Exhibits (144 total)
Featured
Exploring the West in the Golden Age of Photography
“Exploring the West in the Golden Age of Photography” discusses American Western photography from roughly 1860 to 1880 and encourages educators to utilize these amazing primary sources for ins...
The Usambara Project: Landscapes of Continuity and Change in the West Usambara Mountains, c. 1910
"The Usambara Project: Landscapes of Continuity and Change in the West Usambara Mountains, c. 1910" exhibit forms part of the Usambara Landscape History Project, which aims to document the history o...
Other Featured of Note
There are no future exhibits planned at this time
USU Exhibits
Brigham Young College
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) chartered Brigham Young College (BYC) on August 6, 1877. Classes first met on September 9, 1878, in a rented space inside Lindquist Hall on the corner of 200 North and 100 East in Logan. The sch...
Women of Caliber, Women of Cache Valley
“O what a beautifull valley.”
—Mary Ann Weston Maughan
In July 1856, six men explored Cache Valley in search of an area to locate a group of settlers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (formerly known by nicknames like Mor...
Utah Brews: The Untapped Story of Ogden’s Becker Brewing and Malting Company
Beer is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when people think of Utah. That could be because 60 percent of the state’s population are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which teaches its membership to abstain ...
Regreening of Cache Valley
Cache Valley was settled by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) pioneers in the early 1860s. When they arrived in the area, they found rich soil, clear running streams, wild game, and abundant lumber and gr...
Physical Exhibit Archive
Did you miss out on viewing an exhibit before it was taken down? No worries! You can see many of our past exhibits here. Each photo gallery in this digital exhbit contains images and information about past exhibits displayed in the Merrill-Cazier Lib...
Historical Photograph Meme Contest
For Utah State University’s Historical Photograph Meme Contest, students use digitized historical images from USU’s Special Collections & Archives, along with those big, white block letters often associated with internet memes, to h...
St. Anne's Retreat
Legendary St. Anne’s Retreat in Logan Canyon has been the source of a contemporary oral tradition and legend-tripping for the last fifty years. Local legends tell of a haunted place with stories laced in ancient themes telling of nuns and p...
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Merrill-Cazier Library
The Merrill-Cazier Library opened on the campus of Utah State University (USU) on September 19, 2005. This digital exhibit was created as part of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Merrill-Cazier Library. It is a chance t...
Extension, Enterprise, and Education: The Legacy of Co-operatives and Cooperation in Utah
Co-operatives (alternately written as cooperatives) are voluntary associations jointly owned and operated for the benefit of those using their services. While the cooperative movement was a worldwide phenomenon in the 1800s, it was particularly str...
Year of Water
Just as water is often referred to as the life’s blood of Utah, so too has it been the life’s work of many at Utah State University (USU). Particularly as it related to the science of irrigation, water became of foremost importance when...
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Snapshots
The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 is one of the most famous of the well-documented disasters of the early twentieth century. During the quake and fire that followed, more than 3,000 people died and over half of the city’s population was left h...
Graveyard of Dreams: The Story of Aurora and Rhyolite
The following exhibit tells the story of Aurora and Rhyolite, both gold and silver mining towns that became ghost towns in Nevada. This exhibit uses images from the Death Valley region photographs, 1905–1925 found in the Utah State University Mer...
Latinx Voices Project
Cache Valley, Utah, is home to a rich Latinx population whose voices are often underrepresented in local repositories. To rectify this, in 2007 Utah State University (USU) Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives directed an effort to coll...
Isaac Sorensen and the Sorensen Family
The Sorensen Family
Cache Valley, Utah, has one of the most fascinating stories in western American history. Within its wonderful mountainous landscape in northern Utah, there is a narrative that must be told. Northern Utah has provided a wonderfu...
Jack London at Utah State University
Utah State University's Special Collections and Archives, a division of the Merrill-Cazier Library, houses one of the world’s largest archival collections from Jack London, legendary author of classic adventure novels like Call of the Wild an...
The Broadcasting Bullens: One Family’s Contribution to Cache Valley Newspaper, Radio, and Television
Since the first local newspaper slid off the printing press in 1879,[i] Cache Valley residents have relied heavily on evolving forms of media for news and entertainment. This progression of newspaper, radio, and television outlets depended largely ...
Dolph Andrus’s Monumental Highway Expeditions
Monument Valley, with its skyward-reaching red rock buttes in both Utah and Arizona, has long been symbolic of the rugged deserts of the American West. However, before Western films, television shows, and commercials established its fame, Monument ...
Student Exhibits
ENGL 4360, Spring 2017: Studies in Film
Welcome to Childhood, Identity, and Coming of Age in Film! This exhibition was created by students in Dr. Mattie Burkert's spring 2017 Studies in Film course at Utah State University.
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Credits:
Maddie A...
ENGL 4750/6750, Summer 2015: Voices: Eritrean Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah
Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley
In May 2015, Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives, Folklore Program, and The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress with help from the Eritrean community hosted a Field ...
ENGL 6330, Spring 2018: Haunted by History: The Deep Eighteenth Century
What is the “deep eighteenth century?” It’s a term coined by theater historian Joseph Roach to describe how our twenty-first-century world remains shaped by events, ideas, and forces set in motion three centuries ago. It’s also an invitatio...
ENGL 6750, Summer 2015: Voices: Burmese Muslims in Cache Valley, Utah
Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley
In May 2015, Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives, Folklore Program, and The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress with help from the Burmese Muslim community...
ENGL 6750, Summer 2015: Voices: Karen Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah
In May 2015, Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives, Folklore Program, and The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress with help from the Karen community hosted a Field School for Cultural Documen...
ENGL 6750, Summer 2017: Jackson Hole Dude Ranching Tradition: Triangle X Ranch
Jackson Hole Dude Ranching Tradition: Triangle X
Credits:
Kylie Schroeder, Curator
Randy Williams, Content contributor and editor, exhibit editor
Lisa Gabbert, Content contributor and editor
Andrea Graham, Content contributor
Alison Gardner, ...
Every Step a Novel
"We appreciate we’re part of this community. And the same thing, you know the pilgrims who came to this country, who escaped religious persecution, or wanted to have something better for their lives, that’s the same thing that we wanted. And, w...
HIST 3250, Fall 2017: History of Renaissance Europe
Renaissance in Europe saw a rapid increase in the study of the human body, natural sciences and astronomy. This exhibit looks at primary sources from the period of the Renaissance and afterward showing how that period looked back to ancient sources...
HIST 3250, Spring 2015: The Renaissance in Europe
In the 2015 spring semester, students in the History of Renaissance Europe class (HIST 3250) undertook a non-traditional research project to use archival materials to create their own digital exhibits. These exhibits showcase unique Renaissance-era...
HIST 3770, Spring 2016: Nuclear West
The Cold War marked a time of concern for, and intense focus on, America’s relationship to nuclear topics. This exhibit, curated by the students of the Spring 2016 History 3770 class, and overseen by Dr. Victoria Grieve, focuses on issues rel...
HIST 3770, Spring 2017: Post World War II Domesticity
In the decades after World War II, Americans focused on their homes and families as never before. Marriage and birth rates -- across race and class lines -- rose to a 20th century high. Everything from popular culture, leisure activities, marital a...
HIST 3770, Spring 2018: Social Movements of Postwar America
Often summed up with reference to “the Sixties,” the social movements of postwar America usually began much earlier, and many persist today. By taking a more local look at national movements like feminism, civil rights, and the battle over publ...
HIST 6020, Spring 2020: Claiming Spaces
In 1890, fourteen-year-old Vendla Berntson became the first student and first woman to register for classes at the newly created Agricultural College of Utah (later Utah State University).[1] In the 1890s, few women enrolled in college. It wa...
HONR Think Tank, Spring 2016: Food in Cache Valley
These exhibits were created by students in a three-part Honors “Think Tank” offering that explored the themes of agriculture, food, and land through science and social sciences. Students enrolled in one of three sections—Engineeri...
In Search of America: One Barbershop at a Time
This exhibit shows the highlights of a personal odyssey exploring Main Street Barbershops across America. It also confirms the concept that the Main Street Barbershop is an important mainstay, a perpetual community connecting point, a desired...
SPAN 3040, Fall 2015: Adventures in Spanish Poetry and Grammar
In Fall 2015, Joshua Thoms offered an Advanced Spanish Grammar course which required a research project. The goals of the group project were for students to: familiarize themselves with a Spanish literary genre; analyze text(s); interview an author...