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_P0252
Anderson
Photograph Studio (Preston, Idaho)
Anderson Photograph Studio archive
1940-1975
2
boxes (186 items)
1 linear ft.
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.
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 Anderson Photograph Studio archive must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Anderson Photograph Studio archive, 1940-1975. (P0252). Utah State University. Special
Collections & Archives Department.
These photographs were given to Newell Hart by Anderson Studio via Karol L. Anderson in
1975.
Register completed by Peter F. Schmid, June 1998, and revised by Daniel Davis, January
2008.
Biographical Note
Studio located in Preston, Idaho.
Organized numerical by photo number.
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.
Images
Utah
State University. Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Preston High
School (Preston, Idaho)--Photographs.
Franklin
County Courthouse (Preston, Idaho)--Photographs.
Anderson
Photograph Studio (Preston, Idaho)
Preston
(Idaho)--Photographs.
Preston
(Idaho)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs.
Preston
(Idaho)--Social life and customs--Photographs.
Franklin
County (Idaho)--Photographs.
Franklin
County (Idaho)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Photographs.
Grace
(Idaho)--Photographs.
Container List
Photographs
undated
1
1:001-012
Automobile accidents, fires, and train wrecks
1945-1965
1
1:07
Train wreck
undated
1
1:013-017
Preston High School graduation groups including
1962
1
1:17
Preston High School Graduation
1962
1
1:018-024
Preston High School theatre
productions
undated
1
1:025-026
Preston High School chorus
undated
1
1:027
Preston High School basketball including team of
1963
1
1:028-037
Preston High School football
undated
1
1:038-039
Preston High School reunion groups, classes of
1931 and 1944
undated
1
1:040-045
Miscellaneous portraits
undated
1
1:046
Open casket funderal for an infant
undated
1
1:047-048
Bean crops: a stringing machine and a school group
visiting a bean farm
undated
1
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
undated
1
1:079
Five fishermen with a large catch, probably
salmon
undated
1
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
1965
1
1:085-088
Ceremony for the "Parking Meters Last Rites" on
the steps of the Franklin County Court House
1956
1
1:089-092
Boy Scout (Explorer Scouts) activities, Troop
137
undated
1
1:093-097
Interiors and exteriors of Preston sugar beet
factory including the Lime Kiln, Franklin County Sugar Co
undated
1
1:098-099
Man in a wheelchair, also using an iron
lung[?]
undated
1
1:100-101
Irrigation canal and diversion dam, probably on
the Bear River
undated
1
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
1902
1
1:167
Aerial view of Preston
1948
1
1:168
View of the Franklin County Court
House
undated
1
1:169
View of the Franklin Café
undated
1
1:170
A Massey-Ferguson store
undated
1
1:171
Preston 4th Ward church under demolition
1963
1
1:172-173
Interiors of an auto garage
undated
1
1:174
A Massey-Ferguson store
undated
1
1:175
Mountain Bell telephone building
undated
1
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
undated
1
1:177-186
Miscellaneous scenes including Weston Canyon,
agriculture, what appears to be a power station and a mining operation in the
mountains
undated
2
2:01-02
Preston High School graduation groups
undated
2
2:03
Preston High School chorus
undated
2
2:04-06
Miss Franklin County and attendants
1962
2
2:07
Wedding portrait
undated
2
2:08
California Packing Co. plant
undated
2
2:09-10
Sugar beet factory views
undated