Thomas D. Dee II Collection
Scope and Contents
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,
MS 460-2
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.
Dates
- Existence: Majority of material found within 1871 - 2009
Extent
21 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Box 1
Family
FD 35 Newspaper Clippings
2006
Stanford
Separation Sheet
Newspaper Clippings
FD 3 Weber State College, 92 nd Commencement Exercises, June 6, 1980, Program,
Invitation and Honorary Degree with Separation Sheet
Dee, March 5, 1987
Genetics, Gift Agreement
FD 24 Thomas D. Dee II Endowment for the Enhancement…Correspondence
Riegelman
23, 1918
FD 22 McKay Dee Hospital- Newspaper Clippings
April 6, 1976
T. Dee with Separation Sheet
Clipping
FD 5 Legal- Taxes Receipt for Year 1883
FD 20 State Security Bank
FD 24 1965
Taxes
Canning field men, January 5, 1968
Box 13
FD 14 Blackmail Case- David Eccles: Pioneer Industrialist by Leonard J. Arrington pgs.
188-190
Neighborhoods
1974
FD 29 Photographs and Correspondence Prior to Groundbreaking
FD 35 Dee Memorial Park- Dedication Program and Invitation
September 5, 1980
Anniversary Gala Program, April 30, 2010
Separation Sheet
FD 6 Benghazi Tripoli
P1-38
P1-14 Football Game in Gezira
P1-19
P1-25 Down time in Heliopolis
P1-70
P1-28
P1-53 Cairo Zoo and other areas
P1-9 At the beach
P1 Madabegh Street
P2 Fouad I Street
P3 Midan Souares
P4 Khedive Ismail Bridge
P5 Mixt Courts & Fouad I Street
P6 Midan Soliman Pasha
P7 Sharia Fouad El Awai
P8 Opera Square
P9 Midan Tewfikieh
P10 Fouad I Street
P11 “Mo,” the pooch and “Snafu,” the monk
FD 15 Pyramids
P1-19
FD 16 Unknown Locations
P1-10
P1-4
P1-9
P1-9 Washington D.C.
P1-8 At a Beach, Palm Beach
P1-8 Palm Beach, July 1942
P1-11 Palm Beach
P1-9 Morrison & Palm Beach, Florida
P1-8 Miami & Palm Beach Florida Postcard from San Juan, Puerto Rico
P1-9 Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana
P1-11 Leopoldville, Belgian Congo
P1-6 Dakar, Senegal
P1 Leopoldville, Belgian Congo P2-5 Elizabethville, Belgian Congo
P6-8 Northern Rhodesia
P1-9 Tanganyika
Embarkation Card
New Africa Hotel
Newspaper Clipping
Certificate of Pilgrimage
Newspaper Clipping
P1 Air Corps, Morrison Field, Florida
P2 Army Air Forces Office Replacement Pool, Lowry Field, Colorado
Pan American Airways Ticket Miami-Leopoldville
Dah-Dit the 19 th Communications Squadron, Volume 2 Number 8 July 8, 1943
Special Orders no. 21 June 12, 1943
Newspaper Clippings
P1-2 Payne Field, Egypt
P1-6 Nairobi
P1-7 Nairobi
P1-13
P1-5
Newspaper Clipping
Piece of Money “The Japanese Government
Postal Telegram
Stanford Pictures
Stanford Pictures
Stanford Graduation Program
Group picture with Tommy and newspaper clipping
Negative and miscellaneous letter items
University of Utah
P1-6 In front of picture of Thomas D. Dee II
P7-13 At the Dinner Table
P14-24 Photos with various people
P1 Men seated around a table with list of names
P2 Two men at the bar
P1-3 Thomas D. Dee II conducting the symphony
P4 Thomas D. Dee II with Deedee Corradini
P5 Thomas D. Dee II with Jon M. Huntsman
P6 Group of men performing on stage
P1 Receiving flowers from Army Colonel
P2-3 Photographs of parents in leather picture book
P1-4 As a Child
P5-6 As young adult
P7-8 In uniforms
P9-26 As Adult
P1-2 Photos of home
P3 with mother, Annie
P4 with Janet
P5 with Janet, Edna Spargo and John Spargo
P6 with Wesley W. Anderson, Marriner S. Eccles, Joseph Quinney,
Robert H. Hinckley, September 9, 1976
P7 with Janet, and Mrs. Benning
P8-10 with various individuals
P1-9 At Weber College
P1 Janet’s Cat
P2-5 Janet
Of Thomas D. and Annie T. Dee
P1-3 with Lawrence T. and Thomas D. II and portrait of Thomas D. Dee
P1 Baby Blessing of Thomas Dee III (Tim) 1953
P1 Annie T. Dee
P2 Reese Dee
P3 Elizabeth and Donnell Stewart
P4 Edith Dee Green
P5 Unknown Individual
P1-2 Elizabeth and Donnell Stewart, Lawrence T. and Thomas D. Dee II
Holding picture of Center
P3-5 Elizabeth and Donnell Stewart, Lawrence T., Thomas D. Dee II
and President of Weber College
P3 Lawrence and unknown by picture of the Hospital
P4 Completed Hospital
P5 Members of the Board
P1-3
P1 Lawrence T. Receiving honorary Degree
P2-3 Thomas D. Dee II with President of the College, Governor
Bangerter and unknown individual
Box 16
Oversized
FD 1 The Stars and Stripes Middle East December 3, 1943 See Box 2 FD 7
Tributes and awards
Thomas D. Dee II
FD 2 Charter Membership in the Founding Grant Society (Stanford University) See Box 3 FD 3
FD 3 Beehive Hall of Fame, Resolution of the McKay-Dee Hospital Center Board of Trustees February 6, 1986 See Box 3 FD 9
FD 4 Utah International Resolution of the board of directors See Box 3 FD 17
Lawrence T. Dee
FD 6 Utah Construction and Mining Company Resolution on Resignation See Box 5 FD 31
FD 7 Weber State College- Honorary Degree, 86th Annual Commencement See Box 6 FD 4
Photographs
FD 8 P 1-3 Aircraft Crew and Crash See Box 14 FD 3
P 6-7 Generation Photos See Box 15 FD 19
P 8 Group (Family Photo) circa 1920 See Box 15 FD 20
P 9 Annie Dee See Box 15 FD 21
FD 9 Holmes Stereoscope with Stereo Cards and Stand
FD 1 Dee Eccles Company Journal- Cash Deposits, Check Register January 1, 1926- December 31, 1937 See Box 7 FD 14
FD 2 Thomas D. Dee Company Ledger Book 1917-1925, See Box 10 FD 33
Box 18
FD 1 Thomas D. Dee Company Ledger Book 1925-1937, See Box 10 FD 33
FD 2 Utah Canning Company Ledger Book 1896-1900, See Box 11 FD 19
FD 3 Blackmail Case Evidence Book
Box 19
Section 9 Cuff Links, Fish and Tackel
Section 4 Star
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository