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Ward Jay Roylance papers, 1873-1993

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Roylance, Ward Jay, 1920-
Title
Ward Jay Roylance papers
Dates
1873-1993 (inclusive)
Quantity
9 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 1282
Summary
The Ward Jay Roylance papers (1873-1993) are centered around Roylance (1920-1993), his family, and environmental issues. Included are publications, correspondence, writings, family histories, programs, tour maps and guide books, certificates, scrapbooks, notes, journals, biographies, news articles, medical and U.S. Army records, pamphlets, and postcards. Correspondence, family history typescripts, and poems collected by Roylance, as well as writings and publications by Roylance on environmental issues, are located in box 1 and date from the 1950s to 1992. Roylance spent most of his life advocating the preservation of scenic Utah. He was a founding member of the Utah Travel Council and a member of the Utah Tourism Hall of Fame.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Content Description

The Ward Jay Roylance papers (1873-1993) are centered around Roylance (1920-1993), his family, and environmental issues. Included are publications, correspondence, writings, family histories, programs, tour maps and guide books, certificates, scrapbooks, notes, journals, biographies, news articles, medical and U.S. Army records, pamphlets, and postcards. Correspondence, family history typescripts, and poems collected by Roylance, as well as writings and publications by Roylance on environmental issues, are located in box 1 and date from the 1950s to 1992. Roylance spent most of his life advocating the preservation of scenic Utah. He was a founding member of the Utah Travel Council and a member of the Utah Tourism Hall of Fame. Some of his publications include Utah! A Guide to the State (1982), The Enchanted Wilderness: A Red Rock Odyssey (1986), and Utah: The Incredible Land (1965). He also authored many pamphlets, school texts, slide shows, guide books, magazine articles, and videos. A list of Roylance's written and audio-visual works is located in box 1, folder 4. At the request of Ward Roylance, documents relating to his wife, Gloria (box 1, folder 2), were restricted until 21 January 2002. In addition to the publications in box 1, boxes 7-12 and 16 also contain publications and documents resulting from Roylance's interest in wilderness areas. Tour maps, guide books, and postcards Roylance collected during his travels around Europe and the United States are located in boxes 2-4 and date from the 1970s.

Roylance's personal and family materials are found throughout boxes 5-6. Correspondence between family members and others is located in boxes 5-10 and dates from 1905 to 1993. Roylance attended LDS Business College in the late 1930s, served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, and then attended the University of Utah from 1946-1953, receiving a B.S. in elementary education. Documents resulting from these activities, such as his U.S. Army records and scrapbook, journals, and high school and college records, are located in boxes 11-13 and date from 1933 to 1993. Materials pertaining to Roylance's family (dating from 1946 to 1987), including histories, funeral documents, biographies, notes, and correspondence, are located in boxes 14-15. In addition to the environmental materials already mentioned, box 16 also contains news clippings, notes, and Wayne County (Utah) resident information, among other documents.

Box seventeen contains materials that Roylance made use of in his production of filmstrips for classrooms. The box also contains The Enchanted Wilderness Magazine, a project of Roylance and his wife Gloria. In box eighteen are the list of films that Roylance made for the classroom as well as the narrations for those films. The last folder of box eighteen is a work of fiction concerning an incident that took place in Vietnam in 1954. The setting is Hanoi, during the French occupation of the country. Because the author was himself in Vietnam after World War II and had met Ho Chi Minh, the story has the flavor of someone who was well acquainted with this subject.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Boxes 1-4 were donated in 1992. Boxes 5-16 were donated in 1996. Boxes 17-18 were donated in 2000. Folder 23 of Box 18 was donated in 2001.

Processing Note

Processed by Lisa Townsend in 1999.

Addenda processed by Luke Kelly in 2000 and Elizabeth Rogers in 2002.

Separated Materials

Photographs and auto visual materials were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0449, A0394).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Finding aid created by Lisa Townsend and Kelsie Flack
1999 (last modified: 2019)

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