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Anderson Photograph Studio archive, 1940-1975

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Anderson Photograph Studio (Preston, Idaho)
Title
Anderson Photograph Studio archive
Dates
1940-1975 (inclusive)
Quantity
2 boxes (186 items), (1 linear ft. )
Collection Number
UUS_P0252
Summary
Collection of photographs taken in the late 1940s to 1975 by Anderson Photograph Studio. Most are photographs taken around Preston, Idaho and Franklin County, Idaho. Subjects include various Preston High School groups and activities; civic, church, and social groups; a man-hunt from the 1960's; boy scouts; individual portraits; and various buildings and facilities such as the Franklin County Courthouse, Franklin Café, Mountain Bell building, O.K. Tire Shop, California Packing Company, and sugar beet factories.
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

Open to public research.

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

Studio located in Preston, Idaho.

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Content Description

The Anderson Studio photograph collection consists of 186 mostly unidentified images. These black-and-white photos date from the 1940s to the early 1970s and, with a few exceptions, were taken in and around Preston, Idaho. Included are images of agriculture, Preston High School activities, individual portraits, a man-hunt from the 1960s, accidents, the Preston sugar beet factory, boy scouts, civic and LDS Church groups, and Preston businesses.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

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 Anderson Photograph Studio archive must be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Anderson Photograph Studio archive, 1940-1975. (P0252). Utah State University. Special Collections & Archives Department.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized numerical by photo number.

Acquisition Information

These photographs were given to Newell Hart by Anderson Studio via Karol L. Anderson in 1975.

Processing Note

Register completed by Peter F. Schmid, June 1998, and revised by Daniel Davis, January 2008.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List

  • Photographs, undated

    • Description: 1:001-012: Automobile accidents, fires, and train wrecks
      Dates: 1945-1965
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:07: Train wreck
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:013-017: Preston High School graduation groups including
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:17: Preston High School Graduation
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:018-024: Preston High School theatre productions
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:025-026: Preston High School chorus
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:027: Preston High School basketball including team of
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:028-037: Preston High School football
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:038-039: Preston High School reunion groups, classes of 1931 and 1944
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:040-045: Miscellaneous portraits
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:046: Open casket funderal for an infant
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:047-048: Bean crops: a stringing machine and a school group visiting a bean farm
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:049-078: Miscellaneous adult groups, including the Lions Club, men receiving Utah Power and Light safety awards, women cooking, LDS Church and civic groups. Some are undoubtedly educators
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:079: Five fishermen with a large catch, probably salmon
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:080-084: Pictures of a manhunt and two captured men (one of whom is African-American) and a cache of guns. Also a photograph of a First Security Bank of Idaho vault that appears to have been blown open, perhaps the cause of the manhunt
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:085-088: Ceremony for the "Parking Meters Last Rites" on the steps of the Franklin County Court House
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:089-092: Boy Scout (Explorer Scouts) activities, Troop 137
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:093-097: Interiors and exteriors of Preston sugar beet factory including the Lime Kiln, Franklin County Sugar Co
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:098-099: Man in a wheelchair, also using an iron lung[?]
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:100-101: Irrigation canal and diversion dam, probably on the Bear River
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:102-166: Copy prints of historic photographs, including several of Grace, Idaho around the turn of the century. Includes store interiors, family group portraits, basketball, wagons, early automobiles, dam building, civic groups, homes, bands, football, salmon, agriculture, and the Providence Ward School from
      Dates: 1902
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:167: Aerial view of Preston
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:168: View of the Franklin County Court House
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:169: View of the Franklin Café
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:170: A Massey-Ferguson store
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:171: Preston 4th Ward church under demolition
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:172-173: Interiors of an auto garage
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:174: A Massey-Ferguson store
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:175: Mountain Bell telephone building
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:176: View looking east in Logan, Utah, from west part of city toward mouth of Logan Canyon showing the O.K. Tire Shop in the foreground
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 1:177-186: Miscellaneous scenes including Weston Canyon, agriculture, what appears to be a power station and a mining operation in the mountains
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 2:01-02: Preston High School graduation groups
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 2:03: Preston High School chorus
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 2:04-06: Miss Franklin County and attendants
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 2:07: Wedding portrait
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 2:08: California Packing Co. plant
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Photographs, undated
    • Description: 2:09-10: Sugar beet factory views
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
      Location: Photographs, undated

Finding aid created by Peter F. Schmid, June 1998, and revised by Daniel Davis, January 2008.
2008

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