Utah Valley University’s Fulton Library and Sutherland Archives staff have created a brand new exhibit entitled “Conversations in the Archives” for Utah Archives Month! Items include a letter from 1897, a two-way pager, an 8mm feel reel, and a Master Six Splicer from the ’50s! If you are in Utah County, make sure to check […]
During COVID, the Salt Lake City Library’s Day-Riverside branch worked with a generous citizen to scan and provide public access to hundreds of historic Rose Park Baseball photos and documents. […]
In 2019 the Marriott Library worked with BYU’s Lee Library to re-digitize a complete archive of Woman’s Exponent, a newspaper published in Salt Lake City from 1872-1914. While the work to transcribe the complete text is ongoing, every advertisement from the paper was transcribed, cataloged, and made available in a searchable web database in 2021. Dr. […]
Researching your family produces stuff, including names, dates, places, families, documents, newspapers clippings, pictures, charts, DNA results, and much, much more. Understanding what you have found, determining whether that information […]
Join us for a special virtual brown bag lunch presentation! Archives are full of stories and retained within them are the collective memories of organizations, communities, and corporations. Some records reveal mysteries while others serve as evidence that someone existed or simple somethings happened. Archivists care for the vast array of diverse preserved heritage, of […]
Join us for our annual Family History Day! This free virtual event features: Keynote from Nancy Loe of Sassy Jane Genealogy entitled Beyond “Peaceful Coexistence”: Archivists and Genealogists Working Together Presentation from the Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation entitled Discovering, Preserving and Telling the Stories of African Americans in Utah Presentation from Ryan Lee, curator of 19th Century Mormon […]
Park City Museum will host an in-person and virtual lecture called Tales of Park City Halloween given by Dalton Gackle on Monday, October 25th from 5-6 p.m. at the Education and Collections Center Building located on 2079 Sidewinder Drive. This lecture will also be broadcast on Zoom. Along with outlining the history of Halloween in the United States, Dalton […]
Crumbling ceilings, collapsing floors, and caved-in mine shafts are but a few of the perils that await the reader of Abandoned Utah. A new adventure presents itself to all who […]