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Utah Cooperative Extension Division Photographs,, 1920-1929

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Peterson, William, 1874-1957.
Title
Utah Cooperative Extension Division Photographs,
Dates
1920-1929 (inclusive)
Quantity
6 boxes, (3 linear ft.)
Collection Number
USU_P0017
Summary
This collection consists of 187 black and white photographs taken by the Utah Cooperative Extension Division from the 1920s to the 1940s.
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
Restrictions

No restrictions on use except: not available through interlibrary loan.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
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Biographical Note

These photographs were removed from the William Peterson material that is part of the Utah State University Archives (Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. Directors Files 18:17). Peterson (1874-1957) graduated from the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University) in 1899. He was an instructor and professor at USU from 1899 until 1946: He was also the director of the Utah Extension Division from 1924 until 1946: He was a nationally recognized expert on Western land and water issues.

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Content Description

This collection consists of 187 prints taken by the Utah Cooperative Extension Division from the 1920s to the 1940s. They show beautification projects in Smithfield and Wellsville (including school and church grounds), food preparation, music instruction, cleaning techniques, agricultural scenes, 4-H judging, reservoirs, trees, livestock, and sewing. Some of the photos were taken on campus, but most were either taken in Cache Valley or the Brigham City/Ogden area.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Utah Cooperative Extension Division Photographs must be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Alternative Forms Available

View selected digitized images in this collection from the Extension, Enterprise, and Education: The Legacy of Co-operatives and Cooperation in Utah

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: P0017; Utah Cooperative Extension Division Photographs; Photograph Collections; Utah State University Special Collections and Archives, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University.

Following Citations: P0017, USUSC.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in numeric sequence according to box and item.

Processing Note

Processed in September of 2002

Acquisition Information

Internal transfer from USU Extension Service.

Acquisition Information

Collected by Director of Utah Cooperative Extension Division, William Peterson.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List
  • Description: 1:01: Two women picking up the corner of carpet
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:02: Same two women looking under the carpet
  • Description: 1:03: Woman cleaning the carpet with a brush, soap, and water
  • Description: 1:04: Woman ironing a cloth on her hands and knees
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:05: Same woman cleaning the carpet on her hands and knees
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:06: Woman using soap on the carpet on her hands and knees
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:07: Woman blotting the carpet to get it clean and dry
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:08: Woman cleaning an area of the floor on her hands and knees
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:09: Woman painting a piece of floor tile
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:10: Women giving a cooking demonstration
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:11: Women baking
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:12: Women teaching a girl about food and nutrition
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:13: Women buying goods at bake sale
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:14: Woman standing in front of a table full of produce, milk, eggs, meat, and flour
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:15: Women preparing a chicken
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:16: Women doing different domestic tasks
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:17: Sewing and fitting demonstration
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:18: Women getting fitted for a sewing demonstration
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:19: Women sewing hats
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:20: A women making rugs, display in the foreground
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:21: One woman demonstrating rug making
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:22: Woman starting to make a rug
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:23: Man showing rugs to two women
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:24: Trousers that were sewn wrong (only shows bottom part of legs and trousers)
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:25: Girls dresses hanging on a wall
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:26: Mens shirts hanging on a wall. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:27: Four mens shirts hanging on a wall. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:28: Display of pattern pieces hanging on a wall. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:29: A quilt hanging on a wall
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 1:30: A quilt hanging on a wall
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:1: A quilt hanging on a wall. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:2: Picture of three different fabrics hung on wall. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:3: Type of fabric hanging on wall
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:4: Two baby girls
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:5: Nine homemade dolls propped against wall
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:6: Girls learning to cut hair
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:7: Portrait of girls holding stringed instruments
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:8: Portrait of same girls holding stringed instruments with instructor.
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:9: Woman speaking to a group of girls
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:10: Girls in three lines playing a game
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:11: Same girls lined up catching balls
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:12: Girls wearing sashes that reads "Health, Happiness, Joy and Youth, March 30, 1929." 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:13: Girls studying and receiving instruction at a table
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:14: Home Thrifts Practices Exhibit by the Utah State Agricultural College (U.S.A.C) Extension Service in the background people watching. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:15: Side view of Home Thrifts Practices exhibit
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:16: People looking at the Home Thrifts Practices exhibit
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:17: Men looking at the Farm Thrift Practice exhibit by the U.S.A.C Extension Service
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:18: Field with a home in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:19: Elevated view of fields
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:20: Elevated view of orchards
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:21: Elevated view of orchards
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:22: A crop of field peas
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:23: A field of potatoes
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:24: A field of cabbage and carrots
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:25: A field of peppers, onions, and carrots
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:26: A field of raspberries. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:27: A field of asparagus. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:28: A field of raspberries
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:29: Men surveying rye(?) and Brom Grass(?)
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 2:30: Two men surveying potatoes
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:01: Two boys in an onion(?) field with farms in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:02: Farm fields
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:03: Men, women, and children working in a large garden
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:04: Farmer surveying a crop of beans
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:05: Two men with a crop of onions. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:06: Close up of an onion crop
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:07: Two men looking at oats
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:08: Two men binding wheat
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:09: Fallow field. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:09a: Fallow field. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:09b: Good Summer Fallow
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:09c: Fallow field
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:09d: Close up view of the Clarke Mc Nary Nursery which produced farm forest trees. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:09e: Probst Field, Heber Valley, sugar beet Seed, photo by Brian Tolman, July 14, 1941:
    Dates: 1941
  • Description: 3:09f: Crop of potatoes
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:10: Man on tractor plowing field
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:11: Man on tractor plowing field. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:12: Man with horse and plow in corn field
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:13: Man on tractor plowing field, duplicate of 3:14:
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:14: Man on tractor plowing field, duplicate of 3:13:
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:15: Tractor drawing korse cultivator in a pea field, Sam Halterman, Parowan, Ut
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:16: Experimental crops covered with wood pallets and overhead sprinklers. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:17: Workers topping sugar beets
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:18: Two men surveying sugar beet seed
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:19: A man in a field of sugar beet seed
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:20: A field with stacks of sugar beet seed
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:21: A farm house
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:22: George S. Noble barn/coop
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:23: Side view of barn and silo
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:24: Plain View Farm barn and cows. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:25: Farm shed and manure piles
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:26: Farmer with wheel barrow
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:27: A pond with farm in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:28: An old house behind shrubs and trees
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:29: A farm house and barn
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:30: A woman sitting outside in a rocker with two children. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 3:31: Men, Women, and Children doing yardwork. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:01: The Wellsville junior high school (built 1902) prior to beautifictian work done as part of an U.S.A.C. Extension project
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:02: School grounds in Wellsville showing three months of shrubs, trees, and lawn
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:03: Public library at Smithfield showing landscape gardening on grounds
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:04: School, tabernacle and library at Smithfield showing landscape gardening on grounds
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:05: Old Smithfield tabernacle showing landscape gardening on grounds as a result of community effort. 2 copies
    Dates: 1925-1926
  • Description: 4:06: Cemetery at Smithfield showing partial beautification
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:07: Photo taken from Benson looking towards Smithfield
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:08: Reese home(?), Smithfield
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:09: North Cache High School, Richmond, showing landscape gardening
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:10: City Hall at Wellsville
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:11: Wellsville tabernacle
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:12: Home of Mayor G. L. Reese of Smithfield
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:13: North Cache High School
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:14: Church at Hyde Park showing landscape beautification
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:15: Yard and garden view with pond
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:16: Tree with Old Main(?) in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:17: A group of pine trees
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:18: Trees and pathway
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:19: Tree on Utah State University campus
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:20: Tree on Utah State University campus
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:21: Pine tree with Old Main in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:22: Pine tree on Utah State University campus. 3 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:23: Trees with mountains in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:24: Trees on the side of road with mountains in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:25: View of a windy canyon road
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:26: View of Bryce Canyon
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:27: View of Bryce Canyon
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:28: View of Bryce Canyon
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:29: View of Bryce Canyon
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:30: Irrigated orchard
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:31: Water pumps in an orchard
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:32: A man standing in an orchard behind a fence
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:33: Orchard in dry soil
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 4:34: Boys weighing bushels of cherries
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:01: Boys and girls showing their cows
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:02: Cows
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:03: Judging heffers
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:04: Cows in a field
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:05: A boy feeding his calf
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:06: Cows in a field
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:07: A man standing by his cows in front of a barn
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:08: Cow in front of stalls
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:09: Cows at feeding trough
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:10: Record dairy cow
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:11: Record dairy cow
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:12: Cows in a field
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:13: Girl pasteurizing(?) milk
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:14: Girl weighing a bucket of milk
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:15: 4-H dairy judging at U.S.A.C. campus, Old Main building in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:16: 4-H dairy judging at U.S.A.C. campus, Old Main building in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:17: A boy standing with his pig
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:18: A group of pigs feeding in front of an old barn
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:19: Horses and cows in a field
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:20: Man standing next to a horse and colt
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:21: Man standing next to horse. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:22: Man standing next to horse. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:23: Sheep grazing, mountains in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:24: Sheep in feed lot
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:25: Two men showing their sheep
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:26: Two men showing their sheep
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:27: Two men showing their sheep
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:28: A sheep with a very thick coat of wool
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:29: A sheep with a very thick coat of wool
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 5:30: Showing the thickness of sheep's wool
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:01: Landscape photo of a field
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:02: Nearly dry streambed
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:03: Dam outlet and river
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:04: Hyrum reservoir?
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:05: Water conservation site?
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:06: Unknown reservoir
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:07: Unknown reservoir
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:08: Diversion works, Weber River(?). 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:09: Diversion works, Weber River (?)
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:10: Spillway and outlet of dam. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:11: A man shoveling small irrigation ditches in a field of crop
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:12: A man leaning against a shovel, watching water flow onto his crop
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:13: An irrigation pump
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:14: Mountains and irrigation ditch
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:15: Two boys weighing turkeys. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:16: Wheat field with small animal coops in the background
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:17: Two boys and a dog watching over a flock of chickens
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:18: A flock of turkeys in a field. 3 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:19: Man looking at flyer advertising meeting for wheat farmer cooperative. 2 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:20: Two men standing outside The Times-News building in Juab County
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:21: Two men standing outside the Washington County News building
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:22: Chef School
    Dates: 1939
  • Description: 6:23: Farmers receiving instruction in a classroom
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:24: A wheat farmer reading a letter from the U.S.A.C. and the Utah Cooperative Extention Division dated 15 Aug
    Dates: 1933
  • Description: 6:25: Two men signing documents
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:26: Two men signing documents
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:27: Farmer reading the Salt Lake Tribune
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:28: Road with trees and houses on either side
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:29: Aerial view of fields and mountains
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:30: Devil's Slide in Weber Canyon. 3 copies
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:31: Two women standing on a porch examining various odds and ends
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:32: A man sitting behind a desk reading a document into a radio transmitter(?)
    Dates: 1920-1940
  • Description: 6:33: 4-H forestry club samples
    Dates: 1920-1940