On May 17, 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public education is unconstitutional and that separate educational facilities were "inherently unequal". Overturning the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson in which “separate but equal” facilities were allowed and often encouraged, Brown v....
One of the most unexpected collections in the Audio-Visual Archive is the Blair Dean Utah Natural Bodybuilding Video Collection (A0077), http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv99673/. Featured above are Paula Kid and Ron Lee Kid competing in the 1983 Utah Bodybuilding Championships. Over the course of a long career promoting drug...
The Willem Johan Kolff papers (http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv39526) contain materials that record the many artificial organ projects, from early dialysis to the first artificial heart implant, as well as the personal life of one of the world's most respected pioneering doctors. Dr. Willem Johan Kolff has been an...
Footage from the Audio-Visual Archive in Special Collections is featured prominently in KUED’s new special, “National Parks - Beyond the Crowds,” which airs Tuesday April 26 at 7PM. This documentary, which explores some of Utah’s less visited National Parks and Monuments, places archive footage almost in...
The first transcontinental railroad was built by the Western Pacific, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad Companies and officially opened on May 10, 1869 with the driving of the last spike in a ceremony at Promontory Point, Utah....
“In the zoo we see, on a small scale, how different all animals are from each other… We have to live together whether we like it or not.” KUTHAN’S MENAGERIE COMPLETED George Kuthan (1916-1966) Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2003 Descriptive text about six animals – a raccoon, flamingo, anteater, penguin, monkey...
Marriott Library’s collections include far more than simply books. Many of these items are fragile as well as valuable, and one of the most important tasks for the Library’s Preservation Department is their protection. Protection implies a number of things: proper housing in appropriate materials;...
Tunnel Vision: A Selection of Tunnel, Pop-up and Movable Books from the Rare Books Department Tunnel Vision features a selection of pieces from the rare book collections produced using various paper manipulations to create the illusion of depth — framing and narrowing the viewers’ perspective. This...
The Special Collections Print and Journal collection has recently acquired the new eight volume History of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: a Source and Text-Critical Edition, edited by Dan Vogel, published by the Smith-Pettit Foundation and distributed by Signature...
Thirty-five years ago last week, March 21, 1981, the radical environmental activist group Earth First! unrolled a gigantic sheet of black plastic to simulate a crack in the face of Glen Canyon Dam, a controversial hydroelectric dam on the Colorado River at the Utah-Arizona border....