The Maxwell D. Cohn collection consists mainly of photographs Cohn took while he was attending the Agricultural College of Utah in Logan, Utah between 1901 and 1902. These images (some of which were probably not taken by him) are excellent early illustrations of class-room scenes, cadet activities, scenic shots, and social events at the ACU. Most of the other photographs date from 1895 to 1905 and are of friends and relatives, Logan Canyon, the Hercules Power Company, Salt Lake City, and outdoor scenes from his family’s ranch near Arimo, Idaho.
Some of the photographs have faded but most are in good condition. Photographs 3:01:01-3:09:04 are located in box 2 (there is no box 3). Register completed by Camille Gooch, February 2001.
Box 1. (Oversize)
Album 1:
01:01. image A man at a train depot in Arimo, Idaho (Utah-Idaho Northern?), with a bicycle rigged with an outrigger to ride on the rails.
01:02-1:25. Cohn and friends.
01:26. Sarah Godwin Brown Goodwin at her desk at the library in Old Main.
01:27. Cohn and friends with bicycle.
01:28-01:35. Cohn and friends.
01:36. Coeds in chemistry class.
01:37. Cohn, in his cadet uniform, standing on the stage of the chapel in Old Main.
01:38-01:44. Cohn and friends.
01:45-01:46. Jerome Cohn.
01:47. Bernice Hirschman, niece of Max Cohn, at one year old, at 318 2nd Ave., Salt Lake City.
01:48-01:51. Cohn and friends.
01:52. Bernett Oppenheimer and Bernice Hirschman in Salt Lake City.
01:53-01:56. Cohn and friends.
01:57. Bernice Hirschman.
01:58-01:66. Friends.
01:67. Men at a mountain camp.
01:68. Building construction, Continental Block in Salt Lake City?
01:69-01:70. Ranch scenes, one man on horseback.
01:71. Three men fording a river on horseback.
01:72. Stacking hay, probably at Arimo.
01:73. Man with a violin.
01:74. Stacking hay, probably at Arimo.
01:75. The Cathedral of the Madeleine, under construction, South Temple, Salt Lake City.
01:76. Construction of the Sullivan Building, Main and South Temple, Salt Lake City. Part of the Temple visible in background. Streetcar in foreground.
01:77. Jerome Cohn on horseback.
01:78. Jerome and Max Cohn in office in Oneida, Idaho.
01:79. One-room schoolhouse?
01:80. Shearing a sheep, Arimo?
01:81. Two men riding a bucking horse, camp in background.
01:82. Men on wagons.
01:83. Room interior.
01:84. Construction work on the Sullivan Building, Main and South Temple, Salt Lake City. Brigham Young Monument visible in background.
01:85. A man shaping metal?
01:86. Cadets at attention, west side of Old Main (Main not visible).
01:87. Group of boys skinny-dipping, probably in the Logan River, Logan Canyon.
01:88. Cohn and friend.
01:89. View in Logan Canyon?
01:90. Cohn and friend.
01:91. Cohn.
01:92. Horse and cart, hired hands at the Cohn Ranch in Oneida.
01:93. Friends.
01:94. Coeds walking south across Center St. in Logan, Budge Block in background.
Album 2:
02:01. View of the Utah Agricultural College looking southeast, 1901. Old Main complete except for tower.
02:02-05. Views of a river and gorge, probably the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
02:06. Views in canyon, probably near the Cohn Ranch at Arimo, Idaho, including old outbuildings.
02:07-02:08. Campsites, including tents and a covered wagon, location unknown (Arimo?).
02:09. People at the teller windows of the College Bank in Old Main.
02:10-02:13. Effie Nebeker and girlfriends, relaxing in what is probably the Caine house, which stood at 100 E. 200 N. Logan.
02:14. College students by the stream at the mouth of Logan Canyon. The trestle of the Hercules Power Co. canal is just visible in the background. Photo is in an envelope outside of the album.
02:15. Students in a football scrimmage on field east of Old Main. The east side of the north wing of Old Main and the experimental barn are visible.
02:16. View of the stream, looking up Logan Canyon.
02:17. A camp with covered wagons, probably near the Cohn Ranch at Arimo, Idaho.
02:18. View east about 1/4 mile up Logan Canyon, showing Hercules Power Co. canal and trestle partially complete.
02:19. Students, including Cohn in cadet dress, at the College Bank in Old Main.
02:20. Cohn standing at the end of the partially completed Hercules Power Co. canal up Logan Canyon.
02:21. View of the U.A.C. looking southeast, Old Main complete except for the tower.
02:22-02:23. Stacking hay at the Cohn Ranch, Arimo.
02:24. A street scene, so faded that it is impossible to positively identify.
02:25-02:26. A fishing party in Logan Canyon, and a large string of trout displayed.
02:27. A group of cadets in an engineering class, posed some sort of model.
02:28. Students posed next to a bridge in Logan Canyon.
02:29-02:30. Students, including Cohn, picnicking in Logan Canyon.
02:31. A woman posed in a backyard.
02:32. A camp and a herd of sheep, could be up Logan or Blacksmith Fork Canyons.
02:33. A party in a wagon next to the stream in Logan Canyon.
02:34. Students, including Cohn, in a mathematics class.
02:35. Group portrait of Cohn and other students.
02:36. Unidentified students, in the Caine home?
02:37. Max D. Cohn posed in front of an American flag.
02:38. Herd of sheep and shepherd on a hillside.
02:39. A family group picnicking by a stream.
02:40. image A stenography and typewriting class, including Cohn.
02:41. Casual shot of Cohn in front of a classroom.
02:42. A couple of bicyclists in front of the Logan Train Depot.
02:43-02:45. Unidentified groups of students.
02:46. A ranch scene, probably Hardware Ranch.
02:47. View of experimental farm land looking east toward the Bear River Range, just north of entrance to Logan Canyon.
02:48. Students examining plants in a botany class.
02:49. Corralled sheep, Arimo?
02:50. Stacking hay, Arimo.
02:51. Faded photo of sheep grazing.
02:52. Ranchers standing before a cabin, Arimo?
02:53. Unidentified canyon view.
02:54. View looking upstream, Logan Canyon.
02:55. Stuffed bear which was kept in the museum in Old Main.
02:56. Group of coeds relaxing at home.
02:57-02:58. Group of students relaxing outdoors.
02:59. Men by stream in Logan Canyon.
02:60. Portrait, Max D. Cohen.
02:61. View looking up Logan Canyon, showing Hercules Power Co. canal.
02:62. Ranch scene, Arimo?
02:63. Portrait, group of cadets including Cohn.
02:65. Portrait, unidentified student.
02:66. A horse and wagon, schoolchildren in front of a one-room school house.
02:67. Cadets at attention, east side of Old Main.
02:68. A fishing party camped by stream, Logan Canyon?
02:69. Unidentified students shaking hands, residences on interior of...?
02:70. Portrait, three coeds in fancy hats.
02:71. Portrait, casual group of students.
02:72. Family at their campsite in Logan Canyon.
02:73. Unidentified mountain view.
02:74. Sheep at the U.A.C. farm.
02:75-02:79. Casual groups of students, both inside and out.
02:80. View of the stream in Logan Canyon.
02:81. An officer of Military Science.
02:82. Unidentified portrait.
02:83. Coeds in a cooking class.
02:84. View of a tree down in the street, Logan?
02:85-02:88. Casual group of students.
02:89. View of alfalfa? field bordered by lombardy poplars, north Logan?
02:90. View in unidentified canyon.
02:91. Farmer mowing alfalfa with two-horse mower.
02:92. View of the south side of the Logan Mormon Temple.
02:93. Coed at the window of the College Bank in Old Main.
02:94. Unidentified student.
02:95-02:96. Cohn with another student.
02:97. View of Logan looking west from College Hill includes Logan Temple, Wellsville Mountains in the background.
02:98. image Members of the Utah Legislature arriving in carriages, front of Old Main.
02:99. View of Logan looking west/southwest from College Hill.
02:100. Flume of the Logan-Smithfield canal, mouth of Logan Canyon.
02:101. Board room? in Old Main.
02:102. Librarian Sarah Godwin Brown Goodwyn in the library in Old Main.
02:103. View of hay harvesting just south of Logan Cemetery, looking east toward the Bear River Mountains.
02:104. Students at religious exercises in the chapel in Old Main.
02:105. A group of students with surveying equipment. North of campus.
02:106. Group of students at the head of the Logan-Smithfield canal flume.
02:107. The end of the Hercules Power Co. canal, Logan Canyon.
02:108. Cohn with other students.
02:109. Street scene, Malad?
02:110. Too faded to identify.
02:111. Unidentified residence.
02:112. Residence of Sarah Godwin Brown Goodwin.
02:113. View looking up Logan Canyon, the Hercules Power Co. canal.
02:114. A theater minstrel company.
02:115. View of a farm, home and barn, north Logan?
02:116. A man in a two-horse buggy.
02:117. Too faded to identify.
02:118. Two men hiking, unidentified peak.
02:119 View looking east toward mouth of Logan Canyon, taken from College Hill just east of campus.
02:120. View of stream and rock in Logan Canyon.
02:121. Missing.
Box 2.
Folder 1:
3:01:01. Two men and three women, all holding guns, standing in sagebrush at the foot of a hill.
3:01:02. Max D. Cohn kneeling in front of a woman. The woman has her foot on top of Cohn's knee and is holding a gun.
3:01:03. Man sitting in a chair next to a window.
3:01:04. Max D. Cohn with another man and four women posing in front of a doorway in 1910. Trees in the background.
3:01:05. Max. D. Cohn (on right) with another man and two women, trees and brush in the background.
3:01:06. Cohn with three other men and two women posing in the brush in 1910, shrubbery in the background.
Folder 2:
3:02:01. Woman sitting in a chair, reading a book. Photograph taken by M.D. Cohn on March 24, 1901.
3:02:02. Five women, three sitting down and two standing behind them. Photograph taken by Cohn in February 1901.
3:02:03. Group of students standing in front of the school on January 21, 1901, in Logan, Utah. Max Cohn at upper left.
3:02:04. Group photo of the officers of the A.C. Cadets taken in 1901 in Logan, Utah. Max Cohn at upper left corner.
Folder 3:
3:03:01. Snapshot of two women in dark dresses, one woman wearing glasses. Taken December 18, 1901, in Logan.
3:03:02. Mabel Ormsby (?) standing in front of a doorway. Taken in January 1901.
3:03:03. Four women sitting on a bed, two in front and two in back.
3:03:04. Max Cohn sitting next to a woman wearing a light colored dress and glasses, piano in the background.
3:03:05. Woman sitting down on a couch holding a piece of paper in her hand.
3:03:06. Emma Cohn with three women and one man posing on the porch. Taken June 12, 1897, in Logan, Utah.
3:03:07. Woman with long hair, holding a brush in her hand, standing in front of a shed (washing shed ?) in 1902.
Folder 4:
3:04:01. Max Cohn's school friends. Taken in 1901, Logan, Utah.
3:04:02. A.C.U. chemistry class of April 1903. Max Cohn in upper left corner.
3:04:03. A.C.U. chemistry class of April 1903. Max Cohn in upper left corner.
Folder 5:
3:05:01. Portrait of Max Cohn as a young man. Taken in Salt Lake City, Utah.
3:05:02. Portrait of a woman with a dress and hat on. Taken at Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah.
3:05:03. Portrait of a woman wearing a hat and a light colored blouse. Taken at Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah.
3:05:04. Portrait of Ethel ? wearing a light colored dress and holding a bouquet of roses upside down. Taken by B. Wrensted in Pocatello, Idaho.
3:05:05. Portrait of a woman in a light colored dress, facing to the side of the image. Taken in May 1902, by Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah.
3:05:06. Portrait of Dr. Dave Henderson by Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah.
3:05:07. Portrait of E.S.S. (?) Fry, school teacher of Max Cohn. Taken by Silliman in Three Rivers, Michigan, on February 23, 1902.
3:05:08. Three women, one in a wedding dress holding hands with the other woman wearing a black jacket and hat, while the third woman is standing behind them holding a book. Taken January 20, 1901, in Logan, Utah.
Folder 6:
3:06:01. Cabinet portrait of William M. Howell taken by H Drewery in Ogden, Utah.
3:06:02. Cabinet portrait of a woman and a young girl with her arms wrapped around the woman's neck. Taken by Gasberg in Ogden, Utah.
3:06:03. Cabinet portrait of Fry (?), a school friend of Cohn. Taken in October 1899, by Centro Artistico in Manilla.
3:06:04. Cabinet portrait of Miss Hansen (?) taken by H.J. White of Ogden, Utah.
3:06:05. Cabinet portrait of a man wearing a suit and holding a rolled up piece of paper that is tied with bows. Taken by Thomas & Odell in Logan, Utah.
Folder 7:
3:07:01. Tintype of a man wearing a suit and hat.
3:07:02. image Tintype of Joe at age 7.
Folder 8:
3:08:01. Cartes-de-visite of Phil Margetts and his ghost.
3:08:02. Cartes-de-visite of Phil Margetts and his ghost.
3:08:03. Cartes-de-visite of Daniel W. Price in uniform.
3:08:04. Cartes-de-visite of Otto Rupp taken by G.M. Groh and Bro. in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
3:08:05. Cartes-de-visite of a woman, friend of Emma Cohen.
3:08:06. Cartes-de-visite of Deseret Bank taken by C.R. Savage in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Folder 9:
3:09:01. Election card of Myers Cohn when he was running for county commissioner in 1924.
3:09:02. Portrait of Myers Cohn wearing a dark suit and tie in 1926 at age 82.
3:09:03. Portrait of Max D. Cohn wearing a light suit and tie. Taken when he ran unsuccessfully for congress in 1942.
3:09:04. Max. D. Cohn laying in front of a bed of flowers growing on a hillside at Lava
Hot Springs, Idaho in 1941.