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uWelcome to Utah State University’s Digital Library!

Featuring treasures from our Special Collections & Archiveson the Web.

With five collections…and growing!


uDeath Valley Region Photo Collection

The USU Digital Library’s first collection: Eleven black and white photos taken in the late 1920s in Death Valley’s ghost towns:

Rhyolite, Aurora & Calico.


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Utah State University Historical Photo CollectionOur second

collection: Images

from USU’s

past

1904 Basketball

team, when USU was called

Agricultural College of

Utah


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Fife Slide Collection: Western U.S. Vernacular ArchitectureOne of the many mailboxes captured on

film by folklorists Alta and Austin Fife. Slides from their fieldwork collections

form the Digital Library’s third collection.


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Topaz Japanese-American Relocation Center, our 4th digital

collection


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Bear River Watershed Collection Franklin truck,

experimental vehicle built with wide front wheels and caterpillar drive for travel over soft mud and through

shallow water. Stuck in mud. End of experiment.

Our 5th and most recent collection contains maps, images, manuscripts, and documents


uFife Slide Collection: Western U.S.

Vernacular Architecture

Gravemarkers, hundreds of them, are some of the material

culture objects recorded by the Fifes


uFife Slide Collection: Western U.S. Vernacular Architecture

Western architecture


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Bear River Watershed Collection: featuring maps

with zoom and pan


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Bear River Watershed Collection

Amphibious swamp boat "Mud Queen" on reconnaissance survey in South Bay, Utah in summer, 1929.


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Fife Slide Collection: Western U.S. Vernacular Architecture

Panoramic view of Castle Valley, Utah, with hay derrick in foreground.


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Death Valley Region Photo Collection

The train depot of the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad

in Rhyolite, Nevada


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Barn, Bozeman

, Montana,

1968


uFife Slide Collection: Western U.S. Vernacular ArchitectureClose-up of

Wile E. Coyote whirligi

g carved from

wood.


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Utah State University Historical Photo Collection

Dairy judging contest on the Judging Paddock on

the north side of campus, 1940s.


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Two men use a bridge to cross

the Logan River in Logan Canyon,

Utah.


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Man plowing field on Old Main Hill with three-horse

team to plant World War I

"Victory Gardens," 1918.


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Stone cellar with dirt roof located on Pace Ranch, Castle Valley, Utah.


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View east of Reeder Overflow control structure showing high water and trash caught in front,

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, 1932.


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Death Valley Region Photo Collection

Esmeralda Hotel, Aurora, Nevada, 1920s


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Civilian Conservation Corps workers are digging up scirpus tubers to be transplanted in

Unit 5 at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, May 8, 1941.


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Nothin’ wasted.

Horseshoes and wagon wheels are

used to make this property entrance arch

& fence.


uBear River Watershed Collection




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1904 version of distance

educationLecture train

carrying speakers and

exhibits on tour of Utah and

Idaho.


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Bathtub race between residents of Bullen Hall

versus Richards Hall, 1960s. The bathtubs were pushed from the Capitol building in

Salt Lake City to Logan.




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Milking contest, 1920s.



1915 Seniors, inter-class basketball champions



More graveston

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beautiful, sad,

touching…


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Library Reading Room located in the north wing of Old Main, 1894.



Mechanic Arts class on wagon making, circa

1900.



Lamp made

of native wood, Moab, Utah, 1953


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Agricultural College of Utah in Spring, 1892


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ACU Faculty portrait, circa 1893



First student body

and faculty photo, April 1891




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Pole feed fence for livestock, Beaver, Utah, 1957



Frame house with

gingerbread trim, Eureka,

California, 1964


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Topaz Japanese-American Relocation Center Collection



The Fifes took this slide of the Schoonhoven mural called St. Charles

Painting (Venice, Calif.) shows the mural not long after it was created (1978). Passing years have dimmed

the colors as can be seen in this more recent image to the right.


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Barbecuing on campus southwest of Old Main and the

Mechanic Arts buildings, 1960s.


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Early irrigation canal in Cache Valley

Documents

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