Alaska: Plane, Ships, and Beach, 1989 May

File — Box: 8, Folder: 10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The Wayne Owens photograph collection consists of 18 boxes containing black-and-white and color photograph prints, negatives, and slides that depict Wayne Owens' personal life, family, political career, and travel. The collection is arranged in four series by subject, though there is some overlap.

Series 1: Personal Life, Campaigns, Boxes 1-5B. Box 3 is oversize. Boxes 1-3 consist of the original donation and predominantly contain photographs related to Wayne Owens’ campaigns for political offices and his political career with a mixture of family portraits and photographs. Box 1 also contains photographs of wilderness areas sent to Owens by constituents. Boxes 4-5B consist primarily of photographs of Owens’ childhood and youth in Panguitch, Utah; his mission in France from 1957-1960; his service as mission president of the Canada Montreal Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1975 to 1978; and portraits and snapshots of the Owens family, their children, and grandchildren. Boxes 5 and 5B contain several folders that are digital only. These images were sent to the library digitally (emailed, on CD, flash drive, hard drive). Proof sheets with thumbnails of the images have been printed and placed in the folder for research purposes. The image files can be requested, but the library did not create the scan and does not have the original images.

Series 2: Political Career, Boxes 6-11 and Series 3: Travel: International, Boxes 12-16 Series 2 and 3 both contain photographs that predominantly relate to Wayne Owens political career. Boxes 8-9 consist primarily of negatives and contact sheets. Photographs of Owens' political career include subjects such as: campaigns for the United States House of Representatives and Senate and Utah governor; Democratic conventions, events, speeches, meetings, and elections; and Owens activities in the United States House of Representatives, particularly his involvement in the Committee to the Judiciary during the Watergate Hearings. Box 11 consists primarily of photographs of Owens interacting with members of the Kennedy family, particularly Robert “Bobby” Francis Kennedy and Edward “Ted” Kennedy. Boxes 12-16 consist primarily of photographs taken by or of Owens while traveling in his capacity as a United States Representative between 1986 and 1992 to places such as Israel, Jerusalem, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Greece, Rome, Russia, Germany, Kuwait, and the Soviet Union. In addition to travel photographs of landscapes and buildings, there are images of meetings and events with politicians and leaders from these countries, including: Boris Yeltsin; Jassir (Yasser) Arafat; and Bashar al-Assad. The series also contains images of United States military bases and troops in Germany and the Middle East.

Series 4: Travel: United States, Box 17 The photographs in this series contain a mixture of personal travels undertaken by Wayne Owens and his family and photographs potentially taken of Owens traveling within the United States in his capacity as a Representative.

Dates

1989 May

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.