Contains files compiled by Ernest L. Wilkinson, Project Director and Editor of the published histories. Includes correspondence, meeting minutes, memorandums, notes, and other items. Materials date from between 1971 and 1976.

Contains chapter outlines and correspondence, editor's comments, preliminary material, and drafts of the preface, foreword, chapters 1-55, and the pictures and illustrations, memoranda, notes, and critiques relating to the research and writing of the four volume history. Materials date from approximately 1972 and 1975.

Contains general correspondence, notes, and memorandums related to the appendices in the multi-volume history. Includes information on alumni and honorary awards, the Church Educational System, campus buildings, and university enrollment. Materials date from between approximatey 1972 and 1975.

Contains correspondence, reports, lists, manuscript errors, and other records on formatting, printing, production, and distribution of the multi-volume history. Materials date from between approximately 1972 and 1975.

Contains correspondence regarding the location, acquisition, and use of source material, administrative research files, including articles in incorporation, board materials, enrollment, correspondence, and reports. Materials date from between 1971 and 1975.

Contains research card files, divided into Maeser, Brimhall, and Cluff eras and Wilkinson era, note cards containing extracts from primary source materials. Note cards were not created for the Harris and McDonald presidential eras. Many of the notes are taken from sources in the topical and chronological files. Materials date from between 1972 and 1979.

Contains minute drafts and minutes of weekly Centennial History staff meetings. Materials date from between 1972 and 1976.