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"This beautiful 1899 chromolithograph chronicles the 1,300-mile journey of the Mormons from Nauvoo, on the Mississippi River, across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to the Great Salt Lake. Filled with images and pictorial vignettes that depict the notable features of the route, the story told by the print manipulates scale in order to emphasize the dramatic aspects of the trek--for example, the crossing of the Great Plains occupies only a small portion on the right of the map. The route taken by Brigham Young's party is marked, with each day's camp indicated. Flanking the route itself are tiny profile views of Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie, Devil's Gate, Giant Butte, Pulpit Rock and numerous other features of the trail west. Along the bottom of the print is a set of much larger images of scenes and scenery of the journey, including the wagon train crossing a river, a native American village, and the scenery of the Rockies. The print's narration is said to have been derived from the journals of Orson Pratt and his brother Parley P. Pratt, original members of the 'Quorum of Twelve Apostles'. There are three known versions of this view, including two variants of a large-scale edition and one reduced edition. Most known examples of the large edition were printed on thin paper and folded into a 31-page Guide to the route map of the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake, 1846-1847. The present example, however, was printed on very heavy card stock, issued separately, and clearly intended for presentation and/or display. The small-scale edition measures roughly 8.5 x 29 inches, lacks the legend and vignette in the lower margin, and bears a prominent note that it was 'issued by the New Wilson European Hotel, Salt Lake City'. This edition seems to have been issued over several years both as a pocket map and tipped into a guidebook. For its part, the large-scale edition was issued in Salt Lake City, Utah by Millroy & Hayes. OCLC records no other publications under their name, though "Millroy" was likely the J.J. Millroy who in 1897 published Millroy's Map of Alaska and the Klondyke gold fields."--Description of Neatline Antique Maps.

18, 4 x 5 copy negatives taken of sketches made primarily by people involved in the California Gold rush. Platte river, Scott's Bluff and Chimney Rock, Title page from a journal, Porter's Rock in the Black Hills, Independence rock, Devil's Gate, South Pass on the Wind river, Journal Page, Wasatch Mountain, "Great Gulf" and/or "The Awful Pass", San Gabriel Mission, Sierra Nevada Mountains, and various other unidentified. Also included is a Carte-de-Visite of Porter Rockwell (authenticity is questioned), and a portrait of Dale Morgan in 1968., 1 'Sierra Nevada Mtns., Feather River April 30, 1850'; 2 'Wagon Hill to Browns Hole, Utah=; 3 'Porter=s Rock, on the Prairie Base of Black Hills'; 4 {Title Page}>California Expedition Journal, Laramie Peak, it can be seen 100 miles=; 5 'Scott=s Bluff and Chimney Rock'; 6 'Pawnee Village on the Platte, destroyed by Sioux 1836'; 7 [Sketch Map]; 8 [Sketch Map]; 9 unidentified, probably a mountain pass; 10 'Independence Rock= [With Lorton=s sketches of many emigrant names on the face, including, in the upper right corner, his own AW. B. Lorton, ' and a figure of a man atop the Rock at upper left]; 11 'Devil's Gate, June 16, 1849'; 12 South Pass, July 26, 1849 Eastern Lamp Bluffs, Windriver Chain, of 'Am. Alps.'; 13 'Rocks on Red Fork, California'; 14 'California journal from Salt Lake vol. III 1849. Horse Spring . Cut-Off.'; 15 'Wasatch Mountain Nov. 6th 1849 Cave at Can Kanyon' [and more, but illegible]; 16 'Great Gulf of Awful Chasm at Attempted Pass 1,000 feet high'; 17 'On Table Land Windblown Region= [various cacti sketches, etc.]; 18 "San Gabriel Mission, Jan. 17 1850"; 19 Carte-de-Visite of>Porter Rockwell, Chief of Danites=; [This is NOT Orrin Porter Rockwell. It is probably of another man labeled a "Danite" in early Mormon history.]; 20 Dale Morgan with Bennion Sword USHS August 1968. Photo by Everett Cooley.

The Frederick Hoffman Wood photograph collection consists of 35mm color transparencies and color prints taken by Fred Wood that document his participation in the 1955-56 Hatch-Eggert River Expedition. Named for head boatman Don Hatch and photographer/film maker Charles Eggert, the purpose of this summer-long river trip down the Green and Colorado Rivers was to photograph and film the river canyons before construction started on the dams at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon. The voyage consisted of two separate sections: the Green River from Green River, Wyoming to Lees Ferry, Arizona, in the summer of 1955, and from Lees Ferry, Arizona, through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead in the summer of 1956. Box 1 contains color prints taken during the 1955 journey, from Wyoming to Lees Ferry. There are some that were apparently developed with a different process, or on a different film, that still retain good color, but, unfortunately, for the most part, these prints have faded. As donated, the prints were in small double photo albums. As the paper stock of the albums was acidic, the prints were removed and the albums discarded. Very few of the original prints were labeled; instead, small slips of paper were inserted to label a few of the prints. These are retained in their respective folders. Information found on any of these slips that identifies a particular photograph will be found in the register surrounded by quote marks ("___"). Any information that is evident from the context but not labeled on the photographs will be included in the register in brackets, [___]. Box 2 contains color 35mm transparencies of the 1956 leg of the expedition, through the Grand Canyon. In some cases, individual slides were identified, but most are unlabeled. A small collection of correspondence, brochures, and memorabilia, is found in ACCN 1603. The 8mm color films that accompanied the collection are housed in A0692. VHS videtotape copies of the films are available for patron viewing.

The collection consists entirely of 35mm slides taken throughout the professional career of Stoffel. The primary focus is on various trips to the holy land and european points of religious interest. Another major element to the collection is a varied assembly of images from trips throughout the southwest United States focusing primarily on California and Utah. Also included are miscellaneous groups of slides presumably selected for slide shows. Most of the slides do show some age in the form of fading color but are generally in good shape.

The Robert L. Springmeyer collection contains images of ski racing and timing, military subject matter, architectural drawings and completed buildings, and snapshots of the Springmeyer family at home and on vacation.

The Aaron Belnap Ross Collection consists of 35mm color transparencies taken by Dr. Ross, mainly during his river trips on the Green, Colorado, and other rivers of the western United States. As donated, each river trip was in a separate slide holder, and this original order was maintained with one exception, the folder taking the place of the slide holder. Thus, some folders may contain over 100 slides, while others contain as few as three. It is not known what happened to the other slides in cases where only a few document a particular river trip., The Aaron Belnap Ross Collection consists of 35mm color transparencies taken by Dr. Ross, mainly during his river trips on the Green, Colorado, and other rivers of the western United States from 1957 to 1971. These include the Green, Colorado, Yampa, San Juan, and other rivers. Besides scenes of camping, rapids, and canyons, Dr. Ross often photographed flowers, historical sites, and other river runners such as Don Harris, Jack Brennan, Otis "Dock" Marston, Jimmy Jordan, and Woody Edgell.; The photographs as received from the donor were arranged in chronological order, and that order has been maintained.; River trips, 1957 - April - May 1968; Friendship Cruise; Moab to Hite / Cataract Canyon; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Westwater to Hite; Cataract Canyon to Glen Canyon; Cataract Canyon to Glen Canyon; Desolation Canyon; Glen Canyon; Desolation Canyon; Cataract Canyon; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Yampa River; Wheeler [Peak, Nevada?] Road; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; River trips, April 1968 - 1972; Miscellaneous; Yampa River; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Cataract Canyon; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Southern Utah car camping; Colorado River above Moab, Utah; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon; Havasu Canyon; Miscellaneous; 1 - 70. [no identifications on slides]; 1 - 38. [no identifications on slides]; 1. Lees Ferry; 2. Marble Canyon high above Navajo Bridge; 3. Navajo Bridge; 4. Glen Canyon bridge; 5-7. Marble Canyon; 8-9. Agave utahensis; 10. North [Canyon?]; 11-15. Marble Canyon; 16. Vasey's Paradise; 17. Above Vasey's Paradise; 18. Pueblo Indian ruin near Vasey's Paradise; 19. Vasey's Paradise; 20-23. Redwall Cavern; 24-27. Marble Canyon [Bert Loper's boat near Buck Farm Canyon]; 28. Cat's claw [plant]; 29. Explorer's grave [grave of Boy Scout, died 1958, at President Harding Rapid camp]; 30-32. Little Colorado River; 33-35. [unidentified people]; 36-37. Cacti; 38. [above Hance Rapid]; 39-40. Hance Rapid; 41.

The photographs in this collection are digital scans of slides put together as a slide show by A. Oscar Olson. Most of them were taken during a Glen Canyon river trip with SOCOTWA Expeditions in May, 1962; while the rest were taken on later visits to Lake Powell in the 1960s through 1990s. He took the later photographs in order to show the changes in the original locations brought about by the filling of Lake Powell reservoir behind Glen Canyon dam. The images depict the usual scenes of a SOCOTWA river trip, including the launch, days and events on the river, visits to attractions such as Hole In The Rock and Rainbow Bridge, camp scenes, and other events. All but a few of the images were made on 35mm Ektachrome film, which later faded to red. Mr. Olson asked Nelson Wadsworth, an archivist at Utah State University, to adjust the color digitally to return the images to their original color, which was largely successful. The images, however, were taken out of their original order during this process and thus are out of sequence. This is noted where applicable in the register. All photographs were taken in May, 1962, unless otherwise noted. All information for captions supplied by Oscar Olson on June 25, 2003., Mr. Olson asked Nelson Wadsworth, an archivist at Utah State University, to adjust the color digitally to return the images to their original color, which was largely successful. The images, however, were taken out of their original order during this process and thus are out of sequence. This is noted where applicable in the register.; A. Oscar Olson Glen Canyon photographs; Glen Canyon/Lake Powell; 1. sign at Hanksville, Utah, 1990s; 2. Oscar Olson at Fort Lewis, Washington; 3. SOCOTWA bus at Hanksville, Utah (1947 GM Silverside Coach); 4. Sign at entrance of Fort Lewis, Washington; 5. Passengers in SOCOTWA truck, headed south from Hanksville, Utah; 6. Oscar Olson with broken leg in cast, Fort Lewis, Washington (in the original slide show this was the last slide); 7-8. Launch above Hite, Utah, looking downriver; 9. Ticaboo Creek; 10. Hite Ferry; water rising in reservoir, 1964; 11. Launch above Hite, Utah, looking downriver; 12. Hiking up to Cass Hite=s grave; 13. On boats; cloudy day; 14-15. Bert Loper's cabin at Red Creek; 16. Cass Hite=s grave at Ticaboo; 17. Remains of Cass Hite's cabin; 18. Petroglyphs near Cass Hite's cabin; 19. Bob Huffaker, boat captain; 20. On river; Hank Copinga, left; 21. Looking upriver from Ticaboo; 22. Sunday afternoon on boats, which are tied together. Robin Davis with guitar; 23. Looking downriver to Tapestry Wall; 24. Smith Fork landing; 25-26. Smith Fork petroglyph panel; 27. Oscar Olson at Smith Fork; 28. Lake Canyon cliff dwelling; 29. Lake Canyon from houseboat on Lake Powell, 1980s; 30. Upper end of Lake Canyon, 1980s; 31. Lake Canyon ruin; 32. Lake Canyon waterfall; 33. "The Fortress," Lake Canyon; 34. Downriver from Lake Canyon; 35. Looking upriver from Lake Canyon; 36. Lake Canyon; 37. Sunday afternoon on boats; looking upriver, above Moki Canyon; 38. Looking upriver from Moki Canyon; 39. In Moki Canyon; 40-41. Sunday afternoon on boats; looking upriver, above Moki Canyon 42. Mike Walton in red hat at Tapestry Wall; 43. Lak.

The Ruth McDonough collection consists of digital scans of 56 black and white and 6 color snapshots taken with a Brownie camera by Ruth McDonough on two separate river trips with SOCOTWA, an LDS river-running organization. The six color photos in Folder 1 were taken by someone else on the trip and later given to Ms. McDonough; the black and white photos were all taken by her. The originals were scanned and returned to the donor in March, 2004. Information in quotes " " was transferred from the back of the photograph. Information in brackets [ ] was added by the processor., Collection arranged by river trip.; Glen Canyon; Yampa-Green Rivers; 1. "June 16, 1956. Hanksville, Utah"; 2. "June 16, 1956. Hite, Utah. Going in."; 3. "Pump hard"; 4. "Colorado River trip - June 15-23, 1956"; 5. "Land of the Free"; 6. "Home of the Brave"; 7. "Music Lovers"; 8. [People on boat]; 9. "Time to leave" [Jackie McCarty] "Billy Nelson"; 10. "Ladies from Chicago. Camera Fiends. Lucia & Elaine"; 11. "Life of Reilly" 'What a crew'"; 12. "Merly Shaw at Crudy Creek. Merly's favorite song [was] 'Old Faithful'"; 13. "Colorado River. Good stiff breeze"; 14. "Aztec Canyon. Duck on a rock"; 15. "Dinner time and K.P. 'Come on you bounders, let's eat!' Crudy Creek"; 16. [Group of people on shore]; 17. "Colorado river and no name boat"; 18. "First Aid Department. 'Oh, the pain!'"; 19. "The Colorado and Queen Victoria at the left"; 20. "Row the boats!"; 21. "Dirty Bird crew - Lolla, Jackie, Ruth, Lyn, Bob, Clyde, & Billie"; 22. "Navajo Bridge"; 23. "Homeward Bound" [Jackie McCarty] "Billy"; 24. "Lovers. Barrett Erickson & Lee Bitner"; 25. "Three Leaders. Bob Perry, Merly Shaw, Lyn Beckman"; 26. "June 22, 1956. The food was so good!" [Art Greene's Cliff Dweller's Lodge]; 27. [Group shot]; 28. "June 22, 1956. At Art Greene's. Trio" [L-R: Jackie McCarty, Merly Shaw, Ruth McDonough"; 29. "June 22, 1956. Jackie and Lyn. 'He lost a bet!' $.05 a kiss"; 30. "June 23, 1956. Home" [Jackie McCarty, Ruth McDonough]; 31-36. [Color snapshots taken by other member of the party and given to Ruth McDonough.]; 1. "The bus stop and we were alone! Jackie, Marilyn (mut), the Bear sisters, & Enid Poli"; 2. "First day - the fellows took the truck to the river and left the girls in the bus. Jackie had a good time."; 3. "Near the river. The sheep truck. The first day! [L-R] Lee, Charlotte, Doc"; 4. "Friday morning. The first sight of the Y ampa from the bridge near Lily Park, Colo[rado]"; 5. "Before the river. Friday afternoon at Lily Park, Colorado"; 6. "What a cruddy lot! Before we put on th.

Following: Letter accompanying steel boxes of slides. June 21, 1995. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would like to donate these photographs to the Special Collections of Marriott Library. The photographs include color slides, color prints, and black and white prints taken in the 50s and 60s. The subjects are primarily Federal Water projects built in Utah and Colorado under the Central Utah Water Project and other programs. Some of the photographs are of drainages before major dam projects were built. We also have several file folders of black and White aerial photographs. Most of the slides and prints are labeled as to subject date, and location. we believe these photos will be useful to researchers because they are labeled so well. We would like these photos to be accessible to the public under the normal restrictions the Archives uses to protect and preserve photographs. Reed Harris, Field Supervisor., P0684 is partially processed. The boxes/folders are labeled according to the original organization of the slides as they were given to the library. However, this is not a permanent organization. It is recommended to put the folders in alphabetical order. The subject matter is focused (as described in inventory) so just a semblance of order is all that is needed.; List of labels from the slide cabinet:(in order); Region 4; Curecanti; Animas La-Plata; Florida; Region 4; Seedskadee; Smith Fork; Dolores; Dallas Creek; SCS-Colorado; Kiowa Creek; Weldona Valley; Monument-fountain; Wray; Burlington (Beaver Creek); Region 5; Pecos River; Mimbres; FPC-1553; 2278; Right-of-Way; North Fork; South Platte River; Colorado Storage Projects; EP (Eden Project); FMP (Fruitland Mesa Project); FGU (Flaming Gorge Unit); GCU (Glen Canyon Unit); Colorado Storage Projects; PCP (Pack Creek Project); SFP (Smith Fork Project); PP (Paonia Project); SJC (San Juan-Chama Project); PRP (Pine River Project); SM (San Miguel Project); Colorado Storage Projects; SP (Sublette Project); SKP (Seedskadee Project); SPP (Savery-Pot Hook Project); Other Bureau of reclamation Porjects:; BRP (Bear River Project); CBP (Collbran Project); CP (Cedaredge Project); DX (Dixie Project); GUP (Gunnison Project); Other Bureau of Reclamation Projects:; MP (Mancos Project); PR (Provo River Project); NUP (Nucla Project); BC (Bridge Canyon Project); Other Bureau of Reclamation Projects:; WB (Weber Basin Project); WCP (Woodruff-Cokeville Project); Small Watersheds; SW-CC (Coal Creek); Wetlands; WI Wetlands Inventory; PWI Permanent Water Inventory; Miscellaneous Slides; Colorado Storage Projects; GCP Gray Canyon; GP Gooseberry Proj.; LP Lyman Proj.; HP Hammond Proj.; GMP Grand Mesa Proj.; LBP La Barge Proj; NU Navajo Unit; FS-BLM-FPC Projects; BLM-WL Willow Lake; FPC-AF American Fork; IFPC-PC Boulder Creek; FPC-PC Pine Creek; ALP-Animas; La Plata proj; BLM-WL Bureau of Land Management, Willow Lake; BRP; Bear River Proj.; CBP.

These photographs were purchased piecemeal, and so constitute an "artificial" collection which can be added to when individual items are purchased or donated. The photographs were arranged by series when indicated, or in a rough chronological order determined by the appearance of mounts and other evidence. For instance, albumen prints were placed before collodion-chloride or gelatin-chloride prints. Captions, whether printed or hand-written, were taken verbatum from the photographs. Any additional notes appear in brackets. The images range from fair to excellent in condition.

The collection consists of digital scans of 35mm slides taken by Greg Dimmitt and David Thompson. These photographs document various river trips on the Colorado and San Juan Rivers in which Mr. Dimmitt and Mr. Thompson participated. The original 35mm slides from which these digital scans were made were returned to the donors after the scanning was completed in April 2002. It should be noted that the slides are not in strict chronological or geographical order, although every effort has been made to see that they are in order. Descriptions and other information about individual images was provided by Mr. Dimmitt and Mr. Thompson in a series of meetings with Special Collections staff in 2002. When names are given for individuals, they are listed left-to-right. If a name was not known in a group photograph, the unknown individual will be listed as __?__. If the location of the photograph is known, that will also be given after the names of people. It should be noted that some of the location names are unique to these groups and may not reflect names used on USGS maps or those used by other groups., The slides are not in strict chronological or geographical order, although every effort has been made to see that they are in order.; Colorado and San Juan River trips; Glen Canyon; Glen Canyon, San Juan River; Glen Canyon, San Juan River; Glen Canyon, San Juan River, Glen Canyon Dam Construction; Colorado River above Moab, Utah; Aerial views of Escalante River canyon; Miscellaneous; 1 Walt Scott and wife; 2 Larry Braby, Eula Braby; 3 Mona Dimmitt, Eula Braby; 4 David Thompson, Jeanne Thompson; 5 Steven Brown, __?__, Clark Smith, Reynold Brown. Taken at Smith Fork; 6 Richard Feinhauer, __?__, Linda Hendricksen Darryl Milczarek. Taken at Tapestry Wall; 7 Indian Canyon; 8 David Thompson; 9 Tapestry Wall; 10 David Thompson; 11 Ruin in Lake Canyon; 12 Ruin in Lake Canyon; 13 Tapestry Wall; 14 Mary Ann Brown, Jack Edwards, __?__, Richard Feinhauer, John Josephson. Taken at "the Portals"; 15 Greg Dimmitt. Taken at Rainbow Bridge; 16 Jeanne Thompson, David Thompson. Taken at Rainbow Bridge; 17 Indian Canyon; 18 "Sunday School Rock"; 19-20 David Thompson, Eula Braby, Mona Dimmitt, Larry Braby, Jeanne Thompson. Taken at Bullfrog; 21 Rainbow Bridge; 22 David Moench in distance. Taken at Hole In The Rock.; 23 David Thompson; 24 David Thompson and Jeanne Thompson. Taken on top of Rainbow Bridge; 25 David Moench. Taken at Hole In The Rock; 26 David Thompson. Taken at Kane Creek landing.; 27 Same as 1_01_26; 28 David Thompson and Jeanne Thompson. Taken in Aztec Canyon, near Rainbow Bridge; 29 __?__, David Thompson, Jeanne Thompson, __?__, Greg Dimmitt, Mona Dimmitt, Bruno Mitler, Robert Taggart, Mary Ann Brown. Taken in Aztec Canyon; 30 Mona Dimmitt. Taken in Aztec Canyon; 31 __?__, __?__, Mona Dimmitt, Gary Milczarek, Leslie Feinhauer, Darry Milczarek, David Thompson, Jeanne Thompson, Steve Gibson, David Draper, __?__, Jack Edwards, John Josephson, Richard Feinhauer, Larry Braby, Eula Braby, __?__, David Moench, __?__. Taken at "Dairy Queen Rock" in Aztec Canyon.