BYU Library - Special Collections

Handwritten research papers composed by Dixon's students. The papers were written by her students after interviewing persons who settled in and around Payson. Also included are essays by Aurora Wilson relating to Payson, copies of handwritten newspapers called "The Philomatheon Literary Gazette," and a record of hours spend by various persons to build the wall around Payson in 1855.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten history. Timpson writes about the early schools in American Fork, Utah.

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of typewritten history. This is the program for the dedication of a marker to the first tax free school in Utah. The school was in American Fork, Utah.

Photocopy of a typescript. McClellan writes a history of the St. Joseph Stake of the Mormon Church and of the Gila River Valley of Arizona. The item includes a bibliography, photographs, and a photocopy of the Thatcher Academy yearbook for 1903.

This collection comprises much of the history of Maeser Elementary School, from its foundation in 1898 up through about 1996, six years before it closed. Included in the collection are histories, newspaper clippings, photographs, artifacts from the school, movie reels, and some school files. Most of the histories were created by the Parent Teacher Associaiton (PTA) at Maeser Elementary. Documents local school history and the history of Provo, Utah.

Correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, histories, Salina city council minutes, and photographs. The materials relate to E. Smith Peterson's family and teaching career.

Photocopied photographs of old buidings in Tooele, Utah. Also included are materials relating to Tooele High School. They include: "Tooele High School Songs" and "The Development of our High School" by Marguerite Rice and Elise England Easterman. Rice and Easterman were members of the class of 1914, the first class to graduate from Tooele High School. Also with the collection is a photocopy of a newspaper article describing how Tooele High School got its mascot of a white buffalo.

Photocopies of a handwritten record of a school in Kelsey, Texas. The material includes a brief history of the school by an unknown author, school records, and items relating to the students and their grades. The school was founded and run by Mormons. The history covers the years 1916 to 1927.

Typescript of a history of Spanish Fork High School in Spanish Fork, Utah with handwritten annotations. John Preston Creer is credited with founding the school.

Photocopy of a typewritten history of Uintah County, Utah. The material was compiled by Phillips from "fourth grade students & others" in the Uintah School District. The materials commemorate the centennial of the settlement of Utah by whites. Also included is a letter from O. H. Lipps telling about the Indian school at Whiterocks, Utah.