utah
1955
1
4
4:04
Power house, pressure box, and railroad Bridge, at
Olmsted, Utah
undated
1
4
4:05
Pressure box and Mountain behind Olmsted power
station
undated
1
4
4:06
Olmsted power station
undated
1
4
4:07
Electric laboratory, stone cottage,
superintendent's cottage, and Provo river in foreground
undated
1
4
4:08
Lola at camp at Bright Angel Point, North Rim of
the Grand Canyon
1918
1
4
4:09
Olmstead quarters building
1955
1
4
4:10
Superintendent's house at Olmsted, Utah
1919
1
5
5:01
Lola, Bette, Ray Jr
undated
1
5
5:02
Oliver in his office in Chicago,
1927-1932
undated
1
6
6:01
Oliver Ray Jr. and his wife Melba
Kriegger
undated
1
6
6:02
Bette, Paula, and dog in St. Charles
1943
1
6
6:03
Oliver and Lola with grandchildren
1945
1
6
6:04
Paula, Paul, Lee and Bette, (Oliver's daughter,
son-in-law, and two children)
1946
1
6
6:05
Lilian and Oliver after their marriage in
Jennings, Missouri
December 15, 1946
1
7
7:01
Ludine Lilian Oliver and Oliver
December 15, 1948
1
7
7:02
Portrait of A. Ray Oliver in St. Charles
1948
1
7
7:03
Ludine Lilian Oliver and Lilian in St. Charles
1949
1
7
7:04
Oliver with his cousins Kate and Rachel at their
plantation home, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1952
1
7
7:05
Oliver reunion at home of Ethel Olover and Ike
Cook, Fayetteville, Arkansas
1953
1
7
7:06
Ludine and Arolynn with Oliver at Mark Twain Cave,
Hannibal, Missouri
1955
1
7
7:07
Lee Oliver Elsner in his band uniform, Atherton,
California
undated
1
7
7:08
Arolynn on a horse ready to guide over the trail
at the Daniel Boone home
November 1964
1
7
7:09
Oliver on a horse on his 80th birthday at the
Daniel Boone home
undated