The Elbert D. Thomas Photograph Collection, 1933-1950

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Summary Description

Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss C 129
Creator: Thomas, Elbert D. 1883-1953
Title:Elbert D. Thomas Photograph Collection, 1933-1950
Quantity:0.5 lin. ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:Educator, administrator, U.S. Senator from Utah, 1933-1951. Photographs document senatorial activities, and the damage done to German heavy industry by Allied bombardment.

Topics:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Bomb reconnaissance -- Photographs.

Organizations:

United States. -- Photographs.

Places:

United States -- Politics and government -- Photographs.
United States -- History -- 1945-1953.

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Background

Biographical Note

Educator, administrator, U.S. Senator from Utah (1933-1951) and LDS missionary in Japan. Thomas was active in New Deal legislation and in Japanese-American rights.

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Scope and Content

Photographs document senatorial activities, family, and portraits as well as the damage done to German heavy industry by Allied bombardment.

Series Descriptions

Thomas photographs
Oversized
Vault Items

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Elbert D. Thomas Photograph Collection, 1933-1950, Utah State Historical Society.

Acquisition Information:

Transfered from Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

Restrictions on Use

The Elbert D. Thomas Photograph Collection is the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their heirs and assigns. Please contact the Historical Society for information regarding specific use of this collection.

Processing Information:

Collection processed by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid compiled by Susan Whetstone

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000

Collection cataloged by Richard Saunders, 1989 (RLIN ID: UTSX 89-A1126)

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000

Related collections

The photographs in this collection were separated from Mss B 129.


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Container list

Box

Folder

Contents

Thomas photographs

1

1

Portraits

1. Thomas, Elbert D. (sketched print) [2 copies]
2. Thomas, Elbert D., 1908
3. Thomas, Elbert, 1907 [2 copies]

1

2

Portraits (cont.)

1. Thomas, Elbert D.
2. Thomas, Elbert D. [2 copies]
3-10. Formal portraits in office

1

4

Portraits (cont.)

3. Chapman, Oscar
4. Admiral Arthur Radend?
5. Ellender, Allen, 1941
6. Davis, James, 1951

1

3

Miscellaneous family photographs

1. Vacations
2. Tegucigalpa (Honduras)
3. Tegucigalpa (Honduras)
4. Wife and children
5-6. Airport
7. Thomas, Elbert with military group [2 copies]
8. New School Anniversary Drives (New York), May 1944
9. Thomas and W. R. Johnson (Hawaii)
10. American Academy of Political & Social Science discuss Philippine problem, 1933
11. Thomas, Chiyo in military uniform

1

4

Activities

1. "Open Hearing" broadcast, March 1947
2. United Nations Day--High Commissioner Of Trust Territories, Pacific (Hawaii), 1951
7-8. German youth visit U. S. Capitol (Washington, D.C.), 1950

1

5

Activities (cont.)

1. Group looking over document includes Rayburn, O'Mahoney, McNutt, Thomas, Austin
2. Political and Economic awards banquet--Hotel Statler
3. Second White House meeting on Korea, 1950
4. German Atrocities Congressional Committee
5. Campaign for Full Employment bill, 1945
6. Educational Advisory Committee (Hawaii)
7. Thomas, Elbert Thomas, Sen. and Mrs.
8. Bushnell Hospital (Brigham City, Utah)

1

6

Activities (cont.)

1. Thomas, Sen. with Robert Lafollette
2. Sponsors of Pres. Truman's National Health Insurance Program
3. FDR's funeral (Washington), April 1945
4. State Foreign Relations Committee at Washington's National Airport
5. Congressional group boarding plane to tour concentration camps (Washington D.C.)
6. Commemoration of 35th Anniversary, U.S. Dept. of Labor, March 1948
7. Bushnell Hospital, (Brigham City, Utah)
8. Members--Steelworkers Union
9. Military officers and cadets
10. Dinner honoring Pres. Harry S. Truman
11. Education includes Dr. Dumas Malone, Sen. Thomas, Dr. White
12. Watching United Nations Proceedings, just after start of the Korean War, 1950

1

7

Activities (cont.)

1. Thomas with military officers
2. Bermuda C.P.K., 1948
3. George, Major Gen. Harold, Lana Turner, Maj. Gen. Clayton Bissell, Sen. Thomas
4. Truman, Pres. signing Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, April 1949
5. Truman, Pres. signing Minimum Wage Bill, October 1949
6. Thomas, Elbert, Harley Kilgore, Neely at committee hearings on unemployment in coal mines
7. Meet the Press, February 1949
8. Thomas with unidentified man
9. Thomas with group
10. Phi Delta Theta members in U.S. Senate, 1935
11. Committee hearings on unemployment in coal mines, 1950
12. Patterson, Richard, Sen. Thomas, Mr. Farr in Farr Terminals, San Francisco

1

8

Activities (cont.)

1. Philippine Islands group [3 copies]
2. Thomas and wife with a general [4 copies]
3. Thomas, Mrs. with a general [4 copies]

1

9

Activities (cont.)

1. Mine Safety Committee, 1949
2. Democratic Labor Bill, 1949
3. Thomas, Elbert D.
4. Pacific Islands get together
5. Thomas, Elbert D., Sen. & Mrs. airport (leis)
6. Philippine Islands get together
7. Thomas, Elbert D. in office
8. Examining artificial leg at Bushnell Hospital (Brigham City, Utah)

1

10

Activities (cont.)

1-3. Thomas, Elbert D. with officers

1

11

Activities (cont.)

1. Christmas party
2. Pacific Island group reception [3 copies]
3. Pacific Island delegation at airport, 1951 [3 copies]
4-5. Dinner, 1949

1

12

Institute for Religious and Social Studies, 1950

1. Thomas, Elbert D. at Institute
2-3. Dinner at the Institute

1

13

Thomas Residence - Home built by Richard Kletting for Gideon A. Gibbs in 1896. Purchased by R. K. Thomas in 1905.

1

14

Thomas Jefferson Memorial (Washington, D.C.)

1. Statue of Jefferson/Tidal Basin (Washington, D.C.)
2. Cornerstone laying for the Jefferson Memorial includes Elbert D. Thomas, Chiyo, Mrs. Thomas & the Caretaker of the Trowel (Alexandria Masonic Lodge), 1939
3-5. Thomas, Elbert D. at the Jefferson Memorial (Washington, D.C.), 1944
6. Statue of Thomas Jefferson
7. Exterior--Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 1942
8. Aerial view--Thomas Jefferson Memorial
9. Construction--Thomas Jefferson Memorial
10. Exhibit on Elbert Thomas's book on Thomas Jefferson, 1942
11. Executive Committee, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission, ca. 1937 or 1938
12. Cornerstone--Thomas Jefferson Memorial includes signature of the President of the U.S. and Commissioners of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 1939

1

15

Thomas Jefferson Memorial (cont.)

1. Bas Relief at the top of the Memorial
2-3. Architectural plan of the Jefferson Memorial by John Russell Pope
4. Scheme A for the Jefferson Memorial by John Russell Pope
5. Scheme B for the Jefferson Memorial by John Russell Pope
6. Scheme A for the Jefferson Memorial which is different from #4 [2 copies]
7. Interior view of the Memorial by John Russell Pope
8. Floor plan of Scheme A interior view by John Russell Pope
9. Floor plan of Scheme B interior view by John Russell Pope
10. Large drawing of the exterior of the Memorial which was actually adopted
11. Large architectural drawing of the exterior of the Memorial

1

16

Germany, World War II

1-3. Bombing damage--Henschel Aero Engine Works, 1945
4-5. Panther tanks lair destroyed (Hanover), 1945
6. Panther tanks lair, useless turrets, 1945
7-11. Destroyed storage tanks--Leuna Synthetic Oil Works (Merseburg), 1945
12. Explosion during the U.S. Eighth Air Force, B-24 Liberators (Erfurt), 1944
13-14. Ball Bearing Plant (Schweinfurt), 1945
15. Schweinfurt Kugelfischer Works--Germany's largest bearing producer, 1945
16. Bombing damage--Schweinfurt Kugelfischer Works, 1945
17. Schweinfurt Kugelfischer Works, German salvage & reconstruction between Allied bombings, 1945
18. Train engine damaged by bombing, 1945

1

17

Germany, World War II (cont.)

1. Aerial view--Gotha Plants, 1944
2. Aerial view--Gotha Plants during bombing, 1944
3-4. German oil production damaged by Allied bombing (Buer-Scholven), 1945
5. Jeep driven by American soldier into partially cleared area (Buer-Scholven), 1945
6. Air raid shelter used by Germans during Allied bombings, 1945
7-11. Henschel Foundries, Kassel destroyed, 1945
12. Volkswagen (Kubelwagon or "People's Car) plant, 1945
13. "People's Car" Factory, Fallersleben destroyed, 1945
14. "People's Car" Factory damage surveyed by U.S. combat engineers, 1945
15-17. I.G. Farben Plant remains, 1945

1

18

Thomas, Elbert D. with first wife, Edna Harker Thomas who died April 1942 [framed photograph]

1

19

Thomas, Elbert D. with with second wife at their wedding, Ethel Evans, October 1946 [framed photograph]

Oversized

2

1

Family - Thomas, Elbert (uniform)

2

2

Activities

1. Deseret Sunday School Union Board, 1937
2. Unidentified man
3. Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 1943
4. Inauguration dinner establishing work between I.L.O. & several states & territories
5. Stephens, Harold M.
6. Farley, James with group

2

3

Miscellaneous Loose Photographs

1. Thomas, R.K. the father of Elbert D. Thomas
2. Dinner honoring newly elected Sen. Alben W. Barkley--majority leader
3. Annual dinner in honor of Thomas Jefferson, 1938
4. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1939
5. Annual message to Congress asking for Lend Lease, 1941

Vault Items

3

1

Signatures

1. Sen. Elbert D. Thomas portrait [4 copies]
2. Group photo with signatures of Elbert Thomas, Reva Beck Bosone, W.K. Granger, Arthur V. Watkins
3. Portrait and signature of A.J. Sabath

3

2

The Wage-Hour Act of 1949 includes signatures of Committee members and Pres. Harry S. Truman (Oversized Folder)