Max H. Parkin photograph collection, 1940-1989

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Parkin, Max H.
Title
Max H. Parkin photograph collection
Dates
1940-1989 (inclusive)
Quantity
.5 linear feet, (1 archives box)
Collection Number
P0659
Summary
The Max H. Parkin photograph collection consists chiefly of images and slides of important persons in the Mormon Church and of Mormon historical sites in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Utah. Many images are of the area around Kirtland, Ohio. Also included are portrait photographs of Max Parkin and of various members of the Parkin family. This collection is entirely digitalized and available online in our Digital Library.
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

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection contains a few portraits of Max Parkin, his wife, and images of Parkin's family, including George A. Parkin who died during World War II at the age of twenty.

However, the main body of the collection focuses on Mormon or L.D.S. history. This collection contains many images of L.D.S. Church leaders and significant figures, and photographs of major L.D.S. historical sites in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Salt Lake. Parkin's Masters Thesis is titled, "Conflict at Kirtland." Many photographs in the collection relate to his research and later visits to Kirtland, Ohio. There are also three folders addressing the Strangite, Cutlerite and Hedreckite religions that broke away from the L.D.S. Church after the death of Joseph Smith.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Max H Parkin (1930-2022) was born July 22, 1930 to Kimball Mann Parkin and Florence Hatch. Max attended Davis High School and 1 year at BYU. He served an LDS mission in Hawaii after which he attended the University of Utah, joined the Delta Phi fraternity, and enrolled in the Air Force ROTC to study navigation. However, he was not eligible for service in the Korean War due to color blindness.

In 1954, he married Yvonne Hobberstad of Inglewood, California, in the Salt Lake Temple. Max and Yvonne have five children: Bradford, Kevin, Steven, Christine, and Julie.

After graduating from the University of Utah in marketing and economics, Max was employed by Western Airlines at the old Salt Lake City Airport. Later, in the 1970s through 1980s, he became a teacher at the Salt Lake LDS Institute of Religion at the University of Utah.

Max died on March 23, 2022, in Salt Lake City.

Source: https://www.russonmortuary.com/obituaries/max-h-parkin

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

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.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Collection is arranged topically.

Separated Materials

See also the Max H. Parkin AV Collection (A0383) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Max Parkin.

Processing Note

Processed by Mary Ann Curtis in 2000.

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Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1 Portraits
  • 1: Max Parkin, 1974
  • 2: Max Parkin in his office at the Salt Lake Institute of Religion, 1976
  • 3: Max Parkin, 1978
  • 4: Max Parkin, November 1979. Age 49. on back "To Bradford"
  • 5: Max Parkin, Oct. 1985
1 2 Family
  • 1: group of unidentified individuals(George A. Parkin and family?), March 28, 1945.
  • 2-8: George A. Parkin in Navy uniform. S.C.B. 3/c U.S.N. C.P.O. Mess. 5 R Division P.S. San Diego. Age 20. Photograph taken 1947. Death July 1947, California.
  • 9-10: George A. Parkin, age 17, photograph taken in Bountiful, 1943 or 1944.
  • 11: unidentified young man in Navy outfit
  • 12: portrait of unidentified children, 1940-50s
  • 13: four unidentified boys in front of a Christmas tree
  • 14: Max Parkin and his mother in the rear of her Bountiful, UT home May 10, 1987
  • 15: Max Parkin's mother?
  • 16: Max Parkin's wife, Yvonne, on Nov. 18, 1960.
  • 17: Yvonne Parkin.
  • 18: Max Parkin and his granddaughter, Brittany, December 1984
1 3 Religion Classes and Students
  • 1-3: Students in religion classes taught by Max Parkin.
  • 4: Students in religion classes taught by Max Parkin, 1986
  • 5: BYU trip to United States L.D.S. Church historical sites, July 1978.
  • 6: Upper Missouri June 1978. Max Parkin, David Michael, Charles Allen.
1 4 L.D.S. Leaders and Historical Figures
  • 1: Dr. William Law
  • 2: W. W. Phelps
  • 3: Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898) by courtesy of the Historical Department of the Church.
  • 4: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church, 1880-1887; George Q. Cannon, John Taylor, Rudger Clawson
  • 5: Church leaders in prison for practicing polygamy, 1888, George Q. Cannon in center on chair
  • 6: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church, 1889-1898; George Q. Cannon, Wilford Woodruff, Joseph F. Smith
  • 7: Polygamous family, Joseph Fielding Smith, 1896/1897, 37 of 48 children in photograph.
  • 8: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church, 1901. President Lorenzo Snow, Joseph F. Smith, C. Rudger Clawson.
  • 9: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church, 1898-1901, George Q. Cannon, Lorenzo Snow, Joseph F. Smith
  • 10: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?, 1898-1901: Anthon H. Lund, J.W. Taylor, John Henry Smith, Heber J. Grant, Francis Manon Lyman, George Teasdale, M.W. Merrill, Brigham Young Jr., George Q. Cannon, Lorenzo Snow, Joseph F. Smith, F.D. Richards, Matthias F. Cowley, A.O. Woodruff
  • 11: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church, 1902. Apostles John R. Winder, Anthony H. Lund, and Joseph F. Smith
  • 12: Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the L.D.S. Church, April 1931, Joseph Fielding Smith
  • 13: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church, 1934-1945. Heber J. Grant (November 23, 1918-May 14, 1945), J.R. Clark (October 6 1934) and David O. McKay (October 6 1934).
  • 14: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?, October 1953.
  • 15: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church, pre 1965. N. Eldon Tanner, David O. McKay,
  • 16: President David O. McKay?
  • 17: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1960s.
  • 18: President David O. McKay? shaking the hands of young women.
  • 19: First Presidency of the L.D.S. Church and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1965. Sitting L to R: Ezra Taft Benson, Mark E. Peterson (on chair arm), Joseph Fielding Smith (Council President), and LeGrand Richards. Standing L to R: Gordon B. Hinckley, Delbert L. Stapley, Thomas S. Monson, Spencer W. Kimball, Harold B. Lee, Marion G. Romney, Richard L. Evans, and Howard W. Hunter.
  • 20-21: Spencer W. Kimball
  • 22: Ezra Taft Bensen
1 5 L.D.S. Hawaiian Sculpture
  • 1: Statue of Book of Mormon figure, Lehi, blessing his son Joseph. Located behind the L.D.S. Hawaiian Temple in Laea, Hawaii. Elder Max Parkin served his mission in Hawaii, 1950 and is pictured here.
  • 2: Statue of Book of Mormon figure, Lehi, blessing his son Joseph. Located behind the L.D.S. Hawaiian Temple in Laea, Hawaii. Elder Max Parkin served his mission in Hawaii, 1979
1 6 Photographs Used in Parkin's Master Thesis, "Conflict at Kirtland"
  • 1: copy print of a Kirtland Safety Society Bank one dollar bill
  • 2: copy print of a Kirtland Safety Society Bank two dollar bill
  • 3: copy print of a Kirtland Safety Society Bank three dollar bill
  • 4: copy print of a Kirtland Safety Society Bank five dollar bill
  • 5: copy print of a Kirtland Safety Society Bank ten dollar bill
  • 6: copy print of a Kirtland Safety Society Bank one hundred dollar bill
  • 7: a large gathering in front of the Kirtland Temple
  • 8: Kirtland Temple from a distance
  • 9: drawing of the Kirtland Temple, drawn by Henry Howe in 1846 (negative only)
  • 10: detailed map of Ohio (negative only)
  • 11: map of land allocation in Kirtland, Ohio (negative only)
  • 12: record of license given to Joseph Smith (negative only)
  • 13: Wilford Woodruff's certificate of reception into the L.D.S. Church. May 2, 1836 (negative only)
1 7 Strangites
  • 1-2: Bruce Flanders (presiding Elder of the Strangite Church in Burlington) and Max Parkin, Aug 1988, Burlington, Wisconsin.
  • 3: Strangite "pioneer homes"
  • 4: Monument describing the founding of the Strangite Church and the fate of its= leader, Strang.
  • 5: St. James on Lake Michigan
  • 6: Monument regarding Mormon print shop founded by Strang
  • 7: Strang's Mormon print shop at St. James, Beaver Island
  • 8-10: Strangite Church
  • 11-13: Monument with map of Old Voree, Strangite Mormon settlement
  • 14: Monument marking Strang's death
  • 15: Monument marking where Strang found gold plates
  • 16-18: Monument with map of Old Voree
  • 19: "Morman Road" near Old Voree
1988
1 8 Cutlerites
  • 1: Cutlerite cabin in Ottertail County, Minnesota
  • 2-4: Cutlerite Church in Clitherd, Minnesota
  • 5: Cutlerite Church in Independence, Missouri
  • 6: homes near beach
  • 7: monument for the Cutlerite Tabernacle
  • 8: monument regarding the first settlement in Ottertail County
  • 9: scenic view of Beaver Island (?), September 1988
  • 10: Wendell Road sign, Ottertail County
  • 11: Max Parkin with Edna Fletcher and her unmarried son, the last two Cutlerite members in Fargus Falls, Minnesota (near Ciltherd, Minnesota). Aug 27, 1988.
  • 12: Cutlerite Church near Independence, Missouri
1988
1 9 Hedreckites
  • 1: Hedreckite (C of C Temple lot), Independence, Missouri.
  • 2: Rocks inscribed with initials found at the Church of Christ (Hedreckite) Temple lot, August 3, 1831
  • 3: Monument marking the site of the Temple lot, placed by the Hedreckites.
1988
1 10 Miner's Hill, New York
  • "While at Miner's Hill a mile or two distant from the Hill Cumorah in New York, I saw two children playing in the thickets near by. I asked them the name of the hill and if they knew anything about it. The oldest one, a girl about 9 or 10, said it was Mormon Hill where Joe Smith wrote (translated) the gold Bible."
  • 1: At MHA Convention, New York, May 1980. Max Parkin (2nd from left), Rev. Wesley Walters (2nd from right) and Walter's friends.
  • 2-3: Parkin at what according to Rev. Walters is the "Joseph Smith Cave." May 1980
1 11 Kirtland and Hiram, Ohio
  • 1. Disciples of Christ Church in Mantua. Howard Searle, Max Parkin and Calvin Rudd (Salt Lake Institute teachers), negative and print available.
  • 2. Disciples of Christ Church in Mantua. Howard Searle and Calvin Rudd (Salt Lake Institute teachers), negative only.
  • 3 City street, negative only (double exposed).
  • 4. View from hillside, negative only.
  • 5. Max Parkin at the Temple Quarry near Kirtland, negative and print available.
  • 6. Max Parkin at the Joseph Smith Sr. Home in Kirtland, negative and print available.
  • 7. Joseph Smith Sr. Home in Kirtland, Ohio, negative only.
  • 8: Over-exposed negative.
  • 9. Max Parkin at Symonds Ryder's headstone in Hiram, negative and print available.
  • 10: Ryder headstone in Hiram, negative only.
  • 11: Symonds Ryder's house in Hiram, negative and print available.
  • 12: Max Parkin and unidentified man near the Mantua Center Christian Church, negative only.
  • 13-14. Max Parkin near the Mantua Center Christian Church, negatives only (unfocused).
  • 15: Group of men at the Joseph Smith Sr. Home in Kirtland, negative only.
  • 16: Cemetery and temple at Kirtland, Ohio, negative and print available.
  • 17. Over-exposed negative.
  • 18: Tour group in the rain of the cemetery and temple at Kirtland, Ohio, negative only
  • 19: Newel K. Whitney Store in Kirtland, negative and print available.
  • 20-21. Tour group in the rain of the cemetery and temple at Kirtland, Ohio, negatives only
  • 22: Cemetery and temple at Kirtland, Ohio, negative and print available.
  • 23: Man fixing his car, negative only.
  • 24: Young man standing in front yard with a camera around his neck, negative only
  • 25: Max Parkin in front of his car, negative only.
  • 26: Joseph Smith Sr. Home in Kirtland, negative and print available.
  • 27: Man at the temple Quarry near Kirtland, negative only.
  • 28. Max Parkin at the temple Quarry near Kirtland, negative and print available
  • 29: Max Parkin near the Newel K. Whitney Store in Kirtland, negative and print available
  • 30: Max Parkin at Symonds Ryder's home in Hiram, April 1977. The Ryder home is located next to the John Johnson home which is owned by the L.D.S. Church, print only
  • 31: Arthur C. Ryder, Max Parkin, Robert Woodford, and Calvin Rudd in Arthur C. Ryder's home (great nephew of Symonds Ryder), Hiram, April 21, 1977, print only.
1 12 Illinois and Missouri
  • 1: Nauvoo Council Masonic Hall
  • 2-3: Parkin in Warsaw, Illinois, May 1989
  • 4: office of the "Warsaw Signal," an anti-Mormon press in 1844
  • 5: "Mormon History Association meetings Max H. Parkin and San Steven in May 1889 Warsaw, Illinois office of Warsaw signal newspaper by Thomas C, Sharp"
  • 6: plaque relating the Mormon experience in Quincy, Illinois, 1989
  • 7: Quincy Town Square where exiled Mormons gathered after their flight from Missouri, 1989
  • 8-9: Missouri River
  • 10: 11: "The ford (crossing between Far West, MO and points south) in northern Ray Co. at Crooked River, where the battle was fought October 25, 1838, between Captain Patten and Bogart's men. The battle took place in the fields of the background along old settlers road, traces of which are still visible on the ridge in the background.", 1970
  • 11: "The ford (crossing between Far West, MO and points south) in northern Ray Co. at Crooked River, where the battle was fought October 25, 1838, between Captain Patten and Bogart's men. The battle took place in the fields of the background along old settlers road, traces of which are still visible on the ridge in the background."
1 13 John W. Woolley Home, Centerville
  • 1: Max Parkin in front of John W. Woolley's home on 2nd West and Parrish Lane, Centerville, UT. January 24, 1978, negative and print available.
  • 2: South view of Woolley home, January 24, 1978, negative and print available.
  • 3: Interior of Woolley home. Front room showing former entrance into President John Taylor's bedroom where he received a visit from Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith on Sept. 27, according to fundamentalist Lorin C. Woolley. Photograph taken Jan 24, 1978, negative and print available.
  • 4: Parkin in front of the Woolley home where President John Taylor resided underground. Photograph taken Jan 24, 1978, before the Woolley home was moved to Pioneer Trails State Park and restored to its' original pioneer design, negative and print available.
  • Attached to the back of the photograph is a photocopy of the Woolley home restored to its' original pioneer design (C.C. Rich home).
  • 5: Parkin inside a bedroom of the Woolley home, print only.
  • 6: John W. Woolley home in Centerville in the 1880s, print only.
  • 7. John W. Woolley's home on 2nd West and Parrish Lane, Centerville, UT. January 24, 1978, negative only.
1 14 Orderville, Utah
  • 1: Parkin in Orderville during the summer of 1987
  • 2: model of Orderville 'as it was,' in a museum in Orderville, 1987
1 15 Tabernacle, Salt Lake City
  • 1: Mormon Tabernacle Choir seated in the Tabernacle
  • 2: 135 Annual General Conference of the L.D.S. Church as seen from the balcony in the Tabernacle. "The spacious interior of the historic Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City's Temple Square is shown here during a conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 135th annual General Conference of the Church is scheduled for April 4-6."
  • 3: Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  • 4: aerial view of Temple Square and the Tabernacle
1 16 Miscellaneous Photographs
  • 1: Parkin at the Peter Whitmer Farm House, Fayette, N.Y. May 1980
  • 2: Brother Bruce and Max Parkin at Lake Huron during the summer of 1988
  • 3: unidentified photograph of a market place, c. 1950s
1 17 D.J. Nelson's Slides to His Lecture on the Book of Abraham
  • 1: various diagrams and hieroglyphics, September 26, 1975
  • 2-12: various diagrams and hieroglyphics
1 18 Slides of Ohio and Missouri
  • 1: Lighthouse at Fairport Harbor
  • 2: J. Johnson home in Hiram, Ohio
  • 3: Symonds Ryder's grave in Hiram, Ohio
  • 4: Campbelite Church in Mantua, Ohio
  • 5: Alexander Campbell painting in a Campbelite Church, Mantua, Ohio
  • 6: Parkin in Campbelite Church, Mantua, Ohio
  • 7: Joseph Smith Sr. home in Kirtland, Ohio. "Home of the last 3 Kirtland revelations "
  • 8: Black Pete's Leap, Chagrin River, Kirtland, Ohio.
  • 9: Newell K. Whitney Store, Kirtland, Ohio
  • 10: Parkin at the Kirtland Temple quarry, 1977
  • 11: Joseph Smith Sr. home in Kirtland, Ohio.
  • 12-13: Kirtland Temple
  • 14: Painting of Painsville Telegraph
  • 15: Painsville telegraph office remodeled to be a bank, April 1977
  • 16: Parkin in Jackson County, Missouri
  • 17: Fishing River, Missouri
  • 18: unidentified buildings
  • 19: Parkin at place where Joseph Smith found shelter for Zions Camp, June 19, 1834
  • 20: Max and Steven (son) Parkin in Far West, Missouri
  • 21: Max and Steven in Clay County, Missouri, where cholera victims of Zions Camp were buried
  • 22: Max and Steven Parkin at site of the Battle of Crooked River in Ray County, Missouri.
1 19 Black and White Slides of L.D.S. History, copy work
These slides are copywork from other institutions and were collected/presented (bit NOT created) by Parkin
  • 1-3; Salt Lake Tabernacle under construction
  • 4: 1st South Salt Lake Theater and City Hall
  • 5: Church Office Block. Gardo house and Bishop's Storehouse, 1890
  • 6: S.L.C., South Temple, 1869
  • 7: Endowment House dedicated May 5, 1855 and used until Nov. 1889
  • 8: Eagle Gate, circa 1890, built 1859, model at Chicago World Fair
  • 9: Great Salt Lake City, 1853
  • 10: Great Salt Lake City, 1851 including Council house, Tithing office, and H.C. Kimball's house.
  • 11-12: Council House on Main and South Temple Street, 1850
  • 13: Mormon pioneers in Echo Canyon, 1867
  • 14: Young David O. McKay
  • 15: James E. Talmage, John R. Park, Karl G. Maeser
  • 16: Apostle Grant on hill overlooking Yokohama, Japan, Dedicating Japan September 1, 1901
  • 17: President Heber J. Grant, with J. Reuben Clark and David O. McKay
  • 18: Main Street S.L.C., 1912, new Kearns building on left
  • 19: President Joseph F. Smith and his son Joseph Fielding Smith
  • 20: David O. McKay on the University of Utah's football team, 1894
  • 21: first three buildings of the University of Utah, Survey class. University of Utah 1901. Normal building, library and liberal arts, LeRoy Cowles Building, John Widtsoe Building
  • 22: Main Street, S.L.C, 1900
  • 23: Main Street and 2nd South, circa 1900
  • 24: Utah Prison 1988-89. George Q. Cannon and Francis M. Lyman
  • 25: Polygamists in Utah Prison
  • 26: Utah Prison
  • 27: Reward poster for capture of John Taylor and George Q. Cannon
  • 28: Brigham Young's chair in his private railroad car
  • 29-30: construction of the Salt Lake Temple
  • 31: Little Cottonwood Quarries
  • 32: Main Street looking South, circa 1865
  • 33: Eagle Gate and the Brigham Young School
  • 34: poster of Brigham Young at various points in life
  • 35: Lorenzo Snow
  • 36: Wilford Woodruff, age 45
  • 37: John Taylor
  • 38: Brigham Young, from Frederick Perce's 'Route From Singapore', 1855
  • 39: Brigham Young, from an 1850 daguerreotype
  • 40: early Salt Lake Tabernacle with foundation of Salt Lake Temple in foreground
  • 41: L.D.S. Church leaders, circa 1905-1909. first row L-R: Brigham Young, Joseph Angell Young, John Sharp, Ezra Taft Benson, second row L-R: Brigham Young Jr., John Willard Young, Lorin Farr, Chauncey W. West
  • 42: 1st University of Utah Regents. first row L-R: Franklin Dewey Richards, John Thomas Caine, Joseph Angell Young. second row L-R: Daniel Spencer, Hosea Stout, John Taylor. third row L-R: Erastus Snow, Lorenzo Snow, George Albert Smith.
  • 43: University of Utah Regents: first row L-R: John Milton Bernhisel, Robert Lang Campbell, Albert Carrington. second row L-R: William Wines Phelps, Orson Pratt, Parley P. Pratt. third row L-R: Zerubbabel Snow, Elias Smith, Samuel W. Richards
  • 44: Joseph F. Smith
  • 45: Joseph F. Smith's life in photographs
  • 46: John Taylor
  • 47: Promontory Point, UT 1869, driving last spike "joining of rails"
  • 48: Center part of this house is where the Book of Mormon was translated. "Jos. MCrune added right 1932. Anzia Barns added left, 1906. Era March 1963"
  • 49: John W. Woolley home in Centerville in the 1880s
  • 50: John Taylor's house in Kaysville, he died here while in exile, July 25, 1887
  • 51: Saltair, 1925
  • 52: Reed Smoot
  • 53: 1st Bureau of Information
  • 54: John Wentworth, 1842, the man to whom Joseph Smith wrote the Wentworth letter.
  • 55: Monument marking the southeast corner of the Temple (Missouri ?)
  • 56: Letter to Elder Nattall
  • 57: Corrine, UT 1869
  • 58: David O. McKay and three U.S. Presidents
  • 59: President Joseph F. Smith, Harold B. Lee and President Nixon on the 2nd Presidential campaign. Also pictured are George Romney, Sec. Of H.U.D, President Tanner, U.S. Sec of Treasury, David Kennedy, and Utah Representative Burton, July 1970
  • 60: Young George Albert Smith
  • 61: Drawing of Joseph Smith in military uniform while in Kirtland, Ohio.
  • 62: Kirtland land allocation
  • 63: School of the Prophets in the Whitney Store, Kirtland
  • 64: Temple plot in Kirtland, Ohio.
  • 65: Whitney Store where the 'Word of Wisdom' was given
  • 66: Kirtland Flats and the Whitney Store, Kirtland, Ohio.
1 20 Duplicates
1 21 Slides
  • 1-7: Statistics of the L.D.S. Church
  • 8-9: Library at Brigham Young University?
  • 10: View of Provo from Temple Hill
  • 11: Unidentified man, probably a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Latter Day Saint churches--Photographs

Personal Names

  • Parkin, Max H.--Photographs

Family Names

  • Parkinson family--Photographs

Geographical Names

  • Kirtland (Ohio)--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

  • Color slides
  • Photographic prints
  • Portrait photographs
  • Slides