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This blog post was originally written and published by Ogden City staff based on their research in Ogden City records. It is republished here with permission from Ogden City. When Mayor William Glasmann nominated Dr. Anna F. Ries as City Physician and Quarantine Officer in January 1910, the appointment quickly became one of the most publicly debated municipal appointments in

Have you ever noticed just how different handwriting is between generations? Your parents wrote for different purposes than you do, and their parents did too. Different systems and forms of writing have fallen in and out of favor for hundreds of years, a trend which continues to this day, as many schools phase out cursive entirely. Because of this constant

Every April, students in grades 4–12 from across Utah take part in Utah History Day, part of the larger National History Day (NHD) competition. Participants select a historical topic connected to an annual theme, then conduct primary and secondary research using sources from libraries, archives, museums, and other historical repositories. Final projects are presented as exhibits, documentaries, performances, papers, or websites. In honor of

In 1880, the women of the Ogden 4th Ward Relief Society petitioned the Ogden City council to provide them with an acre of land for them to begin “engaging in the business of silk cultures”. The acreage to be used for cultivating mulberry trees, the essential food for silkworms. Further research suggests that the women of Ogden, like many other

While working on older birth certificates, I happened to notice an unusual residence of both parents in one from 1923: “Kambove Katanga Kongo Belgian Africa.” Normally, I’d expect parents to reside in the same place as the birth of the child. However, Mack Donald Sullivan, the son of Eugene and Lora Sullivan, was born in Salt Lake City on August

Every April, students in grades 4–12 from across Utah take part in Utah History Day, part of the larger National History Day (NHD) competition. Participants choose a historical topic related to an annual theme, then conduct primary and secondary research using sources from libraries, archives, and museums. Final projects are presented as an exhibit, documentary, performance, paper, or website. The

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

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