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Oct 02, 2025 New digital collections for July – September 2025

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From July - September, Digital Library Services has added over 6700 new items to the digital library from Special Collections, details about selected new collections and topics are covered below. Photos Utah Ski Team Photos (P0372) - Over 3700 photos added to this collection. The University of...

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Jul 14, 2025 New digital collections and additions for April – June 2025

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Here's an overview of new collections and new items added to the Digital Library from Special Collections for April-June 2025. Photos Fred T. Darvill (P0815) - The Fred T. Darvill photograph collection consists of images and slides documenting a trip down Glen Canyon in 1959. The trip...

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Jun 11, 2025 A Look at a Pioneer Diary, One Step at a Time

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Pioneer Day is celebrated in Utah every July 24th and typically begins with the Days of '47 parade honoring the year when pioneers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints arrived in Utah. Here is one story from the diary of pioneer John...

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Apr 02, 2025 New Digital Collections and additions for January-March 2025

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Digital Library Services and Special Collections collaborate to make unique and rare materials available in the Digital Library. The collections listed below represent the work of archivists, staff, student workers, and librarians to ensure that digital collections are discoverable in the Digital Library and preserved...

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Feb 12, 2025 Alberta Hunt Nicholson, Pilot in WWII

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The year was 1943, and the United States was now heavily engaged in WWII on both the European and Pacific fronts. It was also the year that Alberta Hunt Nicholson, a resident of Salt Lake City, joined the Women’s Airforce Service Project (WASP), aiding in...

Jul 27, 2023 New Library Produced Podcast – Ascent Archive: Oral Histories with Rock Climbers

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Tallie Casucci, librarian, rock climber, and now oral historian, teamed up with Rachel Wittmann, librarian and podcast lover, to create a podcast of oral histories hosted by the J. Willard Marriott Digital Library. The Ascent Archive: Interviews with Rock Climbers podcast features oral histories collected by...

May 02, 2023 Does This Name Sound Familiar?

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Does the name Barbara Yamada sound familiar? Barbara has been volunteering and donating to the Marriott Library for more than two decades. She has chaired the Ski Affair, the library’s annual benefit gala for the Ski and Snow Sports Archives, for over 20 years. She...

Apr 07, 2022 Remembering Merrill Bitter

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Merrill Bitter passed away on January 20, 2022, while backcountry skiing in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Bitter was an active rock climber, skier, and outdoor enthusiast. He was well-known for pushing rock climbing grades and always offering advice and assistance as a former REI manager and...

Aug 10, 2021 El Sol: A newspaper builds la comunidad in Southwest Utah

Posted at 15:43h in Digital Collections, Digital Library by Tina Kirkham 1 Comment

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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...

Nov 05, 2020 Gifts of Providence: How an 1881 Help-Wanted ad won a 21st century Utah Supreme Court case

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By Tina Kirkham For 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...