Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 3000
Scope and Contents
The Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers (1902-2010) contain personal and professional correspondence of Horace Greeley and Horace Sylvester Snyder, family history materials, mining information and reports, mine claims and deeds, ledgers, diaries, and news clippings.
Dates
- 1902-2010
Creator
- Snyder, Horace Sylvester, 1912-2010 (Person)
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.
Biographical Note
Horace Sylvester Snyder (1912-2010) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he received his high school and undergraduate education. He attended the University of Louisville Medical School for a short time, but returned back to Utah to support his family at the height of the Great Depression. He married Chelta Moss in 1938, and their marriage lasted 62 years until her death. At a young age, Snyder acquired a camera and soon became an accomplished photographer, and used the skill to support his family as a portrait photographer with multiple studio locations. Much of his photography is marked by his passion for rodeos and the idea of the American cowboy. After World War II, in which he served, Snyder became an irrigation engineer and started his own company, Snyder Distributing Company. He died in 2010.
Horace S. Snyder's father, Horace Greeley Snyder (1873-1951) was born in Wanship, Utah. He was the twenty-ninth of thirty-five children of his father, George Gideon Snyder, and the ninth of eleven children born to his mother, Caroline Kilfoyle, the fourth polygamous wife of George Gideon. George had six wives and had migrated from Canada to Nauvoo, Illinois, before joining the Latter Day Saint pioneers in Utah. Horace was a mine inspector, prospector, and developed a large amount of land into mines and mining communities. He died in 1951.
Horace S. Snyder's father, Horace Greeley Snyder (1873-1951) was born in Wanship, Utah. He was the twenty-ninth of thirty-five children of his father, George Gideon Snyder, and the ninth of eleven children born to his mother, Caroline Kilfoyle, the fourth polygamous wife of George Gideon. George had six wives and had migrated from Canada to Nauvoo, Illinois, before joining the Latter Day Saint pioneers in Utah. Horace was a mine inspector, prospector, and developed a large amount of land into mines and mining communities. He died in 1951.
Extent
5 Linear Feet (6 Boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers (1902-2010) contain the personal and professional papers of Horace Sylvester Snyder (1912-2010) a professional photographer, and his father, Horace Greeley Snyder (1873-1951), the owner of multiple mines in the American West. The collection contains biographical information and correspondence of extended family members within the Snyder and Sylvester families.
Arrangement
Arranged first by creator, then chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Carleen Jimenez in 2017.
Donated by Carleen Jimenez and Greg Snyder in 2018.
Donated by Carleen Jimenez and Greg Snyder in 2018.
Separated Materials
Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Processing Information
Processed by Braxton Utley in 2017.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2020.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2020.
- Account books
- Albums (Books)
- Autobiographies (literary works)
- Biographies
- Certificates
- Claims
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Diaries
- Family histories
- Home and Family
- Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Archives
- Maps
- Mines and Mineral Resources
- Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona
- Mines and mineral resources -- California
- Mines and mineral resources -- California -- Inyo County
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Battle Mountain Mining District
- Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Eureka Mining District
- Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico
- Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico -- Hachita
- Mines and mineral resources -- Utah
- Mines and mineral resources -- Utah -- Bingham Mining District
- Mines and mineral resources -- Utah -- Tintic Mining District
- Mines and mineral resources -- Utah -- Tooele County
- Polygamy -- Utah -- Sources
- Prospecting -- West (U.S.) -- Sources
- Records (Documents)
- Scrapbooks
- Snyder family
- Snyder, Horace Greeley, 1873-1952 -- Archives
- Snyder, Horace Sylvester, 1912-2010 -- Archives
- Technical reports
Creator
- Snyder, Horace Sylvester, 1912-2010 (Person)
- Title
- Inventory of the Horace Sylvester Snyder family papers
- Author
- Finding aid created by Braxton Utley.
- Date
- 2017 (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
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu