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Sumner School of Salt Lake City Project collection

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2794

Scope and Contents

The Sumner School of Salt Lake City Project collection contains the book So We Can Have Water and the original plates used to create the illustrations in the book.

Dates

  • 1946

Creator

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.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biological Note

So We Can Have Water was written by seventh grade students if the Sumner School of Salt Lake City. Two seventh grade classes worked on this project. All the class members took part in gathering information, reading and interviewing, and making reports. Field trips were made to local distribution and storage reservoirs, chlorination houses, streams, and dams. All of the seventh graders worked on the drawings, making the linoleum blocks, and printing the illustrations.

There was so much material written by the classes and in so many different styles that it was decided that a committee would write the final edition of the book. The committee that did most of the writing was composed of the following group: Joyce Bates, Charlotte Peysar, Faye Duncan, Marlene Taylor, Marjorie Miner, and Sally Ann Hudson.

Extent

2.25 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The Sumner School of Salt Lake City Project collection (1946) contains a book written and illustrated by seventh graders of the Sumner School entitled, So We Can Have Water. Also included are some of the original plates used to make the illustrations in the book.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged with So We Can Have Water in the first box with the plates in the second box.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Ken Sanders Rare Books in 2014.

Processing Information

Processed by Esabelle Khaosanga in 2015.
Title
Inventory of the Sumner School of Salt Lake City Project collection
Author
Finding aid created by Esabelle Khaosanga.
Date
2015 (last modified: 2020)
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository

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