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The Carbon County oral history project(1972-1993) consist of oral histories from residents of Carbon County, Utah. While the main emphasis is on living in coal mine country, the interviews are verbal snapshots of rural Utah life from the earliest settlers to as recently as 1993. The interviews have been alphabetized by the last names. In the few instances where there are two subjects in one interview, look alphabetically for the placement of the name; there will be a note as to its location.

The Alice Kasai papers (1911-2007) contain correspondence, reports, news clippings, articles, pamphlets, brochures, programs, awards, and newsletters related to the public life of this Utah writer and community activist. Alice Kasai (1916-2007), raised in a small town in rural Utah, saw her husband taken away by the FBI and incarcerated in an internment camp in the early days of World War II., She has been active in community affairs for more than 50 years. She has been affiliated with the Japanese American Citizen's League, the Asian Association of Utah, the United Nations Association of Utah, and the Organization of Utah Citizens for Civil Rights. She was honored by YWCA of Salt Lake City with an Outstanding Achievement Award in the area of Human Services in 1994.

The Carbon County coal strike records (1906-1973) contain original documents and photocopies of transcripts, petitions, correspondence, newsletters, flyers, court records, and articles concerning the Carbon County Coal Strike of 1933. The collection also contains material on other strikes during the first four decades of the twentieth century., Collection also contains materials relating to the 1925 lynching of Black coal miner Robert Marshall, supposedly in retaliation for the shooting of J. Milton Burns, by people from Price and the surrounding area.

John Peperakis was a mining engineer who was manager of Sunnyside Coal Mines, Utah for Kaiser Steel Corporation. This collection deals with various local Utah mining operations. Mostly photographs of the mine companies and the mines themselves. Various companies are represented., 1 From tube 45, Super Longwall; 2 Sunnyside No. 2 Supervision of long ago. Lauriski, Daughterty, D. Self, Bill Reavely, Markosek, Herbert, Vanwagoner, Cullen, C. Self. Cullen was Superintendent but got run out by the union.; 3 Butcher Shop, Mine Office and Wasatch Store, Sunnyside.; 4 Pulling coke at the Beehive ovens at Sunnyside, ended 1958.; 5 Backfilling via flume Sunnyside, #3 Mine; 6 Main parting at the head of the Sunnyside No. 2 Mine Slope at time of mine fire in the early 1920's.; 7 Twin fan installation at the coal outcrop at fan canyon No. 1 Mine, Sunnyside.; 8 Wreck at Columbia Junction. Defense plant Corporation.; 9 Aerial Tramway towers Spring Canyon Mine.; 10 Another view of Spring Canyon Mine aeiral tramway. This canyon is not the access via good road to Price River Coal Company No. 5 Mine and now Castle Gate Coal Company.; 11 Trip assembly yard Castle Gate No. 2 Mine at Willow Creek. Building is the change house.; 12 Haulage Portal Castle Gate No. 2 Mine. Bridge over Willow Creek. On March 8, 1924 this mine blew up and killed 172 men. It was a combination of dust and methane. One of the most violent explosions in the history of coal mining.; 13 Utah Fuel Company office Sunnyside.; 14 Spring Canyon Tipple and part of early tent camp. Office and store as indicated is where I obtained my roll top desk years ago.; 15 Aerial Tramway headhouse Spring Canyon Mine.; 16 Kaiser Company Inc. office in lower end of No. 2 Canyon.; 17 South facing bok cliffs overlooking the company owned town of Kenilworth. 1938 Photo. A is the Kenilworth bed. B is the Aberdeen bed. C. Is the portal site of the 8400 foot rock tunnel. E is the site of the original portals. D is the old tramway on which coal was lowered to tipple level. F is the tipple. Canyon at G and H are sites of other portals. The road in the lower right corner was the original access to the town form Price. Kenilworth townsite not largely a retirement community is only a little over miles east of Helper.; 18.

The collection deals with the mining and social life of Eastern Utah during the first half of the 20th century. With the photographs, Virginia Stevenson Allee also sent a letter which is included in the photographs collection. An excerpt from the letter follows: "My Grandfather, Clarence H. Stevenson, Jr., was the owner of the Stevenson Lumber Yard in Price Utah from early in the 1900's to 1936. Following his death, the entire family, including Clarence, Jr. and his wife and children, moved to Los Angeles. Prior to his move to Price, he was superintendent of the Kenilworth mine. Before that, he was involved with mining in Colorado as a superintendent at Spring Gulch, and before that a Master Mechanic of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Denver. His job was to keep the mines running, and he was on the road constantly meeting one emergency after another throught the years. His move to Utah gave him a chance to live at with his family for a change." The collection contains photographs of Myton, Vernal, Price, Helper, Hiawatha, and Kenilworth. Most of the collection deals with the Kenilworth mine and life there. The photographs are in excellent condition., Collection arranged topically.; Former mayors of Price, UT; St. George Temple; Carbon County High School; Myton, UT; Helper, UT; Colton to Theodore State Road, UT; Price to Vernal road, UT; The Vernal Stage, UT; Price, UT; Hiawatha, UT (U.S. Fuel Co. Christmas Card); Kenilworth School, Student Body; Kenilworth, UT; Kenilworth, UT; Kenilworth, UT; Kenilwoth, UT; Kenilwoth, UT; Unidentified Mining (probably Kenilworth); Unidentified; 1 Sept. 12, 1937: J.M. Loofbourow, B.W. Dalton, W.J. Olson; 2 Mr. MCMullin, Mr. B.J. Dalton, J.W. Loofbourow, Lloyd Woods, W.J. Olson; 1 postcard of the St. George LDS Temple; 1 postcard of Carbon County High School; 1 postcard view of Myton, Utah; 1 view of Helper, Utah, 1908 or 1909; 2 river in Caron Co. Utah; 3 view of Helper, Utah, the trains and railyard; 1 horse buggy on the dirt road; 2 man on a horse cart on the dirt road; 3 view of the road from a distance; 1 1912 truck crossing a creek in the road; 2 a truck passing a narrow spot between boulders; 1 a postcard of the Vernal Stagecoach; 1 postcard of cars lining up on a street in Price; 2 postcard of the LDS Tabernacle in Price, Utah; 3 view of Price, Utah from a hill; 1 a color tinted photograph of the mining town of Hiawatha; (U.S. Fuel Co. Christmas Card, 1923); 1 student body photo with students of various ages; 1 The Market/Bakery and Mercantile stores and the Kenilworth Inn; 2 home of Superintendent C.H. Stevenson in Kenilworth with the mining company in the background; Clarence Henry Stevenson, Elizabeth West Stevenson, Cornelia Grosvenor Stevenson, and Clarence Stevenson Jr. on the porch, photo taken 1898-1900; 1 Office - Kenilworth; 2 Mercantile store and Kenilworth Inn; 1 houses in Kenilworth; 2 mining operations at Kenilworth; 1 men looking down from incline at town of Kenilworth; 2 men and mining cars just down the incline from the mine; 1 tipple at Kenilworth; 2 tipple an incline, boiler house, Kenilworth, Utah; 1 boulder field; 2 mining operations; 3 mining i.