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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 322 Collections and/or Records:

Lucile Laney papers, 1944-1945

 File — Box 99: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 11; Series 15 [Barcode: 31197233285201], Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 7 File 1879
Scope and Contents

Materials contain a pendant that Lucile Laney wore signifying that her husband was fighting in World War II and denoting that he was a captain. Also contains newspaper articles and fliers of German propanganda. Included is an English calendar with a message from her husband, Thean, while he was serving overseas. Dated 1944-1945.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Europe) / Saints at War Project records for civilians

Machine gun cartridge pen, 1945

 Item — Oversize 26: Series 1; Series 4 [Barcode: 31197239139758]
Identifier: MSS 8849 Series 4
Dates: 1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Richard Marsh Butler papers / Richard Marsh Butler WWII artifacts

Mae West life preserver, 1944-1945

 Item — Oversize 5: Series 4 [Barcode: 31197239133504]
Identifier: MSS 8849 Series 4
Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Richard Marsh Butler papers / Richard Marsh Butler WWII artifacts

Maeser Elementary School artifacts, undated

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2377 Series 3
Scope and Contents note

School banners and pennants, cloth. Arithmetic tools; glass slides for lantern slide projector (box 29) [slides include scenes of children playing games, nature, and some historical sites]. UISSCO blue-black School Ink, Utah-Idaho School Supply Company, one quart bottle. [A foam encasing and box is being made for this item.] Four small, empty ink bottles; one contains a feather. Small, white soap dish. Empty bottle of red precipitate poison. [This is an oversize box.]

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Maeser Elementary School collection

Maeser Elementary School collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2377
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1898-1996
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Maeser Elementary School files, 1906-1996

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2377 Series 2
Scope and Contents note Loose papers, test scenes from plays, and screenplays, approximately 1933-1946. Teachers' registers, library accession log books, newspaper clippings, photographs, approximately 1906-1975. File folders, containing histories, teacher's notes, pictures, and newspaper clippings, approximately 1989-1996. File folders, containing pictures, newspaper clippings, histories, bills, and notes, approximately 1985-1995. Student Records. Teacher's Registers of Attendance, approximately 1950-1964. 4 x 6...
Dates: 1906-1996
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Maeser Elementary School collection

Maeser Elementary School history books/scrapbooks, 1898-1996

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2377 Series 1
Scope and Contents note

Maeser School history books, approximately 1898-1996. Includes newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, certificates, and letters. [Includes 4 oversize boxes.] Also includes scrapbooks, approximately 1898-1980. Includes newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, certificates, letters, etc.

Dates: 1898-1996
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Maeser Elementary School collection

Maeser Elementary School movies/movie equipment, 1947-1978

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2377 Series 5
Scope and Contents note

Motion pictures, 16mm, 8mm. Most are labeled. Includes films for educational use, as well as films taken at school activities (i.e., parades, children singing, etc.), approximately 1950-1978. "Picturol projector." Film strip projector. Movie reel, 8mm. "May Days, From 1947-1956". [This is an oversize box.]

Dates: 1947-1978
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Maeser Elementary School collection

Maeser Elementary School photographs/photographic equipment, 1898-1979

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2377 Series 4
Scope and Contents note Photographs and slides. Contains pictures of Maeser Elementary School, school activities, students, and some Mormon temples, approximately 1898-1957. Photograph albums and Parent Teacher Association folders. Pictures of school and PTA activities, approximately 1898-1979. Stereoscope and stereographs. Stereograph photograph include pictures of a variety of things and places, for classroom use. Stereographs. More miscellaneous stereograph pictures. Large, framed picture, Karl Maeser--was...
Dates: 1898-1979
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Maeser Elementary School collection

Margaret Blair Young AML Smith-Pettit Foundation Award, 2014

 Item — Oversize 12: [Barcode: 31197239135079]
Identifier: MSS 9354
Scope and Contents

2014 AML Awards Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Margaret Blair Young for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters.

Dates: 2014
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Margaret Blair Young papers

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