Max H. Parkin photograph collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a few portraits of Max Parkin, his wife, and images of Parkin's family, including George A. Parkin who died during World War II at the age of twenty.
However, the main body of the collection focuses on Mormon or L.D.S. history. This collection contains many images of L.D.S. Church leaders and significant figures, and photographs of major L.D.S. historical sites in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Salt Lake. Parkin's Masters Thesis is titled, "Conflict at Kirtland." Many photographs in the collection relate to his research and later visits to Kirtland, Ohio. There are also three folders addressing the Strangite, Cutlerite and Hedreckite religions that broke away from the L.D.S. Church after the death of Joseph Smith.
Dates
- 1940-1989
Creator
- Parkin, Max H. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Biographical / Historical
Max H Parkin (1930-2022) was born July 22, 1930 to Kimball Mann Parkin and Florence Hatch. Max attended Davis High School and 1 year at BYU. He served an LDS mission in Hawaii after which he attended the University of Utah, joined the Delta Phi fraternity, and enrolled in the Air Force ROTC to study navigation. However, he was not eligible for service in the Korean War due to color blindness.
In 1954, he married Yvonne Hobberstad of Inglewood, California, in the Salt Lake Temple. Max and Yvonne have five children: Bradford, Kevin, Steven, Christine, and Julie.
After graduating from the University of Utah in marketing and economics, Max was employed by Western Airlines at the old Salt Lake City Airport. Later, in the 1970s through 1980s, he became a teacher at the Salt Lake LDS Institute of Religion at the University of Utah.
Max died on March 23, 2022, in Salt Lake City.
Source: https://www.russonmortuary.com/obituaries/max-h-parkin
Extent
154 Items
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Arrangement
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Separated Materials
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Creator
- Parkin, Max H. (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Max H. Parkin photograph collection
- Author
- Finding aid created by Dale Larsen.
- Date
- 2000 (last modified: 2018)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2024: Finding aid revised by Special Collections staff to update the biographical note
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu