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Collection
Identifier: MS-275
Abstract
This collection contains copies of the photographs that were used during the 2004 UC/UI symposium “Making Tracks.”
Dates:
2004
Collection
Identifier: MS-164
Abstract
An inventory of the collection contains items related to Utah Construction Company. It includes financial records, company correspondence and information of W.H. Wattis, George Bowman, Ann Bowman, Estelle Bowman, Donald Bowman, William Bowman, and Lester Corey.
Dates:
1912 - 1947
Scope and Contents
Information about the Utah Construction Company and Nevada. Text, maps, and
photographs are taken from Only the Mountains Remain by Nora Linjer Bowman. Photocopied,
oversize manuscript drawer. Donated by Bill Farr, 2005.
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Collection
Identifier: MS-076
Abstract
The David Eccles Papers contain diverse documentation recording the life of David Eccles.
Among the types of documents are correspondence, miscellaneous business records, account books,
day books, biographical and genealogical materials, newspaper clippings and a trial transcript of the
Eccles-Geddes trial. The time frame runs from 1861 with a census of Scotland, until approximately
1929 when David Eccles son, Royal began to obtain both written...
Dates:
1885 - 1972
Collection
Identifier: P-239
Collection
Identifier: MS-155
Abstract
This collection contains a copy of speeches given by E. W. Littlefield from 1952-1997. Also, included are letters from various people congratulating Littlefield on his election as President of Utah Construction and Mining Co. Of interest is a report on Utah’s Mining in Russian and a photograph with accompanying text about the company owned ranches in Montello, NV.
Dates:
1952 - 1997
Scope and Contents
Standard Examiner installments of E.O. Wattis autobiography, “E.O. Wattis PensStory of Earliest Experience,” February 5, 1934, and “Corey and Wattis Become Noted WesternContractors,” February 6, 1934. Also included are photocopies of photographs of the UtahConstruction Company’s early days in the late 19 th century, and E.O. Wattis with H.W. Morrisonat the site of Hoover Dam in 1931; and a letter from Marsha Lundgren, Development Directory...
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Collection
Identifier: MS-502
Scope and Contents
Personal Collection Ezekiel Ricker Dumke Jr. Collection includes manuscripts and photos both personal and professional. Dr. Ezekiel Dumke Jr. was a philanthropist involved at Weber State University, Red Butte Garden, and University of Utah. He lived in both Ogden, as a child and moved to Salt Lake City after marrying Katherine ‘Kay’ White, who was the daughter with former mayor of Ogden, W. Rulon White. He was the son of Dr. Ezekiel and Edna Wattis Dumke. His mother was the daughter of E.O....
Dates:
1911 - 2011
Collection
Identifier: P-087
Abstract
Postcards c.a. 1900-1920 of the Feather River Western Pacific Railroad Utah-California route. Black and white, color, sepia. Scenes include Feather River Bridge, Feather River Canyon, Feather River Highway, and various scenic views near Oroville, California.
Dates:
1900 - 1920
Scope and Contents
Letter to the Special Collections Department, Stewart Library, Weber StateUniversity from George Brasell of Christchurch, New Zealand dated May 2002. This letterconcerns his involvement with the World War II New Zealand Hospital Ship, “Wanganella”.This ship was moored in the Manapouri Deep Cove while the Utah Construction Companyhelped build the first tailrace tunnel project there in Doubtful Sound off the coast of SouthIsland, New...
Dates:
2002-05
