Title |
Bluff Fire Department Scrapbook by Kathy Carson |
Creator |
Carson, Kathy |
Source Donors |
Carson, Kathy |
Date |
1975; 2019 |
Description |
Seventy-seven scanned images of scrapbook created by Kathy Carson of the Bluff Volunteer Fire Department, including Newspaper clippings; Handwritten timelines; Letters; Fire dept. history write-up; Phone list; Twin Rocks Time articles (school newsletter in Bluff); Bluff Fire Dept. newsletters; The Blue Mountain Panorama newspaper clippings; Photo of Betty Gaines; and Email correspondence. Betty Gaines founded the fire dept. with her husband, Melvin Gaines. He made sure they knew how to run the pumps and the trucks. San Juan County provided the Bluff Volunteer Fire Department with one tanker truck. Turnout gear consisted of jackets and helmets. Betty served as Fire Chief for 18 years. |
Collection |
Peoples of Utah Revisited (POUR) |
Identifier |
POUR24_024_002.pdf |
Contributing Institution |
Bluff - Bears Ears Partnership |
Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
Subject |
Correspondence; Fire chiefs; Fire departments; Fire fighters; History; Newsletters; Newspaper clippings; Public safety; Scrapbooks; Volunteers; Bluff (Utah); San Juan County (Utah) |
Genre |
fire patches |
Spatial Coverage |
Bluff, San Juan County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5535638/bluff.html |
Rights Management |
Utah Historical Society |
Rights |
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Language |
eng |
Type |
Image; Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Scanned By |
Michelle Gollehon |
Metadata Cataloger |
Amy Green Larsen |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6khs4xk |
Setname |
dha_pour |
ID |
2516131 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6khs4xk |