Chiefly correspondence and writings concerning Geddes' interests in the cooperative movement in Utah. Also includes material related to Geddes' other activities and interests, including social work activities, other writings, memorabilia, and personal correspondence including that between Geddes and LDS Church leaders. Collection includes official records of the Utah Cooperative Association, as well as those of
the Cache Valley Cooperative.
Biographical note
Joseph A. Geddes was influential in the
cooperative movement in Utah and rural sociology. This collection of Dr. Geddes' papers consists of most of his original correspondence with people in these several
endeavors.
Inventory
Box #1: COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT (twenty-one folders)
A. STATE SELF-HELP COOPERATIVE BOARD, 1936-1941
Folder #1 - "A" thru "B" Misc., Correspondence
Folder #2 - "C" Misc., Correspondence
Folder #3 - Cameron Jr., Benj., Correspondence
Folder #4 - "D" thru "G" Misc., Correspondence (No Corresp. under "E")
Folder #5 - "H" thru "L" Misc., Correspondence (No Corresp. under "I")
Folder #6 - Lambourne, S. K., Correspondence, 1936-1937
Folder #7- Lambourne, S. K., Correspondence, 1938
Folder #8 - Lambourne, S. K., Correspondence, 1939-1940
Folder #9 - "M" thru "R" Misc., Correspondence (No Corresp. under "O" )
Folder #20- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Correspondence
Folder #21- Proposal for L.D.S. Missionaries
Folder #22- Autobiographical Sketch of J.A. Geddes' Attitude Toward L.D.S. Church
Box #8: PERSONAL DATA (twenty-one folders )
A. PUBLICATIONS by J.A. GEDDES
Folder #1 - An Access Road
An Analysis of the Concordia Club From Selected Points
Folder #2 - Barriers to Economic Decline
Cemeteries of Box Elder and Summitt Counties
Folder #3 - Changing Institutions of Davis County, 1940-1950 (Reprinted From Utah
Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Volume 31, 1954)
Folder# 4 - Community High-Road to Better Things (Senior manual, 1935-1936, Mutual
Improvement Assoc., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
Folder #5 - Cooperative Way
Utah's Dilemma Can Be Answered Through the Cooperatives
(The Utah Co-operator, Volume 1, Number G and number 7,
Dec. 1946 and Jan. 1947)
Folder #6 - 1941 Critique of Utah's Culture and Economy - A Selection of Essays
Folder #7- Crime as a Mormon Culture Problem
Folder #8 - Diagnosis of the Kroll Core Educational Needs and The Utah Co-operative Assoc.
Folder #9 - Farm Versus Village Living in Utah (Utah Agricultural Experiment Station.
Bulletin numbers 249 and 269)
Folder #10 - A Generation That Forgot (2 copies)
Government Control of Industry in Massachusetts to 1776
Folder #11- Group Integration as a Means of Extending U.C.A.'s Market
The Importance of Standardization in County Welfare Work (The Relief Society
Magazine, Vol. June, 1933)
Folder #12 Inspiration
Institution Building in Utah, (Eighth Annual Faculty Research Lecture. Utah State Agricultural College, April 29, 1949)
Folder #13- Institutional Effectiveness
Intercommunity Consolidation For Better Cemetery Maintenance in Rural Utah
Folder #14- Libraries As Social Institutions (Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin
no.393)
Location of Utah's Natural Resources
Long Range
Planning For the Utah Cooperative Association
Folder #15- Manufacturing in Utah
Migration: A Problem of Youth In Utah (Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin 323)
Modification of the Early
Utah Farm Village (In Yearbook of the association of Pacific Coast Geographers vol. 8. 1942)
Folder #16 - Natural Resources of Utah
The Non-growing Villages of Cache: A Point to Consider
Folder #17 - Olga and the Arspor Club
On the Problems and Channels of Communication (2 copies)
Folder #18- A People's Past can be Burden: A Fresh Look at An Old Problem (2 copies)
A Plea For Balance in Culture Building
Folder #19- The Problem of Capital: Problems of Diagnosis and An Analysis of Treatment
Folder #20- The Relation of Parts in U.C.A.'s Growth
Relationship As a Healing Art (Mental Health, Vol. 1 no. 4 Apr. 1, 1934)
Folder #21- Retarding Economic Forces in Utah's Economy: a Brief Analysis (2 copies)
Box #9: PUBLICATIONS OF J.A. GEDDES (continued) (nineteen folders)
Folder #1 - Self Help Cooperation in Utah
Folder #2 - The Service Case
Should the Rural Counties of Utah Employ a Trained Social Worker?
Social Conditions in the Delta Area, Utah (Utah
Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 288)
Folder #3 - Social Forces
Social Planning and Problems of Personal Adjustment (Mental Health, vol. 1, no. 2 Oct. 1938)
Some First Things (Mental Health,
vol. 10 no. 4 April 1943)
Folder #4 - Some Trends in Rural Lore of Interest to Social Worker (The Relief Society
Magazine, vol. 19, no. 1 Jan. 1932)
Strengthening Group Dynamics
Folder #5 - Supply Agency for Fanta Cooperatives-U.C.A. (The Utah Co-operator, vol. 1 no.1
May 1946)
Folder #6 - U.C.A. and Crude Oil
The United Order Answers (The Improvement Era, vol. 35 no. 12, Oct, 1935)
The United Order: It's Motive Power
Folder #7 - Utah Communities: Village Housing
Folder #8 - Utah's Population and U.C.A.
Folder #9- Value Systems and Institutions of Utah (Reprinted from Utah Academy
Proceedings, vol. S6, 1959)
War Time Problems
Water For Utah and the
U.C.A.
Folder #10- What is Right With Utah (The Utah Co-operator, no. 1, nos. 3 & 4, 1946)
What is Wrong With Utah (The Utah Co-operator, vol. 1 no. 5,
1946)
B. WRITINGS OF J.A. GEDDES
Folder #11- Poem to Wife and Misc. Thoughts
C. ACCOMPLISHMENTS THROUGHOUT LIFE
Folder #12- Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings
Folder #13- Biographical Data
D. HONORS
Folder #14- Lillywhite Distinguished Service Award
E. PERSONAL REMEMBRANCES
Folder #15- Memorabilia
Folder #16- Scrapbook
Folder #17- Oneida Academy Announcements, 1918-1919
Folder #18- The Quiver, 1919 (Oneida Academy)
Folder #19- The Gayle Geddes Wark Family (Daughter?)
For more information: 435/797-2663; Manuscript Librarian.
Special Collections & Archives, Merrill Library, Utah State University Libraries, Utah State University 84322-3000
