The Thomas D. Dee II Family Collection was donated by the children of Thomas D. Dee II and

contains materials pertaining to the family and their various businesses. The collection is

separated into four main series: Family, Business, Subject Files, and Photographs. At the end of

these is an oversized section containing the materials from these series which required larger

boxes.

The Family Series is separated into the different family members starting with Thomas D. Dee II

and his wife Elizabeth. This contains materials from his military career, Stanford year books,

correspondence, and University of Utah. It also includes several tributes and awards he received

over the years. Next are his parents, Lawrence and Janet Dee, which contains materials from

Cornell, his World War I military service, correspondence, and many tributes and awards he

received throughout his career. There is also a birthday book which contains obituaries and

funeral services for the individuals whose birthdays are in the book, and there is a personal

finance book with loose papers that have been removed and put into a separate folder. The series

also includes materials for Annie Maude Dee Porter, mostly regarding her estate, and finally

there are items for Thomas D. Dee, including his naturalization paperwork, commission

documents for Justice of the Peace, abstract of title to the family home, condolence cards and

mourning papers.

The Business Series is separated into the businesses and various stocks owned by the family. It

starts with The Dee-Eccles Investment Company which contains the articles of incorporation and

a section of reports, which are separated by year and contain meeting minutes, treasury reports

and end of year reports. Glenwood Springs Property is next, and it contains property deeds,

agreements and correspondence pertaining to Glenwood Spring and an oil company being

formed there. Pendelton Frozen Foods follows with only a book of stock, and the loose papers

from that book. The Thomas D. Dee Investment Company is next and has the same set up as the

Dee-Eccles series, but with correspondence, legal, and taxes as well. The reports in this series

contains information from 1917-1970. The first years are in two oversized ledger books, the rest

are in folders, chronologically. Utah Canning Company is the final business, and it contains

recipe books, reports from 1904-1949, and information pertaining to stocks and taxes. At the end

of Utah Canning is a folder containing advertisement photos and there corresponding negatives.

At the end of the Business series are stocks which contain stocks and information on stocks that

were owned by the family or possibly by a business.

The Subject Files Series contains information that connects the family and the community of

Ogden. It contains items for Dee Elementary, Berthana, Dee Memorial Hospital, Dee Day and

other various endeavors. Dee Events Center is the largest with ground breaking program,

dedication program, photograph books and donation paperwork.

The Photograph Series contains photographs for various family members and events. Thomas D.

Dee II makes up the bulk of this collection with personal photos from his time during WWII,

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including photographs documenting his plane crash in Egypt. These photographs are organized,

for the most part, the way they were received. Most have writing on the back, but the ones that

do not have been organized as close to the original as possible. There is also a scrapbook from

the war that has been scanned and taken apart to have better access to the photographs as many

of them have writing on the back. This series also contains photographs of Lawrence T. Dee,

various family members, and a scrapbook for Elizabeth Stewart. Some of the photographs can

also be found online in the digital archives.

After the oversized items there are two boxes of artifacts which belonged mostly to Thomas D.

Dee II and include his dog tags, rank and military ribbons. After this are his uniforms. Three

from his time during the war, and his uniform for ROTC at Ogden High.