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Summary Description Utah State Historical Society Mss C 814 Murray City (Utah) Photograph Collection, n.d. 1 lin. ft. (2 boxes) copies

Photographs collected by Murray City.

 Collections photographs of sports, industry, school, homes, businesses, recreational activities and street scenes, Murray City Fire Department, and mayors of Murray, Utah. Also contains photographs of the Bountiful Fire Department. Persons: Anderson, Charles Bentz, Phillip Berger, Gottlieb R. Brown, Charles Dunn, William E. Erekson, Norman W. Greenwood, Ray P. Hansen, J. Clifford Huscher, George A. Lester, Isaac C. McHenry, James W. McMillan, Lavar C. Miller, Chillion L. Muir, LaRell D. Peters, Fred Pett, Lynn Shaw, Curtis L. Smith, Ernest Soffe, Vaughn C. Stratton, James H. Townsend, Arthur Organizations: Bountiful Fire Department Murray City Fire Department Places: Bountiful (Utah) Murray (Utah) Form or Genre: Photographs Background Background Note

Murray City, originally known as South Cottonwood, was named for territorial governor Eli Murray. Located eight miles south of Salt Lake City it was settled in 1849, but was not incorporated until 1902. Smelters dominated the local economy until the close of the ASARCO lead smelter in 1950. Commercial businesses thrived along with the smelter industry. Murray was hard hit by the 1930s depression. The city began to look to various Federal projects to compensate for the economic loss of smelter closures. Murray's central location in the Salt Lake Valley makes Murray an "ideal" bedroom community and small business and service industries. Murray has continued to grow and thrive.

Scope and Content

Photographs of Murray (Utah) depicting people, life, recreation, fire department, and businesses from ca. 1900 to the early 1990s. The photographs are all copies of original prints found in the Murray City Historical Collection archives or borrowed from private individuals in the Murray area. The Murray Historical Society maintains a copy of the photographs also. The Utah State Historical Society holds the negatives to both collections. There is a chronological listing of Murray mayors from 1902 to 1994.

 Series Descriptions

Businesses, Churches and Homes

Fire Department

People

Recreation/Life

Street/Utilities

 Administrative Information Preferred Citation:

Murray City (Utah) Photograph Collection, n.d., Utah State Historical Society.

Acquisition Information:

Received from Mary Ann Kirk, Murray Historical Society

 Restrictions on Use

The Murray City (Utah) 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, 2006 Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone, 2006 Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2006 Collection cataloged by Linda Thatcher, 2006 Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2006 Related collections

The photographs in this collection were separated from Mss B 814.

 Container list Box Folder Contents Businesses, Churches and Homes 1 1 Miscellaneous commercial businesses (Murray, Utah), ca. 1900 (Automotive Repair & Accessories Co., E.J. Warenski General Merchandise, George Harlan Lyon Drug Company, South Cottonwood Cooperative Mercantile Store) 1 2 Miscellaneous government/public buildings (Murray City Hall, Murray City Library, Murray Post Office) 1 3 Miscellaneous smelters (ASARCO, Germania, American Smelting & Refining Co.) 1 4 Murray LDS Second Ward 1 12 Homes (Lyon-Holm, Holm-Iversen, Ramseyer,Bradford, Howe-Turner, Howe-Walker, Labrum) Fire Department 1 5 Murray Fire Department depicting activities, equipment, stations and personnel (4 x 5 prints) 1 6 Murray Fire Department depicting activities, equipment, stations and personnel (5 x 7 prints) 1 7 Murray City Fire Department early personnel 1 8 Murray City Fire Department personnel (small groups) 1 9 Murray City Fire Department personnel (large groups) 1 10 Murray City Fire Department Stations 1 11 Murray City Fire Department-Fires (Granite Furniture, Sports Den) 2 10 Bountiful Fire Department People 1 13 Prominent Murray citizens (Arthur Oberlander, John Oberlander, partially identified groups) 1 14 Mayors of Murray, 1902-1994 (Miller, Stratton, Brown, Bentz, Huscher, McHenry, Erekson, Anderson, Lester, Townsend, Peters, Berger, Shaw, Hansen, Smith, Greenwood, Dunn, Soffe, Muir, McMillan, Pett) 1 15 Robinson, William F. (music teacher) Recreation/Life 2 1 Murray Park 2 2 Recreational activities (parades, band groups, etc) 2 3 Recreational activities (Memorial Day, banquets 2 4 School groups (Murray High School, UI elementary school class) 2 5 Baseball (Grant Park Field, Ken Price Ball Park, Vine Street) 2 6 Sports teams (Eagles, Fire Dept. Racing Teaams) Street/Utilities 2 7 Murray streets (State Street and other locations) 2 8 Bridges 2 9 Power plants, reservoir construction