The Regional History Center has a rich collection of scrapbooks from local civic clubs, women’s groups, and from various local organizations. We’ve recently been awarded funding from the Utah State Historical Records and Advisory Board to complete guides to our scrapbook collections.
The RHC owns scrapbooks for several local civic clubs and women’s groups that operated the Vernal and Uinta Basin area from approximately 1950-1990.
Clubs represented by the scrapbooks include the following:
- Vernal Historical Society
- Uintah Historical Society
- Merry Miss Club
- Beaux Arts Club ,
- Vernal/ Uintah County Progressive Business Women
- Cowbelle’s Club
- Current Topics club
- Daughters of the American Revolution
- Dinosaur Gardens Service Club
- Federated Women’s Clubs
- Good Samaritan Club
Many of these scrapbooks are starting to show their age. These scrapbooks are important as they record history that is of the everyday in nature and often times aren’t recorded anywhere else. For example, one scrapbook for the Merry Miss club documents the fundraising for the first community pool in Vernal in the 1950s.
The scrapbooks are stored in a climate-controlled secured room within the RHC inside the Uintah County Administrative Building. There are approximately 24 Linear feet of scrapbooks. The image above shows the scrapbooks that would be processed and rehoused as part of this grant project.
What is the date range of the records (dates of creation)?
The collection ranges from 1950-1990
What kind of information do the records contain?
Newspaper clippings, agendas, membership rosters, notes and letters, memorandum, photographs and documentation of club’s projects make up most of the scrapbooks. The following pages are representative of the scrapbook collection as a whole:
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