Utah Centennial 1896-1996
A Photo Exhibit

Part 2: Daily Life in Utah (ca. 1896)

Marriott Library
University of Utah

The following photos are taken from various collections in Marriott Library's photo archives.

As Utah historian Dale Morgan noted, "men live rich and quiet lives outside the boiling currents of their times." In many parts of Utah, life had to go on the same as it had on January 3, 1896, and as it would on January 5th. Children had to attend school, railroads had to run, chores had to be done, business had to be conducted. This portion of the exhibit depicts daily life in Utah around the same time as the statehood celebrations.

Officers on the porch of their quarters at Fort Douglas (Salt Lake City), ca. 1888. Frederick Benteen is seated in the front row on the far right.
[RICHARD W. YOUNG Collection, P0104]

The living room of the Fort Douglas quarters shown above, 1896.
[ALBERT C. ALLEN Collection, P0345]

Salt Lake & Ogden Railroad station in Bountiful, 1895
[SIMON BAMBERGER Collection, P0225]

Children in front of the Forest Dale School, Salt Lake City, 1896.
[GEORGE ALBERT SMITH Collection, P0036]

Native Americans gathered on the steps of the Salt Lake Theater.
[INDIANS Collection, P0064]

Navajos weaving on their reservation, 1896.
[INDIANS Collection, P0064]

Preston Nutter, Utah Cattleman (right) on mule, 1893.
[PRESTON NUTTER CORP. Collection, P0289]

Placer miners on the San Juan River near Mexican Hat, Utah, 1894.
[DICK BECK Collection, P0068]

Go To: Part 1: Celebrations of Statehood (1896)

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