The Miracle at Academy Square collection
Scope and Contents note
Contains an extremely detailed compilation (eight volumes) of official documents, correspondence, minutes, photographs, estimates, and records associated with the renovation of the old Brigham Young Academy building in Provo, UT. Also includes a CD with a digitized copy of each volume (excluding Vol. 3, written by L. Lee Bartlett).
Dates
- Creation: approximately 1984-2003
Creator
- Smoot, L. Douglas (Leon Douglas) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use note
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from The Miracle at Academy Square collection must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Leon Douglas Smoot, great-grandson of early LDS leader Abraham O. Smoot, is a Provo, UT native. He earned a degree in chemical engineering and worked as a professor at BYU and as a private consultant. He was instrumental in the renovation of the early Brigham Young Academy building in Provo, UT.
Extent
4 boxes (2 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains an extremely detailed compilation (eight volumes) of official documents, correspondence, minutes, photographs, estimates, and records associated with the renovation of the old Brigham Young Academy building in Provo, UT. Also includes a CD with a digitized copy of each volume (excluding Vol. 3, written by L. Lee Bartlett).
Arrangement note
Eight volumes sorted numerically by volume number.
Other Finding Aids note
A more detailed finding aid is available in print in the repository.
Other Finding Aids
Box-level inventory available online. Links to "no. 3". http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2940-3.xml
http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2940.xml
Custodial History note
Collection donated by L. Douglas Smoot to the L. Tom Perry Special Collections in November, 2003.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Donated; L. Douglas Smoot; 2003.
Appraisal note
LDS scholarship and historiography (20th century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.III, 2007).
Processing Information note
Processed; Taylor M. Dix; November, 2003.
Subject
- Bartlett, L. Lee (Person)
- Brigham Young Academy (Organization)
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Register of The Miracle at Academy Square collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Taylor M. Dix
- Date
- November, 2003
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States