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Show The library of the Utah State Historical Society has acquired ninety-three feet of papers of Harry L. Aleson (1899-1972), Teasdale, Wayne County. A graduate of Iowa State University, Mr. Aleson was an engineer and co-owner of Larabee and Aleson Western River Tours. The Aleson papers, donated to the Society by his widow, Dorothy D. Aleson, will add much new material to the library's extensive collections on the exploration and development of the Colorado River. Other recent Society accessions include a map of the Castle Gate mine disaster of 1924; business records, including check registers and cash books, of the Delta Drugstore, 1917-65; a survey by John R. Ferrin of historic sites in Holladay, Murray, Midvale, Sandy, and other communities affected by the proposed extension of Interstate 215; typescript "History of Mary Jane Eaver Palmer," who came to Utah in 1866; a photocopy of the 1776-77 Escalante diary, in Spanish, from the Archives of the Indies at Seville, Spain; and six hours of oral interviews with businessman A. J. Redd of San Juan County. Recent accessions listed by the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University, Provo, include: four thousand glass plate and acetate negatives by George Edward Anderson (1860-1928) and George Beard (1856-1944) that document central Utah and other parts of Utah and the Rocky Mountain West at the turn of the century; miscellaneous papers of retired Sen. Wallace F. Bennett; letters and financial papers of Black trapper James Pierson Beckwourth (1798-1866); miscellaneous items of territorial delegate John F. Bernhisel (1799-1881) and of pioneer Thomas Bullock (1816-1885); diaries of Albert R. Lyman (1880-1973), an early settler of Blanding, Francis Washington Kirkham (1877-1972), an educator, and Albert Jones (1839-1925) who was imprisoned for polygamy; records of the Interstate Brick Company for the years 1890 to 1968; and miscellaneous records of Nephi, Utah, including the Nephi Co-op and the Nephi Irrigation Company. The Lee Library has compiled descriptive registers for the papers of Adam S. Bennion, David John, Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, Conan Mathews, Joseph Hill Richards, Jesse N. Smith, Lotta Van Buren, Orson F. Whitney, and Alma B. Wright. The Mormon History Association honored three scholars for contributions to historical writing at the group's annual meeting April 12 at Brigham Young University. Dean C. Jessee of the Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received the association's Best Book Award for his editorial work on Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons. Best Article awards went to D. Michael Quinn, New Haven, Connecticut, and Gordon Irving, Bountiful, Utah, for articles published in scholarly journals in 1974. |
