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The Chester "Chet" Olsen Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-003

Abstract

Six photos taken on the day that Olsen scattered Bernard DeVoto's ashes in Idaho, April 6, 1956. The negatives for the photographs are in Folder 1 of the Collection

Dates

  • Creation: 1956 April 6

Extent

1 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

FD 1 Olsen and pilot Bob Fogg by plane before take off

FD 2 The plane where it landed in a meadow at Campbell’s Ferry

FD 3 Snowy mountains seen en route to the destination

FD 4 “Dick Johnson Peak” seen en route to the destination

FD 5 Aerial shot of terrain near the Powell Ranger Station

FD 6 Original typed descriptions of the photographs are included

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
3921 Central Campus Drive Dept 2901
Ogden UT 84408