Abstract The Edward Abbey audio collection (1981-1989) consists of audio recordings or public and published works of Edward Abbey, as well as his memorial service in 1989. Recordings of include Abbey's speech at the 'cracking' of Glen Canyon Dam in 1981 and the audiobook Freedom and Wilderness: Edward Abbey Reads from his Work. Edward Abbey was a noted author and environmental activist, much of whose work focused on the desert Southwest.

Abstract The C. Gregory Crampton collection was donated to the University of Utah in 1990. The collection extensively covers the Southwest United States and Southern Utah, in relatively recent expeditions and in governement surveys around the turn of the century. The Colorado River system, its environment, and the before and after effects of the subsequent water management activities such as the Glen Canyon Dam are a large part of the collection.

Abstract The Glen Canyon: A Dam, Water, and the West photograph collection contains photographs collected for a 1999 documentary of the same name about the construction of and controversy surrounding the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River in the 1950s and 1960s.

Abstract The John Rees photograph collection consists of 63 items, primarily black-and-white photographs, depicting industry and construction in Utah in the first half of the twentieth century. Many of the images are in album pages and are accompanied by written identifications and autobiographical narratives, presumably written by the compiler, who may have been named John Rees.