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Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. The following series inventories were updated during March 2025 by our archivists: Attorney General’s Office Opinion digest Board of Education. Office of Education. Division of Pupil Personnel and Guidance Services Guidance monograph Board of Education. Office of Education. School Finance Section Budgeting, accounting, and auditing handbooks Board of Pardons and

While Utah is known for its spectacular natural bridges, our thousands of man-made bridges are not as noteworthy. No Golden Gate Bridge, no Brooklyn Bridge, and no London Bridge. Most Utah bridges do their jobs without much show, carrying traffic over roads, rivers, creeks, washes, and canyons, without travelers even being aware of what they’ve crossed over. Nevertheless, over the

Like the landscape paintings of famed French artist Claude Monet, this hand-colored 1935 photograph from Larsen Studio of the Provo City Cemetery comes to life; this once  monochromatic image of a nature scene was painted with washes of color and speckled with details to bring audiences vivid representations of landscapes that they may have experienced in real life. The colorist

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during February 2025: Tooele County (Utah). Probate Court Civil and criminal docket book The following series inventories were updated during February 2025 by our archivists: Office of Vital Records and Statistics Annual reports Tooele County (Utah). Probate Court Minute books The following records were

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during January 2025: District Court (Sixth District : Sanpete County) Registers of Estates Provo (Utah). Cemetery. Cemetery photograph The following series inventories were updated during January 2025 by our archivists: George Henry Dern Records District Court (Sixth District : Sanpete County) Criminal registers of

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during December 2024: Department of Administrative Services State employee newsletter Department of Government Operations. Division of Finance Fiscal Focus annual report The following series inventories were updated during December 2024 by our archivists: District Court (Sixth District : Sanpete County) Judgment Dockets District Court

The following series inventories were updated during November 2024 by our archivists: Department of Natural Resources. Division of Wildlife Resources Prairie dog recovery efforts annual reports First District Court Cache County Civil and criminal case index First District Court Cache County Criminal registers of actions First District Court Cache County Probate index Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death certificates

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. Here are the newest ones created during October 2024: Davis School District (Utah). Davis High School. Yearbooks Legislature. Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel State government organization charts The following series inventories were updated during October 2024 by our archivists: District Court (Fifth District : Washington County) Civil registers

October marked the 20th anniversary of the formal opening of the current home of the Utah State Archives and Records Service at 346 S. Rio Grande Street. The anniversary gives us at the Archives the opportunity to reflect on how past visions of a purpose-built facility for the Archives brought us to where we are today. The Archives first became

In September 1996, President Bill Clinton made the controversial decision to draw on powers reserved to him by the 1906 Antiquities Act, and designate 1,880,461 aces of land in southern Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. But did you know that sixty years earlier federal officials were pondering the designation of a similar monument that would have dwarfed the area