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Edwin Brown Firmage photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0875

Scope and Contents

>The Edwin Brown Firmage photograph collection contains photographs, slides, negatives, and photo albums of Edwin Brown Firmage and his family that date from 1913 to around 2004. People who appear in this collection include E.B. Firmage's grandparents Edwin D. Firmage and Mirian Reddon Firmage, his parents Edwin R. Firmage and Mary Brown Firmage, and finally E.B. Firmage himself from childhood to elderly with his wife and children. Other friends and family members are also throughout.

Dates

  • 1913-2004

Creator

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 Sketch

Edwin Brown Firmage (b. 1935) is a former professor of international and constitutional law at the University of Utah. Firmage won many awards and honors for his humanitarian crusades, including Utah Edowment for the Humanities Governor's Award, the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award, the Charles Redd Prize, and many others. He served as a White House Fellow under Hubert H. Humphrey where he had the opportunity to work with Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the Dahli Lama. He was also a United Nations visiting scholar to the East, he ran for Congress in 1978, and was a Fulbright scholar in 1990.

Extent

19 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The Edwin Brown Firmage photograph collection contains photographs, slides, negatives, and photo albums of Edwin Brown Firmage and his family that date from 1913 to around 2004. People who appear in this collection include E.B. Firmage's grandparents Edwin D. Firmage and Mirian Reddon Firmage, his parents Edwin R. Firmage and Mary Brown Firmage, and finally E.B. Firmage himself from childhood to elderly with his wife and children. Other friends and family members are also throughout.

Arrangement

By folder and subject.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Edwin Brown Firmage in 1989-2017.

Separated Materials

See also the Manuscripts Division in Special Collections (ACCN 1074) and Audio-visual Division (A0427)

Processing Information

Processed by Multimedia Division staff.
Title
Guide to the Edwin Brown Firmage photograph collection
Author
Finding aid created by Sara Davis.
Date
2015
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:
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Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
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