Walter Jones (1944-) is a veteran of the United States Army, military historian, and archivist who served as head of the Western Americana division of the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections and Archives. This collection contains slides and photographs related to Jones' experience and scholarship on twentieth century American military history and photographs of street fairs in the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Walter R. Jones papers (1920-2013) consist of correspondence, military reports, pamphlets, meeting minutes, training guides, handbooks, manuscripts, conference papers, research materials, short stories, articles, and bibliographical information.