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Museums -- Utah

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Deseret Museum museum register

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233245023]
Identifier: MSS SC 598
Scope and Contents

The collection includes a fragment of the printer register with handwritten notations, some by Joseph L. Barfoot, curator, and newspaper clippings about the Great Salt Lake and other miscellaneous subjects concerning Utah. Also is an undated loose page of butterfly illustrations from a German publication by Hubner, Exot, Schmett., Vol. 1, plate 6, sent to G. Reynolds, curator of the Museum of Natural History.

Dates: 1874-1877
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Deseret Museum museum register

Natural History Museum catalog

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233236451]
Identifier: UA 912
Scope and Contents

Listing of nine categories of material acquired by the museum: works of art, books, large animal specimens, fossils, insects, historical artifacts, organic products, small animal and plant specimens, and mollusks. Entries are retroactive to as early as 1873. Historical artifacts section includes several entries relating to guns and to Latter-day Saint history.

Dates: approximately 1912-1917
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Natural History Museum catalog

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