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Architectural rendering of Centennial Carrillon Tower

 Item — oversize-folder: 1
Identifier: UA 5799
Scope and Contents

Oversized colored architectural rendering of the southern elevation of the Centennial Carillon Tower on Brigham Young University campus, dated 1975.

Dates: 1975

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

Eliza R. Snow wooden box and spoon

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 9052
Content Description

Contains a round wooden box that belonged to Eliza R. Snow. It was donated to the BYU President's Office in 1973 by H. R. Wilson of Santa Rosa, California. According to description by donor, the box belonged to Eliza R. Snow and was used when going to Utah in early 1846-1847. The box includes a wooden spoon that supposedly came with the box.

Dates: approximately 1846-1847

Ruth Stevens papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8112
Scope and Contents

Contains photographs of preparations for the Explorer II balloon flight in November 1935. This collection also includes photographs and postcards collected during the week that Ruth and Albert Stevens were in Poland in 1939. There is also a letter to Ruth Stevens from Richard H. Cracroft that he wrote after he read her manuscript for her husband's biography, and a copy of an obituary and funeral program for Ruth Stevens.

Dates: 1935-1990

Brigham Young eyeglasses

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 9053
Scope and Contents

A pair of eyeglasses that were made for Brigham Young after coming to Utah in 1847, and were left at the home of Emma Gardner in Payson or Nephi, Utah, on one his trips south prior to 1865.

Dates: approximately 1865