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Merle V. Adams papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8108
Scope and Contents
Collection contains photocopies of family scrapbook items relating to Merle V. Adams' career and family life. Also includes family biographies, Merle's filmography, copies of newspaper articles that mention Adams, and information about a hidden treasure reported to be near Kanab that Adams helped look for. Dated 1934-2014.
Dates:
1934-2014
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Chauncy D. Harris interview, Chicago, Illinois
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2945
Scope and Contents
Comments on his early life and on the influence of his father, Franklin S. Harris, president of Brigham Young University (BYU). Also comments on attendance at the following institutions of higher learning: BYU, 1930-1934; University of Chicago, 1933, 1934, and 1937-1939; Oxford University, 1934-1936; London School of Economics, 1936-1937; and Kent State University, 1937. Includes comments on his early interest in geography, some of his teachers at BYU and the University of Chicago, and his...
Dates:
1986; 1986
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Merian C. Cooper correspondence and interview
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2024
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopies of correspondence between Behlmer, Merian C. Cooper, and others. Also includes recording and transcript of interview recorded by Behlmer with Cooper in 1965 concerning Cooper's service in World War I and the Russo-Polish War (1919-1920); and his films with Ernest B. Schoedsack: "Grass" and "Chang." Some correspondence relates to David O. Selznick and the film, "King Kong."
Dates:
1929-1972
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary A. Hicks interview with Henry Bobbitt
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2896
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bobbitt was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bobbitt tells about working and living conditions on the plantation. The slaves were not allowed to read and write or attend church. He talks about the slave trade and marriages. He thinks Lincoln was cruel for emancipating salves and not giving them a...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview with Donald K. Nelson
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6741
Abstract
Oral history (transcripts and related materials) of two interviews conducted by Brad Westwood with Don Nelson during 2007.
Dates:
2007
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
World War II memories of Wendell Van Twelves
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7606
Scope and Contents
Contains a bound book which is made up of an oral history interview with Wendell Van Twelves. There is also a series of correspondence between Wendell and Henry Sakaida, a couple of newspaper articles regarding Van Twelves's service in the military, and the accident and flying regulation violation record from his time in the military. All records except for the oral history interview are photocopies. Also contains a shorter version of this bound book with higher quality color photocopies of...
Dates:
after 1991
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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