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Great Salt Lake (Utah)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

The Great Salt Lake : recreational behavior and expediture patterns

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322189]
Identifier: MSS SC 2324
Scope and Contents

Typewritten essay coauthored with William H. Becker. The item is a special report to the Utah Legislative Council. The essay documents the use of the Great Salt Lake in Utah for recreational purposes.

Dates: 1974

C. R. Savage photograph of Garfield Beach

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233646550]
Identifier: MSS 8328
Scope and Contents

Materials include one albumen photograph by C. R. Savage taken in approximately the 1870s. It is a photograph of the Garfield Beach Resort on the Great Salt Lake, with people swimming in the lake.

Dates: approximately 1870-1879

Table of analyses of water of the Great Salt Lake Basin including an analysis of granite rock

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233244935]
Identifier: MSS SC 494
Scope and Contents

Ms. on graph paper: the collection includes analyses of the acid and base content in the different water sources in the Salt Lake Basin, and of constituent percentages of granite used in building the Salt Lake Temple. Also added is a notation giving the analyses of the water of the Great Salt Lake by Professor D.Q. Allen, 1869.

Dates: approximately 1881-1890