[caption id="attachment_25254" align="alignleft" width="185"] Rick Reese's Junior Yearbook Photo, 1964 Utonian, University of Utah[/caption]Rick Reese, a former University of Utah student and employee, passed away on January 9, 2022. Rick Reese was a well-known climber and conservationist. He established many rock climbs in Little Cottonwood...
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When 21-year-old Kevin Jenkins returned from his LDS mission in Ecuador, he promised himself he would not let his hard-won Spanish language skills deteriorate. He completed a B.A. in Spanish Translation at Brigham Young University, then went on to serve his local LDS church as...
For Black History Month, we wanted to highlight the plethora of library resources that feature Alberta Henry (1920-2005). Henry did a great deal of things to fight for equality during her life, many of which occurred right here in Utah including serving as the President...
By Tina KirkhamFor most of Utah's history, it was understood that rivers and streams are public resources—even when they may run through private land. The state Supreme Court codified this understanding into law in 2008, when it unanimously upheld the right to fish a one-mile...
A major milestone in the women’s suffrage movement occurred on February 14, 1870, about 150 years ago. A woman by the name of Seraph Young, a schoolteacher from Salt Lake City, stopped at the polls on her way to work to cast her vote in...
There is nothing quite like looking at history to put current daily experiences into perspective. Look no further than the collections pertaining to politics, women’s suffrage and public policy contained in the Special Collections’ Rare Book Department. The vast collection of rare books that spans...
President John F. Kennedy orders the start of the generators at Flaming Gorge Dam during a visit to Salt Lake City, Utah. Kennedy is accompanied by Utah Senator Frank Moss....
The Marriott Library has been building the Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) program for nearly twenty years. By digitizing newspapers, the library is able to open up new methods for conducting research by making the full text of all articles keyword searchable....
Since the KUTV News collection arrived at the Marriott Library’s Special Collections Department in 2005, Moving Image and Sound Archivists have been striving to provide access to these valuable historical materials recorded on now obsolete broadcast videotapes...