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Photograph: Japanese Utahn's in front of Fremont School (1915)

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Photograph: Utah Women Canning Together (Est. 1935)

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Photograph: Latino Family from Brigham City, Utah (1926)
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World War II Rail Workers (1944)

Photograph: Votes for Women Exhibit (2022)

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      INTRODUCING OUR HISTORY AMBASSADORS: SHADOWING, INTERNSHIPS, AND MORE

      The Utah State Historical Society was founded on July 22, 1897 and at that time Governor Heber M. Wells urged the new organization to write a “true history of the state.”

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      PHOTOGRAPH HIGHLIGHTS WITH DOUG MISNER

      The Utah Division of State History has over a million photographs in our holdings with almost 300,000, which are accessible online due to our staff's digitization efforts.

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      INDUSTRY & IMMIGRANTS IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY UTAH

      Beginning in the 1950s, Helen Zeese Papanikolas introduced a new chapter into the study of Utah’s past by paying attention to the waves of “new” immigrants.

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