Mel Lewis photograph collection, ca.1900s-1990s.

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Mel Lewis photograph collection, ca.1900s-1990s.

Box 1 containts photographs of Salt Lake City, Saltair, Bingham Canyon, floods (1983), Ronald Jensen Historical Farm, Ab Jenkins, national parks, Arizona, New Mexico, flowers, Wyoming, etc.

Slides and photographs 2 lin. ft. (4 boxes)

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Lewis, Melvin B.

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Melvin Lewis was born in 1917 on a ranch near Mt. Shasta, Calif. He worked as a private gamekeeper, a truck driver, a laborer with the Civilian Conservation Corps, a fire fighter for the California State Forestry Service, and as an Army Air Corps pilot in the Pacific during World War II. Following the war, he was a camera salesman for Standard Optical in Utah and Idaho before becoming an engineer for Ingersoll Rand from 1947 to 1985. From the description of The Melvin E. Lewis papers...