Cache Valley native Alfred Gordon Erickson attended Utah State Agricultural College in the second half of the 1940s following his service in the Army Air Force during World War II. The 255 black and white photographs in this digital collection were taken by Erickson between 1940 and 1950 while he was with the Army in California and a …
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Featuring half a century (1954-2002) of folklore fieldwork, the images in this digital collection were created by noted folklorist Barre Toelken and cover a range of folklore topics such as cemeteries, Native Americans (mostly Navajo), folk art, vernacular architecture, and customs of Austria, Germany, Japan, and the United States. The …
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Explore the origins of the Bear Lake Monster legend in this digital collection featuring folklore items, newspaper articles, interviews and other materials from Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives. The Bear Lake Monster is a regional legend from the Bear Lake Valley (Utah and Idaho), home to a large, deep lake …
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The Bear River Watershed's geography, history, and development are the primary focus of this collection of images, maps, papers, and reports. Funded by grants from the Utah State University Water Initiative, this project digitizes selected materials cited in the Bear River Watershed Historical Bibliography, including photographs of …
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Make Love, Not War! Beat Movement broadsides and posters in this collection were part of a revolution in self-publishingas artists and poets seized control over the dissemination of their work and took it directly to the people and the streets, dodging the strong forces of censorship that permeated 1950s America. Diverse in size, …
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