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Provo (Utah) -- Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Brigham Young High School ephemera

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231034304]
Identifier: UA 758
Scope and Contents

Includes pin and two patches. Pin bears photographic image of several students, plus text: "Brigham Young Wildcats, 1964-65." Patches, identical to each other, bear artistic images: beehive; block Y; mountains and partial wagon wheel; wildcat; and hand bearing a torch. Patches also contain text: "Uniti Stetimus" and "Brigham Young High School."

Dates: 1965

Early days on the Provo bench

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306620]
Identifier: MSS SC 891
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photocopies of a typewritten manuscript "made from copy in Orem Public Library." Partridge's mother took her family to Provo, Utah, in the late 1870s so her children would be able to attend the Brigham Young Academy. Raymond's father had another family by another wife in Fillmore, Utah. Partridge's account is an autobiography. He tells of his experiences while growing up and living in Provo.

Dates: approximately 1940

Eliza Roundy Fillmore photographs, 1959-1966

 Series — Box 4: Series 2; Series 3; Series 4 [Barcode: 31197230219963]
Identifier: MSS 1851 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs from the time Fillmore was Utah State Director for American Art Week. Fillmore is the subject of many of the photographs, but a few are of the exhibits themselves.

Dates: 1959-1966

Eph and Verena : a Hatch family history

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2236
Scope and Contents Autobiographical and family history of the Hatch family, privately published. The family lived in Provo, Utah. It deals with life in the mid to the end of the 20th Century in a primarily Mormon community. Some of the most important topics in the volumes include: Mormon missionary work, local and churchwide music, and the everyday events of a family in the mid to latter portion of the twentieth century. Includes Hatch's planning and architectural work for BYU Physical Plant as well as Provo...
Dates: 1920-2000

Eliza Roundy Fillmore papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1851
Scope and Contents Contains scrapbooks, correspondence, and other material from Eliza Roundy Fillmore's time as the Utah State Director for American Art Week. The correspondence comes from the American Artists Professional League and others congratulating her on her success as the director. Fillmore was also active in the American and Utah Rose Societies, and this collection includes her membership certificates, flower show awards, and information about different types of roses. Fillmore also collected...
Dates: 1927-1977

Flower show awards, 1927-1966

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1851 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Fillmore was involved with the American Rose Society and Utah Rose Society, and participated in many flower shows. This series contains her certificates and award ribbons from multiple flower shows in Utah, along with her membership certificates for both rose societies. Fillmore also kept a scrapbook of popular rose varieties.

Dates: 1927-1966

Oral history interview with Linnaea Lindstrom, 2012

 Item — Volume MSS OH 2582: Series 52
Identifier: MSS 7752 Series 52
Scope and Contents

Interview of Linnaea Lindstrom administered by Eagle Scout and Redd Center volunteer Benjamin Cardon for the Redd Center's "Historic Downtown Provo Oral History Project." Topics discussed in this interview include her childhood in Provo, the safety of Provo in the 1940s versus Provo today, and events that were held in the Provo area when she grew up. Material dated 2012.

Dates: 2012