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Carl Fernelius World War II Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-524
Scope and Contents
Carl Fernelius was born 6 September 1923 in South Weber, Utah. He was drafted in June of 1943, and received his orders to go to Ogden, Utah to work as an MP at the POW camp at the DDO. See also Stewart Library digital collection oral history Interview, WWII Prisoners of War in Ogden and MS 418 Venture Academy for his oral history interviews.
Dates:
1942 - 1946
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Defense Depot Ogden Architectural Drawings Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-264
Abstract
The drawings architectural drawings of the Defense Depot of Ogden (DDO) deal mostly with renovating, remodeling, and updating the buildings between the 1940s and the late 1990s. There is a group of drawings in the early 1940s that includes original blueprints for newly built buildings. Almost every drawing was given a number within a series. The series if fairly easy to follow with each project number followed the last two digits of the year in which the drawing was used. The series from the...
Dates:
1940 - 1999
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Flora Ogan Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-429
Scope and Contents
The Flora Ogan Collection was donated by her children after her death in 2014. It containsmaterials pertaining to her work at the Standard Examiner and her work within the communitywhere she lived (see biography). This collection is broken into six main series: StandardExaminer, Organizations and Affiliations, Community Involvement, Newspaper Clippings,Photographs and Personal. Minor series include Velma Saunders, Tributes and Awards,...
Dates:
1928 - 2014
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
“Preserving the Future” Articles
Item
Identifier: MSS-411
Dates:
2010-06-27
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
The Ogden Chamber of Commerce Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-055
Abstract
Manuscript Collection 55 (MS 55) was donated on April 2, 1987 and contains items collected by the Ogden Chamber of Commerce from 1920 – 1987. The collection comprises 36 boxes of records chronicling the activities of Ogden city’s major coordinating organization for business and commercial activities.
The collection includes annual reports, brochures, financial reports, meeting minutes, memorabilia, military affairs, newsletters, newspapers, photographs, railroad and tax records. In...
Dates:
1920 - 1987
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections
Utah Defense Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-143
Abstract
Newspaper articles, newspaper supplements and photographs of the Ogden Defense Depot, Ogden, Utah and Hill Air Force Base, Clearfield, Utah, 1941-1979. Newspaper articles are from The Deseret News and photographs depict early American fighter jet and Hill Air Force Base runway. Oversize manuscript drawer.
Dates:
1941 - 1979
Found in:
WSU Stewart Library Special Collections