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Provo (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Isaura Bentley Abegg diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1642
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten diaries for the years 1952, 1964, and 1966 through 1971. Abegg was a student at Brigham Young University in 1952 and was closely associated with the university in later years. She talks of her daily activities, association with Brigham Young University, and Church responsibilities.

Dates: 1952-1971

Jennifer Reeder interview with Catherine Bowles

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2947
Scope and Contents

Oral history of Catherine Bowles, from an interview conducted by Jenny Reeder.

Dates: 2004

Brigham Young University 2nd Ward scrapbook

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230321447]
Identifier: MSS SC 2304
Scope and Contents

Bound scrapbook (42 pages) with newsletters, poems, newspaper clippings, programs, brochures, and miscellaneous items relating to the BYU 2nd Ward Relief Society. Materials document the activities of the ward's women between 1956 and 1962.

Dates: 1956-1962

Virginia Chipman notes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327170]
Identifier: MSS SC 2672
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes in a notebook. The notes are apparently associated with classes taken at the university. Also included are notes relating to the meetings of the "Young Ladies of the Second Year" at the university.

Dates: 1904

Don Searle

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322643]
Identifier: MSS SC 2603
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Don Searle with handwritten corrections. Don was a native of Spanish Fork, Utah who attended Brigham Young University from 1935 to 1940. Don served in the Navy during World War II and worked as a broadcast journalist. He was killed in an automobile accident in 1946 before he turned 29 years old. Clark attended Brigham Young University with Searle and relates what student life was like at that institution in the 1930s.

Dates: 1986

Jennie Groberg interviews with Lafayette Hinckley Holbrook

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2962
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview taken from the included cassette sound tapes. The interview was conducted by Jennie Groberg in 1964 and 1965. Holbrook talks about his ancestors, and his wife, Alsina Elizabeth Brimhall (1876-1960), whom he met at Brigham Young University and married in 1901. He talks about his education, his children, his occupations, and his missionary experiences with the Maori people of New Zealand.

Dates: 1964-1965

Belle W. Hales diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231038545]
Identifier: MSS 11
Abstract

This collection contains two typewritten diaries.

Dates: 1941-1962

Edwin Smith Hinckley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 1126
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Hinckley with family members and associates and notes on gospel topics as well as letters of condolence received by the family upon Hinckley's death. Also includes a folder of correspondence of Hinckley's descendants, dated 1953-1959.

Dates: 1888-1959

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

Clayton Jenkins papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1772
Scope and Contents

Speeches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to Jenkins' work in the Provo Chamber of Commerce and his association with athletics at Brigham Young University.

Dates: 1923-1976