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Kenneth Wayne Brewer photographs, 1907-2004

Overview of the Collection

Title
Kenneth Wayne Brewer photographs
Dates
1907-2004 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 box, (.25 linear foot)
Collection Number
UUS_P0381
Summary
The Kenneth Wayne Brewer Collection consists of 81 photographs dated from 1907-2004.
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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Historical Note

Kenneth Wayne Brewer was born on November 28, 1941, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Shortly after his birth, his father, Ulyss Brewer, deployed for World War II where he served most of his time fighting in the Philippines. After his father's deployment, Brewer and his mother, Edna Juanita Virt Brewer, moved in with his maternal grandmother, Mary Belle Virt.

After returning from the War in 1945, his father aspired to be a boxer but due to an injury he drove freight trucks in Indianapolis instead. Eventually he became an office manager for A & H Trucking Co. His mother worked as a typist for the same firm and his grandmother was a gift wrapper for a department store in Indianapolis. Because of his parents' schedules, Brewer was largely raised by his grandmother. He eventually graduated from Thomas Howe High School where he earned mostly B's and C's and participated in football and the ROTC.

Brewer attended Butler University for a year in 1959 before transferring to New Mexico Western College (now Western New Mexico University) in Silver City, New Mexico. He played football until a leg injury ended his career. He graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary teaching. In 1967 he graduated with a Master of Arts from New Mexico State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1973.

Dr. Brewer began teaching poetry at Utah State University in 1968. During his career at USU he wrote and published poetry extensively, and he eventually gained national attention being included in national anthologies and several listings of prominent American poets. He retired in the spring of 2000, after 32 years of teaching. He was named the Utah Poet Laureate in January 2003.

Ken married in 1964, and had two children, Kimberly Diane (Marsing) in 1966 and Jonathan Keith in 1969. Dr. Brewer died on March 15, 2006 following a nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Content Description

The Kenneth Wayne Brewer Collection consists of 81 photographs dated from 1907-2004. The majority of the pictures were taken in the 1940s and 1950s from Brewer's childhood and include his parents, Ulyss and Edna, various relatives, and friends. Photos from 1907-1959 are in black and white, after 1960 all the images are in color. Folder 2 consists of color prints taken by Dr. Brewer in 2004 of the Swenson Symposium.

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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 Kenneth Wayne Brewer Photographs must be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Kenneth Wayne Brewer Photographs. (P0381). Utah State University. Special Collections & Archives Department.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Topical

Acquisition Information

The Kenneth W. Brewer Photographs were given to Utah State University Special Collection and Archives by Dr. Brewer in 1997, with a second set given in 2006.

Processing Note

Collection processed by Kandice Newren, October 2008.

Related Materials

Kenneth Wayne Brewer Papers P0381

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List
  • Description: 01:01:01: Starting from the right back: Mary Pottage (grandmother to Ken Brewer), Clarence Pottage (great uncle to Ken Brewer), Laura Dirk (cousin to Mary Pottage), and Marie Dirk (cousin to Mary Pottage)
    Dates: 1907
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: 01:01:02: Mary Pottage (grandmother), age 13
    Dates: 1911
  • Description: 01:01:03: Great Grandpa Pottage (to Ken Brewer)
    Dates: 1905
  • Description: 01:01:04: Edna Virt (mother to Ken Brewer), age 4
    Dates: 1921
  • Description: 01:01:05: Edna Virt
    Dates: 1921
  • Description: 01:01:06: Charles W. Virt (grandfather to Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1915
  • Description: 01:01:07: Mary (Pottage) and Edna Virt
    Dates: 1920
  • Description: 01:01:08: Sharon Billings
    Dates: 1936 June
  • Description: 01:01:09: 4014 E. 10th, Indianapolis
    Dates: 1936 June
  • Description: 01:01:10: Charles Lawrence Brewer (brother to Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1940 January 12
  • Description: 01:01:11: Edna (Virt) Brewer
    Dates: 1941 June
  • Description: 01:01:12: Ulyss Brewer, Sergeant of U.S. Army
    Dates: 1939
  • Description: 01:01:13: Charles Lawrence Brewer, September 16, 1939- April 4, 1940
    Dates: 1940
  • Description: 01:01:14: Charles Virt, Edna and Ulyss Brewer, Dale Smith
    Dates: 1940
  • Description: 01:01:15: Edna Brewer
    Dates: 1944
  • Description: 01:01:16: Charles Virt & Bill Young
    Dates: 1943
  • Description: 01:01:17: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1943 August
  • Description: 01:01:18: Ken Brewer and Frank (uncle to Ken Brewer)
    Dates: 1943
  • Description: 01:01:19: Charles Virt & Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1945
  • Description: 01:01:20: K.W.(aka Ken Brewer), Ulyss, and Becky, Ken's dog at Big Sugar River (1937 Studebaker on right side)
    Dates: 1943 August
  • Description: 01:01:21: K.W. and Brewer at Big Sugar River
    Dates: 1943 August
  • Description: 01:01:22: K.W. and Brewer at Big Sugar River
    Dates: 1943 August
  • Description: 01:01:23: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1942
  • Description: 01:01:24: 125 W. Kansas House
    Dates: 1942
  • Description: 01:01:25: Ken and Edna Brewer
    Dates: 1945
  • Description: 01:01:26: Ken and Ulyss Brewer
    Dates: 1943 August
  • Description: 01:01:27: Ken Brewer and Mary Virt
    Dates: 1946
  • Description: 01:01:28: Charles Virt
    Dates: 1944
  • Description: 01:01:29: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1946
  • Description: 01:01:30: Charles and Mary Virt
    Dates: 1945
  • Description: 01:01:31: Mary Virt, Ken Brewer, and Charles Virt at Washington Park Cemetery
    Dates: 1945
  • Description: 01:01:32: Ulyss, Ken, Becky(dog)
    Dates: 1946
  • Description: 01:01:33: Ken Brewer and Kay Newman
    Dates: 1946
  • Description: 01:01:34: Ken Brewer at Big Sugar River
    Dates: 1945
  • Description: 01:01:35: Ken Brewer, Grandma Brewer, and Mildred at Pikeville, Kentucky
    Dates: 1946
  • Description: 01:01:36: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1945
  • Description: 01:01:37: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1945
  • Description: 01:01:38: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1946
  • Description: 01:01:39: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1947
  • Description: 01:01:40: Public School #62. Ken is the the second person in line
    Dates: 1948
  • Description: 01:01:41: Ulyss Brewer and Great-Grandma Pottage
    Dates: 1950 August
  • Description: 01:01:42: Ulyss and Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1950
  • Description: 01:01:43: Ken Brewer in Pikeville, Kentucky
    Dates: 1946
  • Description: 01:01:44: Brewer and Great Grandma Brewer
    Dates: 1907-2004
  • Description: 01:01:45: Ken Brewer in baseball outfit
    Dates: 1951
  • Description: 01:01:46: Ulyss Brewer dressed as a woman, Halloween
    Dates: 1952
  • Description: 01:01:47: E. 10th House
    Dates: 1953
  • Description: 01:01:48: Aunt Catherine, Ken and Grandma Brewer
    Dates: 1952
  • Description: 01:01:49: Ken and Ulyss Brewer
    Dates: 1954
  • Description: 01:01:50: Grandma
    Dates: 1955
  • Description: 01:01:51: House
    Dates: 1955
  • Description: 01:01:52: Garage
    Dates: 1955
  • Description: 01:01:53: Grandma
    Dates: 1956
  • Description: 01:01:54: Ken Brewer in military uniform
    Dates: 1956
  • Description: 01:01:55: Ken Brewer and John Kiesel, All-Stars
    Dates: 1956
  • Description: 01:01:56: Thomas Howe High School in Indianapolis, Indiana
    Dates: 1956
  • Description: 01:01:57: Ken Brewer in baseball uniform
    Dates: 1956
  • Description: 01:01:58: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1958
  • Description: 01:01:59: House on 10th Street
    Dates: 1957
  • Description: 01:01:60: Ulyss Brewer in the garage
    Dates: 1958
  • Description: 01:01:61: House at Tippecanoe
    Dates: 1959
  • Description: 01:01:62: Ulyss Brewer and dog
    Dates: 1960
  • Description: 01:01:63: Ulyss Brewer and dog
    Dates: 1961
  • Description: 01:01:64: Edna Brewer and dog
    Dates: 1962
  • Description: 01:01:65: Ulyss and Edna Brewer with Kim and Jon on their laps
    Dates: 1969
  • Description: 01:01:66: Four generations, (Grandmother holding Jon, Ken holding Kim, and Edna Brewer)
    Dates: 1970
  • Description: 01:01:67: The Tippecanoe
    Dates: 1970
  • Description: 01:01:68: Kenneth Brewer
    Dates: 1942 February
  • Description: 01:01:69: Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1992
  • Description: 01:01:70: Bobbie (Roberta) Stearman, Ken Brewer, and Bill Holm in Springdale, Utah
    Dates: 1997 May 25
  • Description: 01:01:71: Unknown man and Ken Brewer
    Dates: 1907-2004
  • Description: 01:02:01-10: Includes Roy Swenson (brother of May Swenson), Mark Doty and Cynthia Hogue, Bobbie Stearman, Paul Crumbley, Paul Swenson, and a postcard for the symposium
    Dates: 1907-2004

Encoded by Andrea Payant, January 2009.
2008

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