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 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

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Drafting tools set of Brigham Young

 Item — Object 1
Identifier: MSS 9388
Scope and Contents

This collection is an English drafting tools set that was originally owned and used by Brigham Young to design the streets and building plans for Salt Lake City, Utah. The set was also used by Oliver I. Lay for the creation of a studio commissioned by his father-in-law, Mahonri Mackintosh Young, to create the This is the place monument. Materials dated approximately 1847-1877.

Dates: approximately 1847-1877
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Drafting tools set of Brigham Young

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