The Harry Harpster, Box Elder County (Utah) Photograph Collection, ca. 1900-1990

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Summary Description
Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 285
Creator: Harpster, Harry.
Title:Harry Harpster, Box Elder County (Utah) Photograph Collection, ca. 1900-1990
Quantity:Copies .5 lin. ft. (1 box)
Abstract: Collection contains photographs of Kelton and Corinne (Utah), railroads and railroad artifacts, Golden Spike National Historic Site (Promontory, Utah), Bear River, etc.

Topics:
Railroads -- Utah -- Photographs.

Places:
Box Elder County (Utah) -- Photographs.
Corinne (Utah) -- Photographs.
Golden Spike National Historic Site (Promontory, Utah) -- Photographs.
Kelton (Utah) -- Photographs.
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Background

Background Note

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Scope and Content

Collection contains photographs of Kelton and Corinne (Utah), railroads and railroad artifacts, Golden Spike National Historic Site (Promontory, Utah), Bear River, etc.
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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Harry Harpster, Box Elder County (Utah) Photograph Collection, ca. 1900-1990, Utah State Historical Society.

Restrictions on Use

The Harry Harpster, Box Elder County (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

Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000

Collection cataloged by Linda Thatcher, 2000 (RLIN ID: UTSX00-A80).

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

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Container list

Box

Folder

Contents

Railroad photographs

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Kelton, Utah
1-2. Cemetery (Kelton, Utah)
3. Railroad siding blocks
4. Cemetery (Kelton, Utah)
5. Old Townsite (Kelton, Utah) [sign]
6. School desk (Kelton, Utah)
7. Townsite (Kelton, Utah)

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Corinne, Utah
1. Ice wagon--Corinne Station (Corinne, Utah)
2. Engine #1744 pressure plaque--railroad museum (Corinne, Utah)
3. Texture study--railroad museum (Corinne, Utah)
4. Locomotive--railroad museum (Corinne, Utah)
5. Railroad Station (Corinne, Utah)
6. Street scene (Corinne, Utah)
7. Old wrought iron fence (Corinne, Utah)
8. Locomotive wheels (Corinne, Utah)
9. Bell (Corinne, Utah)
10. Lantern--Railroad Station (Corinne, Utah)
11. First weather station in Utah [plaque]
12. Locomotive covered with snow (Corinne, Utah)
13. Methodist-Episcopal Church (Corinne, Utah)

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Artifacts
1. Locomotive #1744
2. Railroad tie (Salt Desert)
3. Metal spoke wheel?
4. Chinese Tiger Whiskey Jug
5. Telegraph insulators
6. Railroad spikes
7. Rails/tracks
8. "Ghosts of the Golden Spike"

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Golden Spike National Historic Site (Promontory, Utah)
1-2. Golden Spike Monument [sign]
3. Golden Spike Monument--marker removed when new visitor's center was built
4. Golden Spike Plaque--last rail laid and golden driving of the golden spike
5. Golden Spike Monument [sign/2 copies]

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General scenery
1. Bear River (Utah)
2. Great Salt Lake (Utah)
3. Central Pacific's "Big Fill" and cut (Promontory, Utah)
4. View from the grade looking towards Corinne, Utah
5. Union Pacific's "Big Trestle" north and south abutments and "cut"
6. Cave adjacent to railroad grades--used for shelter by work gangs
7. View to the north taken from site of the "Big Trestle"
8. "Big Fill"--Central Pacific Railroad (Promontory, Utah)
9. Krueger, Supt. William T. points out burrows used for shelter by Chinese workers
10. Chinaman's Arch
11. Victory Camp (Rozel)

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Railroads
1. Fence posts paralleling railroad grade
2. Trestle--Union Pacific Railroad
3. Cuts through solid rock
4. Rock culvert
5. Trestle--Union Pacific Railroad
6. Diagonal scar left on wall of a "cut" on the Central Pacific grade (Promontory, Utah)
7. Water tank
8. Road sign indicating miles to various sites
9. Railroad property line sign

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Miscellaneous
1. Stump of a telegraph pole [texture study]
2. Wooden culvert
3. Old telegraph poles?
4. Stump of original telegraph pole (Promontory, Utah)
5. Oldest telegraph pole cross-arm and insulator found (Promontory, Utah)
6. Footings for a water tank (Camp Victory, Utah)

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People and miscellaneous photographs
1. Unidentified man
2. Ketterson, Andrew--historian
3. Krueger, Supt. William T.
4. Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode [sign]

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Miscellaneous photographs
1-7. Promontory, Utah [negatives]
8-9. Snow scene (Promontory, Utah)
10. Unidentified building with snow on interior floor [3 copies]
11. Unidentified buildings [3 copies]
12. Snow scene (Promontory, Utah) [3 copies]
13-14. Equipment--Gas Traction Co.