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Some of these are AJ Russell images held at the Oakland Museum of California, in their collection.

Some are of Echo city near Echo Canyon (I think they're mostly Echo Canyon area)

the octagon house is in Provo (or was), The large building ont he corner is in Ogden (I think).

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These are all a bunch of Mills through out Utah.

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Most of these are of the ruins of the Brigham City Tannery in Brigham City. I think the hope was they could relocate and restore this for use in Heritage Park (which I cover in an earlier post).

I think they opted to just build a new one.

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Some of these are early 19th century Salt Lake City. The old Salt Lake Theater, the Gardo house, state street, etc.

they are also in the digitized collection.

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Forest Farms

This is one I can give you some information on. It's actually pretty cool if you're into this sort of thing. So this is the Forest Farm house that was used by Brigham Young's family some time ago. There's a whole Wikipedia page about it but basically:

It's a 2 story house with a basement build between 1861 and 1863.

I've heard rumors it's haunted.

They chopped it in half horizontally when they moved it to its current location.

Brigham Young didn't live there.

Some of these are in the current digital collection, which you can access here. They're specifically in the Classified Photographs collection, but you can click on the link and just go hog wild; there's a bunch of stuff. You won't be disappointed. And yes, it is digitally housed on the servers at the Marriott Library at the University of Utah. You can really get lost in the digital archives there. It's wonderful.

The other photographs were taken during the planning stages of the development of Heritage Park, where the giant "This is the Place" monument is located. Heritage Park is a collection of buildings, either original or replicas of the original.

The photographs of the walls, damage, etc., were taken during the park's planning stages, as they decided what they could save and how they were going to do it. It's pretty cool. You'll see other images from these boxes, as I upload everything I have so that it's out on the internet.

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People and stage coaches and a magic bridge.

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More railroad stuff

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These are a bunch of early pictures and if possible, the back of the photograph is in the image next to it.

Mostly used for Railroad PR materials to get folks on a choo choo train to see Utah.

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This is a supreme court judge who was the guy Thurgood Marshall replaced, and in the middle is one of the old Governors of Utah. I think his name was Carl.

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Bridges, camp grounds, horses, people, and a magic bridge.

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Lots of early utah stuff. Echo Canyon, etc.

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I can't even begin to tell you what all of these are pictures of. Many of them came without any information.

Sometimes being an archivist means obsessing over the tiny details so you can give something a name and a date.

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This is not the SS Utah. It's a commercial ship.

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someone made a collection of photographs about the early automobiles. Most are in Utah. I don't know what the cars are.

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This is Saltair in the late 19th century before it burned down. People used to hang out in the great salt lake and have tea. It was a thing.

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These are all images of Salt Lake City in the late 19th century. They're various images of parade floats and buildings decorated to celebrate something. Some of the images may be from the celebration of the territory becoming a state, others are Pioneer Day celebrations (in 1897, it was the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first pioneers in Utah), or as a temporary monument to honor returning soldiers from a war in Cuba.

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There's a crowd for some baseball thing, a portrait of Porter Rockwell, A "normal" school (that's what they used to call teacher schools), A picture of some guys from Thistle Utah, The Walker building (it's now the walker center) and a guy who was in the navy in the 1910s.

Thistle is a flooded ghost town that was flooded in the 1980s. It used to be a railroad town but the railroad broke the place and it flooded.

Porter Rockwell was an asshole.

And the Walker Building was built by the Walker Brothers who made a whole lot of money when Utah was first settled and still pretty ho-dunk.