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Larsen Family Photograph Collection, 1905-1925
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Scope and Content:

The Larsen Family Photograph Collection consists of twenty-seven 4x5 glass plate negatives of Larsen and Ricks family members between 1905 and 1925. Most of the photographs were taken in Logan or Petersboro, Utah and include Lars Peter Larsen, Hanne Kristine Larsen, William Henry Larsen, Rhea Ricks Larsen, Fred Larsen, Christian Frederick Larsen, Irene Ricks Bastow, Cora Larsen Hammond, Paul Ricks Larsen, Carrie Ricks, Louella Larsen Rheinhardt, William H. Larsen Jr., and Claire Larsen Hammond. Other photographs include the Alma Sonne home in Logan, the spillway out of second dam in Logan Canyon, and dead fish.

Researcher Note:

Box one contains copy prints from the original glass-plate negatives. The negatives are housed in boxes 2 and 3. These negatives are in fair condition although a few have flaking of the emulsion.

Provenance:

Donated in May 1992 by Mrs. Claire Larsen Hammond and her sister, Cora Larsen Johnston.

Register completed by Camille Gooch, March 2001.

Inventory:

Box 1.

1:01. Lars Peter Larsen and Hanna Larsen, their son Fred Larsen, and granddaughter Luella Larsen Rheinhardt, ca. 1910.
1:02. Fishermen with catch, probably near Petersboro. First man on left might be William Henry Larsen.
1:03. image Fishermen with catch, probably near Petersboro.
1:04. image Unidentified group of pheasant hunters with their guns and bagged bird, near Petersboro.
1:05. Two men with fishing poles in front of Lars Peter Larsen's cabin in Petersboro.
1:06. Men stacking hay, probably at the Lars Peter Larsen farm in Petersboro.
1:07. Unidentified group of young adults posing in the field, probably in Petersboro.
1:08. Rhea Ricks Larsen, about seven years old.
1:09. Rhea and Carrie Ricks, as adults, with two unidentified women. Probably in the backyard of their Logan home at 100 South 240 East. Winter scene.
1:10. Rhea and Carrie Ricks. Winter scene.
1:11. Unidentified children playing in the snow. Taken in Logan looking east toward mountains.
1:12. Rhea and Cora Larsen as children, barely visible behind snow in Logan at 100 South 240 East, ca. 1918-1920.
1:13. Rhea and Cora Larsen as children, barely visible behind snow in Logan at 100 South 240 East, Logan, ca. 1918-1920.
1:14. Irene Ricks Bastow, as a young woman, standing in yard.
1:15. Rhea Ricks Larsen standing in yard.
1:16. Rhea Ricks and child Carrie Ricks.
1:17. Rhea Ricks Larsen and son Paul as an infant
1:18. image Rhea Ricks Larsen and son Paul as an infant
1:19. Rhea Ricks Larsen and son Paul as an infant
1:20. Rhea Ricks Larsen and son William H. Larsen as an infant, ca. 1918.
1:21. Paul Ricks Larsen, as a toddler, crying on the porch of his Logan house at 100 South 240 East, ca. 1911.
1:22. image Paul Ricks Larsen, as a toddler, on the porch with his father's (William Henry Larsen) tuba, ca. 1911.
1:23. Phoebe Ricks Wood (aunt to Claire Larsen) and Paul Ricks (?), standing in front of house.
1:24. Claire Larsen, at about 18 months, sitting on a small rocking chair, ca. 1924.
1:25. The home of Alma Sonne at 400 North, just off Main Street, Logan. This home appears in Conway B. Sonne's A Man Named Alma.
1:26. Unidentified group of young people, probably sitting on an old retaining wall in Logan Canyon.
1:27. Spillway of the second dam in Logan Canyon.

Boxes 2-3.
Original 4x5 Glass-plate Negatives.

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