The LaGrande Peterson family photograph collection 1920-1975

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The LaGrande Peterson family photograph collection 1920-1975

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544 studio portraits and photographic snapshots of LaGrande and Helen Peterson, their family and friends (including many of Mrs. Peterson's mother Clara Bean), and scenic pictures mostly from Utah, Nevada, and Southern California. The Utah images were taken in Provo, Fielding, Bear River City, Price, and Payson.

2 boxes; 1 linear ft.

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Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library. Special Collections and Archives.Photograph Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6624215

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Peterson, Helen V. Bean, 1908-1990.

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Bean, Clara Eva Barnett, 1882-1964.

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Peterson family

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Peterson, LaGrande, 1904-1990

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LaGrande Peterson (1904-1990) was born in Brigham City, Utah to Silas Frank Thompson and Bolette Hansen Peterson. LaGrande served in the U.S. Army Signal corps during World War II. He was inducted June 23, 1942 and was trained in principles of electricity, messaging, radio and telephone schools and as a teletype operator. He was stationed in Camp Crowder, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska; Camp Edwards, Massachusetts; and North Africa. While in Rabat, Morocco LaGrande received his release o...

Brigham Young University.

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Plans for the David O. McKay building began in 1952 after an evaluation by the Brigham Young University College of Education concluded that the existing building for the College of Education were no longer meeting the growing needs of the program. Plans were officially announced in February of 1954 with the completion deadline being set for December of the same year. The building was officially dedicated on December 14, 1954 by President and Sister McKay along with members of the First Presidenc...