Collection of photographs taken in the late 1940s to
1975 by Anderson Photograph Studio. Most are photographs taken around Preston, Idaho and
Franklin County, Idaho. Subjects include various Preston High School groups and
activities; civic, church, and social groups; a man-hunt from the 1960's; boy scouts;
individual portraits; and various buildings and facilities such as the Franklin County
Courthouse, Franklin Café, Mountain Bell building, O.K. Tire Shop, California Packing
Company, and sugar beet factories.
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
Studio located in Preston, Idaho.
Content Description
The Anderson Studio photograph collection consists of 186 mostly unidentified images.
These black-and-white photos date from the 1940s to the early 1970s and, with a few
exceptions, were taken in and around Preston, Idaho. Included are images of agriculture,
Preston High School activities, individual portraits, a man-hunt from the 1960s,
accidents, the Preston sugar beet factory, boy scouts, civic and LDS Church groups, and
Preston businesses.
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 Anderson Photograph Studio archive must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
1:018-024: Preston High School theatre
productions
1
1:025-026: Preston High School chorus
1
1:027: Preston High School basketball including team of
1963
1
1:028-037: Preston High School football
1
1:038-039: Preston High School reunion groups, classes of
1931 and 1944
1
1:040-045: Miscellaneous portraits
1
1:046: Open casket funderal for an infant
1
1:047-048: Bean crops: a stringing machine and a school group
visiting a bean farm
1
1:049-078: Miscellaneous adult groups, including the Lions
Club, men receiving Utah Power and Light safety awards, women cooking, LDS Church
and civic groups. Some are undoubtedly educators
1
1:079: Five fishermen with a large catch, probably
salmon
1
1:080-084: Pictures of a manhunt and two captured men (one of
whom is African-American) and a cache of guns. Also a photograph of a First
Security Bank of Idaho vault that appears to have been blown open, perhaps the
cause of the manhunt
ca. 1965
1
1:085-088: Ceremony for the "Parking Meters Last Rites" on
the steps of the Franklin County Court House
1956
1
1:089-092: Boy Scout (Explorer Scouts) activities, Troop
137
1
1:093-097: Interiors and exteriors of Preston sugar beet
factory including the Lime Kiln, Franklin County Sugar Co
1
1:098-099: Man in a wheelchair, also using an iron
lung[?]
1
1:100-101: Irrigation canal and diversion dam, probably on
the Bear River
1
1:102-166: Copy prints of historic photographs, including
several of Grace, Idaho around the turn of the century. Includes store interiors,
family group portraits, basketball, wagons, early automobiles, dam building, civic
groups, homes, bands, football, salmon, agriculture, and the Providence Ward
School from
1902
1
1:167: Aerial view of Preston
1948
1
1:168: View of the Franklin County Court
House
1
1:169: View of the Franklin Café
1
1:170: A Massey-Ferguson store
1
1:171: Preston 4th Ward church under demolition
1963
1
1:172-173: Interiors of an auto garage
1
1:174: A Massey-Ferguson store
1
1:175: Mountain Bell telephone building
1
1:176: View looking east in Logan, Utah, from west part
of city toward mouth of Logan Canyon showing the O.K. Tire Shop in the
foreground
1
1:177-186: Miscellaneous scenes including Weston Canyon,
agriculture, what appears to be a power station and a mining operation in the
mountains
