The Newell G. Knight Photograph Collection, 1960-1979

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Salt Lake City, Utah

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Summary Description
Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 64
Creator: Knight, Newell G., 1909-1979
Title:Newell G. Knight Photograph Collection, 1960-1979
Quantity:0.5 lin. ft. (1 box)
Abstract:State senator and official historian of Salt Lake City, Utah. Assorted photos of architecture from the 1960's construction in Salt Lake and on the U of U campus. Unarranged.

Places:
Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Photographs.
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Background

Biographical Note

State senator and official historian of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Scope and Content

Assorted photos of architecture from the 1960's construction in Salt Lake and on the U of U campus. Unarranged.
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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Newell G. Knight Photograph Collection, 1960-1979. Utah State Historical Society.

Acquisition Information:

Donated by Newell Knight

Restrictions on Use

The Newell G. Knight 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: UTSX 89-A1103)

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000.

Related collections

The photographs in this collection were separated from Mss B 64.

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Container list

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Contents

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Fire Stations (Salt Lake City)
1. Salt Lake Fire Station #1 and old Police Building
2. Fire Station #2
3. Fire Station #3
4. Fire Station #4 where George M. Ottinger painted
5. Fire Station #4 rebuilt
6. Fire Station #5
7. Fire Station #6
8. Fire Station #7
9. Fire Station #8
10. Fire Station #9 (1718 S. Main)
11. Fire Station #10

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Structures
12. Police Station #2 (2141 So. 11th East)
13. Asphalt Plant
14. Dog Pound
15. Neighborhood House ( 753 West 1st South)
16. Zoo cages
17. Maxfield Lodge (Little Cottonwood Canyon)

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Salt Lake City Airport
18. Old hangar and weather office (Salt Lake City Airport)
19. Hangar (Salt Lake City Airport)
20-21. Old airport
22. Old airport hangar
23. Salt Lake City Municipal Airport with plane
24. Salt Lake City Municipal Airport

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Street Department
1. Culvert shed, Salt Lake City Street Department
2. Paint shop, Salt Lake City Street Department
3. Shop building, Salt Lake City Street Department
4. Stable, Salt Lake City Street Department
5. Wagon shed, Salt Lake City Street Department
6. Yard office and gas storage, Salt Lake City Street Department
10. Main barn, Salt Lake City Street Department

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Public Works
7. Waterworks garage and office
8-9. Waterworks shop
11. Sewer pumping plant
12-13. Pumping Station (Lehi, Utah)
14. City gravel pit
15. Valve House (13th East/Salt Lake City)
16. Pump house (Canyon Road/2nd & 3rd Avenue/Salt Lake City)

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Golf Courses and Clubhouses
1. Bonneville Clubhouse
2. Foot bridge, Bonneville Golf Course, 1935
3. Memorial House, 1928
4. Old Derk's Field before it burned down
5. Caretaker's house, Fairmont Park, 1941
6. Clubhouse, Fairmont Park, 1935
7. Forest Dale Golf Course, 1935
11. Nibley Park Clubhouse/Wandamere Park

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Parks and Cemeteries
8. Band stand, Liberty Park (Salt Lake City)
9. Comfort station, Liberty Park (Salt Lake City)
10. Green House, Liberty Park (Salt Lake City)
12. Water theatre, Nibley Park/Wandamere Park
13. Garage, Salt Lake City Cemetery
14. Greenhouse, Salt Lake City Cemetery
15. Sexton's office, Salt Lake City Cemetery
16. Zoo cages, 1935
17. Tracy Aviary

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Recreation
1-2. Skiing
3. Superintendent's residence, Liberty Park, 1933
4. Rainbow Falls (Hawaii)
5. Mormon Trail, wagon train in Emigration Canyon
6. Indians attacking settlers (sketch)
7. Bear River at Great Salt Lake (sketch)
8. Brine shrimp
9. Bathers--Saltair Resort (Great Salt Lake, Utah)
10. Gardo House (Salt Lake City)
11. Park picnic shelter and barbecue
12. Deseret News/Tithing Office wall and gate, ca. 1900
13. Wasatch Plunge (Salt Lake City)
14. Salt Lake Temple
15. Entrance--Maxfield Lodge (Little Cottonwood Canyon)
16. Hogle Zoo
17. Big Cottonwood Canyon and stream
18. Bathers--Saltair Resort (Great Salt Lake, Utah)
19. Park (Warm Springs)
20. Road (Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah)
21. Stream (Big Cottonwood Canyon), 1934
22. Lake Blanche
23. Road on way to a national park (Hawaii)
24. Bellefontaine street car

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Travel and local sites
1. Hawaiian Tabernacle (Honolulu, Hawaii)
2. Victory Park Clubhouse (245 So. 10th East/Salt Lake City)
3. Waimea Canyon
4. Cannon home/Peace Gardens (Salt Lake City), ca. 1941
5. Elephant House--Hogle Zoo
6. Bird Cage--Hogle Zoo
7. Masonic Temple (2nd East 1st South/Salt Lake City), 1935; Kiwanis Club, ca.1940
8. Masonic Temple/Kiwanis Club, 1935, ca.1940?
9. Maxfield Lodge (Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah)
10. Old City Jail (Salt Lake City)
11-12. Merchants Bank on fire, 1913
13-14. Merchants Candy Co., 1913
15. Storm sewer pipe installed between State & the Jordan River on 13th So. (Salt Lake City), 1952
16. Public Safety Building
17. Meditation Chapel located in Memory Grove (Salt Lake City)
18. Great Salt Lake/ Saltair, 1957
19. Garden
20. Recreation Center, Fairmont Park (Salt Lake City)
21. Comfort station, Pioneer Park (Salt Lake City)
22. Bingham Copper Mine
23. Buildings and mine (Bingham Canyon, Utah)
24. Equipment at Bingham Mine (Utah)

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City and state officials
1. Two children (Irene & ?)
2. Drive-in restaurant (California?)
3. Hawaii?
4. Park
5-7. Lee, J. Bracken
8. Hatch, Orrin and family
9. BYU students in City Comm. Chambers
10. Appel, John G., Brig. Gen., 1967 [3 copies]
11. Sons of the Utah Pioneers, Mormon Battalion banner displayed
12. Baseball game with Comm. Grogan, Josh West, Young, Grant, Murdock
13. Bowling with Monroe Iversen, Thompson, Throckmorton, Spence--firemen
14-15. Proposition 13 protest (California)
16. Cars parked under a shade tree
17. Clubhouse
18. Gordon Hall's Court Room
19. Unidentified woman

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Local sites
1. Christ in tile over a church entrance
2. Seagulls--Bird Island (Great Salt Lake, Utah)
3. Great Salt Lake (Utah)
4. Brigham Young's painting being explained by Newell Knight
5. Sons of the Utah Pioneers, Mormon Battalion, Jones, Jensen, Knight, Curtis
6. Memory Grove (Salt Lake City)
7. Dedication for Sons of the Utah Pioneers at Utah State Capitol, 1976
8. Alexander, Dorothy at Memory Grove (Salt Lake City)
9. Alexander, Dorothy and Mrs. Houtz at Memory Grove (Salt Lake City)
10. "Dorothy Alexander Award" at Memory Grove (Salt Lake City)
11. Memory Grove dedication (Salt Lake City)
12-13. Dorothy Alexander Monument dedication at Memory Grove (Salt Lake City), 1963
14. Residence (Stevens)
15. Lehman's Cave, 1956

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Parades and floods
1. City and County Building , winter before trees were removed, ca. 1963
2. Days of '47 Parade--Main Street (Salt Lake City), 1957
3. Days of '47 Parade (Salt Lake City), July 1957
4. Great Salt Lake (Utah), May 1957
5. Days of '47 Parade (Salt Lake City), July 1957
6. Floods--13th South & State (Salt Lake City), May 1952
7. Floods--Sand bags by river--30 ft. wide, 5 ft. deep (Salt Lake City), May 1952
8. Floods--Main Street under water at 13th South (Salt Lake City), May 1952
9. Floods--view of State Street at 13th South (Salt Lake City), May 1952
10. Floods--bus going north on State Street at 13th South (Salt Lake City), May 1952
11. Floods--sand bagged river looking west from 13th South and Main (Salt Lake City), May 1952
12. Floods--looking northeast from 13th So. State (Salt Lake City), May 1952
13. Floods--west of 2nd West from 9th to 17th South (Salt Lake City), May 1952
14. Fort Laramie (Wyoming), 1924
15. Nielsen, Theron, Captain donating blood at Fire Station #5

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Montages
1. Utah's Early Smelters--U.S. Smelter, Majestic, Bing. Cons., American, Utah Cons.
2. Jennings Block and Arlington Hotel, Pres. Church, Meteer Bros. Hardware, Richfield Hotel, Neill Drug Co., J. W. Werner Mercantile, M. E, Church, Richfield Mercantile
3. Deseret News offices
4. L.D.S. Churches--3rd, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 31st, 33rd, Granite Stake Tabernacle, Sugar Ward, Forest Dale

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Miscellaneous
5. Dam (Jordan River, Utah)
6. Winton car, 1904
7. Holmes, Edwin F., Col.

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Buildings
1. Construction--First Presbyterian Church (Salt Lake City)
2. Brigham Young Memorial Building located at L.D.S. University (Salt Lake City)
3. White House on State Street, So. Temple & First South (Salt Lake City)
4. Phillips Congregational Church (Salt Lake City), 1902
5. Miner's Home and Hospital/St. Mark's (Salt Lake City), 1902
6. Federal Building/Post Office (Salt Lake City), 1903
7. The Groves L.D.S. Hospital
8. Commercial Block
9. David Keith Building (Salt Lake City), 1902
10. Construction--Atlas Block (Salt Lake City), 1901
11. Chipman Mercantile Co. (American Fork, Utah)
12. Independence Building (Salt Lake City), 1901 and 1902
13. Greenwald Furniture Co. located at 335-359 East Third South (Salt Lake City), 1902
14. Old Lloyd home located at 544 West First So. (Salt Lake City)
15. Groo, Isaac home located at 464 South 4th East (Salt Lake City)
16. Unidentified building

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Unidentified people
1. Groo, Isaac [E.E. Hibling, Photographer]
5. Young woman, Bessie
6. Young woman, Gladys
7. Young woman, Bessie
8. Woman and daughter
9. Three children--Hazel Hilda Horner, Rex and Ray Grove
12. Grant, Heber J.

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Buildings
2. County Court House (Raton, New Mexico) [postcard]
3. Main Street (Salt Lake City), 1906 [stereograph]
4. Salt Lake City from Prospect Hill [Savage, Photographer--cabinet card]
10. City Hall (Salt Lake City)
11. Unidentified residence

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Local scenes
1. Panoramic view (Salt Lake City)
2. Weggeland, Jayne (Laird Park Playground); Ann Wilkins (Riverside Park Playground); Maxine Leigh (Asst. Supt. Recreation)
3. Alta (Utah)
4. Unidentified man at boarding house
5. Bingham Canyon (Utah), 22 March 1915
6. Utah Agricultural College (Logan, Utah), ca. 1900 [2 copies]
7. Lagoon (Farmington, Utah)
8. Mine car up against Eckman house (Bingham, Utah), 1915
9. All Hallows College (Salt Lake City)
10. Wandamere/Nibley Park (Salt Lake City)

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Local scenes (cont.)
1. Public housing, clothes hanging on line
2. Pump Plant/booster/well located at 27th So. & 19th East (Salt Lake City), 1934
3. Tent housing
4. Housing and tents
5. State Fish Hatchery Well, 1934
6. Well located at 27th South & 19th East (Salt Lake City), 1934
7. Tent housing
8. Young, Brigham grave, 1914
9. Pioneer Park (Salt Lake City), 1932
10-12. Setting out flags on Memorial Day at Salt Lake City Cemetery
13-14. International Peace Gardens
15. Days of '47 Parade, 1950
16. Rexburg Idaho Band at Days of '47 Parade, 1952

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Color Photographs
1. LDS Church Office Building?(Salt Lake City)
2. Clock
3. East 18th South (Salt Lake City)
4. Log cabin
5. Salt Lake City Crest
6. Knight, Newell office
7. Cemetery
8. Unidentified gathering
9. Sons of the Utah Pioneers, Mormon Battalion Banner
10. Military group
11. Sons of the Utah Pioneers, Mormon Battalion Banner
12. Garden walkway, stone walls, log roof
13. Third South (Salt Lake City)
14. Group by Martha Hughes Cannon Monument dedication, Augugust 1970
15. Liberty Bell
16. City of Portland flat
17. City & County Building (Salt Lake City)
18. Panoramic view (Salt Lake City)
19. Lion House (Salt Lake City)
20-21. Knight, Newell?
22-27. Funeral (unidentified)
28. Birdseye View Salt Lake City showing Great Salt Lake
29. Birdseye View Salt Lake City showing Jordan River

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Salt Lake City Planning
1. Map of "How People Move Around in Downtown" (Salt Lake City)
2. Downtown Century Plan II (Salt Lake City)

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Local buildings
3. View toward City & County Building, drawing of Growers Market (Salt Lake City), 1965
4. Richards Street closed (Salt Lake City), 1963
5. State Street--First to Second South (Salt Lake City), 1965
6. Main Street (Salt Lake City), 1965
7. First Presbyterian Church (Salt Lake City)
8. Lyndy's Drive Inn/A & W Restaurant by the City & County Building (Salt Lake City)
9. Lund, Paula & Les Gillette by statue, Commerce (Salt Lake City)
10. V.F.W. group (Salt Lake Airport)
11. Group in a meeting
12. Wabash Hotel, 110 S. State St.; Lincoln House, 68 East 1st So. (Salt Lake City), 1955
13. Unidentified neighborhood, 1958
14-15. Kiwanis Club
16. Condie, Roy in Indian costume

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Originals/Artwork
1. Unidentified group [5 x 7 negative]
2. Ad for the Sanitarium Baths [negative]
3. Ad for Saltair (Great Salt Lake, Utah) [negative]
4. Militia recruit [print]
5. Salt Lake City Sticker stating "This is the Place"
6. Eighth grade class--Jefferson Junior High School, 1920

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Photostatic Copies
1. Assembly Hall, LDS Fifteenth Ward (Salt Lake City)
2. Social Hall (Salt Lake City)
3. Prospect Hill (Salt Lake City)
4. Catholic Hospital (Salt Lake City)
5. Cottonwood Bridge (Salt Lake Valley)
6. Removing last pole from center of Main Street (Salt Lake City), 1908
7. F. Auerbach's & Bros. (Salt Lake City), 1864
8. City & County Building (Salt Lake City) [note card]
9. Fenton, S.F. residence
10. Miller, G.D.B., Rev., residence
11. Fire Department (Salt Lake City), 1888
12. Deseret News, Lion House and Beehive House (Salt Lake City), 1882 [3 copies]
13. Main Street from South Temple looking south (Salt Lake City), 1887
14. Husler & Co.'s Flour Mill, 1887
15. Gilmer, J.T. residence, 1886 [2 copies]
16. City Hall?, 1885
17. Saltair (Great Salt Lake, Utah)
18. A. Keyser's Warehouse
19. St. James Hotel
20. Post Office (Salt Lake City) [2 copies]
21. Main Street from First South looking south (Salt Lake City)
22. Hooper & Eldredge Block (Salt Lake City)
23. Ad for Auerbach & Bros. (Salt Lake City)
24. 20th Ward Meeting House (Salt Lake City)
25. St. Marks' Cathedral (Salt Lake City)
26. First Baptist Church (Salt Lake City)
27. All Hallow's College (Salt Lake City)
28. St. Paul's Chapel (Salt Lake City)
29. Arsenal Hill showing Salt Lake Temple under construction (Salt Lake City), ca. 1872 [panoramic view]
30. Salt Lake Theatre (Salt Lake City)
31. Folland, E.A. residence (Salt Lake City)
32. Temple Square (Salt Lake City) [2 copies]
33. Main Street with street car tracks (Salt Lake City)
34. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Station [2 copies]
35. Sharp, James, Mayor, residence
36. St. Mark's Hospital (Salt Lake City)
37. Hooper, W.H., residence
38. Utah Central Railway Depot
39. Deseret Paper Mill (Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah)
40. ZCMI (Salt Lake City)
41. Liberty Park (Salt Lake City)
42. Garfield Beach (Salt Lake City)
43. Bath House--Warm Springs (Salt Lake City)
44. Josephite Church
45. St. Mary's School
46. Fuller's Hill Pleasure Gardens (Salt Lake City), 1887
47. Lake Park Bathing Resort, 1887
48. F. Auerbach & Bros. Store (Salt Lake City)
49-50. Dye, Robert residence--spring view
51. Unidentified women [4 copies]
52. Eagle Emporium with Indians in front [photocopy]

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Photostatic Copies (cont.)
1. View of Salt Lake with an insert of Ft. Douglas
2-3. Coming of the Railroad montage
4-5. Building of the L.D.S. Temple, 1864-1867
6. Early Mormon Industry
7. Amusements During Horse & Buggy Days
8. Coming of the Army
9. Stagecoach Travel and Pony Express
10-12. Horse and Buggy Days
13-15. Early Days of Mormonism
16. Salt Lake City--It's History After 1897

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Photostatic Copies (cont.)
1. Dinwoodey Furniture Company
2. Polygamy cartoon
3. Salt Lake Theatre, ca. 1863
4. Salt Lake City--It's History 1877 to 188?
5. First Inhabitants of the Salt Lake Valley
6. Coming of the Mormons to Utah
7. Wagon trains to Utah
8. Ox team, first log home, first Post Office
9. A Pioneer in Oil Refining, (Salt Lake City) [aerial view]
10. Auerbach's Move to State Street (Salt Lake City)
11. Auerbach's Store (Salt Lake City), 1870's and 1880's
12. Early Days in Salt Lake City
13. Coming of the Mormons to Utah
14. Early Days in Salt Lake City
15. Horse and Buggy Days
16. Early View on the Western Frontier

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Metropolitan Hall of Justice (Salt Lake City)
1. Construction, 1964
2-3. Construction, 1965 [3 copies]
4-5. Construction, 1966

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Metropolitan Hall of Justice (Salt Lake City), [mounted photographs]
1. Foundation digging, 20 November 1963
2. Foundation partially constructed, 21 January 1964
3. Foundation area, 21 January 1964
4. Steel beam grids, 20 February 1964
5-6. Steel beams, 20 February 1964
7. Steel beams after snowstorm, 23 March 1964
8. Foundation area with beams after a snowstorm, 23 March 1964
9. Re-bar reinforcements, 20 May 1964
10. Steel supports, 23 June 1964
11-12. Construction progress, 23 June 1964

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Metropolitan Hall of Justice (Salt Lake City) [mounted photographs] (cont.)
1. Construction progress, 23 August 1964
2. Construction progress on steps, 9 September 1964
3. Construction progress on building frame, 9 September 1964
4. Construction progress, 20 October 1964 [same view as #2]
5. Construction progress, 28 December 1964 [same view as #2, 4]
6. Construction progress on driveway, 25 January 1965
7. Construction progress on driveway area, 21 February 1965
8. Construction progress on steps, 21 February 1965 [same view as #2, 4, 5]
9. Construction progress on driveway, 21 March 1965
10. Construction progress on driveway, 21 April 1965
11. Construction progress on steps, 21 May 1965
12. Construction progress on driveway, 21 May 1965
13. Construction progress on steps, 24 June 1965

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City and County Building (Salt Lake City)
1-5. Top of columns
6. Top of building showing statue
7. Grounds showing fountain presented by the Humane Society
8. Horse and buggies [out of focus]
9. Foundation, Derricks being rigged, 1892
10. Cranes completed, 1892 [faded]
11. Setting cornerstone on building, 1892 [faded]

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1-2. Indoor pood at Saratoga
3. Grounds at Saratoga
4. Railroad station/water tower
5. Mine (Park City, Utah?)
6. Daly Judge and Anchor Tunnel (Park City, Utah)
7. May Day Mine (Eureka, Utah), 1902
8. Victor hoist & Consolidated Tintic District, 1902
9. Bingham Consolidated Smelter, 1902
10. Alta, compressor building, Columbus Cons., 1902
11. Alta (Utah)
12. Main Street (Salt Lake City)
13. Building
14. Construction--Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City)
15. International Peace Gardens (Salt Lake City)