Items

• Southern Pacific Railroad-Lucin Cutoff P. 9
  New Lucin Cutoff, an earth and rock filled causeway completed in 1959 by the Southern Pacific RR at a cost of $ 50 million. Used in UHQ. Valley issue, 1963. Gift of Deseret News.
• Lucin Cutoff. Pole-driver at work. Arrival of a raft of poles. Photo by Johnson Salt Lake.
  Photo shows construction work on the Lucin Cutoff (built between February 1902 and March 1904).
• Southern Pacific Railroad-Lucin Cutoff P. 14
  Southern Pacific train crossing the Lucin Cutoff. Courtesy So. Pacific Railroad.
• Trestle and pole drivers, Lucin Cutoff. On the Great Salt Lake. Photo by Johnson Salt Lake.
  Photo shows construction work on the Lucin Cutoff (built between February 1902 and March 1904). This collection consists of prints and slides pertaining to the Great Salt Lake in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are photographs of the Salt Flats, sailing on the Great Salt Lake, pleasure boats, Lucin Cutoff, Saltair, Garfield Beach and Black Rock.
• Blackrock Beach P.7
  Ruins of the Heber C. Kimball house at Black Rock. Photograph taken Jan. 1954 by Mr. B.G. Carmen. Mr. R.H. Cowburn, Donor.
• Old house on the shore of the Great Salt Lake (Black's Rock)
  Photo of the ruins of the Heber C. Kimball house near Black Rock on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Bathing Beauties at Black Rock on the Great Salt Lake.
  Front of carte-de-visite. 43 carte-de-visite of Salt Lake City and other Utah and Arizona scenery in album.
• Wasatch Mountain Club members on top of Black Rock, Great Salt Lake
  Photo showing Wasatch Mountain Club members perched on Black Rock on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Black Rock, Great Salt Lake, Utah
  Color drawing of Black Rock and dock with boat waiting on Great Salt Lake, Utah. Back of card is blank.
• Black Rock. C. R. Savage, photographer.
  Photo showing Black Rock, a rock outcrop at the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, near the Salt Lake-Tooele County line, Utah, circa 1920-1924
• View over Lakeside Mountains, looking southeast toward Great Salt Lake, Gunnison Island in middle distance
  Aerial view over Lakeside Mountains, looking southeast toward Great Salt Lake, with Gunnison Island in middle distance
• Munitions storage bunkers on UTTR
  Aerial view of munitions storage bunkers on the Utah Test and Training Range near the Lakeside Mountains west of the Great Salt Lake, in 1995.
• Southern Pacific Railroad P.32
  Southern Pacific locomotive 6881 being rerailed at Lakeside, Utah on the west side of the Great Salt Lake. The two mobile cranes were required to put this locomotive back on the track after a derailment because the locomotive weights over 200 tons. Taken in 1990. Donor and Photog: Mike B. Davis.
• The Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway circa 1940s-1950s.
  Close-up photo of the cracked surface of Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway in Utah, circa 1940s-1950s
• John Cobb inside his racing vehicle the "Railton Mobil Special" on the Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway in 1938.
  Photo of John Cobb enclosed inside his racing vehicle, the "Railton Mobil Special," on the Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway in 1938. Caption states "John Cobb Inside His Railton Speed Car Bonneville Salt Flats'
• The Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway circa 1940s-1950s.
  Photo of the Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway in Utah, with an unidentified piece of equipment, circa 1940s-1950s
• Black track lines on the Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway circa 1920s-1930s.
  Photo of black track lines on the empty track of Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway, circa 1920s-1930s
• Simpson Expedition, 1859
  "Crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert from Simpson's Spring to Short cut Pass, Granite Mountain in the distance." Illustrations of the Captain James H. Simpson expedition in 1859, H.V.A. von Beckh was the artist with the expedition in 1859, and J.J. Young made the finished water colors. Courtesy of the National Archives, Washington D.C.
• Salt Desert Trails P.18
  Just west of Grassy Mountain. Donor & Photog: Charles Kelly.
• Salt Desert Trails p.5
  Shadscale Desert beyond Grayback Mountain, looking west toward Pilot Peak. Donor & Photog: Charles Kelly.
• Birds at the Great Salt Lake
  Yellow-headed blackbird at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Birds at the Great Salt Lake- 1
  Northern Harrier hunting at Farmington Bay, Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Birds at the Great Salt Lake 2
  American Avocets in Ogden Bay on Great Salt Lake
• Birds at the Great Salt Lake 3
  Great Horned Owl with Owlets on Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Birds at the Great Salt Lake 4
  Black-necked Stilts with Chick, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Great Salt Lake Utah