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1 Wilbur H. Smith photograph collection, Overview of the Collection Photographer Smith, Wilbur H. Title Wilbur H. Smith photograph collection Dates (inclusive) Quantity 17 boxes Collection Number P0335 Summary The Wilbur H. Smith photograph collection contain mining and geology photos collected by Wilbur H. Smith ( ), a former division geologist for Kennecott Copper Corporation. The collection is divided into three sections and contains personal and family photos, mining and geology, and personal travel photos and postcards. The collection contains information on smelting, railroads, and the United States Geological Survey; Bingham, Utah, and the nearby Kennecott Copper mine; prominent miners in Utah; and national and international mining organizations and areas. Repository University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah 295 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT Telephone: SPCreference@lists.utah.edu Access Restrictions Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law. Languages English Biographical Note Wilbur Harry Smith ( ) was a division geologist for the Kennecott Copper Corporation from 1959 to He began his career as a geologist in his teenage years working for the International Smelting and Refining Plant in Tooele, Utah. This experience led to his job as sampler at Lark Mine for the U. S. Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, circa 1944, and then to mine exploration work at El Tisur Mines in Oaxaca, Mexico. Most of his years as geologist, however, were spent at Kennecott studying the Oquirrh Mountains west of Salt Lake City, plotting underground and surface geologic maps, and visiting and photographing old smelters. Wilbur H. Smith was born to Howard Milburn and Jessie Ethel Smith on April 29, 1913, in Tooele, Utah. His father was chief clerk at Anaconda's International Smelter at Tooele. This instilled in Smith a lifelong interest in mines, smelters, railroads, history, and photography. His love of photography 1

2 would one day lead him to photograph the north end of the Oquirrh Mountains from the open cockpit of an airplane during the 1930s, and to document the demolition of Bingham during the 1960s. These materials were later compiled into a scrapbook entitled "The Death and Burial of Bingham." He took photographs of the machine house in the old Tooele smelter "from every conceivable angle," and also documented, through photography, the geology of several mines and mining districts, such as Bingham and Tooele, Utah. During the 1930s Smith worked at the International Smelting and Refining Plant in Tooele. One colleague mentions that "there were days of standing on a wooden platform in special big wooden shoes, sprayed by a water hose, re-bricking the floor inside a still-hot sulfurous reverberatory furnace, and of shoveling the black chalcocite dust that was rich Mountain City smelting ore." Smith also attended the University of Utah during the 1930s, putting himself through school with money earned in the mill at Anaconda's Walker Mine in California. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in geology on June 4, He studied petrology for another two years but did not have enough money to complete a graduate degree. During World War II Smith found employment as sampler in the High Ore mine at Butte, Montana. After the war he worked as a geologist for thirteen years in the U.S. Smelting, Refining and Mining Company's mines at Lark, Utah. His employment at Lark was interrupted in 1957 with a proposal from the Republic Steel Corporation to do exploration work at El Tisur Mines in Oaxaca, Mexico. He worked a year or so in Mexico and then returned to his native Tooele. His love for Tooele's mining activities, railroad, and smelter are manifest through the countless photographs he took, and in the papers and books he collected on these subjects. In 1959 Smith was hired as junior geologist for Kennecott Copper Corporation's Bingham geology department. His geological knowledge of the Bingham district was "invaluable," enabling him to map the underground structures of the Kennecott mine as well as write a history of the district (which was never completed). Many of his articles on the Bingham district, such as "More Jobs For Geology Spur Better Mapping Methods at Bingham Canyon," were published in magazines and guidebooks and are present in the collection. Between 1961 and 1969 Smith was promoted to geologist, then senior geologist, and finally division geologist. During this time he was involved in organizations such as the Utah Geological Society, the Geological Society of America, the Society of Economic Geologists, and the Society of Professional Geologists. He was also a member of the Tooele Museum Board and was involved in a local discussion group of geology professionals and university professors. Smith retired from Kennecott in 1978 after nineteen years of service. Even after his retirement, however, Smith continued to research the structural geological history of the Oquirrh mountain range and take photographs of smelters and mining areas as a hobby. This was cut short with the advancement of diabetes which confined him to his Holladay apartment, and later to the Tooele County Hospital, where he died in Content Description The Wilbur H. Smith photograph collection contain mining and geology photos collected by Wilbur H. Smith ( ), a former division geologist for Kennecott Copper Corporation. The collection is divided into three sections and contains personal and family photos, mining and geology, and personal travel photos and postcards. The collection contains information on smelting, railroads, and the United States Geological Survey; Bingham, Utah, and the nearby Kennecott Copper mine; prominent miners in Utah; and national and international mining organizations and areas. 2

3 Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the Wilbur H. Smith photograph collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator. Preferred Citation Initial Citation: Wilbur H. SMith photograph collection, P0335, [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Salt Lake City, Utah. Following Citations: P0335. Administrative Information Arrangement arranged by subject Processing Note Processed by Jordan Smith in Separated Materials See also the Wilbur H. Smith papers (MS 563) located in the Manuscript Division of Special Collections. Detailed Description of the Collection Personal Photos, Smith Family Album s 1 2 Portraits of Wilbur H. Smith Smith Family 1920s-1950s 3

4 1 8 Highland Boy Community House and Girl Pioneers of America Band circa Tooele high school yearbook Tooele High Classes of 1931, '26, and '33 Reunions Tooele High graduates in the Utonian yearbook Boy Scouts and Wilbur Smith Childhood little lagoon trian Wilbur H. Smith's retirment party 1 17 Friends and family at Three Fountains condominium building 1 18 Party by American Institute Of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleoum Engineers 1 19 National Park postcard sets and frames. Grand canyon, Yellowstone, Denvcer Mountian Park s s Smith Family Album circa 1920s General photographs of Wilbur and the Smith Family Salt Lake City Area, s 1A 1A 1A 1 Model T Ford and Union PAcific Train 1910s 4

5 1A 2 portrait of H.E. Havenor and a boy sitting on a Model T 1A 3 Salt Lake City, aerial views of Salt Lake Valley, City and County Building, Cathedral of the Madeleine 1A 4 glass plates of Salt Lake City, Liberty Park, Lake Park Pavillion, Cathedral of the Madeleine, J Moran Steam Heating 1A 5 President Taft with Utah lawmen and The Paris Building on State Street 1911 circa 1900s 1900s 1A 6 B-17 adn B-18 Bombers at Salt Lake International Airport A 7 Salt Lake Valley Mountains 1900s-1910s 1A 8 Salt Lake City Monuments 1900s 1A 9 rock formations, lakes, and mountains 1A 10 trains, beaches, and Main Street in Salt Lake City Personal, Salt Lake City and Tooele Mining, s Salt Lake City area, including buildings, Barnstomer Airplanes, Public Transportatin, President Taft Visit, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Statues 2 2 General scenery, including Saltair, Train Depot, Hermitage, Anaconda Commons, Garden of the Gods circa 1910s 2 3 Saltair and Lagoon

6 2 4 Barnstorming - 5th Liberty Bond Drive circa Tooele 2 5B troops returning from World War One President Taft visits Salt Lake City Wilbur Smith photos, including miliarty portraits and group photos 1940s-1950s 2 8 petrographs near Tooele, Utah; Walker mine, California; Butterfield Tunnel Gard 2 9 mining in Tooele, Elton Tunnel Tooele Smelters construction of the Tooele Power Plant Tooele Smelter Power Plant Tooele Valley Railway construction of Tooele Copper Smelter 1900s-1910s 2 16 Tooele Valley Copper Smelter first works in Tooele Valley Copper Smelter 2 18 Highland Bay Aerial Tramway construction of the Tooele Lead Smelter Tooele and Park City mining, s 3 6

7 construction of the Tooele Lead Smelter completed Tooele Lead Smelter Tooele Oxide Mill 3 6 Tooele Smelter Fire Tooele construction of Slag Treatment Plant 3 8 General Tooele 1930s-1950s 3 9 Tooele Smelter Staff Party Park City town, smelters, mines 3 11 Park City town, smelters, mines, stereographs 3 12 Park City town, smelters, mines 3 13 Park City town, smelters, mines Bingham Canyon Story by George Edward Anderson, The Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1, early day, Bingham Canyon 1890s 7

8 4 2 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: Beginning of the Utah Copper Company 1890s 4 3 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: Copperton Mill 1890s 4 4 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: Yampa Smelter s 4 5 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: US Mine, Galena Mine 4 6 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: Bingham Canyon, early 1900s Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: Muddy Gulch Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: People and Events 1900s 4 8A Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: Lower Bingham and Frog Town 4 9 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1:Central Bingham Canyon Scenes Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1:Highland Boy, Carr Fork Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: Livery Operations in Bingham 4 13 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 1: Snowslides, Lanslides, Fires, Floods Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Apex Scenes Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Phoenix Mine Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: People and Events Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Dacies Honeymoon Special Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: The Pit 1920s 4 19 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Bingham Canyon 1920s 8

9 4 20 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Metals, Middle Canyon, and the M.E. Institute 4 21 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Tunnel Era Scenes and Later 4 22 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2:Upper Carr Fork Bridges 4 23 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Gemmell Club in Cyprus Hall Scenes 4 24 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Life and Gayety, Bingham 4 25 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Lower Bingham and Lead Mine Scenes 4 26 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Copper Wrecks and Floods 1920s 1920s 1920s 1920s 1930s-1940s 1930s-1940s 1930s-1940s 4 27 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: General Scenes 1930s-1950s 4 28 Bingham Canyon Story, volume 2: Track and Shovel 1930s-1950s 4 29 Bingham Canyon Story, volume s-1950s 4 30 Bingham Canyon Story 1930s-1950s Gerorge Edaward Anderson and Bingham Highline George Edward Anderson: Building The Bingham Highline, Carr Fork 4 34 George Edward Anderson: Building The Bingham Highline, Lower Bingham 4 35 George Edward Anderson: Building The Bingham Highline, Bingham Canyon 4 36 George Edward Anderson: Building The Bingham Highline, Canyon Rim Cuts and Tunnel

10 4 37 George Edward Anderson: Building The Midas Loop, Bingham Highline George Edward Anderson: Building The Midas Loop George Edward Anderson: Building The Bingham Highline, Copperton Mill 4 40 George Edward Anderson George Edward Anderson, Bingham Highline Photos, Contract Prints from Denver and Rio Grande West Railroad of Bingham Canyon 4 42 General Bingham Canyon Bingham Canyon, Bingham s 5 2 Various Historical Society Prints: Lower Bingham, Highland Boy Fires Bingham Canyon views from Les Carringan 1880s Bingham for Anderson Viewpoint 1907, 1970, The Oswald / Chandler Bingham Canyon Collection Charles Roscoe Savage photographs by Harry Shipler in Bingham Canyon

11 5 7-9 Harry Shipler photographs Charles Roscoe Savage photographs Charles Roscoe Savage and Harry Shipler in Bingham Bingham, Utah, Carr Fork from the United States Geological Survey Professional Paper Bingham Book Bingham Book, Utah Consolidated Mining Company and Highland Boy 5 16 Bingham Book, New England / New Haven Mining Companies, Mills and Tunnels Bingham Book, Boston Colsolidated Mine Bingham Book, Utah Metal Company Bingham Book, Utah Copper Company Bingham Book, Utah Bingham Mining Company Bingham Book, United States Mining Company Bingham Book, Telluride Power Company Bingham Book, Silver Shield Mining Company Bingham Book, Ohio Copper Company 1930s-1940s 5 25 Bingham Book, Keystone and Markham Bingham Book, Mystic Shrine Mine Bingham Book, Yampa Mine and Smelter Bingham Book, Last Chance Property Bingham Book, Garfield Smelter

12 5 30 Bingham Book, Bingham Butte Company Bingham Book, The Starless Group, Bingham Eastern, and Bingham Copper Mine Bingham Book, Utah Apex Mining Company Bingham Book, Bingham City Services 1909 Bingham Mine, mule tram and railroad circa 1880s 6 2 mines and mine offices circa 1880s 6 3 Stereograms of Bingham Canyon 1880s-1890s 6 4 Bingham Highline 1880s-1890s 6 5 train engines and railroads Bingham miners, railroad, and city Upper Carr Fork panoramas of Bingham Canyon circa 1950s 6 11 Utah Copper Mine power station circa geology of Bingham Canyon circa Kodak color prints of Bingham Canyon

13 6 14 Bingham and Cyprus Canyon aerial view of Bingham Canyon and Tooele circa 1960s-1970s Bingham Canyon Poloroids 1940s-1970s 6 18 decline and demolition of Bingham, Utah 1940s-1970s 6 19 Bingham Canyon 1975 Bingham Mine, 1880s Utah copper mine circa 1880s-1950s 7 3 Wilbur H. Smith in Bingham 1960s-1970s 7 4 Bingham General Bingahm circa 1970s 7 6 Bingham Pit trip 1975 Lark/ Mercur Mine,

14 8 8 1 history of Lark Mine circa US and Lark Mine s 8 3 Lark Mine story circa 1950s 8 4 Lark mine story: Mascotte yard / staff 1940s 8 5 demolition of Mascotte plant 1940s 8 6 Lark mine story: underground 1950s 8 7 Lark mine story: staff and general mining 1950s 8 8 Lark mine story: aerial photographs Lark mine story: new plant Lark mine story: Lark before Kennecott Copper Company circa 1950s 8 11 Lark Mine employees US Mine at Lark, International Smelter at Tooele and Mercur circa 1950s 8 13 Lark Mine 1950s 8 14 Mercur 1890s-1970s 8 15 Early Mercur circa Mercur Mercur Mercur Mine scenery

15 Tintic Mine, Eureka, Utah Salt Lake City and Eureka mining Tintic and Bingham Souvenir Booky United States Geological Survey panoramas and description of mountain features and mines Eureka, Mercur and Mammoth Mines 1940s 9 8 Tintic mining equipment 9 9 Shauntie Mine 1870s-1890s 9 10 Ophir and Stockton, Utah Copper Canyon and Battle Mountain, Nevada mill in Stockton, Utah circa 1890s 9 13 Mammoth Mine and equipment 1940s-1950s 9 14 general mining 9 15 Relief Mine Company railroads and trains, 1870s-1980s

16 Salt Lake City and Mercer Railroad circa 1870s-1880s 10 2 early Utah railroads 1900s Colorado and Southern railroad Tooele Valley Railroad and depot Tooele Valley Railroad 10 6 S.G. Swanson, Kennecott Copper Company, Bingahm / Garfield Mallet engines and switches 10 7 San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad J.C. Thode Railroad Tooele Valley Railroad and smelter general railroad geology filed trip and the Oquirrh Mountains, University of Utah Geology Department filed trips

17 11 2 United Airlines promotion for geological excursion 11 3 geology field trips to Southern Utah, Arizona, and Nevada Hansel Valley earthquake ad Kosmo, Utah rock formations of Southern Utah and Northern Nevada Morehouse Canyon Farmington Canyon flood circa Confusion Mountain aerial photography of the Oquirrh Mountains aerial photography of the Oquirrh Mountains radar imagry of the Oquirrh Mountains aerial photography of the Oquirrh Mountains, color Guidebook to 132rd meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers 1925 general and unidentified mining, 1860s dimensional mine cartography circa 1950s 12 3 interior operations circa 1950s 12 4 stereograph of Shauntie Mine, Jack Elder

18 12 5 Walker Mine, California circa 1920s 12 6 rock bolting circa 1950s 12 7 Inspiration Copper and Latter-Day Saint Tunnel Anaconda Mine staff camp relief near Stockton, Utah 1860s Blair and Sloan's bullettin of the plains, Saltair, Great Salke Lake, Salt Lake City and County Building, Utah Copper Mill, and Mercur Gold Mine 1890s aerial photos of Bingham and Salt Lake Valley Salt Lake area smelters early mining 1870s International Smelter Company staff Don Maguire's Outline History of Utah's Greatest Mining Districts. includes:winnamuck Milland Bingham Station, Silver City, Mammoth Station, Double Circle on Tintic Line, Sacremento Mine and Mill, Golden Gate Mill, Mercur Cyanide Plant, Sunshine Mill, Eureka Mine, Geyser- Marion Gulch, Ontario Mill, Marsac Mill, Daly West Mill in Park City, Silver King Mill, Highland Boy, Park City, Mammoth Mine, Tintic Mining Tooele, Lead Mine Sunrises, Bingham and Butterfield, Mount Olympus, and Salt Lake Mining. contains: Cavern of Sleep; Mountains; Downtown SLC; Thor's Arm Chair; Chocolate Fountain; Home of the Fairies; Gulliver's Candle Sticks; Hanging Garden; Red Lodge-Cooke City Highway; Beartooth Mountains; Battle Mountain, Nevada; Timpanogos Peak; First Map of Tooele; Bingham Canyon; Dinosuar National Monument; Green River at Split Mountain Mining slides. includes: Butterfield Office; Gros Ventre, Wyoming; mineral specimen; KCC Staff at Gemmell Club; circa 1899 circa 1920s circa 1920s circa 1930s-1940s 18

19 Bingham Track; Oaxaca, Mexico; Mining Dump Truck; Tooele Home; Bingham Pit National Parks and Smith camping trips, Trips. includes: Old faithful geyser, Yellowstone Falls, Mudpots, Teapot, Mt. Timpanogos, Campgrounds, Automobiles Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone and Grand Teton Nationtional Park Yellowstone Red Lodge Automobile trip 13 5 Colorado Trip, July Colorado Trip Colorado circa 1930s-1940s 13 8 Butte and Colorado, Kodak color prints. includes: Frontier Fort, Mountain Ranges, Yosemite National Park, Camping, circa 1940s 13 9 Grand Canyon, United States Geological Survey Tour Grand Teton National Park Moran, Wyoming Mount Olympus, Bingham Sunrise, Miscellaneous Scenery 1930s-1940s 19

20 Puffer Lake and Fish Lake Timpanogos Mountian photos from "A Glipse of Utah" Book by Edward F. Colburn Tryol Lake and Mirror Lake Basin in the Uinta Mountains, Utah 1906 circa 1930s-1940s The story of Hoover / Boulder Dam Butte, Montana Postcards, 1950s-1960s travel postcards. including landmarks and national parks from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Montana 14 8 Grand Teton National Park circa 1950s-1960s 14 9 general travel. includes: aerial photos of mountain ranges, Fremont Black Rock in the Great Salt Lake 1900s-1960s Oversized images, 1800s-1920s

21 railroad, buildings, smelter, mini-train circa 1880s-1920s 15 2 Salt Lake City buildings, sports, mine camp, railroads circa 1880s-1920s 15 3 mountains, cities, planes, wagons circa 1880s-1920s 15 4 Salt Lake City, Native Americans, trains, Alta circa 1880s-1920s 15 5 rock structures, Bingham Canyon, horseriding circa 1880s-1920s 15 6 Painting of Bingham Canyon train Oversized images, 1880s copper mining circa 1880s 16 2 Bingham Canyon circa 1880s Names and Subjects Subject Terms : Copper mines and mining--utah--history--sources Geologists--Utah 21

22 Geology--Utah Mines and mineral resources--united States--Photographs Mines and mineral resources--utah--photographs Railroads--United States--Photographs Railroads--Utah--History Personal Names : Smith, Wilbur H.--Archives Corporate Names : Kennecott Copper Corporation--photographs Utah Copper Co. Geographical Names : Bingham Canyon (Utah)--History Bingham Mining District (Utah)--History Finding aid created by Sara Davis About Creative Commons Licenses in Archives West:

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