Red Butte Garden and Arboretum
Folk Arts Program
Utah Arts Council
617 East South Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
http://www.dced.state.ut.us/arts/programs/folkarts.html
Singers, dancers, musicians, boat builders, wood carvers, and ceramists are included in the photos, biographies, and audio clips contributed to Utah Collections by the Utah Arts Council Folk Art Program from their HISPANIC CULTURE IN UTAH archives and the book HECHO IN UTAH.
Hawthorne Elementary School
1675 South 600 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84105
The Hawthorne Elementary School KOPE (Kids Organized to Protect Our Environment) organization's goal is "to help keep our school and our city clean...to save trees and other resources by recycling...to interest and educate others about recycling..."
J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East Rm. Dock
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0860
http://www.lib.utah.edu/
The UTAH POSTCARD collection contributed by the J. Willard Marriott Library includes over 190 postcards illustrating Utah's main streets, buildings, and unique sites. Subjects range from early rodeo events in Cedar City to the changing face of the Salt Palace.
KUED Media Solutions
University of Utah
Room 160 Eccles Broadcast Center
101 South Wasatch Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1792
http://www.kued.org/mediasolutions
KUED Media Solutions' GEOGRAPHY OF UTAH series gives users access to hundreds of photographs and video clips with accompanying transcripts. The twenty-two part series encompasses the political, cultural, historical and sociological geography of the state of Utah. It describes the activities, the land and the people. Much of the video material was videotaped on location throughout the state of Utah, giving the student and interested viewer valuable field trip experiences.
Media Solutions also has contributed video clips, photographs, and historical and illustrative maps from A PEOPLES' HISTORY OF UTAH. In this 20-part video series, Dr. Dean May provides a sweeping view of Utah's past, from its earliest known desert beginning--from its prehistory, to the pioneer era, to the transformation from territory to state, to its critical role in the world war years and beyond.
KUED-TV, Channel 7
University of Utah
Room 215
101 South Wasatch Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1792
http://www.kued.org
KUED-TV Channel 7 has contributed historic photographs from its award-winning series UTAH THE STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD which describes Utah's unique, fifty-year path to statehood.
KUED-TV has also contributed video clips and photographs from A DESERT SEA, a program that follows the story of the Great Salt Lake from prehistoric Lake Bonneville to one of America's last shorebird sanctuaries.
KUER-FM90
University of Utah
Room 270 Eccles Broadcast Center
101 South Wasatch Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1792
http://www.kuer.org
Audio clips from KUER FM 90's FRIDAY EDITION stories entertain and inform you. Utahns relate their memories of the floods of 1983, the Scofield Mine Disaster, and Swedetown. Also included are accounts of African Americans in early Utah, the ways early settlers changed the landscape, and life in small towns.
Red Butte Garden and Arboretum
University of Utah
300 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102
http://www.utah.edu/redbutte
Red Butte Garden and Arboretum has contributed slides of UTAH NATIVE PLANTS found in foothill regions. The photographs show the changing appearance of various plants throughout the seasons.
University of Utah Press
University of Utah
Room 101 University Services Building
1795 East South Campus Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9402
http://www.media.utah.edu/upress/
The University of Utah Press has contributed one of the core collections, the UTAH HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA in which over 200 contributors write about the individuals, organizations, locations, institutions, and topics important to Utah history.
"This book provides fascinating information from the Utah War to the Utah Jazz, from Philo T. Farnsworth to Flaming Gorge, this reference describes the people, places and events that have shaped this state. I am confident you will find this in-depth encyclopedia informative."--Michael O. Leavitt, Governor of Utah
University of Utah has also provided Utah Collections with another Utah
reference book, UTAH PLACE NAMES (compiled and written by John W. Van Cott), a publication describing precise locations, name origins, and intriguing lore of over 4000 places in Utah.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
University of Utah
Department of Educational Services
370 E 1530 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0360
http://www.utah.edu/umfa
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts contributed photographs of its VAL A. BROWNING MEMORIAL COLLECTION, 39 paintings given to the Museum and the citizens of Utah by Mr. Browning, Utah industrialist and philanthropist. In addition to photographs and descriptions of each piece, the collection includes lesson plans created to accompany several of the paintings.
Utah State Historical Society
Union Pacific Depot
300 Rio Grande Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101-1182
http://www.ce.ex.state.ut.us/history/welcome.htm#State History
The Utah State Historical Society has contributed the photographs used in the UTAH HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA, and has generously given Utah Collections rights to include the historic photographs used in the video productions, UTAH: THE STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD series, the GEOGRAPHY OF UTAH series, and A PEOPLES' HISTORY OF UTAH series.
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