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Frank O'Rourke photograph collection, 1897-1985

Overview of the Collection

Title
Frank O'Rourke photograph collection
Dates
1897-1985 (inclusive)
Quantity
853 photographs
Collection Number
P0351
Summary
The Frank O'Rourke photograph collection contains photographs documenting the personal life and times of Frank O'Rourke, his immediate family, and the families of his mother and father. The collections also includes photographs of a flood in Homer, Nebraska and its effects (1940).
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 photographs in this collection document the personal life and times of author Frank O'Rourke, his immediate family, and the families of his mother and father. A vital part of this collection is the several photo albums provided that cover a substantial period of time in the early lives of the parents of Frank O'Rourke and the early life of O'Rourke himself. Also documented is a flood in Homer, Nebraska and it's effects. Cover images of three O'Rourke novels are included. The majority of the photographs are in good condition except for the earliest of the photo albums which are in fragile condition because of their age.

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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

Arrangement

Collection is arranged topically.

Processing Note

Processed by Dale Larsen in 1992 and Mary Ann Curtis in 2000.

Separated Materials

Audio-visual materials were transferred to the Frank O'Rourke audio-visual collection (A0629).

Manuscript materials were transferred to the Frank O'Rourke papers (ACCN 1201).

Related Materials

See also the books and life works of Frank O'Rourke; westerns, suspense, and sports novels in Western Americana.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Family, flood, houses, novels

    • Description: Frank O'Rourke

      • Photograph number 1-9: Images of O'Rourke as a young boy, circa 1928
      • Photograph number 10-12: Images of O'Rourke as a young man, circa 1934
      • Photograph number 13-15: O'Rourke as young adult
      • Photograph number 16: O'Rourke as a boy in 1923
      • Photograph number 17: Group of people around a dining room table looking over documents. Caption on back: "At one of the first meetings to plan the Willa Cather Memorial in Red Cloud, Nebraska."

      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: O'Rourke With His Father

      • Photograph number 1-7: Images of O'Rourke with his father in a variety of situations, circa 1920s

      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Frank M. Phillips (O'Rourke's Father)

      • Photograph number 1-8: Frank O'Rourke's father in a variety of snapshots with friends and alone, also with two time-period automobiles

      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Virginia Brown Phillips (O'Rourkes Mother)

      • Photograph number 1-9: Frank O'Rourke's mother in a variety of formal and informal portraits taken before and during her marriage to Frank Phillips

      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Family, miscellaneous

      • Photograph number 1-3: Unidentified early photographs, 1920's?
      • Photograph number 4-5: Images labeled, "Eric, Lisa, and Grandmother." October, 1980
      • Photograph number 6: Unidentified school girls in uniform
      • Photograph number 7: Frank's cousin Nadine and her father
      • Photograph number 8-9: Women from Homer, Nebraska: Edith O'Rourke, Gertrude Sheperdson, Virginia Phillips
      • Photograph number 10: Nadine, Virginia, Gertrude
      • Photograph number 11: Gertrude Sheperdson, Virginia Phillips, Frank M. Phillips
      • Photograph number 12: Gertrude, Virginia, Nadine
      • Photograph number 13: Gertrude, Virginia
      • Photograph number 14: Frank Phillips
      • Photograph number 15: Frank Phillips, Virginia Phillips, Nadine
      • Photograph number 16: Virginia, Nadine, Frank Phillips holding Mickey, the fat terrier
      • Photograph number 17: Informal wedding portrait of "Bernice and Lynn". June 30, 1933
      • Photograph number 18-22: Various images of relatives including Frank Phillips, Nadine Sheperdson, Virginia Phillips, Gertrude Sheperdson, and Mickey the terrier, Tom, Bernice, Lynn
      • Photograph number 23: Formal baby portrait of Ronald Clair Shepardson
      • Photograph number 24: Formal baby portrait of W.D. Shepardson
      • Photograph number 25-26: Formal portrait of possibly Nadine Shepardson's father

      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Family

      • Photograph number 1: Virginia Berkhofer as young adult
      • Photograph number 2: Unidentified couple
      • Photograph number 3-4: Virginia's father
      • Photograph number 5: Couple standing on a porch labeled, "Eddie and his wife"
      • Photograph number 6-10: Frank's father and mother and aunt Mabel Hechl
      • Photograph number 11: First grade photograph of Tim O'Donnell
      • Photograph number 12-18: Frank's father and mother and other close relatives
      • Photograph number 19-21: Possibly Virginia's Father

      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Brown Family

      • Photograph number 1-15: Informal portraits of Frank O'Rourke's family-in-law, the Browns. Including; Virginia, Gertrude, Tom, Lynn, Samuel, and Ella Brown.
      • Photograph number 16: A hand written list, probably written by Virginia Brown, of "Browns'" birthdays and deaths of relatives

      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Gertrude Brown Shepardson

      • Photograph number 1-14: Photographs of Gertrude by herself
      • Photograph number 15: Image of Gertrude with three other people by an old Ford automobile
      • Photograph number 16-18: Informal portraits of Gertrude by herself
      • Photograph number 19-23: Formal portraits of Gertrude

      Container: Box 1, Folder 8
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Nadine Shepardson

      • Photograph number 1: Nadine in front of a cathedral in Germany
      • Photograph number 2: Unidentified cabin
      • Photograph number 3-9: Nadine in various scenes
      • Photograph number 10-14: Nadine on a college tour in Europe
      • Photograph number 15: Formal portrait
      • Photograph number 16: Formal portrait of Nadine as a girl

      Container: Box 1, Folder 9
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: O'Rourke Homes

      • Photograph number 1: Nadine Shepardson's house in Massachusetts
      • Photograph number 2: View of Homer, Nebraska
      • Photograph number 3-6: Views of Frank O'Rourke's home
      • Photograph number 7: Unidentified house
      • Photograph number 8-9: Views of Homer, Nebraska

      Container: Box 1, Folder 10
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Friends

      • Photograph number 1: "Paul up the mountain trail from his home, April 20th," skiing
      • Photograph number 2: Len Sarett with a cup of coffee in front of a lake
      • Photograph number 3: Len Sarett in the mountains
      • Photograph number 4: Len Sarett having a smoke in the woods, (Signed on the front)
      • Photograph number 5: Formal portrait of Joan Blaine, friend of Nadine
      • Photograph number 6: Formal portrait of unidentified man
      • Photograph number 7: Formal portrait of Ralph Dennis

      Container: Box 1, Folder 11
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Flood-Homer, Nebraska

      • Photograph number 1-17: Detailed images of wreckage and flotsam during and after a flood in Homer, Nebraska

      Dates: June 1940
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Continuation of folder 12

      • Photograph number 1-10: Detailed images of wreckage and flotsam during and after a flood in Homer, Nebraska

      Container: Box 1, Folder 13
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels
    • Description: Novels

      • Photograph number 1-2: Photographs and negatives of the covers of three O'Rourke novels
      • Photograph number 3-6: 3 x 4 negatives of covers of O'Rourke novels

      Container: Box 1, Folder 14
      Location: Family, flood, houses, novels

  • Photo Albums

    • Description: Frank O'Rourke's father's Photo-Album?

      • Photograph number 1: Frank's father
      • Photograph number 2-3: Wreckage of houses from a flood or storm
      • Photograph number 4-8: Unidentified people possibly O'Rourke's father
      • Photograph number 9-10: Wreckage of house
      • Photograph number 11-19: Unidentified people generally swimming or around water
      • Photograph number 20-22: Wreckage from flood or storm
      • Photograph number 23-26: Unidentified swimmers
      • Photograph number 27-33: Unidentified people and children
      • Photograph number 34: Wrecked building
      • Photograph number 35: Frank O'Rourke's father?
      • Photograph number 36: Unidentified Ambrotype portrait

      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: Photo Albums
    • Description: A Family Photo-Album?

      • Photograph number 1-5: Unidentified people, one photograph is labeled, "Easter, 1914."
      • Photograph number 6-43: Unidentified girls from a private school or club from Homer, Nebraska
      • Photograph number 44-45: Unidentified young couples
      • Photograph number 46-76: Images of unidentified women
      • Photograph number 77: Landscape labeled, "Sunset View. Bruce's claim in Wyoming."
      • Photograph number 78: Image of young girl, "Gladys"
      • Photograph number 79: Landscape labeled, "½ mile from 'Sunset View.'"
      • Photograph number 80-85: Images of a group of fashionably dressed women
      • Photograph number 86-93: Unidentified people
      • Photograph number 94-102: Informal wedding photographs
      • Photograph number 103-105: Portraits from a baseball game. Homer, Nebraska, verses Dixon Dakota County
      • Photograph number 106-120: Unidentified portraits of young women
      • Photograph number 121-123: Women at "Smith's camp, 1916."
      • Photograph number 124-129: Unidentified people around a smoldering fire
      • Photograph number 130-139: People at a stately looking home
      • Photograph number 140-145: Unidentified people and a baby
      • Photograph number 146-164: Girls from a private school or club from Homer, Nebraska.
      • Photograph number 165-186: Young adults posing with semi-formal clothing and automobiles of which they are obviously proud of
      • Photograph number 187-188: Two portraits of a group of Army men
      • Photograph number 189-218: Groups of women
      • Photograph number 219-226: Small group having a picnic
      • Photograph number 227-253: Unidentified informal portraits of people
      • Photograph number 254-259: Portrait of a man in his new automobile
      • Photograph number 260-320: Unidentified informal portraits of people
      • Photograph number 321: Program for a play, "The Lure of the Stage". December 7, 1924
      • Photograph number 322: "County School, Homer, Nebraska."
      • Photograph number 323: "Homer Home Garage."
      • Photograph number 324: Homer, Nebraska School
      • Photograph number 325: "Homer House."
      • Photograph number 326: Formal portrait
      • Photograph number 327: Formal portrait of "Nadine"
      • Photograph number 328: Formal portrait of "Odine Lehrer"?
      • Photograph number 329: Formal portrait of "Beretia"?
      • Photograph number 330: Formal portrait of "Edna."
      • Photograph number 331: House in Homer, Nebraska
      • Photograph number 332: Portrait of the student body of a public school in Homer, Nebraska, Written on the back-"Bet you can't find me-".
      • Photograph number 333: Certificate of initiation for Nadine Shepardson into the Beta chapter of Zeta Phi Eta

      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
      Location: Photo Albums
    • Description: Photo Album Number 3

      • Photograph number 1: Portrait of Doughbelly Price and a young boy
      • Photograph number 2-3: Dead Coyotes hung on a fence in Texas after being shot by ranchers
      • Photograph number 4-7: Friends of Frank O'Rourke with their bountiful catch of Pheasants, labeled; "North Dakota hunting trip."
      • Photograph number 8-9: Portraits of Ann Reynolds and Judy Graves, (April 1958)
      • Photograph number 10-11: Portraits of Doughbelly Price
      • Photograph number 12-13: Portraits of Ann Reynolds
      • Photograph number 14: Christmas card family portrait of the Konstanlys
      • Photograph number 15: Group of hunters including O'Rourke, "South Dakota Hunting trip."
      • Photograph number 16-20: Portraits of Jackie, Vickie and Janet Carlson
      • Photograph number 21: Portrait of Doughbelly Price
      • Photograph number 22: Portrait of Judy Graves
      • Photograph number 23-25: Photographs of O'Rourke's trip to Yellowstone national park, including images of geysers and a bear
      • Photograph number 26: Photograph of O'Rourke and a friend
      • Photograph number 27: O'Rourke's friends showing their Pheasants after a hunting trip
      • Photograph number 28-30: Various unidentified friends of O'Rourke
      • Photograph number 31: Portrait of Janet Carlson
      • Photograph number 32: Portrait of Jackie Carlson
      • Photograph number 33-34: Portrait of author Charles Williams and his wife
      • Photograph number 35: Portrait of Vicki Carlson
      • Photograph number 36: Daughters of the Williams
      • Photograph number 37-39: Portrait of Frank O'Rourke in San Diego next to a small fishing boat with unidentified man
      • Photograph number 40-43: Images of a trip to the mausoleum where O'Rourke's father was buried, circa 1957
      • Photograph number 44: Photograph of an enormous cross of wood, labeled; "Mt. Davidson."
      • Photograph number 45-48: Images of Dick Cook and his son and his house
      • Photograph number 49: Portrait of unidentified couple in Clearwater, Florida 1950
      • Photograph number 50: Portrait of Judy Graves
      • Photograph number 51-52: Images of O'Rourke family
      • Photograph number 53-55: Friends of the O'Rourke family

      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
      Location: Photo Albums
    • Description: Photo Album Number 4

      • Photograph number 1: The Phillip's home in Waskins, Nebraska, circa 1930's
      • Photograph number 2: Frank O'Rourke dressed in a white suit
      • Photograph number 3: Frank's father standing next to a 1930's car
      • Photograph number 4: Portrait of Frank next to a 1930s Ford automobile
      • Photograph number 5-45: Images of Frank as a child with his father and mother
      • Photograph number 46-74: Photographs of a trip the Phillips took to Estes Park, California. Some of which were taken by O'Rourke's father and some of which were purchased.
      • Photograph number 75-78: Portraits of Virginia Carson
      • Photograph number 79-89: O'Rourke with family and friends
      • Photograph number 90-91: Frank with school friends
      • Photograph number 92-96: Portraits of Frank
      • Photograph number 97: Group portrait of Frank with an elementary class, labeled; "Hoshius School".
      • Photograph number 98: Frank O'Rourke as a boy with his dog
      • Photograph number 99: Portrait of Gertrude Shepardson
      • Photograph number 100-128: Images of O'Rourke's family
      • Photograph number 129-136: Portraits of Virginia Carson's young boy
      • Photograph number 137-140: Images of an unidentified woman and her house
      • Photograph number 141-172: Images of Frank's family dating back several generations and some friends from the military
      • Photograph number 173: A photograph with Frank and his father accompanying a poem extolling the virtues of Frank's father

      Container: Box 3, Folder 2-4
      Location: Photo Albums
    • Description: Photographs from Album Number 3

      • Photograph number 1: A musical and literary program sponsored by an unidentified school on January 29, 1897
      • Photograph number 2: Another program for, "Everybody's Birthday Party", by the Homer, Nebraska, St. Paul's Lutheran Church represented by the young people of that church on February 14, (Valentine's Day), 1896
      • Photograph number 3: A souvenir list of the Homer, Nebraska, 1896-1897 school classes
      • Photograph number 4-10: Portraits of O'Rourke's family
      • Photograph number 11: Frank in front of his Nash Metropolitan, automobile
      • Photograph number 12-29: Images of O'Rourke's family and friends
      • Photograph number 30-31: Two purchased photographs of "Jim Beberg's Beachland Cottages at Lake Hubert, Minnesota."
      • Photograph number 32-35: Friends and family
      • Photograph number 36: Frank O'Rourke's 1952 XK 120 Jaguar convertible-sweet
      • Photograph number 37-42: Images of friends and family

      Container: Box 3, Folder 5
      Location: Photo Albums
    • Description: More Photographs from Album Number 3

      • Photograph number 1-2: Two views of a street possibly in France, Montmorency, dated May, 1953
      • Photograph number 3-14: Portraits of Frank O'Rourke and Doughbelly Price together and individually in Taos, New Mexico, 1955
      • Photograph number 15-20: Portraits of O'Rourke in a Baseball uniform with two other men, (Russ Meyer and Babe Alexander.) Labeled; "Spring Training-Philadelphia Phillies-Clearwater, Florida, 1949."

      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
      Location: Photo Albums
    • Description: Photographs from Album Number 4

      • Photograph number 1: Several news articles from Frank's graduation with many honors, to winning the local Y.M.C.A. Horseshoe title.Also an instruction sheet for the care of a sick boy written from a local doctor.
      • Photograph number 2: Tiny photograph of Virginia Phillips
      • Photograph number 3: Group portrait of several women including Virginia Phillips
      • Photograph number 4-6: Formal portraits of Frank O'Rourke as a young boy
      • Photograph number 7: Image of Paul Birkofer, cousin of O'Rourke
      • Photograph number 8: Color image of the Kemper Military School where O'Rourke attended
      • Photograph number 9: Portrait of Nadine and Gertrude Sheperdson and Virginia Phillips
      • Photograph number 10: Small booklet titled; "Honors, Triumphs, Achievements. Kemper Military School, Boonville, Missouri, 1944."

      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
      Location: Photo Albums

  • Miscellaneous

    • Description: Samuel A. Brown

      • Photograph number 1-22: Samuel Brown by himself or with Brown family members
      • Photograph number 23-24: Two separate occasions of people watching a tornado
      • Photograph number 25: Unidentified person at an archeological excavation
      • Photograph number 26: Young Samuel Brown with his father, circa 1890
      • Photograph number 27-29: Tintype photographs of unidentified person, possibly Samuel Brown

      Container: Box 3, Folder 8
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: O'Rourke Late Career

      • Photograph number 1-5: O'Rourke at his home in Tuscan, Arizona 1986
      • Photograph number 6-7: O'Rourke at Alberta, Minnesota
      • Photograph number 8-9: Photograph and contact sheet with images of Frank O'Rourke

      Container: Box 3, Folder 9
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Brown Homes

      • Photograph number 1-10: Images of trees and bushes around an unidentified house
      • Photograph number 11-12: Two separate unidentified houses

      Container: Box 3, Folder 10
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Addendum, Prints from Nitrate Images

      • Photograph number 1-14: Unidentified people, landscapes and homes

      Container: Box 3, Folder 11
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Portraits and ship in Panama
      Container: Box 3, Folder 12
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Photos from Collage
      Container: Box 3, Folder 13
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Frank and is pets
      Container: Box 3, Folder 14
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: group shots, outdoors
      Container: Box 3, Folder 15
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Chrurch in New Mexico
      Container: Box 3, Folder 16
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Sante Fe, Toas, Pueblo, New Mexico
      Container: Box 3, Folder 17
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Dogs
      Container: Box 3, Folder 18
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: General
      Container: Box 3, Folder 19
      Location: Miscellaneous

  • Oversize

    • Description: Kemper Military School, 1934. Boonville, Missouri
      Container: Box 4, Folder 1
      Location: Oversize

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Subject Terms

  • Floods--Nebraska--Homer--Photographs

Family Names

  • Phillips family--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographic prints--1897-1985
  • Portrait photographs

Finding aid prepared by Dale Larsen
1992

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