Utah Humanities Research Foundation
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Utah Humanities Research Foundation records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0044
Abstract
The Utah Humanities Research Foundation records (1944-1954) contain information on cultural materials throughout Utah and neighboring regions. The foundation, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1944, attempted to preserve and collect cultural materials from the area. Fellowships were granted to qualified people for study in various areas of the humanities. The results from these studies are included in the collection. Subjects covered in the collection are autobiographies,...
Dates:
1944-1954
Utah pioneer costume research project
Collection
Identifier: MS 0124
Abstract
The purpose of the Utah pioneer costume research project was to photograph, record and annotate historic dress and define the relation of Utah pioneer dress to the general development of costume in the United States. It attempts to find similarities between Utah pioneer dress and the characteristics of the fashion of 1977, to find in what ways Utah pioneer dress differed from these, and to find what...
Dates:
1944-1947