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Josette B. Ashford papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6137
Scope and Contents
Contains Josette Ashford's personal scrapbook of photographs, postcards, correspondence and clippings detailing her life from the early 1920s until about 1999 and course materials as a professor of French and Italian at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Also included are linguistics research and publications, handouts, articles, news clippings, poetry, and literary/linguistic analysis note card files from 1951 to 1990. It also includes her life history.
Dates:
1920-1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Herbert S. Auerbach collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7488
Scope and Contents
Collection includes letters, photographs, books, and maps relating to Herbert S. Auerbach's hobby of Western history, as well as a few miscellaneous items. The items were collected over the course of his lifetime. The collection dates from circa 1882 to 1945.
Dates:
approximately 1882-1945
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
J. M. Boutwell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1647
Scope and Contents
Consists largely of personal and business correspondence and material dealing with Boutwell's career as a geologist (maps, notebooks, manuscripts and illustrations, education, mineral samples, etc.). It also includes familial details (legal and other documentation of his divorce from Esther; family history, including documentation of his claim as a direct descendant of Francis Cooke, a passenger on the Mayflower, possessions of ancestors such as the medical notebooks of H.T. Boutwell,...
Dates:
1772-1979
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young University records on campus road closings
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: UA 803
Scope and Contents
Papers on the annual closing of campus-owned roads and parking lots accessible by public roads in order to maintain private ownership. Includes photographs, negatives, memoranda, maps and letters.
Dates:
1956-1984
Harrison Davis papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2023
Scope and Contents
Professional papers documenting Davis' academic career at Brigham Young University. Diaries, research notes, photographs, reel-to-reel sound tapes, cassette tapes, maps, correspondence, and postcards. The collection relates to the teaching of humanities, geography, and anthropology. The items also deal with Harrison's studies in numerology; dowsing; "synchronicity"; "coincidence studies"; Mormon history and cities; Massachusetts; Cache Valley, Utah; Wales; and Rexburg, Idaho. The...
Dates:
1950-1996
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Verl G. Dixon papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1767
Abstract
Contains personal and professional papers, paraphernalia, government and civic organization documents, newspapers, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dixon's service in municipal administrative positions and in other civic and private organizations. Includes pamphlets, speeches, and advertisements used in his election campaigns for Provo City Clerk and Mayor. Contains Provo City Annual Reports (1963-1973), municipal tax information, and correspondence with federal and state...
Dates:
1948-2000
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Early Tooele City history
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2980
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typewritten histories, photographs, and maps. One item is a collection of quotes from Milton R. Hunter's book "Brigham Young: The Colonizer" dealing with Tooele, Utah. Another item is a history of the Grantsville, Utah, First Ward Church.
Dates:
1980
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Robert Spurrier Ellison papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 782
Scope and Contents
Materials include correspondence, genealogical notes, diaries, business records, drafts of writings, speeches, and collected research and reference materials including manuscripts, letters, legal documents, maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The materials pertain primarily to the history and settlement of the American West, the American Indian Wars and American Indian culture, and the preservation of western historical landmarks. Dated 1833 to 1951.
Dates:
1833-1951
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lorymore Free papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6687
Scope and Contents
Contains professional and personal papers of Free, including articles, newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, reports, meeting minutes, maps, legal agreements, certificates, , and other papers. Materials primarily deal with his work as a geologist and prospector in the Western United States. His personal papers focus around his studies at Brigham Young University, including notebooks, assignments, and textbooks from his courses. Also includes documents related to his family. Many...
Dates:
approximately 1925-1993
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Gates papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 279
Scope and Contents
Containts transcripts, printers' proofs, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, personal correspondence, 44 original manuscripts, imprints, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, notes, memoranda, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type. Many of the items are reproductions. The materials relate to the languages history and archaeology of the Indian peoples of Central...
Dates:
1524-1947
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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