219 photographs mainly from Franklin County, Idaho
from the 1880s to the 1960s. Hart collected some of these images for his published
photographic history, Home Town Album. These photos consist of people, buildings, and
events in and around Preston, Idaho, many of which are original albumen and collodion
prints. Other images appear to be items he picked up at random or photos that came from
the Anderson Studio in Preston and include Preston High School students and activities,
classroom scenes, athletics, family snapshots, the Franklin County Courthouse, Monument
Valley, Scandinavian postcards, and Central and South American cities. Some of the high
school photos were cut out in the shape of letters.
Repository:
Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-2663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant,
2007-2008
Biographical Note
Newell Hart (1913-1983) was a Preston native and local historian. He served an LDS
mission in Minnesota and Montana and founded the Hart Music Comany in Preston in 1939.
He edited and published the Cache Valley Newsletter and was
a frequent contributor to the The Preston Citizen. His
books include Home Town Album, Bear River Massacre, Cache Valley
Dance Halls, and Hometown Sketchbook. He was instrumental in the restoration
of the Oneida Stake Academy in the 1970s. In 1977 he was awarded a certificate of
Commendation for his outstanding contributions to the history of Southeastern Idaho and
Northern Utah.
In 1938 he married Ruth Cuttler and the couple would have four children.
Content Description
The Newell Hart photograph collection consists of 219 images mostly from Franklin
County, Idaho from the 1880s to the 1960s. Hart collected some of these images for his
published photographic history, Home Town Album. These photoss consist of people,
buildings, and events in and around Preston, Idaho, many of which are original albumen
and collodion prints. Other images appear to be items he picked up at random or photos
that came from the Anderson Studio in Preston and include Preston High School students
and activities, classroom scenes, athletics, family snapshots, the Franklin County
Courthouse, Monument Valley, Scandinavian postcards, and Central and South American
cities. Some of the high school photos were cut out in the shape of letters.
Includes albumen prints and silver gelatin or collodion printing-out papers, 30 x 34.5
and smaller.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access : Restrictions
Open to public research.
Restrictions on Use : Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Newell Hart photographs must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
1:74: Portrait, Whitehead family including Joe and
Florence Whitehead, Annie Monson Whitehead, Dave Lewis, Annie Whitehead Lewis
Gilbert. Photograph by N. Degn, Preston, ID
Thomas O. Nelson WWII-Era photographs given to
Newell Hart by Blair Seamons in , April, 1977
Container(s)
Description
Dates
box
1
1:76: Military badge of T.O. Nelson with
image
1:77: 4x5 black and white negative of T.O.
Nelson
1:78-81: Studio portraits of T.O. Nelson
1:82-106: Snapshots of airplanes, airports, and soldiers
in Brownsville Texas, the Panama Canal Zone, Veracruz Mexico and Montevideo
Uruguay. Includes an image of the Albrook Officers Club, the Casino Rambla
Hotel, and a newspaper clipping in Spanish describing a humanitarian air-drop
by the Red Cross in South America
3:01:01-3:01:09: Franklin County Courthouse photos taken during its
construction in
1939
3
1
3:02:01: Female instructor with children
3
2
3:02:02: Female instructor with children
3
2
3:02:03: Man dribbling basketball
3
2
3:02:04: High school students examining papers
3
2
3:02:05: Male and female typing instructors at
desk
3
2
3:02:06: Students outside school in snow
3
2
3:02:07: Male high school student in darkroom
3
2
3:02:08: Male high school student opening door for female
student
duplicate of 3:02:19.
3
2
3:02:09: Group of high school music students
3
2
3:02:10: Classroom scene
3
2
3:02:11: Two male high school students
3
2
3:02:12: Male and female typing instructors with
typewriters
3
2
3:02:13: Two female high school students sewing
3
2
3:02:14: High school students playing basketball.
3
2
3:02:15: High school band practice
3
2
3:02:16: Trainer with high school athlete
3
2
3:02:17: Female high school graduate
3
2
3:02:18: Male and female high school students
talking
3
2
3:02:19: Male high school student opening door for female
student
duplicate of 3:02:08.
3
2
3:02:20: Two female high school students
3
2
3:02:21: Female instructor with children
3
2
3:02:22: High school band students
3
2
3:02:23: Male and female students talking
3
2
3:02:24: Man sitting on small scooter
3
2
3:02:25: Female instructor at desk
3
2
3:02:26: Male high school drawing students
3
2
3:02:27: Young girl with tricycle
3
2
3:02:28: High school students looking at
photographs
3
2
3:02:29: Couple posed outside home in the snow
3
2
3:02:30: Young woman holding baby
3
2
3:02:31: Two men and young woman
3
2
3:02:32: Color photograph of two men and two women beside
lake
3
2
3:02:33: Young girl kneeling in front of house
3
2
3:02:34: Young man with map instructing children.
3
2
3:02:35: Two girls
3
2
3:02:36: Young boy and girl, "Shirley &
Billy."
3
2
3:02:37: Woman reading Life
magazine, "This one was taken in Ninas and Waynes place."
3
2
3:02:38: Two women with baby standing next to
car
3
2
3:02:39: Man and woman with baby
3
2
3:02:40: Partial photograph of woman holding two
babies
3
2
3:02:41: Boys skiing
3
2
3:02:42: Three young men in suits
3
2
3:02:43: Downtown Preston in snow
3
2
3:02:44: Boys crossing bridge in snow
3
2
3:02:45: Young woman
3
2
3:02:46: High school students talking
3
2
3:02:47: Two women (one with crutches) and one man with
three dogs
ca. 1910
3
2
3:02:48: Group of people sitting on porch
1915
3
2
3:02:49: Partial photograph of man and woman with
crutches
3
2
3:02:50: Young man and woman standing outside
home
3
2
3:02:51: Women and children on the beach
1920s
3
2
3:02:52: Women and children on the beach
1920s
3
2
3:02:53: Woman with child, "Jennie and Gay."
3
2
3:02:54: Women and children on the beach
1920s
3
2
3:02:55: Young woman
3
2
3:02:56: Young football players
3
2
3:02:57: Young man cooking on open fire
3
2
3:02:58: Three young women
3
2
3:02:59: Young man opening door
3
2
3:02:60: Young men and women at a formal dinner
3
2
3:02:61: Drama production
3
2
3:02:62: Young man in bed
3
2
3:02:63: High School band
3
2
3:02:64: High School band
3
2
3:02:65: High School basketball game
3
2
3:02:66: Young men outside school
3
2
3:02:67: High school football game
3
2
3:02:68: High school football game
3
2
3:02:69: Football player
3
2
3:02:70: High school typing class
3
2
3:02:71: High school Chemistry(?) class
3
2
3:02:72: Students in library
3
2
3:02:73: Classroom scene
3
2
3:02:74: Classroom scene
3
2
3:02:75: Young woman with luggage standing outside
car
3
2
3:02:76: Man with two students talking on
telephone
3
2
3:02:77: Young man fishing
3
2
3:02:78: High school band
3
2
3:02:79: Man and woman holding branches
3
2
3:02:80: Female students in costume
3
2
3:02:81: Two women, "Momma & Aunt Maggie," ca.
1920s
3
2
3:02:82: Unknown building, probably not in
Preston
3
3
3:03:01-3:03:16: Images of the "Official Advertising Car - Carlsbad
Chamber of Commerce - Carlsbad Caverns" with two girls and a man taken in Monument
Valley and surrounding area (including rock formations and arches) in Arizona and
Utah
ca. 1920
3
4
3:04:01: E.L. "Dick" Romney
ca. 1930s
3
4
3:04:02: Clyde Dartan, E.L. Romney, and Homer C. Sharmer
ca. 1917
3
4
3:04:03: Ernest Lowell Romney
1917
3
5
3:05: Postcards from Norway, Ekebergbanen
1918
3
6
3:06:01: Three women, "Daniel" written on verso
side
3
6
3:06:02: Young woman with baby standing next to "Drop Films
Here" box
