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Festival of the Salt Princess Broadside

 Item
Identifier: MSS-375
Abstract

A broadside advertising the Festival of the Salt Princess in Salt Lake from September 11-13th. The fun included rock drilling, log sawing, tugs-of war, pie eating, wienerwurst snapping and a “unique public marriage ceremony.” Broadside has been taped back together as it was in 4 pieces.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Great Salt Lake Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-358
Abstract

The Great Salt Lake collection contains ephemera related to the Great Salt Lake. Subjects

include Salt Lake, Salt Lake city, Antelope Island, Saltair, and the Great Salt Lake Cut-off.

Dates: 1890 - 1931

Hastings Cutoff

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Identifier: MSS-287
Scope and Contents

Overland Journal article, “’The Limitless Plain’: The Great Salt Lake Desert –

The Trail Location and the Trials and Tribulations of the Emigrants While Crossing this Desert

on the Hastings Cutoff, Part I” by Roy D. Tea, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2005. Photocopy.

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

History of the Lucin Cut-Off

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Identifier: MSS-138
Scope and Contents

Handwritten history, “The Lucin Cut-Off” by an unknown author, May 1905.

This ten page document relates how the Lucin Cut-Off was constructed and describes the

topography of this area in the Great Salt Lake.

Dates: 1905-05

Lucin Cut-off

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Identifier: MSS-427
Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

Lucin Cut-Off Accident

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Identifier: MSS-218
Abstract

Newspaper articles and register of death about the train accident of February 19,

1904, killing sixteen Greek laborers as they were traveling to build the Lucin Cut-off on the

Great Salt Lake, Utah. This collection was donated by Stella Kapetan whose great-grandfather,

Leonidas Maltezos, was amongst the train accident victims. Donated to Special Collections,

Weber State University, 2003. Photocopies.

Dates: 1904-02-19

Miss Goldie Brown Correspondence

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Identifier: MSS-240
Scope and Contents

Postcards addressed to Miss Goldie Brown of Murray, Utah from Fred Schick.

Postcards are of the Western Pacific train crossing, Lucin Cut-Off, and a scenic sunset over the

Great Salt Lake. Postmarked November 17, 1908; October 10, 1910; July 19, 1911; and July 25,

1911.

Dates: 1908 - 1911

Ogden, Lagoon, and Salt Lake Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P-182
Abstract

Photographs were taken in the summer of 1940, developed on July 15, 1940.

Dates: 1940

Saltair-Garfield Landing

 Collection
Identifier: P-081
Abstract

Photographs of the Saltair Resort and Garfield Landing on the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Sepia tone, various sizes, c.a. 1900. Images included building exteriors and interiors, bathers, and tourists. One photograph in this collection shows people and a train on Pikes Peak in Colorado.

Dates: 1891 - 1900

Saltair Resort Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: P-063
Abstract

Photographs of the Great Salt Lake resort, Saltair, Utah circa 1900 and 1928. Images include Saltair’s exterior and interior, bathers, and tourists strolling outside the resort.

Dates: 1900 - 1928