Cleone Davenport Newspaper collection
Scope and Contents
Cleone Davenport obtained the contents of this collection throughout her life. Davenport mainly collected newspaper clippings and occasionally noted the dates on these items. There are a few written diaries of Davenport's ancestors contained in this collection. The collection spans from the 1870s to the late 2010s, with a larger focus on St. George, Utah development beginning in the 1950s. Davenport's collection is centered around St. George with some focus on the Bloomington area, prominent buildings in St. George such as the tabernacle, the temple, and school buildings; as well as obituaries. Most of the newspapers are original, but most of the photographs are reproductions. Negatives pertaining to the U.S. National Guard and Archie Wallis are also included in this collection. Bound volumes of Washington County newspapers from 1910-1960 were included in the original donation but have been removed from the archival collection to the periodical collection. The removed newspapers are in poor condition. They also include bound newspapers from Pioche, Nevada and Silver Reef, Utah from 1896-1897, as well as the Long Advocate and The Regiment.
Dates
- Creation: 1870 - 2010
Creator
- Davenport, Cleone Wallis, 1936-2018. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open and freely available to researchers during Special Collections hours or by appointment. Researchers must complete an Application for Use and show a photo ID prior to accessing materials.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives.
Biographical / Historical
Cleone Davenport was born in St. George, Utah in 1936 to Archibald Douglas and Beatrice Larson Wallis. Cleone had four siblings. She married Erwin Orlo Davenport; the couple had five children, 29 grandchildren, and 27 great-grandchildren. Cleone passed away in St. George in September 2018. In her youth, Cleone did ballet, played softball, and was on the Dixie College [Utah Tech University] basketball team. As an adult, Cleone was an aide at East Elementary where she taught children how to read. She also volunteered at the Daughter of Utah Pioneers museum, which is a non-sectarian, non-political organization of female descendants of Utah pioneers dedicated to preserving their heritage. Cleone served at the Dixie/Manamas Andrus Camp where she shared her knowledge of history with the community. Davenport was actively involved in her family and pioneer history and Created historical scrapbooks as a hobby.
Partial Extent
4.88 Linear Feet (3 tan cubic foot boxes, 1 gray letter document case, 1 gray half letter document case, and 1 gray 18x13x3 oversize box)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
The Cleone Davenport Newspaper collection consists of full newspapers, newspaper clippings, and photographs from the St. George, Utah area collected by Cleone Wallis Davenport. The collection ranges from the 1870s to late 2010s.
Arrangement
This collection is divided into three series. 1. Topical. 2. Portfolio, and 3. Photographs.
The topical series is arranged in alphabetical order by type and includes a subseries for full newspapers which is stored separately on the folder level. The topical series includes both Davenport's original order and an imposed order. Some binders were labeled by topic, such as schools and obituaries. These binders were left in their original order. Other material was gathered and put into topical categories to best of ability.
The portfolio section is arranged chronologically by binders created by Davenport and left in their original order. Therefore, date ranges between binders do overlap between years. The reason behind Davenport's binder organization is unknown.
Photos are arranged alphabetically topically and by format. The photo series includes two subseries for negatives and glass negatives which is intermixed with topics on the folder level.
- Washington County Newspapers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Abby Doman, Special Collections intern
- Date
- April 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Utah Tech University Special Collections and Archives Repository
330 Holland Centennial Commons
225 South 700 East
Saint George 84770 United States
(435) 634-2087
specialcollections@utahtech.edu