The Pioneer Centennial Celebration Photograph Collection, 1947

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Summary Description

Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 242
Creator: Utah Tourist and Publicity Council
Title:Pioneer Centennial Celebration Photograph Collection, 1947
Quantity:2.5 lin. ft. (5 boxes)
Abstract: Activities and events depicting Utah's Pioneer Centennial in 1947 are documented. Included in the collection is artwork of traveling exhibits, beauty pageants, conferences, banquets, dances, music, theater performances, movie stars, parades and sporting events.

Persons:

Burnett, Marie
Colona, Jerry
Conte, Richard
DeFore, Don
Gardner, Mary Louise
Glade, Mayor Earl J.
Hopper, Hedda
Jenkins, Ab
Lake, Veronica
Linkletter, Art
McCrea, Joel
Maw, Gov. Herbert
Robinson, Calleen
Tanner, Virginia
Wheelwright, Lorin
Withers, Jane

Organizations:

Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Lawn Tennis Association
Utah Centennial Commission

Places:

Alta (Utah)
Ecker Hill (Park City)
Ogden (Snow Basin)
Provo (Utah)
Salt Lake City (Utah)

Form or Genre:

Photographs, negatives

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Scope and Content

Activities and events depicting Utah's Pioneer Centennial in 1947 are documented. Included in the collection is artwork of traveling exhibits, beauty pageants, conferences, banquets, dances, music, theater performances, movie stars, parades and sporting events.

Series Descriptions

Administration
Artwork
Events and Attractions
Pioneer Centennial Celebration Commission

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Pioneer Centennial Celebration Photograph Collection, 1947, Utah State Historical Society.

Restrictions on Use

The Pioneer Centennial Celebration 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, 2005

Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone, 2005

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2005

Collection cataloged by Linda Thatcher, 2005

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2005


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Container list

Box

Folder

Contents

Administration

1

1

Centennial administrators and the Centennial Commission

Box

Folder

Contents

Artwork

1

2

A Traveling Art Exhibit

Highlights local artists: Roman Andrus, LaVonne Vincent Best, Calvin Fletcher, William J. Parkinson, Cornelius Salisbury, Ruth Wolf Smith.

1

3-6

"100 Years of American Painting" Whitney Museum

Artists include: John Atherton, George Bellows, Isabel Bishop, Louis Bouche, Alexander Brook, Paul Cadmus, Frederico Castellon, Glenn Coleman, John Steurt Curry, Arthur B. Davies, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Preston Dickinson, Guy Pene du Bois, Thomas Eakins, Louis Michel Eilshemius, Ernesdt Fiene, William Glackens, Arshile Gorky, Balcomb Greene, George Grosz, O. Louis Guglielmi, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Joseph Hirsch, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Walter Houmere, John Kane, Morris Kantor, Bernard Karfiol, Leon Kelly, Rockwell Kent, Leon Kroll, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ernest Lawson, Julian Levi, Charles Locke, George Luks, Henry Lee McFee, Reginald Marsh, Homer Martin, Henry Mattson, Kenneth Hayes Miller, George L.K. Morris, William Sidney Mount, Jerome Myers, Georgia O'Keeffe, Waldo Peirce, Joseph Pickett, Henry Varnum Poor, Maurice Prendergast, Gregorio Prestopino, Abraham Ratiner, Theodore Robinson, H.E. Schnakenberg, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, John Sloan, Isaac Soyer, Eugene Speicher, Niles Spencer, Walter Stuempig, Soichi Sunami, Bradley Walker Tomlin, John H. Twachtman, Franklin C. Watkins, Max Weber, Karl Zerbe

1

7-9

"100 Years of American Painting" Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Artists include: Thomas Hart Benton, Ralph A. Blakelock, Peter Blume, Aaron Bohrod, Charles Burchfield, Mary Cassatt, William M. Chase, Thomas Cole, Samuel Colman, James Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, Frank Duveneck, Thomas Eakins, George Fuller, Childe Hassam, G.P.A. Healy, Edward L. Henry, Winslow Homer, William Morris Hunt, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, John Frederick Kensett, John La Farge, John Marin, Homer Martin, Frederick Remington, Albert Ryder, John Singer Sargent, Elihu Vedder, Julian Alden Weir, James A. McN. Whistler, Worthington Whittredge, Alexander Wyant

Box

Folder

Contents

Events and Attractions

1

10

Advertising billboard above the Chamber of Commerce

1

11

Beautification projects

Painters and house (world record house painting)

1

12-16

Beauty pageants

Days of '47 queen and attendants (Calleen Robinson, Mary Louise Gardner, Marie Burnett) at Centennial functions/activities including coronation festivities, shopping sprees, Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena (California), Ice Carnival

2

1-3

Conferences

Held during and in honor of Utah's Pioneer Centennial celebration. The conferences included are the Governor's Conference, Music Education Conference and The Western Music Conference

2

4

Dance Festival

At the University of Utah

2

5-6

Dinners

Honoring the original pioneers and sport figure and sports teams

2

7

Model home

Located on Virginia Street & 5th Avenue, SLC

2

8-9

Ice shows

Holiday on Ice and the Logan Ice Show

2

10

Memorial Day exercises

The queen and her attendants in Liberty Park, Salt Lake City

2

11-12

Movie stars

Attending premieres and other events for the Utah Pioneer Centennial. Many festivities were at the Alta Ski Resort. Included among the celebrities were Art

2

13

Music celebrities

Includes Eulan Beale, Crafton Call, Leland Goodell, Russell Horton, Rulon Y. Robison, Helen Traubel, and Leonard Warren

2

14-15

Pageants

Performed in honor of the Pioneer Centennial. The L.D.S. Church performed a pageant depicting the story of the Mormon pioneers. Other pageants included "Peg O' My Heart," "Joan of Lorraine," and "Dear Ruth."

2

16-21

Theater performances

Blossom Time, "But Not Goodbye," "Macbeth," "Message of the Ages," "Promised Valley," miscellaneous operettas and events at the Utah State Fairgrounds.

3

1-3

Actors and actresses

Participants in Utah's Centennial celebration including Michael Anselmo, William Billeter, Jay Blackton, Richard Davies, Alfred Draake, Nellie Fisher, Crawford Gates, Sereta T. Jones. C. Lowell Lees, Gail Martin, Mitchell, Theron S. Parmelee, Reynolds, Robert Hyde Stilson, Con D. Silard, Arnold Sundgaard, Lorin F. Wheelwright, Helen Tamaris, Virginia Tanner, and Wanda Thomas.

3

4-5

United Air Lines "Mainliner" at the Salt Lake City Municipal Airport.

One of United Air Lines planes was re-christened the "Utah Centennial" in honor of Brigham Young and the Mormon trek of 1847. The "Mainliner" was used to deliver a shipment of Gillette razors and blades for Utah's male citizens to shave off beards they had been growing since the first of the year as a buildup to the Centennial Celebration.

3

6-21

Parades

Scenes in Salt Lake City and Provo highlighting Boy Scouts, floats, beauty queens, grandstands, street scenes, crowds, bands, VIP's (politicians, movie stars, LDS officials).

Sports

4

1

Aquacade performers

Swimming performers, clowns and a women's chorus

4

2

Archery

F.C. Coziol and Arthur L. Taylor.

4

3-4

Automobile racing

On the Bonneville Salt Flats with John Cobb and his "Railton Special." Ab Jenkins is showing the "Mormon Meteor" to crowds.

4

5

Basketball

Includes the National Basketball Championship, and the University of Utah "Runnin" Utes at the Salt Lake Municipal Airport and at a downtown Salt Lake City parade.

4

6

Bicycle racing

Days of '47 Queen Calleen Robinson and her attendants presenting awards.

4

7

Boat races

Pine View Reservoir (Ogden Canyon)

4

8

Bowling

Hugo Ensign is the lone bowler with the Weber Centennial Queens.

4

9

Football

Game between pro teams Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Rockets.

4

10-11

Golf

Western Open Golf tournament with Johnnie Palmer, Frank Stranahan, Gus P. Backman, Bobbie Locke, award presentations, press and the crowds on hand.

4

12

Horse show

Riders and entertainers: Jerry Colona and his band. Governor Herbert Maw releases a "Centennial Seagull" at the horse show.

4

13

Horseshoes

Salt Lake County Fair

4

14

Regatta

Provo Harbor

4

15

Rodeo

Bronco riding and calf roping

4

16-19

Skiing

Activities include both ski jumping at Ecker Hill and a slalom race at Snow Basin (Ogden Canyon). Participants include Arnold Kongsgaard, Louise Bulkley, Olivia Ausoni, Rosemarie Bleuer, Paula Kann, Antoinette Meyer, Rhona Wurtele, Karl Molitor, Dick Movitz, Edy Rominger, Bob Blatt, Steve Knowlton, Barney McLean, Toni Matt.

4

20

Tennis

Tournament sponsored by the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. Frankie Parker, Mary Prentiss are the men's and women's champions. Runner-up Jack Schroeder is pictured with Frankie Parker.

4

21-23

Track and field

Events at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. A national NCAA Track and Field meet is part of the Centennial celebration activities. Night shots of crowds in stands, press, athletes, construction of venues are documented.

4

24

Trap shooting

Shows construction group trucks with Chili Parry, Emil Smolka, Dean Hurd, Dr. W.E. Grimm, August Sarcander, Charles Haines, Nelson Howard, A.R. Amadon.

Box

Folder

Contents

Pioneer Centennial Celebration Commission

5

1

Art exhibits

5

2

Ball

5

3

Centennial Commission

5

4

Centennial Commission--Independent Commission

5

5

Dance

5

6-8

Drama presentations

5

9

Queen--Calleen Robinson

5

10

Queen coronation--Calleen Robinson

5

11

Queen's 1st Attendant--Marie Burnett

5

12

Queen's 2nd Attendant--Mary Louise Gardner

5

13

Parade

5

14

Parade (artist sketches)

5

15

Seals--Centennial

5

16

This is the Place Monument

5

17

Trek to Nauvoo, original pioneers