c0010 Elmer Gwyn Thomas Photograph Collection, 1914-1955 A Register of the Collection at the Utah State Historical Society Utah State Historical Society 1999 Finding aid encode in EAD 1.0 by Craig Ringgenberg using XMetaL 1.0, 1999. Finding aid written in English.

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Summary Description Utah State Historical Society Mss C 10 Thomas, Elmer Gwyn, 1880-1977. Elmer Gwyn Thomas Photograph Collection, 1914-1955 1.5 lin. ft. (3 boxes) Army officer, Assistant to the Quartermaster General, responsible for construction of military facilities in Utah during WWII, member of the Utah legislature. Photographs include construction views of Hill Air Force Base, Ogden Ordnance Depot, Salt Lake Air Base; area photos of Camp Williams, Fort Knox (1931-1933), Fort Bragg (1926-1928), Fort Sam Houston (1919-1925), and Camp Travis (1922). Topics: Military bases -- Photographs. Military posts -- Utah -- Photographs. Places: Fort Knox (Ky.) -- Photographs. Fort Sam Houston (Tex.) -- Photographs. Hill Air Force Base (Utah) -- Photographs. Salt Lake Air Base (Utah) -- Photographs. Salt Lake County (Utah) -- Photographs. Weber County (Utah) -- Photographs. Background Biographical Note

Army officer, Assistant to the Quartermaster General, responsible for construction of military facilities in Utah during WWII, member of the Utah legislature.

Scope and Content

Photographs include construction views of Hill Air Force Base, Ogden Ordnance Depot, Salt Lake Air Base; area photos of Camp Williams, Fort Knox (1931-1933), Fort Bragg (1926-1928), Fort Sam Houston (1919-1925), and Camp Travis (1922).

Series Descriptions

Military installations

Oversize Photographs

Administrative Information Preferred Citation:

Elmer Gwyn Thomas Photograph Collection, 1914-1955, Utah State Historical Society.

Restrictions on Use

The Elmer Gwyn Thomas Photograph Collection is the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their heirs and assigns. Please contact the Historical Society for information regarding specific use of this collection.

Processing Information: Collection processed by Susan Whetstone Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000 Collection cataloged by Richard Saunders, 1989 (RLIN ID: UTSX89-A1089). Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000. Related collections

The photographs in this collection were separated from Mss B 10.

Container list Box Folder Contents Military installations 1 1 Ogden Ordnance Plant/Hill Air Force Base (Ogden, Utah) 1 1 1 Construction (Hill Air Force Base) 1 1 2 Moving office building (Hill Air Force Base) 1 1 3-4 Construction (Hill Air Force Base) 1 1 5-6 Hill Air Force Base 1 1 7 Construction (Hill Air Force Base) 1 1 8 Railroad car used as office 1 1 9 Moving office buildings (Hill Air Force Base) 1 1 10 Ogden Ordnance Plant 1 1 11 Moving offices (Ogden Ordnance Plant) 1 1 12 Truck used for moving buildings (Hill Air Force Base) 1 1 13-15 Moving office buildings (Hill Air Force Base) 1 1 16 Hill Air Force Base 1 2 Ogden Ordnance Depot (U.S. Army Air Corps Photographs) 1 2 1-2 Aerial view--construction (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 2 3 Aerial view--Loading Plant (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 2 4-5 Aerial view--General Depot (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 2 6 Aerial view--Shell Loading Plant (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 2 7 Aerial view--Warehouse (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 2 8-9 Aerial view--Shell Loading Plant (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 2 10 Aerial view (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 3 Ogden Ordnance Depot (U.S. Army Corps Photographs) 1 3 1 Aerial view (Ogden Ordnance Depot) 1 3 2-3 Aerial view--construction (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 3 4-7 Aerial view (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 3 8 Aerial view--Shell Loading Plant (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 3 9 Aerial view--32 Warehouse (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 3 10 Construction equipment (Ogden Ordnance Depot) 1 3 11 Aerial view--Shell Loading Plant (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 3 12 Aerial view--32 Warehouse (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 3 13 Aerial view (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 3 14 Aerial view--32 Warehouse (Ogden Ordnance Depot), 1941 1 4 Salt Lake Army Air Base 1 4 1 Aerial view (Salt Lake Army Air Base) 1 4 2-3 Aerial view--Living quarters (Salt Lake Army Air Base) 1 4 4-5 Living quarters (Salt Lake Army Air Base) 1 4 6 Officials meeting--Col. Thomas opening bids (Salt Lake Army Air Base) 1 4 7-8 Aerial view (Salt Lake Army Air Base) 1940 1 4 9 Aerial view--Construction (Salt Lake Army Air Base), 1940 1 5 Camp Williams (Utah) 1 5 1 Construction (Camp Williams) 1 5 2 Construction--Tank (Camp Williams) 1 5 3 Construction frames (Camp Williams) 1 6 Hill Air Force Base 1 6 1 Aerial view--Construction (Hill Air Force Base), 1941 [2 copies] 1 6 2-4 Aerial view--Construction (Hill Air Force Base), 1941 1 6 5-6 Official banquet? (Unknown location) 1 7 Utah Ordnance Plant, 1942 1 7 1 Building 38A (Utah Ordnance Plant) 1 7 2 Target House, 48B (Utah Ordnance Plant) 1 7 3 Primer Pre-Dry House, 40A (Utah Ordnance Plant) 1 7 4 Gate House, #6 (Utah Ordnance Plant) 1 7 5 Proof House, #45 (Utah Ordnance Plant) 1 7 6 Salem Annealing Furnace, Shop #1 (Utah Ordnance Plant) 1 8 Fort Knox, Kentucky 1 8 1 Parade (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 2 Military jeep (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 3 Cannon on grounds at night (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 4-6 Tank (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 7 Administration Building and Officers' Club (Fort Knox, Kentucky) [2 copies] 1 8 8 Station Hospital (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 9 Duplex--Non Commission Quarters (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 10 Officers' Club (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 11-12 Parade grounds (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 13 Parade grounds--Includes Major Elmer G. Thomas and staff (Fort Knox, Kentucky) [2 copies] 1 8 14-19 Parade grounds (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 20 Staff in review (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 21 Overview (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 22-23 Military jeep (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 8 24 QM Officers School--With identification (Fort Knox, Kentucky), ca. 1935 [2 copies] 1 9 Theater (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 9 1-12 Exterior and interior views of theater (Fort Knox, Kentucky) 1 10 Camp Travis (San Antonio, Texas) 1 10 1-7 Buildings under construction (Camp Travis), 1922 1 10 8-10 Buildings under construction (Camp Travis), 1922 1 10 11-12 Moving mess hall (Camp Travis) 1 10 13 Buildings (Camp Travis) 1 10 14 Room interior (Camp Travis) 1 10 15 Men working (Camp Travis), 1923 1 10 16 Overview of buildings (Camp Travis), 1923 1 10 17 Building frames (Camp Travis), 1923 1 10 18 Grounds with men in field (Camp Travis), 1923 1 10 19 Building frames (Camp Travis), 1923 1 10 20 Building frames with men working (Camp Travis), 1923 1 10 21 Building frame (Camp Travis), 1923 1 10 22 Building (Camp Travis) [negative only] 1 10 23 Building under construction (Camp Travis) [negative only] 1 11 Fort Sam Houston(Texas) Radio Tower, 1919- 1925 1 11 1 Moving radio tower (Fort Sam Houston) 1 11 2 Base of tower ready to move (Fort Sam Houston) 1 11 3 Moving radio tower (Fort Sam Houston) 1 11 4 Closeup of one of the large legs resting on cribbing before transfer to trucks (Fort Sam Houston) 1 11 5 Support system 1 11 6 Tracks used to move tower (Fort Sam Houston) 1 11 7 Support legs (Fort Sam Houston) 1 11 8 Tower on railroad tracks (Fort Sam Houston) 1 12 Fort Bragg (North Carolina) 3 July 1928 1 12 1-2 N.C.O. Quarters (Fort Bragg) 1 12 3 Bn. F.A. Barracks--motorized (Fort Bragg) 1 12 4 N.C.O. Quarters (Fort Bragg) 1 12 5 Bn. F.A. Barracks--motorized (Fort Bragg) 1 12 6-7 Company officers quarters (Fort Bragg) 1 12 8-10 Bn. F.A. Barracks--Motorized (Fort Bragg) 1 13 Fort Bragg (North Carolina) 1926-1928 1 13 1-12 Barracks (Fort Bragg) 1 14 WPA project (Fort Bragg) 1 14 1-3 Jefferson Barracks (Fort Bragg), 1938 1 14 4 Reserve Officers Class with identification (Fort Bragg) 1 15 Fort Shafter (Hawaii)--Schofield Barracks, 1933 1 15 1-2 Soldier (Fort Shafter) 1 15 3 Group (Fort Shafter) 1 15 4 Group on bleachers at ball field (Fort Shafter) 1 15 5-6 Man on baseball field with glove (Fort Shafter) 1 15 7-12 Unidentified soldier (Fort Shafter) 1 15 13 Man on baseball field with glove (Fort Shafter) 1 15 14 Unidentified soldier (Fort Shafter) 1 15 15-18 Steam shovel opening up drainage ditch to ocean (Fort Shafter) 1 16 Brooks Field (Texas) 1 16 1 Aerial view (Brooks Field) 1 16 2 Airplane (Brooks Field) [2 copies] 1 16 3 Airplane--LaPere (Brooks Field) 1 16 4-5 Aerial view (Brooks Field) 1 16 6 Line of airplanes on field (Brooks Field) 1 16 7 Airplane belonging to the 27th Squadron (Brooks Field) 1 16 8 Damaged airplane (Brooks Field) 1 16 9 Airplane by balloon--Dirigible (Brooks Field) 1 16 10 Inflated dirigible--Balloon (Brooks Field) 1 16 11 View of field with planes lining field (Brooks Field) 1 17 Miscellaneous photographs 1 17 1-2 Fort Douglas (Utah), 1930 1 17 3-6 Destroyed on test (Pee Dee River Bridge) 1 17 7-10 Unidentified moving buildings 1 17 11 Unidentified city showing the capitol building 1 17 12 Unidentified city 1 17 13 Unidentified group at a dinner in New York 1 17 14 Military roster with soldier 1 18 Camping trip 1 18 1-2 Campsite 1 18 3 Parked car 1 18 4-9 Scenery (Southern Utah) 1 19 Sims, G. B. [artist sketches] 1 19 1 Officers class including Lt. Beller (Ft. Knox), 1935 1 19 2 Officers class including Capt. Hondley (Ft. Knox), 1935 1 19 3 Officers class including 2nd Lt. White (Ft. Knox), 1935 Oversize Photographs 2 Panorama (Camp Williams, Utah) 3 Loose rolled photographs 3 1 153rd Anniversary Quartermaster Corp, 1928 3 2 Unidentified group [poor condition] 3 3 U.S. Gold Depository (Ft. Knox) 3 4 Panorama (Ft. Shafter)