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Utah Pottery Project Bibliography

The Utah Pottery Project is dedicated to studying the immigrant potters of Utah's nineteenth century.  We seek to gather into one place information about the potters, their families, their work, their products, and their contributions to the history of Utah. 

Project Academic Publications:

Scarlett, Timothy James, Robert J. Speakman, and Michael D. Glascock.

2007.   Pottery in the Mormon Economy: an Historical and Archaeometric Study. Historical Archaeology . 41(4):70-95.

Scarlett, Timothy James.

2006.   Flowscapes of Globalization in Mormon Pioneer Utah. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 10(2):109-134.

Linked here:

www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/ijha/2006/00000010/00000002/00000008

Merritt, Christopher W.

2006. Trade and Consumption in the Mormon Great Basin, 1847-1900: locally produced ceramics and instrumental activation analysis.   MS Thesis, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI.

Catalog here:

http://catalog.lib.mtu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Merritt%2C%20Christopher%20W%2E&PID=hcjEdjSJSqO36TlyA-kLoQtV9I32G&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=2

Little, Nicole C., Timothy James Scarlett, Robert J. Speakman, Christopher W. Merritt, and Michael D. Glascock.

2007.   Analysis of Historic Latter-day Saint Pottery Glazes by LA-ICP-MS. In Michael D. Glascock, Robert J. Speakman, and Rachel S. Popelka (eds.), Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Methods and Archaeological Interpretation , American Chemical Society Publication Series #968, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, pp. 447-459.

Scarlett, Timothy James.

1999.   Narcissus's Mirror: Manufacture and Modernism in the Great Basin—the case of pottery. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(3):131-200.

Linked here:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/u564132545517877/

Scarlett, Timothy James, Robert J. Speakman, and Michael D. Glascock, and Garrett Timmerman.

(n.d.).  Religion and Environmental Learning: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Pottery Industry. Journal of Anthropological Method and Theory (Accepted pending final revision, August 2007).

Scarlett, Timothy James.

(n.d.).   Bedson Earldey's Eight Large Jars: Archaeological Science and the Biography of Things. In Timothy James Scarlett (ed.), Science and Historical Archaeology , University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, pp. 33-61.   (Accepted, board approval pending, Oct 2007).

Scarlett, Timothy James and Christopher W. Merritt

(n.d.).   An Update from the Utah Pottery Project: Expanding Ideas of Consumption from Frederick Petersen's Salt Lake City Pottery.   In Benjamin Pykles (ed.), Historical Archaeology of the Mormon Domain . University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago.   (Accepted 2007).

Scarlett, Timothy James.

(n.d.).   What if the Local is Exotic and the Imported Mundane? Measuring Ceramic Exchanges in Mormon Utah. In Carolyn Dillan and Carolyn White (eds.), Xenophile: Exchange and the Exotic in Everyday Life.   (under review 2007).

Scarlett, Timothy James, Amy M. Bastion, Leslie G. Cecil, Christopher W. Merritt, and Michael Glascock.

(n.d.).   A Muddy Study: Using Muddy Mission Ceramic Artifacts to Develop an Anthropological Historical Archaeology for the Utah Pottery Project. In Margaret Purser and Mark Warner (eds.), Archaeologies of the American West. (Chapter under review, book under contract).

 

Other publications about Utah's historic-era potteries:

Burt, Olive Woolley              

1948. A New Industry Comes to Utah. The Utah Magazine, January: 14-17, 27-30.

Burton, Doris Karren              

1998. Settlements of Unitah County.   Unitah County Library, Vernal, Utah.

1996. A History of Unitah County.   Unitah County Commission, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Butler, Janet G.              

1978. The Utah Potter -- Ancient and Modern. Beehive History, 4: 27-29.

Carter, Kate B. (compiler)              

1958. Our Pioneer Heritage. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, Utah.

1940. Heart Throbs of the West.   Volume II.   Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Chidester, Ida, Eleanor Bruhn, and Alice Haycock.              

1949. Golden Nuggets of Pioneer Days: A History of Garfield County. Garfield County News, Panguitch, Utah.

Christansen, Grover              

1969. Pioneer Business and Industry—Pottery.   In Home in the Hills of Bridger Land: History of Hyrum, 1860-1969, Earle W Allen, Bessie Brown, and Lila Eliason, compilers, pp. 91-92. Published by the City of Hyrum, Utah.

Dalton, Luella Adams              

n.d. History of Iron County Mission, Parowan, Utah. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Daughters of the Utah Pioneers (compilers)              

1947a. Tale of a Triumphant People: A History of Salt Lake County, Utah, 1847-1900.   Salt Lake County Company, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, Utah.

1947b. Monuments of Courage: A History of Beaver County, Utah. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City.

1942. History of Box Elder County.   Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City.

Day, Stella H. (ed.)              

1979. Builders of Early Millard: Biographies of Pioneers of Millard County, 1850-1875.   Art City Publishing Company.   (no city listed)

Ferg, Alan              

1993. Behrman Pottery Excavated in Brigham City. Arizona Clay News, February 1993: 1-2.

Ferg, Alan, William H. Liesenbein, Peter J. Pilles, Jr., and Pamela Haas.

1988. Historical Archaeology at Joseph city, Arizona.   The Arizona Archaeologist, 22.

Forsgren, Lydia Walker (compiler)              

1937. History of Box Elder County.   Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Box Elder County, Utah.

Henrichsen, Kirk              

1999. Provo, the Primary Pottery Production Center of Pioneer Utah. Paper presented at the Provo Sesquicentennial Conference, September 10, 1999.   Typescript in Kirk Henrichsen papers.

1988. Pioneer Pottery of Utah and E. C. Henrichsen's Provo Pottery Company.   Utah Historical Quarterly, 56(4): 360-395.

1987. Old Wine in New Vessels: Transplanting European Art Traditions to 19 th Century Zion, British and Scandinavian Influence on the Pioneer Pottery Industry. typescript in the Kirk Henrichsen Papers.

Kimball, Stanley B.              

1987. On The Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball.   Signature Books, Salt Lake City.

Mortensen, Emma N.              

1958. Pioneer Potters [Hyrum section]. In Our Pioneer Heritage, Kate B. Carter, compiler,   pp. 476-479. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City

Nielson, Emma Cynthia              

1963. The Development of Pioneer Pottery in Utah.   M.A. Thesis, Department of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Richards, Nancy              

1980. Mormon Craftsmen in Utah. In Utah Folk Art, Hal Cannon, editor, pp. 62-89.   Brigham University Press, Provo.

Richens, Oral (compiler)              

(n.d.). Locality History of Old Roberts Hall and Pottery Shop.   Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Typescript on file in the Unitah County Library, Regional Room, File Folder #1263.

Roberts, Stephen William              

(n.d.). Biography of William Evermont Roberts, compiled by his Son.   Typescript in the Unitah County Library, Regional Room, File Folder #1143.

Scott, Odell E.              

1951. Economic History of Provo, Utah, 1848-1900.   M.A. Thesis, Department of History, Brigham Young University, Provo.

Seifrit, William C.              

1985. Pioneer Pottery in Utah Beehive History, 11: 7-9.

Slaughter, Sheri Eardley.              

2001. Bedson Eardley and Mary Ann Holding, Their Families and their Histories .   Self-published, Salt Lake City.

Whitney, Helen Mar Kimball              

1881. Heber C. Kimball, Journal Excerpts and Letters: Life Incidents. Woman's Exponent, 9-10.

           

1883. Heber C. Kimball, Journal Excerpts and Letters: Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo. Woman's Exponent, 11.

Paper Collections

Nancy Richards Papers on pioneer potters and pottery, Artifacts Division, This Is the Place Heritage Park, John Martinson, Curator of Artifacts, Salt Lake City, Utah.

William C. Seifrit Papers, Special Collections, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Kirk Henrichsen Papers on pioneer potters, courtesy of Mr. Henrichsen.

Sheri Slaughter Collection, Special Collections, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Media/Newspaper Reports:

Bauman, Joe

2005. Pioneer Pottery- pieces of the past Deseret Morning News , July 22, 2005.

Digital archive here:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600150340,00.html

 

Petersen, Tyler

2005. Prof Digs Up Urban Treasures Salt Lake Tribune , July 24, 2005, p. 1B.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2886593

http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/prof_digs_up_urban_treasures/

KTVX ABC 4 and KSL NBC 5 have done stories, but no longer archive them.

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Contact Details:

Utah Pottery Project

Timothy James Scarlett, Director

Department of Social Sciences

Michigan Technological University

1400 Townsend Ave

Houghton, MI 49931

Phone: (906)487-2359

Fax: (906)487-2468

email: scarlett@mtu.edu

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