BYU Library - Special Collections

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Collection includes handwritten autobiography, patriarchal blessings, poems, and letters created by Johnson. Also included is a transcription of those materials by his great-great granddaughter. Materials date 1893 and 2000.

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Typewritten and bound transcript of an interview conducted by Robert G. Larson for the LDS Asian-American Oral History Project of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University on 7, 9, 19 October 1992 and 29 July 1993. Nonnarath tells about growing up in Laos, his military career in that country, his incarceration following the takeover by the communists, his conversion to the Mormon religion, and his life in Oakland, California.

Abstract The collection contains: 1. about 320 letters of T. Edgar Lyon to his younger sister, Janette, and her family. 2. a copy of the oral history of T. Edgar Lyon, interviewed by Davis Bitton for the LDS Church Historical Department. 3. T. Edgar Lyon's 1962 dissertation and other publications. 4. additional items relating to Laura Hermana Forsberg and family. 5. microfilm copies of the papers of T. Edgar Lyon (50 reels) from the LDS Church Historical Department. 6. several books read and marked...

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Contains case files, research materials, and photographs relating to the Mark Hofmann criminal investigation. Additional materials include oral histories, legal materials, book manuscripts, and related ephemera.

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The collection contains additional diaries of Charles Ursenbach for the years 1923,1926,1970,1977, and 1978 (all of which are pocket-size); a copy of "A Collection of Hymns For the Use of People Called Bible Christians;" a photograph of Charles Ursenbach with other Latter-day Saint missionaries in Montreal, 1926; and genealogical information on the Ursenbach family and "My Story" by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, written in October 1957.

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Collection contains handwritten manuscripts describing the proposal to build a theater in Spanish Fork, Utah, including a call for subscriptions; a list of the subscribers and amounts pledged; a description of the lot acquired; and that this "memento" and a copy of a Tullidge's Magazine article of Spanish Fork were going to be placed in the cornerstone of the building, dated July 19, 1884. Also includes typed transcript of manuscript.

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Materials include transcriptions of the journals of Ethel Johnson Lewellen. Journals contain excerpts of her financial records, daily activities, and grocery lists, and document her daily life and community events. Also includes newspaper clippings and family history materials. Collection contains compact discs with electronic transciptions of the journals; the original journals are in the donor's possession. Dated from 1935 to 1972.

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This is the personal history of Wanda Whatcott Johnson which was created from an oral history interview conducted by Don Norton in 1980. Later, the family created this 188 page manuscript and a copy was given to Norton in 1987. Norton states in his letter that this history’s value is in that it shows Johnson, who was mostly deaf, learning to read lips and impressing hearing specialists.

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Contains an audiocassette tape of a talk recorded September 10, 1988 given by Algie Ballif Marcus. It also has a typed copy of an oral history interview with Don C. Pierce regarding his early childhood in Salem, Utah, conducted by Helen and Henry Stark. There is a photograph of Elder Thaddeus Harvey Cluff as well as the bound memorial entitled "A Collection in Memory of Henry M. Stark."

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The Verda Spencer Adams autobiography is the written account from her experience growing up in the early 20th century in a rural Mormon community until watching her own children grow up.