Supervisor George H. Barney receiving first telephone call by rigging his own line across telephone lines. The phone line ran across the forest. This picture is also seen on page 221 in the book "History of Garfield County" by Linda King Newell and...
Wilford and Lucy Pendleton home, 98 North 200 East. Built in 1907. Wilford Pendleton was a blacksmith. Earl and Blanche Pendleton lived in the home after Wilford and Lucy died.
Emery County (Utah); Historic Buildings; Opera House; Drug Store; Hardware Store; Green River (Utah)
This photograph of the Green River Opera House was taken in 1907. It appears to be springtime because of all the plows outside of the hardware store. Opera and dramatic plays were important entertainment to the people of Emery County as they were...
Emery County (Utah); Historic Buildings; Mohrland; Stores; Coal Mining Towns
Mohrland was a coal mining town. This is the company store. The coal mining town of Mohrland began in 1907 and by 1920 there were 200 houses, a large amusement hall, a small hospital, and a four room school with a population of about 1,000. The...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Shakespearean Drama; Plays; Actors; Drama; Geary, Elmo; Kofford, Louise; Jorgenson, George; Horsley, Margaret
Geary, Elmo. Plate XXIX, Shakespearean Drama. Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, 1953. Fig. 1 Louise Kofford; Fig.2 Merchant of Venice newspaper review, 1907; Fig.3 George Jorgenson; Fig.4 Margaret...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Castle Valley (Utah); Huntington (Utah); Geary, Elmo
Plate II, Castle Valley in the book Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925 by Elmo Geary, 1953. Fig. 1 Castle Valley Map showing location of communities studied. Fig. 2 Front page of an early issue of "The Emery County Progress" Saturday, April...
Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--Students; Southern Utah University--History
Student officers holding a tree with Old Main in the background. Standing, back right: Reece Williams, Martina Jensen McCormack. Standing, middle row: Sevy, Dott Fuliner. Front row, sitting: John Bladen, Mary Higbee Thorley
Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--Music; Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--Choral singing; Tollestrup, A. N. (Albert Nephi)
Male and female students on a stage. Some are standing, some are sitting. There is a woman sitting at a piano. Albert N. Tollestrup is standing at the front. There is a pennant with U or U hanging above the stage.