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/
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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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