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Universities and colleges -- Utah -- Provo -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Edwin Butterworth Jr. collection for the Brigham Young University centennial celebration

 Collection
Identifier: UA P 2
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs and negatives related to the history of Brigham Young University's first one-hundred years, which were collected by Edwin Butterworth Jr. for the 1975 publication of Brigham Young University: 1000 Views of 100 Years, a commemorative photographic history of the university for the university's centennial celebration.

Dates: approximately 1860-1975

Herald R. Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 145
Scope and Contents

Collection contains correspondence and printed programs and periodicals collected by Herald R. Clark. The materials concern lecturers and concert artists appearing in the community concert series at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Materials date from between 1929 and 1971.

Dates: 1921-1971

Robby Sven-Axel Fair-Schulz letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325232]
Identifier: MSS SC 2620
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten letter in German with handwritten corrections. Fair-Schulz writes to friends telling them of the background to the firing of Brigham Young University professors, David Knowlton and Cecelia Konchar Farr. He also writes about the student unrest and protests that came as a result of the university's actions.

Dates: 1993

Edwin Smith Hinckley papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348820]
Identifier: MSS 352
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, speeches, reports, and biographies. These materials relate to Hinckley's work at Brigham Young University as a faculty member and on the Alumni Association Board of Directors, as superintendent of the Utah State Industrial School, and as secretary of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. The biographies are eulogies given by Hinckley's friends and associates.

Dates: 1892-1962

History of Brigham Young University, 1875-1942

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324888]
Identifier: MSS SC 2554
Scope and Contents

Typewritten history with handwritten corrections. The item documents the history of Brigham Young University from its founding in 1875 through 1942. The history is co-authored by N. I. Butt, Elsie C. Carroll, and Bertha Roberts.

Dates: 1942

Joseph K. Nicholes papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 351
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes, studies, student papers, articles on Mormon Americana and folklore by Nicholes's students and noted writers, and Dixie College records.

Dates: 1926-1964

Oral history interview with J. Smith Jacobs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 168
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of an oral history conducted as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club. Jacobs tells about attending Brigham Young University from 1928 to 1930 and gives his impressions of the university presidents, Enest L. Wilkinson and Franklin S. Harris.

Dates: 1993

Oral history interview with Kiefer B. Sauls

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 144
Scope and Contents

Typescript and cassette tape of an oral interview with Keifer Sauls by Richard Bennett on February 3, 1975. Sauls tells about coming to Brigham Young University as a student in 1911 and his employment by that institution from 1920-1972. He presents many personal observations on the growth of BYU, and how it was administered during the terms of various presidents.

Dates: 1975

Oral history interview with Marjorie M. Emery

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 169
Scope and Contents

Transcripts of oral history conducted as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club. Emery tells about attending Brigham Young University, her marriages to Wayne L. Reeve and Wesley F. Emery, her Relief Society callings, her missions to Ireland and to the Liberty Jail Visitors Center, and about living in Kansas and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1992

Oral history interview with Robert Edwon Riggs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 170
Scope and Contents

Oral history conducted by Arthur R. Watkins as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club on September 8, 1992. Riggs talks about his education, his law career, his employment at Brigham Young University, and his disagreements with the president of Brigham Young University, Ernest L. Wilkinson. Includes transcript and sound recording.

Dates: 1992